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Warning, spoilers for Young Justice season 3

It’s cold. Your legs feel bare, and your back is pressed against frigid metal. Your eyes start to flutter open, but your eyelids are so heavy and the light hurts, you snap them shut again and wince before trying again. Opening your eyes makes you feel like someones driving ice picks through your retina into your brain, you’ve never had a headache like this. Your mouth is dry and cottony, you’re so desperately thirsty. You can hear murmuring, but can’t quite make out what’s being said.

You squint and force your eyes open, it hurts, but you’ve gotta get up and get some water. You look down at yourself, you’re covered by a blue sheet. You blink and some things start sliding into perspective. That isn’t a sheet, it’s a hospital gown, but you aren’t lying on a hospital cot, your slumped over in a metal tube with a glass front.

Still squinting against the light you look up and around. The room has that white hospital feel to it, with the fluorescent lights and the clean tile, but something ain’t right. There’s doctors, or at least they look like doctors, walking around with in lab coats carrying clip boards but there aren’t any hospital beds. No, instead of beds there’s other tubes like the one you are in. Some are empty, and some are filled with a black liquid.

Motion out of the corner of your eye catches your attention and you look over to your right. You see another tube, but this one isn’t empty or full of black liquid. At least, it isn’t full of black liquid yet. There’s a little girl in a hospital gown that matches your own who is maybe nine or ten years old inside the tube. She’s standing up and pounding on the glass, her eyes are wide, and you can see tears running down her cheeks as she slaps her palms against the glass and begs to be let out. The black liquid is rising to fill her pod, when you first looked over it was at her calves, now it’s rising up to mid thigh, and the higher it goes the more desperate she becomes.

Standing in front of the pod is a man in a lab coat. Middle aged, Caucasian, light brown hair, bit of a paunch. He’s perfectly calm, bored even, as he watches the little girl be engulfed by the black substance being pumped into her pod and checks boxes on his clipboard.

You struggle to your feet and try to listen, focusing on the indistinct murmuring you’d been ignoring until it turns into words. The liquid is up to the girls neck, and she’s tilting her head back to try and keep it above water.

“Subject thirteen is exhibiting signs of cardiac distress.” The man in the lab coat sighs. “For the record I would like to repeat my recommendation that subjects be insensate while undergoing Tar Protocol.”

He bobs his head as if listening to someone on the blue tooth device he has in his ear, and then says “Understood Sir.”

As he speaks the girl lets out her last cry, and then is completely submerged underneath the black substance, Tar you heard him call it.
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>>3514945

The scientist looks at something on a screen attached to the pod and starts making more notes on his pad. “Meta-gene activated, subject thirteen is undergoing rapid physiological changes. Subject’s mass has increased by a factor of 25 percent and continues to rise.”

You can’t make out anything distinct, but you can see the tar being stirred up by something thrashing within the pod.

“Subjects cardiopulmonary system appears to be struggling to keep up with the physiological changes.” The man says as he makes another note on his clipboard. “Cardiac arrest imminent.”

The thrashing stops and the black liquid settles as the man with the clipboard sighs and jots something down.

“Subject 13 expired due to inability to adapt to their awakened meta gene. Beginning tests on subject 14. “He says as he steps in front of your pod. You're standing now and you look him in the eye as he presses a button and says “initiating Tar Protocol.”

You feel something seeping up underneath your feet and look down. A viscous black liquid, Tar, is rising from the bottom of your pod. It’s only been a few seconds but it’ already starting to cover your feet.

No no no, you aren’t going out like that little girl. NO. You throw yourself at the glass platting in front of you and slam your shoulder against it, but there’s no budge at all.

As the viscous black tar rises up your legs your skin burns. The man’s saying something, taking more notes on his clipboard as he describes how “Subject 14” is reacting to the procedure. You scream and pound on the glass.

You aren’t a test subject! You aren’t some lab rat! You’re a human being! You’re-

>A teenage boy

>A teenage girl
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>>3514949
>A teenage girl
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>>3514949
Boy
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>>3514949
>You can't tell anymore. You're not even sure you're "teenage" at this point, let alone a boy or a girl, after all the things they did to you.
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>>3514945
Do we have to have watched Young Justice season 3 to participate I don't care about spoilers
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>>3514961

While I love the enthusiasm, we aren't quite that far gone yet.

>>3514963

No, it's not necessary to have watched season three, or even seasons 1 and 2 in order to participate.
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>>3514964
A boy, in that case...
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>>3514967

I'm sorry if this dims your enthusiasm. There's certainly the possibility to end up as some manner of creature if that's what you want, but you'll have to lobby for it and convince the others in the quest to back you on it.

Just to make sure everyone is on the same page, currently we are in character creation. After we determine our gender, we will decide on our pre-abduction history. The next step will be to decide on our meta-human powers.

If you wished to play as a monster of science, then it would be at the point when we vote for how our meta-human powers manifested that you would be able to cause that to happen, assuming the vote went your way.
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>>3514970
>I'm sorry if this dims your enthusiasm.
Nah, it's cool.
>There's certainly the possibility to end up as some manner of creature if that's what you want, but you'll have to lobby for it and convince the others in the quest to back you on it.
Works for me.
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>>3514974

Thank you for your understanding.


I'm going to give it about half an hour, and then We'll move on to the next step if there aren't any more votes.
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>>3514967
>>3514960
>>3514958

Calling it. Boy it is then, give me a bit for the next write up.
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>>3514949

You aren’t a test subject! You aren’t some lab rat! You’re a human being! They can’t do this to you!

The Tar is up to your waist now, the burning sensation of it against your skin makes you scream. You can’t feel your feet or lower legs anymore, they’ve gone numb.

You pound against the glass, you’re just a teenager, you don’t want to die. You still have so much to do.

The viscous black liquid is up to mid chest now, it’s hard to move with it pressing in on you. As it reaches your throat you realize there isn’t anything you can do. The glass isn’t budging, the scientist doesn’t care. You aren’t getting out of this.

“This is as far as I go I guess” You think to yourself as you contemplate your life as a-

What? Who are you? It's time to decide. For the purposes of this quest we will be using the mechanics based on the Risus RPG system. Risus is completely free, and all of four pages. Feel free to go get it if you wish to do so. If you don't, don't worry, you don't need to. I'll explain everything as we go, and it's really simple.

Your character will be defined by a number of Cliches, simple phrases that describe what and who they are. For instance if I say "Jock" you likely have something that comes to mind, this is a cliche which describes a person.

You have ten dice to spread between as many cliches as you wish that describe who your character is. At character creation no cliche may have more than 4 dice assigned to it. The more dice you have in something the better you are at it. Your first cliche is your primary cliche, this cliche describes how your character thinks of them-self.

Bellow are Four examples of different characters as described by their cliches, which you may choose if you so wish, or if none of them strike your fancy, feel free to write with something you would prefer. I strongly encourage write ins, these examples are meant to be just that, examples, not your definitive options though you may choose one of them if it speaks to you.

Star Quarterback (4)
Smooth Talker (3)
Boy scout (3)

Violent Delinquent (4)
Runaway (4)
Thief (2)

Honors Student (3)
Debate team Ace(3)
Cross country runner (2)
Computer programmer (2)

Hacker (3)
Mathlete(3)
Debate team captain (3)
martial artist (1)

Write in.
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>>3514961
i like this idea
>>3515028
also i say we go with being nerdy and smart its good with what ever power we get and if we are strong its also good to be smart
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>>3515028
Honors Student (3)
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>>3515028
Honors Student (4)
Smooth Talker (2)
Yours friendly neighborhood dealer (2)
Handyman (boy?) (2)
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>>3515034
we have 10 dice we can divide up but the max for each is 4
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>>3515034
Thanks, my own dumb hands... To complete my post:
>Honors Student (3)
>Debate team Ace(3)
>Martial Artist (1)
>Occult Enthusiast, aka “Weird Goth Kid” (2)
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>>3515044
And THEN I can’t do math right.
>Occult Enthusiast, aka “Weird Goth Kid” (3)
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>>3515028
>Violent Delinquent (4)
>Runaway (4)
>Thief (2)
I actually kind of like this one. I'm not the most creative, I guess.
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>see yet another capeshit quest
>absolutely hate capeshit but the opening is actually miles ahead of the usual claptrap, capeshit or otherwise
>might be good after all
>gender vote
>character creation
>not even narrative, interactive character creation but straight mechanical

Thanks for getting my hopes up for nothing OP.
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>>3515044
>>3515046
Backing this dude.

I wanna becone a psychic monster, with illusions that can actually hurt you all up in this bitch. Big ass forhead, floating all around, psychic shield and shit. It'd be awesome.
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>>3515028
>Wallflower (4)
>Nerd (4)
>Wimp (2)
Unpopular bullied kid applies for cool superpowers, results not as expected
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>>3515054
nigga it IS interactive. We're drowning in a test tube as our mody melts, what more do you want?
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>>3515028
>Honors Student (4)
>Occult Enthusiast, aka “Weird Goth Kid” (3)
>Botany(3)
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>>3515058
if you wonder why i pick botany and plants, it´s the more light fluffy side of a goth. Another thing is i like plant monsters and stuff and the thing with plants is they regrow
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>>3515057
How exactly is this: >>3515028 interactive? Interactive would be if we did some kind of quick flashback and the QM had the balls to give us a starting point that we then modified based on a set of choices. This is literally just starting with a blank slate.
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Alright, I'm going to give this another hour and a half, just to make sure there's plenty of time for everyone to vote and come to a decision , and then I'll come back with the next write up, which will be determining how the Tar effected us.


If you have proposed a build, feel free to include a blurb of how you envision that character. A short paragraph description of who you see them as being.

Love all the proposals so far, I can see some very interesting characters coming out from them.

>>3515054

I'm sorry for disappointing you. If it isn't your cup of tea no one is forcing you to participate or be here.

Now if you have creative criticism, such as how you would do a narrative or interactive character creation, or if you can point to an example of it, I would love to hear it. I'm always happy to learn how I can improve. If you do wish to provide criticism and feedback, I request that you do so in the QST thread, so as to avoid cluttering this one.
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>>3515055
why then Martial Artist?
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>>3515054
Suck a dick retard, go run your own quest.
>>3515044
>>3515046
Supporting this guy
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>>3515063
do you mean criticism and feedback specifically so can we still continue discussing what we should vote here?
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>>3515068

Yeah I mean if you have criticism or feedback for me as a qm specifically, stuff that isn't related to moving forward with the quest or the vote, stuff like writing or grammar or mechanical tips, please let me know in qst.

Discussion of the vote, character, quest, and quest related things, please do here.

Didn't mean to confuse anyone. No I'm not trying to shunt my quest into another thread. Please continue to discuss the vote, the character, the quest etc, here.
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>>3515064
Psychic Weapon Constructs?
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>>3515054
>being a shitter
Kys
>>3515056
Backing this actually.
>>3515044
>>3515055
This doesn't really make sense and feels like it's cludging too many things together. How can you be a weird goth kid AND a debater? An ace debater would be confident, talkative, and charismatic, which is not how I envision a "weird goth kid."
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so i was wondering if you want >>3515055
why did you pick one with matrial artist?.
i actually want the same thing just plant themed, also as a kind of survival thing plants regrow so if we get a fatal shoot it possibly will not be as fatal.
>>3515076
do you think a martial artist knows how to build a weapon i think martial artist is more a combat stat thing think robin and batman while they jump around or get in fist fights or use exotic weapons
>>3515058
we will get that already from being a “Weird Goth Kid” and a Honors Student
>>3515044
huh >>3515078 is actually right it really clashes and does not fit together
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>>3515044
>>3515034
>>3515046
Checking to see if ID changed now that I am at home... at any rate, the character idea was:
>loved magic and monsters and all that good shit since early childhood. ALWAYS cheered for the monster when told a scary story, went as a Wizard every Halloween
>parents with high expectations let it happen, but start getting more overbearing as time goes on
>Gotta be academically successful, gotta be involved, gotta be physically fit
>repeatedly told to grow up and be more concerned with the real more than the fantasy
>never stops loving the idea of the supernatural, but doesn’t want to disappoint parents.
>finds a balance... sort of. As long as he keeps his grades stellar, keeps his place in the Debate Team, keeps his books on folklore and cryptids and runic symbols hidden, doesn’t talk about it at school (when kids talk, it gets around. Not even Honors classes keep you from getting labeled the Weird Goth Kid to everyone.), and keeps his wardrobe at least MOSTLY not blacks and dark colors, then it’s fine.
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>>3515079
replace this >>3515058 with >>3515056
just a embarrassing mistake
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>>3515056
>Wallflower
What Wallflower means?
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>>3515082
a Wallflower is any kid that doesn't really stand out in an appreciable way. Doesn't fit in to any cliques, isn't seen with anyone notable. As non-noticed as the wallpaper.
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>>3515056
+1
>>3515083
thanks
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>>3515056
dont all of these feel redundant?
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>>3515058
i really want a plant themed mc.
While watching old cartoons i was thinking of some stuff we could do and we could possibly do like regrowing,money tree,plant telepath and plant gadgets like exploding bananas or smoke bombs that grow on trees
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>>3515056
the reason why i dont vote for this is we dont really get anything from this other then being a nerd i think
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Alright, half an hour till I call it and we get the next write up.

So far leading builds are

>>3515044

and

>>3515056

Both with three votes including the anons who proposed them assuming I'm counting correctly. If I'm missing any votes or have overlooked something please correct me.

If you haven't cast your vote yet, wish to change your vote, or have something you'd like to lobby for, now is the time. Voting closing in half an hour.
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>>3515056
If we were to look at these qualities as actual things to use die on, I can see Nerd as being something like Intelligence and Wallflower something like Stealth. Not entirely sure what Wimp would be used on.
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>>3515105
Yeah honestly I'd vote for that if we switched Wimp to literally anything else.
Maybe Hacker (2)?
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>>3515105
Deception, looking nonthreatening. It could also be a malus.
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>>3515105

>if we were to look at these as things to use dice on

they are, and those are both good examples of uses for Nerd or Wallflower. As for

>Not sure what wimp would be used on

Running away? Convincing people to leave you alone? Falling in and hiding behind a stronger individual for protection? I honestly don't know, I'm a bit stumped on that one as well, but just think of cliche things wimps do and are good at and that's what it would be for.

Twenty minutes left.
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>>3515106
Sure, that's fine.
>>3515107
and before anyone asks, my ID changed because the browser crashed
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Right well switching my support of >>3515044
to
>Wallflower (4)
>Nerd (4)
>Hacker (2)

Wimp just feels like an actual Malus.
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>>3515108
>>3515113
Yes, I see that Wimp was a mistake. I'm switching to Hacker (2) as well
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Ten minutes.

So far, unless I misunderstand it looks like the winning vote for our starting set of cliches is going to be

Wallflower (4)
Nerd (4)
Hacker (2)

Ten minutes to vote or clarify your vote, and then the vote will be called.
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>>3515117
wallflower is not having a niche in the school
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>>3515121

Yes, basically the term refers to being average, unnoticeable, and often it has connotations of being shy as well. Wallflowers don't stand out, they're kinda just part of the crowd as it were.

It's something that can certainly be used potentially, as an anon suggested it might work as bastardized stealth in the right situations, but you'll all need to be creative about it.

Three minutes.
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Voting Closed.

We're locked in for

Wallflower (4)
Nerd (4)
Hacker (2)

Please note that as the quest continues it will be possible to get more cliches as your character evolves and it becomes necessary to describe who they have become, and that your cliche can likewise improve.

That's for latter though. For now, writing, and power selection.

If you have an idea that you want for a write in power, start thinking about it and get ready to convince the other anons to back you.

Write up incoming.
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>>3515117
I'm fine with that
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“This is as far as I go I guess” You think to yourself as you contemplate your life as a...well a Wallflower if you’re brutally honest with yourself. You didn't really have to many friends. You weren’t bullied or anything like that, you were just kinda there. Chugging away and getting good grades, contemplating a life as a programmer and shit posting online. Then on a whim and a flight of depressed fancy you responded to some bullshit online about “reaching your true potential” and “being the best you you could be.”

“Fuck that was stupid.” You think as the goo climbs up over your mouth. If you were going to do something impulsive or try to “live your life”, why hadn’t you just asked out Ashley? She might have gone for it, and even if you got laughed at there’s no way asking a girl out ends with you in a fucking pod of black goo about to suffocate.

The goo crawls up over your nose, and then your eyes. You hold your breath for as long as you can and then gasp out and suck down the liquid before blacking out.
You’re floating, suspended by some liquid. It’s dark and quiet. It’s peaceful. If this is the afterlife it ain’t so bad. And then suddenly there’s sound, moving hydraulics and the splash of liquid against concrete as the door to your pod swings open.

You fall forward in a rush of black goo and fall to all fours before you start coughing the Tar out of your lungs. You’re alive, holy shit you’re alive. You retch and rub at your eyes trying to clean off the gunk before trying to get your feet under you and stand up. You can barely see, but you open your eyes and look around blearily at your surroundings

You’re in a pit made out of concrete. The ground below you is packed dirt, and the ceiling is concrete and steel girders. Your either in a large building or underground.

You shake your head and toss some more of the gunk out of your hair and then look around. The walls are more than twenty feet high you think, its a big open space with a high ceiling that’s for sure. At intervals around the top of the pit far from the ground are whirring cameras and a few speakers. There’s a large steel door embedded in the wall directly across from you.
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>>3515128

“Beginning testing of Meta-gene active subject.” The voice of the scientist drones out from one of the speakers and the massive steel door begins to slide open.

From out of the shadows emerges a massive creature. It’s vaguely humanoid, but it’s proportions are grossly exaggerated like some sort of caricature. It’s upper body bulges grotesquely with muscle. It’s skin is torn, and gaping wounds show the tissue underneath. It looks like it literally tore it’s own skin flexing.

The thing’s hide is Grey and leathery, and looking at it’s wounds you can see it’s [I] skin [/i] is as thick as one of your fingers.

It stares at you with beady eyes from under a thick brow as the voice over the speakers says “Now mammoth remember we need the subject alive, and sufficiently intact to be repairable by our partner's technology. No dismemberment, and leave the skull intact. Other than that, have fun with your new toy.”

The thing, Mammoth it’s name is Mammoth, grins at you and start rolling it’s shoulders, limbering up.

“Subject Fourteen” The Scientist says over the speakers addressing you. “Congratulations, your Meta-gene has been activated. Unfortunately in some cases it can be very difficult to determine how exactly it manifests. We’ve found that the best way to determine how a subject’s meta-gene has manifested is to force them to use it by putting them in highly stressful and threatening situations and seeing how they respond instinctively to save themselves. I look forward to seeing what you can do Subject fourteen. Best of luck.”
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Some potential powers:

>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man
We can be anyone we want, be who everyone wants.
>Learn skills by watching them in action
If we're nobody, we have the potential to be anybody. Literally Taskmaster's power
>Psychic projections of people we meet, those with powers will have degraded versions
When everyone ignores us, the little kindnesses leave a big impression. (Monitor, feel free to add whatever limitations you want)
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>>3515129

Then the speakers crackle and shut off and Mammoth starts to lumber towards you.

“Fuck, fuck, just..fuck.” you say as you back up away from the lumbering monstrosity, as far as you can go until your foot hits the edge of the now open glass door to your pod.

There’s no way. You’re going to die, you can’t fight that thing, you aren’t some fucking super hero!

Your palms sweat. You can feel your heart pounding. You’re getting real fucking sick of being in life threatening situations.

And then, it happens.


>You blink, and then everything is shining, it’s like the whole world has turned into a series of prisms and crystals, except it hasn't. You can still see the objects themselves, Mammoth still looks like the freak he is, but everything is overlaid with these shining distracting lights. You reach out to shield your eyes, and realize you can feel them against the palm of your hand, you almost feel like you could reach out and grab them. (Manipulation of radiation and light, exact nature unknown)

>Your hands feel strange, you look down and scream. What the fuck have they done to you? Your hand ends in three massive fingers instead of the familiar five, and your skin is covered in a light blue fur. Your shocked out of your contemplation by a prickling in the back of your mind. You can FEEL mammoths blood lust, and taste the contours of his mind, and it scares you. (Primary psychic power, secondary physical adaptation, exact nature unknown)

>You feel heavy and your skin feels tight, like it’s being stretched. It feels as if you’ve been hollowed out and replaced by something else, like if you just reach down and pull your skin will tear away like you’re peeling an onion and revealing another layer. (physiological mutation, transformative aspects, exact nature unknown.)

Write in (write ins strongly encouraged. Please keep in mind that at this point your power is new to you, and poorly understood. It will develop as the quest progresses and you gain greater control and understanding)
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>>3515130

These are absolutely potential power sets you could have, any one of these could work. Just keep in mind that early on you won't be at your full potential, so if you pick say the shape shifting, then you're going to start with a few forms or with a long cool down period, and get progressively better and faster etc as you go.

Voting is now open. Write in's are encouraged. I'm gonna be gone for a bit, so there will be several hours for you all to come to a decision, and we will pick back up this afternoon.

Thank you all for your participation thus far.
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>>3515126
Getting vibes of some combination of technopathy and shapeshifting or invisibility? Not just "Light passes through me rather than reflects off of me," but a sort of ambient psychic field of "Your brain just unconsciously ignores me while I'm in your field of vision."
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>>3515131
>You blink, and then everything is shining, it’s like the whole world has turned into a series of prisms and crystals, except it hasn't. You can still see the objects themselves, Mammoth still looks like the freak he is, but everything is overlaid with these shining distracting lights. You reach out to shield your eyes, and realize you can feel them against the palm of your hand, you almost feel like you could reach out and grab them. (Manipulation of radiation and light, exact nature unknown)
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>>3515131
I actually really dig those first two. I feel like I don't see that many cape-quests with visibly mutant MCs and the social aspect would be interesting, but Light/Radiation manipulation would be WILD if we get a handle on it... Damn this single choice with two very good options.
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>>3515130
>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man
This please.
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>You feel heavy and your skin feels tight, like it’s being stretched. It feels as if you’ve been hollowed out and replaced by something else, like if you just reach down and pull your skin will tear away like you’re peeling an onion and revealing another layer. (physiological mutation, transformative aspects, exact nature unknown.)

Because peeling our skin off sounds absolutely terrifying and I'm curious as to what this power does exactly.
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>>3515131
>You blink, and then everything is shining, it’s like the whole world has turned into a series of prisms and crystals, except it hasn't. You can still see the objects themselves, Mammoth still looks like the freak he is, but everything is overlaid with these shining distracting lights. You reach out to shield your eyes, and realize you can feel them against the palm of your hand, you almost feel like you could reach out and grab them. (Manipulation of radiation and light, exact nature unknown)
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>>3515131
>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man
is my preferred write-in, although I can also live with Manipulation of radiation and light.
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>>3515131
>You blink, and then everything is shining, it’s like the whole world has turned into a series of prisms and crystals, except it hasn't. You can still see the objects themselves, Mammoth still looks like the freak he is, but everything is overlaid with these shining distracting lights. You reach out to shield your eyes, and realize you can feel them against the palm of your hand, you almost feel like you could reach out and grab them. (Manipulation of radiation and light, exact nature unknown)
We ain't gonna become a big boi with fur.
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>>3515154
Curse you
Go for the shapeshifty write in.
Though I'm ok with that power too.
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>>3515131
>>Your hands feel strange, you look down and scream. What the fuck have they done to you? Your hand ends in three massive fingers instead of the familiar five, and your skin is covered in a light blue fur. Your shocked out of your contemplation by a prickling in the back of your mind. You can FEEL mammoths blood lust, and taste the contours of his mind, and it scares you. (Primary psychic power, secondary physical adaptation, exact nature unknown)
Probably gonna be outvoted, but whatever, I still like the Big Mutie route.
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>>3515150
What is Pillar Man? I prefer not to have turning into an animal as a power, but other kinds of shapeshifting is fine.
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>>3515137
>I feel like I don't see that many cape-quests with visibly mutant MCs
Surprisingly, the more popular cape-quests had MCs with physical mutations- the most noticeable would be the Homeless Mutant Quest.

Actually I'll switch to
>>3515131
Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man.

Since I didn't realise write ins were acceptable. I'm fine with light manipulation if that ends up winning.
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>>3515156
Are you happy now anon?
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>>3515159
Basically a pillar man is like a broken vampire with shit tons of control over their own biology.
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>>3515162
Yes, thank you.
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>>3515167
:)
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>>3515131

>You feel heavy and your skin feels tight, like it’s being stretched. It feels as if you’ve been hollowed out and replaced by something else, like if you just reach down and pull your skin will tear away like you’re peeling an onion and revealing another layer. (physiological mutation, transformative aspects, exact nature unknown.)
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>>3515163
I still kinda prefer the peeling off our skin style transformation of the third option then, or even the light manipulation ability, but I'll stick around to see what your power does if it wins. I'm just having a hard time visualizing it at the moment, so the power feels uninteresting.
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>>3515179
Its kind of fun its like a scooby doo villain but under the mask is another villain and i hope we can still be big mutant with this i kind of imagine us being part plant with this power
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>>3515179
From the way google tells it, it's less whole animal shapeshifting, though he could probably do that if he really wanted, but rather specialized and localized animal shapeshifting. Need to see very far away -> shift your eyes to eagle eyes. Want to kick real hard -> shift your leg to a horse's leg, or even maybe a ram's head or something. Subdue this guy in front of you -> your arms are now actual pythons.
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>>3515188
That's still a Pillarman, but that's a Pillarman after becoming even stronger.
They can do shit like use their veins as prehensile needles.
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>>3515131
>>You blink, and then everything is shining, it’s like the whole world has turned into a series of prisms and crystals, except it hasn't. You can still see the objects themselves, Mammoth still looks like the freak he is, but everything is overlaid with these shining distracting lights. You reach out to shield your eyes, and realize you can feel them against the palm of your hand, you almost feel like you could reach out and grab them. (Manipulation of radiation and light, exact nature unknown)
I'm voting this, light manipulation is just too good. We can effectively just blind people for as long as we're able to keep manipulating it.
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>>3515182
Personally I imagined the skin peeling shapeshifting to be something like this. Remove human skin to reveal vicious scary monster form, then molt that off yo return to normal, with our monster form maybe changing depending on the situation. (Like we can specialize a brute type, or aquatic type, or whatever, at the time of the transformation)

A drawback being it takes longer to molt back to human form than to turn into a monster, so we can't rapidly change type or even quickly disguise ourselves, but at least can quickly enter a battle mode
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>>3515195
Pic related for my initial thought after reading the skin peeling transformation ability.
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>>3515197
Ben 10 in DC Land Quest when?
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>>3515131
>You feel heavy and your skin feels tight, like it’s being stretched. It feels as if you’ve been hollowed out and replaced by something else, like if you just reach down and pull your skin will tear away like you’re peeling an onion and revealing another layer. (physiological mutation, transformative aspects, exact nature unknown.)
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>>3515195
On the topic of disguise and stealth, this type of transformation seems unfit for it because you'd be leaving skin "suits" behind every time you molted.
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>>3515131
>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man
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>>3515179
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwsIHG-vLOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GId6_wYtRK0
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>>3515131
>Your hands feel strange, you look down and scream. What the fuck have they done to you? Your hand ends in three massive fingers instead of the familiar five, and your skin is covered in a light blue fur. Your shocked out of your contemplation by a prickling in the back of your mind. You can FEEL mammoths blood lust, and taste the contours of his mind, and it scares you. (Primary psychic power, secondary physical adaptation, exact nature unknown)
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Gonna be a few more hours before I'm done here.

Loving the discussion. Looks like we've got some frontrunners, but it could still go a few different ways.

Keep voting, keep lobbying for your desired option. I'll be back in a few hours to close up the vote and star the next write up.
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>>3515131
>You feel heavy and your skin feels tight, like it’s being stretched. It feels as if you’ve been hollowed out and replaced by something else, like if you just reach down and pull your skin will tear away like you’re peeling an onion and revealing another layer. (physiological mutation, transformative aspects, exact nature unknown.)
MYSTERY BOX
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>>3515131
>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man
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What is winning right now?
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>>3515437
Looks like Biokinesis or Light Manipulation to me.
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>>3515445
to bad was really looking forwards to the layer power
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>>3515201
the question is do we really leave behind a suit or do we kind of burst and have it dragged in on the other side of our body and if we leave behind skin we could possibly eat it after we go into monster form like a molting bug
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>>3515456
But then what do you do with the monster skin when you return to human? You can't possibly eat that with your human mouth and digestion system!
>mfw we collect them all and make cool rugs out of them
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>>3515131
>>>You blink, and then everything is shining, it’s like the whole world has turned into a series of prisms and crystals, except it hasn't. You can still see the objects themselves, Mammoth still looks like the freak he is, but everything is overlaid with these shining distracting lights. You reach out to shield your eyes, and realize you can feel them against the palm of your hand, you almost feel like you could reach out and grab them. (Manipulation of radiation and light, exact nature unknown)
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>>3515477
so we have cancer or flashbangs and possibly floating eyeballs
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the layer power just fits with our personality
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>>3515469
wait it said "It feels as if you’ve been hollowed out and replaced by something else, like if you just reach down and pull your skin will tear away like you’re peeling an onion and revealing another layer"
could it be possible if we peel away a layer and it says we are hollow inside would it not be kind of easy to stuff the old layer inside if we are hollow
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>>3515131
>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man
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>>3515496
i think it needs to be fleshed out its kind of too generic and bland
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>>3515500
You could say the same about third option
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>>3515512
atleast option 3 has text instead of just saying its a crossovers of two characters and two keywords
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>>3515519
at least you can understand what that ability does and what expect from it

>>3515131
>You blink, and then everything is shining (Manipulation of radiation and light, exact nature unknown)
Is far better ability than the other two or writin
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>>3515136
>>3515143
>>3515193
>>3515477
>>3515524
Light Manipulation

>>3515158
>>3515215
Psychic power with obvious physical mutation

>>3515140
>>3515178
>>3515200
>>3515236
Skin Peeling with Vague Power

>>3515138
>>3515150
>>3515203
>>3515357
>>3515496
>>3515161
Biokinesis/Shapeshifting

This is what I think the votes are all at.
Light Manipulation: 5
Psychic with Physical Mutation: 2
Skin Peeling with Vague Power: 4
Biokinesis/Shapeshifting: 6
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>>3515572
Also just to stem any potential worry, I'm not the author, just an anon tallying votes to clarify. Keep voting or changing votes if ya want. I'm still rooting for the creepy skin peeling power personally, but all the powers are interesting.
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>>3515572
so can someone explain the beast boy/pillarman power what do you think it will do?

and a question to everyone i want know the reasons for why you voted for your power
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Alright, my business is concluded. I'm going to grab a bite to eat, and then I'll call the vote and start writing.

Vote will be called in about 30 minutes probably. Might take a bit longer for me to do the writup. Just finished an extended period of intense physical activity so I'm a bit out of it.
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>>3515604
so what are you going to do with the most generic and short power description?
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>>3515572

Thank you for the tally to date anon, I appreciate it.


I also appreciate all the votes and discussion, thank you all for being here.
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>>3515588
With Biokinesis/Shapeshift at a high level?
>high speed regeneration
>turning bodyparts into weapons/animals
>flight via manifesting wings
>shapeshifting into other people or animals
>killing others by messing with their biology
>enhancing size/musclemass at will
>absorb people for biomass
Many other potential applications.
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>>3515588
From what I can gather the Pillar Man is a reference to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and the power is some kind of intricate cellular control that allows them to do things like mutate limbs or muscles, and they can even digest organic material via physical contact by having their skin cells break down the material. With proper training and full control the person can even adapt the properties of other living beings like plants and animals, but even without it they could twist bones, muscle, blood, or other parts of their body into basically any other organic material. Turn blood into a bone weapon jutting out of their arm, or a tool to pick a lock, or whatever. Definitely very versatile. Biggest drawback being our character currently has very little control/awareness of his power, so it'll be a while before he's able to do awesome stuff like that. In fact, I kinda worry with that much power but that little control we'll be in danger of accidentally killing ourselves, but that can be handwaved by saying we have a subconscious limiter that won't let us really change anything vital away until we gain enough understanding to overcome it.

Personally I like my idea of peeling/molting physical form into some mutant battle mode/back to human form interpretation of the skin peeling ability. Though admittedly I don't know what the power is actually alluding to and my guess could be completely wrong. It still strikes me as an interesting power that would have a creepy enough activation tp lean somewhat into the physical mutation aspect some people liked about the psychic power, but without it necessarily being permanent, or blue (I just don't want to look like Xman's Beast).

Light manipulation sounds cool too, and less dangerous for someone with little understanding or control, but also strikes me as something that could be really powerful as we understand other features of it, but again, my personal interest in the skin peeling power wins out.
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>>3515609

Have you ever read any of the animal man comics?

That's kind of what I'm thinking right now basee on what people have been saying. There was a period where he could maintain multiple partial tranaformations, so the dude would grow a massive pair of wings, claws and fangs, etc. Very versatile at high levels.

I'm only somewhat familiar with the pillar men. I've never read jojo, but I've got a buddy who is really into it. From my understanding they basically have flesh sculpting magic, a kind of biomancy. Thst so of skill set would lend itself to unnaturally dense muscles or other mutations I think.

I don't know, I'm spit balling. It certainly won't start out that strong, in the beginning if you picked that you'll have some limited shifting and regeneration I think. Still need to think of good words to describe it as an innitial bodily sensation, like I said I'm kind of out of it, but I'll figure something out.

If you are one of the anons voting for it, and you feel like I've missunderstood, please tell me how you imagine it.
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>>3515615

Since some people aren't too clear on what the skin peeling would do, and I realize in hindsight I left that too vague, gonna confirm that this anon basically has the right idea.

What i pictured was you tear off your skin there's a mutant form underneath, tear that off and you can go back to human or to a different mutant form. Multiple forms can be used, it's kind of adaptive.

Basically think Husk from x-men, but with a bit of monster of the week mixed in.

I'm sorry for not doing a better job with my descriptions.
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>>3515611
>high speed regeneration. Do we get energy from nothing?
>turning bodyparts into weapons/animals. I can see that so are the weapons going to be stronger then normal bones and keep a better edge
>flight via manifesting wings. So all of our mass in the wings and even then not sure if we can fly or are you just going to slap on wings to a human?
>shapeshifting into other people or animals do we need to keep our brain when we shift to animal and
>killing others by messing with their biology. So we can also control flesh that is not ours and ranged?
>enhancing size/musclemass at will. Where do we store the extra mass and energy or are we the living bag of holding?
>absorb people for biomass. Same as earlier
Also bonus question do we need to grow the flesh ourself or do we just suck it up
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>>3515615
>Light manipulation sounds cool too, and less dangerous for someone with little understanding or control
We can also manipulate radiation don't forget about that, you know what this means? We can give people cancer. Think about that for a intimidation move, I don't think there are many who'd want to risk cancer.
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>>3515627
>high speed regeneration. Do we get energy from nothing?
Imagine being this pedantic in a universe where Superman or The Flash exist.

Pillarmen can mess with other peoples biology on touch.
>wings
Who is Hawkman?
>do we store mass like a bag of holding?
Probably.
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>>3515624
Dang it now I REALLY wish we'd get the flesh peeling as a power.

Please kind anons! Grant my wish!
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>>3515627

If we have to bullshit a source of energy, for that kinda powers you're probably plugged into The Red, or at least that's what i'd go with.
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>>3515615
The skin eating thing thats just a excuse thats more then eating with skin its straight up touching a dude and you eating everything under the skin in nearly less then a second
>>3515635
Hawkman we dont have a secondary power/s that helps us fly
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>>3515643
Eh I'd say just have us want to eat a lot. Excuse the whole thing under "just needs to consume more calories" and leave it at that.

Alternatively, we can eventually just have our skin photosynthesize for us.
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>>3515131
>Onion power
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>>3515643
Or the thing thats not said ever now i think of it where meta gene users get there energy from
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>>3515649
>just have our skin photosynthesize for us.
Bootleg that Kryptonian Physiology.
Although at higher levels of Biokinesis you could also do wacky plant stuff.
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Three minutes left. Any final changes/votes need to happen now!

>Light Manipulation: 5
>Psychic with physical mutation: 2
>Flesh Onion Monster Roulette: 5
>Full Cellular Control (Biokinesis/Shapeshifting): 6
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>>3515654
Remember you can vote for the thing you want more then the current winner
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Calling the vote.
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Alright so looks like our winner is biomancy/shapeshifting.

Keep in mind we ain't gonna be pillar men from the get go, that is gonna take time and training. Certainly something to shoot for.

Give me a bit to finish my protein shake, and I'll figure out what I'm going to do with what you've all given me.

To those who wanted onion monster roulette, on the bright side you can still biomancy and shift yourself into a monster in the long run potentially, so that's a bit of a consolation I suppose.
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>>3515665
Ah well. It's a shame but hardly ruins anything. I'm interested to see where our power level starts, and also hoping to see us use it in ways I can't think of. It's probably a lot more interesting than I'm able to make it in my head.
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>>3515665
>Give me a bit to finish my protein shake
chad confirmed
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>>3515665
I dislike having a flesh pocket dimension makes it too easy and takes the risk and fun out of collecting flesh
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>>3515673
Jesus fuck.
Stop complaining.
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>>3515673
We can probably make our body more dense to maintain a human size as we absorb more then, but I imagine a bit of creative liberty will be taken with the whole thing even then. I mean, Beast Boy can become an elephant and then a mouse or vice versa without any trouble, so even if we try to be less crazy with it at some point ya just gotta accept the weirdness of shapeshifting.
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>>3515676
it was a joke lol
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>>3515676
Not even complaining just think it will be more fun and balance it from being too strong and encourage people to work around it
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Are we going to be like prototype basically
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>>3515694
That'd be pretty dang awesome not gonna lie.
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>>3515694
Oh god we're almost literally Alex Mercer.
Nice.
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>>3515673
>flesh pocket dimension
what are talking about?
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>>3515698
I love this game so much and then p2 happened it was basically Xboxes infamous even though it was also for PlayStation
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>>3515707
Like Prototype storing away the mass and not even getting heavier
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Completely unrelated to this particular quest but still throwing it out there: one where you play as bizarro (or bizarro superboy) would be pretty cool. Considering how powerful he is rolls during combat wouldn't be super serious but I like the idea of the difficulty being more on trying to understand and communicate with others as well as holding back so you don't end up killing innocents as well as knocking out the bad guy. If anyone ever makes such a quest imma be reading it for sure.
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>>3515673
It's not even risky or fun though, it just means we'd be running around constantly buying pig carcasses and smell like a butcher's because we carry around pound upon pound of meat to ration.
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>>3515673
As long as we can't store like a whole city or something I am fine with it. Maybe the more we store the more fucked in the head we get?
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>>3515761
Now that I think of it this might be to body horroresque
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>>3515777
>A power focused on manipulating, consuming and reshaping biology.
>Not being body horroresque by default
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>>3515800
Point taken
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>>3515740
Thinking more of should we bulk up making us stronger bigger and heavier or should we be small and compact
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where did qm go?
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>>3515131

You focus, desperately trying to figure out what your new power is, and then your realize, you can Feel your muscles. It’s not just that you can feel the muscle groups tensing, you can Feel the fibers, the ligaments, you can feel where they connect to your bones.

Your bones, holy shit you can Feel your bones, all the way to the marrow and the blood cell production.

You can feel your blood moving through your veins, hell, you can feel your veins.

So much, you feel so much, and yet it isn't overwhelming you. Your brain is quietly processing the information without the sensory overload you're sure should be occurring.

You can't feel your brain activity quite like you can feel the rest of your body, but you can tell there's a lot more going on under the hood than there had been. You heard once humans only use like ten percent of their brain, you wonder how much you're using now.

Something, some instinct screams at you that you can change yourself, order your flesh to obey your whim.

1/2
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>>3516019

You decide to focus on a finger nail. If you fuck up, it probably won't kill you. You focus on your left pointer finger and picture the nail growing longer and thicker, imagining a claw at the end of your finger tip.

Before your eyes your nail shifts and changes, until you are looking at a viciously hooked inch long claw.

Ok, you can order your flesh and it obeys, damn that's awesome! Maybe you can just make yourself as huge, no bigger, than this Mammoth and smash him!

You focus on your pecs first. You might as well start somewhere and you always wanted nice pecs. Focusing on the muscle fibers you order them to grow, imagining rippling muscle.

There's pain as the muscles start to tear and then repair themselves, but they don't grow very much before they stop. Your new senses can feel that you don't have enough material to build them up like you want to. You need fuel.

A loud thumping jerks you out of your head, and you realize that while you've been navel gazing Mammoth has walked right up in front of you.

He leers at you and raises a massive fist.

What do you do?


>you remember hearing once that it doesn't take much to rattle the brain, you may not have had much of a punch before, but you're pretty sure you can forcibly contract your muscles and put a little extra oomph into a shot at his chin by ignoring your bodies limits (power dice pump)

>you remember from your biology class that performance can be enhanced by hormones and adrenaline, your pretty sure you can force your glands to flood your system with every natural performance enhancer the body can make and then run for your fucking life (nerd dice and power dice)

>you're never going to complain about memorizing muscles and ligaments in school again, you know where his are. You bet you can grow some claws and cripple him. He seems pretty fixated on his upper body, you can probably get some swipes in at his legs while he's unsuspecting (nerd dice and power dice)

>Write in

(There's going to be some mechanics involved in this decision, which I will explain in my next post after this. Please hold questions until after the explanation. I’d also recommend not voting until after reading the explanation as well.)

2/2
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Alright first things first, your power. Congratulations, you have complete control over your body and it’s systems. Your flesh is yours to command and sculpt, limited only by your imagination, knowledge, practice, and fuel.

Quite frankly you are going to be broken once you get rolling. After much deliberation I have decided that I am fine with this, as it means I get to toss equally broken shit at you when the time comes, and that sounds like a good time.

Your power is represented mechanically as your Power dice. You are going to start with 3 power dice, though as you grow in your mastery over your power this pool will grow. Power dice will be what allows you to break human limits.

Now, Skill checks , pumps, and combat.

Outside of combat when you roll to see if you are successful in doing something I feel you can’t just get away with automatically, you will roll against a set dc using an appropriate cliche’s dice pool and your power dice if applicable. Dc’s typically range from 5 at the low end to 30 at the high end. 5 is something any schmuck can do. 10 is something that would be appropriate for a professional in a given field. 15 is for really difficult things, stuff that even pro’s have troubles with. 20’s are things that even masters struggle to do. If you hit 30, you are at literally superhuman feats.

Pumps are when you push yourself past your limit, basically going beyond your limitations knowing that you’re probably going to hurt yourself doing it. You can increase a dice pool for a given cliché, or your power dice pool, for a single roll. After that round ends that pool takes damage equal to the amount you pumped it by. Basically, you get a big shot, and then you suffer for it.

Combat. Combat is handled by opposing rolls. You roll your dice, the opponent rolls their dice. Whoever gets the higher number when you add up all your dice wins. The winner is unharmed, the looser takes damage to the dice pool they were using. For example, if we rolled with nerd and power dice, and then loose, we would take one dice worth of damage to either nerd or power, and on subsequent rolls would have a smaller pool to use. Combat is not limited purely to two people trying to hurt or kill each other. Combat mechanics can come into play during most clashes between two individuals. An important argument can invoke combat mechanics for example, as both sides try to beat the others argument and wear each other down.

We are currently in combat with Mammoth. You will be rolling your pool vs his. I will be taking best out of the first three rolls. Dice are not to be rolled until after the vote is called and an option is chosen. This is to make sure that anons vote based on what they think is the best result, not because someone rolled high.

Again, hold off on the dice rolls until after votes are tallied and our course of action is chosen. Once the decision has been made I will ask for dice rolls and roll your opponents dice.
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>>3516033

For the record all of your dice are d6, unless specified otherwise. Forgot to put that in there. In the future you may potentially increase your power dice from d6 to d8 or even d10's but that's further down the line.
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>>3516001

My apologies for the long wait, got called away partway through and only just got back, but I'm here now and I've got nothing to pull me away for the rest of the evening.
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>>3516030
Alrighty then
>you're never going to complain about memorizing muscles and ligaments in school again, you know where his are. You bet you can grow some claws and cripple him. He seems pretty fixated on his upper body, you can probably get some swipes in at his legs while he's unsuspecting (nerd dice and power dice)
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>>3516033
>you're never going to complain about memorizing muscles and ligaments in school again, you know where his are. You bet you can grow some claws and cripple him. He seems pretty fixated on his upper body, you can probably get some swipes in at his legs while he's unsuspecting (nerd dice and power dice)
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>>3516050
+1
Try to form a whip and grab his legs
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>>3516030
>>you remember from your biology class that performance can be enhanced by hormones and adrenaline, your pretty sure you can force your glands to flood your system with every natural performance enhancer the body can make and then run for your fucking life (nerd dice and power dice)
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>>3516030
>you're never going to complain about memorizing muscles and ligaments in school again, you know where his are. You bet you can grow some claws and cripple him. He seems pretty fixated on his upper body, you can probably get some swipes in at his legs while he's unsuspecting (nerd dice and power dice)
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dont this guy have super strong skin? he can take a punch from super boy and more
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Alright, looks like most anons are thinking the same thing. I'm going to give it about thirty more minutes and then I'm going to call the vote and ask for dice rolls.
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>>3516030
>you remember from your biology class that performance can be enhanced by hormones and adrenaline, your pretty sure you can force your glands to flood your system with every natural performance enhancer the body can make and then run for your fucking life (nerd dice and power dice)

Fighting him head on seams kind of out of character with our background.
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>>3516093
and i am not sure we can even injure him yet
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>>3516030
>you remember from your biology class that performance can be enhanced by hormones and adrenaline, your pretty sure you can force your glands to flood your system with every natural performance enhancer the body can make and then run for your fucking life (nerd dice and power dice)


Alright, you've got my interest GM. I'll be keeping an eye on this quest.
'Slave', huh? That won't last too long if I have anything to say about it!

Also dropping a quote I feel is going to be very appropriate to our powerset in time:
"The flesh is fluid. It can be changed, reshaped, remade!"
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>>3516106
Im not sure if we want to be anywhere near that guy. Why would we want to hurt him?
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>>3516119
same its like promethius with the rolling ship why run forward when you can run to the side and avoid the whole thing
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>>3516033
>you remember from your biology class that performance can be enhanced by hormones and adrenaline, your pretty sure you can force your glands to flood your system with every natural performance enhancer the body can make and then run for your fucking life (nerd dice and power dice)
changing to this
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Alright bout ten minutes till voting is closed. Last call for votes.

So far the votes are thus.

Flood your veins with adrenaline and run- 4
Grow some claws and hamstring him- 3
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Calling it, we're running.

Please roll me 7d6 for Nerd+Power dice.
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>>3516030
>>you're never going to complain about memorizing muscles and ligaments in school again, you know where his are. You bet you can grow some claws and cripple him. He seems pretty fixated on his upper body, you can probably get some swipes in at his legs while he's unsuspecting (nerd dice and power dice)
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>>3516169
oof
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Rolled 3, 4, 5, 2, 2, 3, 2 = 21 (7d6)

>>3516167
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Rolled 6, 2, 1, 4, 5, 2, 2 = 22 (7d6)

>>3516167
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>>3516169
Really...
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>>3516169

That's unfortunate man, just missed the cutoff. Feel free to roll some dice.
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Rolled 3, 3, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5 = 29 (7d6)

>>3516167
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Rolled 6, 1, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 3 = 24 (8d6)

>>3516193
>>3516180
>>3516177

Alright, thank you all for rolling, that's the three we need. Now I just need to roll for your opponent and then I'll get writing.
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>>3516030

You remember from your biology class that performance can be enhanced by hormones and adrenaline, you’re pretty sure you can force your glands to flood your system with every natural performance enhancer the body can make and then run for your fucking life. There is no way in hell you are trying to stand up to this thing. You ain’t no superman. Even if you have some pretty awesome new Meta-powers.

As his fist descends you stimulate your adrenal gland, thank fucking goodness you remembered it was the one on top of your kidneys. Sadly your new awareness of your body does not come with an instruction manual and a convenient map pointing out what’s what. Fortunately, you always did do pretty damn well in your biology courses.

In accordance with your will your blood is flooded with adrenaline and nor-epinephrine and you dive under his arm. It isn’t exactly dignified, you nearly fall on your face and end up scrambling on all fours for a few awkward seconds before you get your feet back under you, but you didn’t get hit and you’re past him and running faster than you ever have in your life away from big mean and ugly.

‘All I gotta do is keep running’ you think to yourself as you look back over your shoulder at where Mammoth is standing. ‘He’s so huge he has to be slow, there’s no way he can move quickly with that much mass considering his proportions, the bones and joints of his comparatively undersized legs couldn’t support it. Square cube law bitch!’

It was at this moment you learned something very important. A revelation of such import it would completely redefine your understanding of the universe.

Meta-Humans are bullshit.
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>>3516250

The massive man crouches down and the muscles in his thighs and calves bunch, and then he springs at you. This was not the spring of a tiger, this was more comparable to a man being launched out of a cannon then to anything you’d see on animal planet.

His movement is explosive, he goes for zero to sixty in about half a second, and you barely realize what’s happening before he slams into you.

Fortunately not even Meta-human bullshit can let him change direction mid air, or at least, not his brand of Meta-human bullshit.

Thanks to your accelerated thought process and reactions, totally worth the shaking hands caused by the massive load of hormones in your blood, you manage to duck under the Meta-human projectile intent on slamming into you like the fist of a pagan god, and throw yourself to the ground.

You hear a crash as Mammoth soars over your head and then slams into the wall of the pit. Rolling to your feet you look back as where he crashed into the wall. Literally into, the guy cracked the concrete and embedded himself in it.

With a roar he rips himself free and whips around to look at you. He screeches at you and you see his muscles bunch in preparation for his next charge.

What do?

>Cannibalize parts of your body you don’t need and try to build up your legs and cardio pulmonary system, that was too close, you need to be faster or you are toast. Course you gotta be careful what you take and where... ( Nerd and Power dice)

>Just keep the adrenaline flowing and keep fucking running (Power dice)

>There’s no way you’re going to be able to avoid him a second time, you can’t count on getting lucky again. You gotta slow him down somehow or you won’t be able to get away. Go for his legs (Power dice)

>Write in.
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Please note that if you do have a write in, please suggest a dice pool to go along with that write in, and a rational behind that dice pool.

If you have any questions or objections regarding the options above, please feel free to ask.
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>>3516253
>>Just keep the adrenaline flowing and keep fucking running (Power dice)
look for how you can get out
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>>3516253
Cannibalize parts of your body
Tonsils, pancreas, gallbladder, kidneys
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>>3516271
dont forget the Appendix then the Erector Pili they are tiny muscles that are attached to our hair follicles that makes them stand up and give us "goosebumps" then there is The pyramidalis muscles they dont really do anything
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>>3516271
we could also use the under skin fat then butt fat and thigh fat or we can keep it in store for later
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>>3516253
>Cannibalize parts of your body you don’t need and try to build up your legs and cardio pulmonary system, that was too close, you need to be faster or you are toast. Course you gotta be careful what you take and where... ( Nerd and Power dice)
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>>3516253
>>Cannibalize parts of your body you don’t need and try to build up your legs and cardio pulmonary system, that was too close, you need to be faster or you are toast. Course you gotta be careful what you take and where... ( Nerd and Power dice)
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>>3516253
>>>Cannibalize parts of your body you don’t need and try to build up your legs and cardio pulmonary system, that was too close, you need to be faster or you are toast. Course you gotta be careful what you take and where... ( Nerd and Power dice)
ok we are doing this
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Alright gonna give it 25 minutes and then I'm going to call it and ask for rolls.
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>>3516309
I think we're good on votes
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we are going to be like bike cop from C and H
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>>3516337

>bike cop from C and H

I have no idea what you mean.


Alright, bit early but >>3516323 has a point. Calling it.

Give me 7d6 for Nerd and Power dice please.
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Rolled 1, 6, 3, 5, 4, 6, 6 = 31 (7d6)

>>3516350
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>>3516350
i cant find the short but he could catch up with a car on a bike he was faster then the car and his legs are like pillars
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>>3516362

damn.
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Rolled 2, 2, 4, 2, 5, 1, 1 = 17 (7d6)

>>3516350
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Rolled 5, 4, 4, 4, 2, 6, 4 = 29 (7d6)

>>3516350
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>>3516365

I mean this in a good way for the record.
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Rolled 5, 1, 4, 3, 1, 2, 2 = 18 (7d6)

>>3516370
>>3516367
>>3516362

Well that's three, lets roll for opposition and I'll get writing.
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>31 vs 18 our favor

It's a bad day for Mammoth.
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>>3516399
so we have the legs of rick taylor now?
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>>3516253

That was too close, you need to be faster or you’re going to get squished. You need stronger legs, you need to build up the muscles there, but to do that you need fuel.

There’s no time to hesitate, Mammoths already leaping at you again. You dive to the side and manage to avoid him by the skin of your teeth as you start thinking about what you can cannibalize to fuel some muscle growth in your legs.

Kidneys, you only need one, at your mental command one starts to break down, fuel for the fire. You leave a bit of it, hopefully you can grow it back later. After all meta-humans are bullshit, and you’re a meta-human now, so maybe it’ll work.

Appendix, that shit’s useless, your body breaks it down into components and protein.

Liver, one of the largest organs in the human body. You don’t need the whole thing, you know that there’s a procedure for donor’s to give part of their liver. You start consuming one of your livers lobes.

The organs you’ve targeted melt away in a second, maybe two as you run away from Mammoths latest leap and try to get a bit of space. You can literally feel the muscles in your thighs and calves tearing and rebuilding themselves larger and stronger than they were in real time as you run.

Your fat stores melt as they fuel the reaction and every useful bit of the cells is pillaged. You’d never been fat but you’d had a bit of a paunch. Too much time in front of a computer, too many sugary snacks.

You don’t have a paunch any more.

You briefly consider targeting your upper body, but can that thought immediately. You remember your gym coach bitching at you about proper running form, you need your arms to counter balance your legs to get the best results while sprinting. You can’t afford to take from your upper body, you might throw yourself off.

1/2
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>>3516447

You bend your knees and tense your new muscles as you watch Mammoth and wait for his next explosive leap.

You remember learning in biology that the human liver is a few pounds, you think it was about three. If that’s the case, comparing the amount of liver your burned to what you got from your other organs, you think you’ve converted a little more than two pounds of organ meat into muscle altogether.

You’d contemplated getting fit once, figured it might improve your luck with the ladies. You remember that for a male the maximum muscle gain in a month was about one to two pounds of muscle. That means if your rough estimates are right you’ve just gained one to two month worth of muscle growth in about three, maybe four seconds. And that’s not even considering whatever you got from burning off all of your fat stores.

And to think, all it cost you was three internal organs!

Fuck.

You dodge again, springing out of Mammoth’s way, and while it’s not a huge difference you do move a bit faster and get a bit farther out of the way of his charge. You get maybe a foot of clearance as compared to the inches you got on your first two narrow escapes.

Mammoth slams into the wall again as you sprint to the other side of the pit. He pries himself out of the wall, and then snorts and shakes his head before staring at you a moment.

Then, rather than leaping at you, he starts to lope towards you. It’s fast, but controlled. He stares at you as he slowly closes the gap, stalking after you like a massive predator.

You run, but even with your new and improved legs he starts to catch up, gaining on you slowly but surely as you try and keep the gap. You’re faster now but he’s still faster than you and he’s starting to play it smart. Damn it, if only you had more fuel you could really restructure your legs and then there’s no way he’d catch you, but your tanks are running dry, and Mammoth is running you down.

What do?

>Keep the adrenaline going and keep running, try and figure something out. (Power dice)

>Run towards your pod, maybe you can find something you could break off and use as a weapon or something. (Nerd dice)

>Stand and fight, if you keep running he’ll catch up eventually and you’ll just be exhausted when he does (Power Dice)

>Write in
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>>3516463
>>Write in
>Just when he's about to catch you, drop onto your back, raise up your beefy meta legs and kick him in the balls as hard as possible.
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>>3516485
+100
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>>3516506
I'm going to add on to that. consume our feet make hooves out of the bone and make our legs stronger

I hope we can put the stuff back where it was
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>>3516485
+1000
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>>3516485
>>3516531
All of this.
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Alright I'm going to level with you all. I really really need to sleep, so this is where we are going to have to leave it for now.

I'll close voting and do the next bit of writing first thing when I wake up tomorrow.

Thank you all for playing.
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>>3516463
>Sharpen our teeth incisors and go for a bite! Go for the fatty areas, fat is much more energy dense than muscle! (Power Dice)
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>>3516485
Ditto
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>>3516019
>You heard once humans only use like ten percent of their brain, you wonder how much you're using now.
Pet peeve, but the 10% thing is nothing more than a pseudo-scientific myth.
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>>3516756
Yeah, but our villainhero doesn't seem to know that.
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>>3516463
all of these
>>3516579
>>3516485
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>>3516756
This is comic land.
Stop trying to apply logic.
Superman once read a USB by looking at it.
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>>3516485
+1
We would cannibalize our teeth and reinforce our feet with some spikes or simple make them harder
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>>3517163
we dont need atleast two teeth and we can also use the nose and hair
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>>3516485
This. I don't think it's necessary to cannibalize anything else though.
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>>3517187
a hoof is going to be nearly half the size of a foot
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And I'm back. Lets see what's going on.

Alright so dropping on our back and kicking at him is definitely winning, there are some votes for cannibalizing various bits to augment the kick, but none have a lot of traction right now.

As it stands drop and kick is winning, that would be a regular power dice roll unless you want to try pumping it and manually forcing your muscles to contract more forcefully than is strictly speaking healthy.

So flash vote, ten minutes to decide do you want to pump the kick or not? If you do want to pump the kick, by how many dice?

Also last chance for any advocates of further desperate bio shaping to try and change things, then I'm calling it and writing.

>>3516756

You are absolutely right, but it is a very common misconception, and while our mc may be a nerd he doesn't know everything and will fall prey to bad info on occasion.
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>>3517192
We have three power dice right? I feel like our chances of succeeding with that are... low. Would cannibalizing boost it?
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>>3517192
No pumping the kick. I'd rather not overexert ourselves and leave us debilitated in case this doesn't work.
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>>3517192
a idea for later fuse the index finger with the middle finger and the ring finger with the pinky that way we have fewer stronger fingers we can stick claws or blades with a hook on the end
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>>3517196

Intelligent cannibalizing relies on the nerd dice, so it would give you a larger pool technically.
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Three minutes left before we call it.
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>>3517199

Not gonna lie, I was actually gonna use that if you went for his legs and won earlier on during the first vote, combine a few fingers and restructure your hand for a big ass supersized velociraptor killing talon a couple inches long.
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Well that's time. Looks like consensus is no pump, no cannibalizing just straight power dice.

Give me 3d6 please.
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Rolled 2, 4, 1 = 7 (3d6)

>>3517206
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>>3517205
its a classic
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Rolled 4, 2, 1 = 7 (3d6)

>>3517206
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Rolled 1, 4, 3 = 8 (3d6)

>>3517209
>>3517213
dice is being weird
>>3517206
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Rolled 4, 1, 4, 3, 6, 4 = 22 (6d6)

>>3517217
>>3517213
>>3517209

Well them's the dice. Time to roll for Mammoth and get to writing.
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>>3517222
oof
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And thus we were trampled to death.
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>>3516463

Okay, you can’t outrun him forever, he’s going to catch you. Can’t really fight him head on either, that hasn’t changed. Trying to square up would be stupid. Maybe a cheap shot? After all he’s a Meta, but he’s still a human male, his balls are probably still fairly vulnerable.

You’ll wait until he’s just about to catch you, then you’ll fall forward and roll onto your back and kick him in the nuts. Fuck the guy code, fuck fair fighting, you don’t want to die!

You consider trying to restructure your feet to make it more effective, maybe try and make some hooves to concentrate the force into a smaller area and put a hard edge to the kick. It would multiply the force a considerable bit after all…

But you don’t. You don’t understand how hoofs function, at least not well enough to gamble on replacing your feet with them. If you fuck it up you’re going to cripple yourself. It can’t be as simple as just replacing the foot and making a hoof come out of your ankle. Well, it might be, but what if the hoof doesn’t work right with the way a human ankle flexes and moves? And you’d be loosing surface area, balancing on a hoof probably takes a lot of practice.

In the short term that wouldn’t matter so much, just fuse everything into your shins and make battering rams at the bottom of your legs to smash Mammoths testicles into paste and call it a day, but what if you can’t fix it after? What if you can’t rebuild yourself functioning feet? You’re too scared to take the risk.

You may have eaten a few of your own organs, but they were things that even if you never get them back you can have a good quality of life without, loosing your feet would fuck you up for a long time.

So you leave things the way they are and when Mammoth is right on top of you, with maybe three feet between you and his left hand reaching out to grab at you, you throw yourself forward out of his reach and onto your back.

As your back hits the packed earth floor of the pit you draw your legs in and then with a shout you kick right at mammoths balls with everything you have.
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>>3517268

Your feet never make it to their target. Mammoth’s right hand flashes out and intercepts your legs, knocking them to the side and then taking hold of your left leg.

His meaty fingers wrap around your calves like a vice, and then with contemptuous ease he picks you up by one leg and flings you into the wall of the pit.

You slam into the concrete, the impact knocks the breath out of you, but you keep your head tucked and it doesn’t rattle your skull.

You fall down to the ground with a groan, gasping and trying to get air into your lungs. Your new awareness of your body tells you nothing is broken, Mammoth didn’t throw you very hard, but being picked up like that by one leg fucked it up. There’s a lot of torn muscle and strained tendons and ligaments where your left leg attaches to the hip, and the ball is out of the socket.

Groaning and gasping you crawl to all fours and order your muscles to start stitching back together, you inhibit swelling, you remember that’s what Ice packs are for. Can’t remember why you’re supposed to do that, but it’s important. Then you just speed up what the bodies already doing. You don’t know enough to micromanage how your body heals from injury, yet, but you figure it probably knows what it’s doing and just turbo charge it. It seems to work alright.

Once the muscular situation is looking better you order them to contract and flex to try and force your joint back into place. It takes a few tries, and you whimper at the pain, but eventually you get it back in place.

Your breathing has evened out by the time you’ve got your leg sorted out well enough you feel like you could put weight on it.This wasn’t a quick process, it took a minute or so, and you feel exhausted, both by the mental effort and what your body has consumed to make it happen. You’re pretty sure you’re at like less than 1 percent body fat at this point.

You have taken one dice of damage to your Power dice pool

Looking up you see that Mammoth is just standing there, looming over you, staring at you with those beady eyes. He watches you for a moment more, and then snorts and gestures at you with his hand flapping his fingers at you signaling you to get up. A kind of “come over here” gesture.

Well, at least he didn't kick you while you were down, though if you don’t get up you can’t guarantee he won’t start.

What do you do?

>Fuck it, better a freak of nature than a bloody pulp, restructure your hand and go for his knees and ankles (Nerd and Power dice)

>Try to run, use your powers to keep your legs together and just run for it. (Power dice)

>Stay down and shout and hope they have audio equipment and the scientist can hear you. Try to convince him that he has enough data and there’s no value in further damaging you (Nerd dice)

>Write in
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>>3517270
>You learn in school about Cephalopods and their suction cups recreate them on your hands and start climbing away from him.
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>>3517274
support
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>>3517274
Why the fuck not. We /octoboy/ now
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>>3517274
support
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>>3517274
>(Nerd and Power dice)
I think both should apply
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>>3517281

I concur with this statement.

Gotta love a good write in.

Got a few things I gotta get done before I can start on the next bit of writing, so voting is gonna be open for an hour or so longer. Doing some octopus shenanigans is certainly the leading vote at the moment, but if it ain't your cup of tea or if you think there's a better move, still plenty of time to lobby for your choice for those of you who haven't voted.
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>>3517274
Octopi, Octopi, does whatever an Octopus can.

Supporting.
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alright calling the vote. octo boy it is.

roll me 6d6 please.
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Rolled 1, 6, 4, 1, 6, 1 = 19 (6d6)

>>3517357
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Rolled 5, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2 = 18 (6d6)

>>3517357
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Rolled 4, 4, 5, 5, 2, 1 = 21 (6d6)

>>3517357
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Rolled 2, 1, 3, 6, 4, 2 = 18 (6d6)

>>3517358
>>3517360
>>3517362

Alright. Lets see how this goes then.
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Rolled 6, 2, 2, 2, 4, 6 = 22 (6d6)

>>3517357
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>>3517363
so we survive way
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>>3517426
so we survived yay
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so is it going?
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test
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Probably should hold our cards closer to our chest and not give them so much combat data.

The more they know about us, the more the can control and defeat us easier.

>>3517494
You too?
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>>3517489


Working on the write up as we speak, give me just a bit and it'll be ready to be posted. Gonna have to pop off for a while once I've done this one though, got some stuff to do today. I'll give you guys some time estimates so you know what to expect.
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>>3517500
Yeah, captcha was being an asshole and saying "you have mistyped the captcha" when all I have to do is press a button.
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>>3517513
Yeah, the captcha was being a pain even though I did it properly.
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>>3517513
>>3517500

you also had those?
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>>3517274
>>3517270
I get that we're in a high stakes environment without the chance to really plan ahead, nor do we really understand our current situation (I.e. being prisoners now), but I feel as though we should limit the use of our powers to trick the owners.

We're about to climb onto the walls and our heightened endurance may have slipped past their notice, so I suggest we pretend that's the extent of our abilities from now on, at least until we escape.
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>>3517607
some kind of developing movmenet focused mutation like our meta gene is not going full blast and just waking up
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Slowly you get your feet under you and get ready. The behemoth that’s been chasing you seems content to give you a second, and you fully plan to make use of it. You glance around as you consider your options. Running away has proven to be futile. Attacking the brute that’s chasing you just got you tossed around like a rag doll. You can’t run away, and you can’t stand your ground and fight.

Well, you can’t run away but maybe you could still escape. You eye the wall next to you. Trying to run on foot didn’t work, but maybe if you go up ….

Well it’s worth a try at least, but the walls are sheer and smooth. There’s no handholds, so how could you do it? You’d need to stick to the wall somehow? Try and copy spider man from the comic books and make little hooks? No, that’s bullshit and you know it. Suction? Yeah, suction might work.

You had thought octopus were pretty awesome, so last year when you needed to do a report on an animal’s biology for the marine biology portion of your AP bio class you had chosen to do it on the mighty octopus.

The suckers in particular had been interesting, and you spent a good portion of the report on the function of that particular bit of anatomy. You bet you could recreate them, though they might not work as well out of water since it’s harder to make an airtight seal rather than a watertight one, it’s still worth a shot.

As Mammoth takes a step towards you, you enact your new plan. You leap at the wall, jumping as hard as you can. You get a pretty good vertical clearance, obviously you can’t measure it, but you peak over your shoulder when you impact the wall, you’re looking him square in the eye now rather than looking up to him.

As you jumped you started restructuring the surface of your hands, re-purposing some of the muscle from your legs to form muscular cups on your hands. One on each finger tip and five on the palm of each hand.

The suction cup of an octopus is made up of two parts. A flexible outer cup, and an inner chamber of muscle. The flexible outer layer conforms to the area of the surface and creates a water tight, or in this case hopefully air tight, seal. The muscle of the inner chamber then contracts, causing the inner chamber to get bigger. The water tight seal prevents more water from getting in to fill the now larger chamber, causing a change in pressure. And hey presto, suction.

You manage to finish forming the suckers right before you impact the wall, and as your hands touch the smooth surface of the concrete you push them flush and then start the suction.

To your amazement, it works. You aren’t an octopus, you don’t have the instincts for using suction cups, and you’ve certainly never practiced this. It was a long shot, and yet it works. Your body responds to your will and imagination, newly grown muscles fulfilling their function even if logically you know you shouldn’t be able to do it.
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>>3517689

No time to think about that though, can’t contemplate how the fuck you’re doing this, you have more pressing matters to consider, like the giant gray fist coming towards your head right now.

You yank yourself out of the way with your shoulders and arms and push against the wall with your legs, throwing your body up and to the side like a rock climber launching themselves at a distant handhold.

Mammoths fist slams into the concrete where your body had just been with a loud crack, and you can see the concrete fracture, cracks radiating like a spider web from where his knuckles impacted the wall.

Small chunks of concrete fall and clatter to the ground as you pull yourself higher, scuttling out of Mammoths reach all the way up the wall until you’re nearly to the sealing. He watches you, shaking out the hand that he used to punch the wall.

He contemplates you for a moment, and you stare back waiting for him to once again give physics the finger and leap an improbable height up after you,

He starts to crouch in preparation to make what should be an impossible jump, when the speakers crackle on and the voice of the scientist is broadcast into the pit.

“That’s enough Mammoth” it says “We’ve gotten all of the data we need at this time. Fascinating, absolutely fascinating. Perhaps not the most impressive manifestation of the Meta-gene we’ve seen, but certainly useful. I wonder if they’d let me keep him for further study...”

A tinny sight escapes the speakers “Probably not. Ah well, there’s always the next series of test subjects I suppose. Keep an eye on him Mammoth, retrieval will be there shortly.”

You really don’t like the sound of ‘retrieval’, you eye the steel doorway Mammoth had come in through, which as far as you can tell is the only way in or out of the pit, but Mammoth positions himself between you and the door before you could try anything.

After a moment it slides open again and a short man in a hood steps in. He looks up at you and throws back his hood.

...Is that his fucking brain? That glass globe of a head has to be one of the most disturbing things you’ve ever seen. Seriously, that’s hideous.

“Well that isn’t a very kind thought at all” The pale man chuckles with a smirk, then he raises one hand to his temple and looks square at you before saying“[I] Psimon says, let go and fall [i/]”
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>>3517700

It’s a peculiar thing, you’d heard the phrase out of body experience before, but it’s something quite different to experience it.

You watch helpless as your suction cups relinquish their hold on the wall. You can feel your body doing it, but can’t do anything to counteract the sensation, and then you’re falling through the air. You plummet towards the earth, and squeeze your eyes shut and try to brace for impact, but rather than slamming into the ground, something catches you in mid air.

You open your eyes and see that Mammoth jumped up and caught you.

“Good, good” The pale man says, then his hand goes up to his temple again and he says “Now then, Psimon says sleep .”

You’re eyes flutter, and darkness overtakes you. The last thing you see is Psimon’s lips twist up in a smirk.
Your neck hurts. Or more accurately, the back of your neck hurts. You can feel something digging into the skin, and there’s a bone deep ache right under it. As you open your eyes and take you reach up to try and feel the back of your neck, there’s a round metal disk embedded in your neck positioned right over your spine.

You’re in a warehouse, or at least it looks like a warehouse. There’s a bunch of metal crates, and some guys with guns. At least you don’t see Psimon or Mammoth. You’re lying down on a gurney, which was presumably used to bring you here. You aren’t in a medical gown anymore at least, they’ve put you in some kind of baggy smock and pants. You aren't sure if you should be grateful to be in actual clothes, or disturbed that someone dressed you while you were unconscious.

One of the goons in front of you see you moving and pulls a pistol out and aims it at your head and then calls over his shoulder “Boss, it’s awake.”

In response to his voice one of the other men turns and looks at you. He steps forward and then pulls a small box out of his Jacket.

“Alright freak” He says as he brandishes the box at you “You get your ass up and get in one of those crates. Don’t give me any shit, or you’re gonna find out first hand just how much it hurts for Father box here to turn on your control implants punishment functions.”
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>>3517719

Looking across the room you see that there are four open crates. Open, but not empty. Huddling in each crate is a teenager. One has a guy with a few piercings who looks out sullenly at the men with the guns and rubs his knuckles. The next one over has a red headed kid whose just staring at the side of his crate. He doesn’t react to the men moving around at all, he just keeps staring at the side of the crate.

The third one, well you can’t really tell too much, they’ve got their back turned to you and the baggy smock thing doesn’t really let you see the outline of their body too well. They’ve got kind of a punk hair cut and that hangs down on one side and reaches past their jaw line and is dyed blue...and it looks like their skin might be blue to actually, so maybe the hair isn’t a dye job. The fourth crate has a blonde girl with long hair who is cradling their face in their hands and sobbing.

The man with the box grunts and then gestures with the device before saying “Get a move on freak.”

What do you do?


>Go get into the box with the sullen guy

>Go get into the box holding the catatonic kid

>Go get into the box with the blue kid

>Go get into the box with the sobbing blonde.

>Ask for your own damn crate

>Write in
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Alright I'm gonna be gone for a bit. Things to do today and all of that, probably won't be back for at least two or three hours, possibly longer, though if that is the case I'll drop a line from my phone to let you all know.

Hope everyone's enjoying things so far. See you all when I get back.
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>>3517726
>"Make me." Cannibalize our pain receptors then sucker punch him.
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>>3517726
>Go get into the box with the sobbing blonde.
Just you assholes wait for us to get better control of our power, you'll see how much good your implants will do you then.
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>>3517726
>>Ask for your own damn crate also ask for something to eat while doing this feel around the implant where it connects and stuff seems and other things
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>>3517726
>Go get into the box with the sobbing blonde.
And
ask for something to eat while doing this feel around the implant where it connects and stuff seems and other things.

We have points in hacking so we could try and work out what exactly the implant does. I wouldn't suggest trying to disable it just yet.
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>>3517726
>Ask for your own damn crate
We need to test the implant.
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>>3517796
Any reason we can't do that in a shared crate?
Maybe ask our fellow slave for information?
Also an opportunity to see if our power can effect others yet.
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>>3517805
The crate is controlled by them, and they threatened to use it or activate us if we don't comply? Backtalk and demands like this>>3517749
would likely provoke them to use it before shoving us into another crate with someone else. We can comply as soon as they use it and crawl into one of the crates.
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>>3517771
this
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>>3517726
>Go get into the box with the sobbing blonde.

We will lick her tears to regain our powers!
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>>3517817
i want to see the effect and the slim chance they follow our demands
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>>3517826
I do too.
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>>3517726
>Go get into the box with the blue kid
I wonder how long it's been since we got kidnapped - has our disappearance been reported to the police yet?

Shit, are we even in the same State we got kidnapped in??
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making the demands has only advantages
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>>3517966
Wrong.
Stop being wrong all the time.
Being electrocuted into unconsciousness is not an advantage.
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>>3517990
if they follow our demand we get what we need if not we know how this thing works
if we dont do any of that we just sit in a box with a traumatized teen that knows nothing more then we do
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>>3517771
+1
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>>3517726
>Go get into the box with the sobbing blonde.
Incel mode engaged
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>>3517771
this or mine we have atleast some reasoning
testing the implant if not we get food and possibly our own crate
while others are more thinking in a kind creepy pervert way or in the still creepy waifu way
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>>3518048
>while others are more thinking in a kind creepy pervert way or in the still creepy waifu way

It's the curse of the first girl. People think she has the deepest personality or that we have a connection of some kind but it's simply that we know them the longest,

Anons, please don't flirt and waifu while we're being kidnapped and sold as supersoldiers.

Additionally, do you suppose we should gain weight? Since we're limited to our total body mass wouldn't it be efficient of us to gain fat which can then be changed without as many side effects as altering our organs?
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>>3518089
Yes, definitely. Being able to freely control the composition of the body means that having as much raw material as possible is a good thing. We must also remember to have as many minerals and nutrients as necessary on hand as well. I wonder, is this power constrained by the actual realities of biology?
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>>3518139
>constrained by the actual realities of biology?
It's unlikely that the QM is following the typical rules of biology since, you know, the entire power exists. Plus the pace at which we devoured our own organs and created octopi cups seems rather far fatched.
QM will probably be flexible at their own discretion, or follow basic constraints. For example since the human body is made up of 20% carbon (18 Kg on average) we can only create carbon weapons measuring up to that amount - rather then preventing this due to the organs and blood cells requiring the element to function.
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>>3518089
Sobbing means tears and we need sustenance. That all Im saying
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>Go get into the box with the sullen guy

My gut says this guy is the best choice for us making a potential escape during transport.
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Okay, I'm back, I'm going to be here for about 45 minutes, and then I gotta go for several hours.

So I'm going to give it five minutes for me to read and think, and for everyone to cast any last minute votes, and then I'm calling the vote and getting writing.
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>>3517823
>Go get into the box with the sullen guy

Ima switch
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>>3518195
That makes sense. I hope we can get the Mc to study Chrysomallon squamiferum so we can get that armor goodness.
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>>3518239
Traitor!

>>3518224
Glad to have you back Eig! Sorry to see you have to go so soon..
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>>3518241
Hell, studying all kinds of animals and biology in general is going to massively help with our flesh-sculpting. I do kinda hope we can eventually reach Prototype-tier with our power but that's a long ways off still.
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>>3518139
>>3518195
>>3518089
>>3518241


>Is this power constrained by the actual realities of biology?


Hell no, for a couple of reasons.

1. I am not a biologist. I haven't done shit with biology since I took AP bio in high school, and that ways years and years ago. I don't know enough to do any do realism justice.

2. This is comic book land, there's shit that breaks reality way harder. Pic related. Remember, Meta-humans are bullshit.

3. This is comic book land, it's not meant to be realistic it's meant to be awesome and thematic and tell a story.

4. You're the mc, you get cool shit. Ain't gonna just roll over and declare you unstoppable, it ain't fun that way, but you're not gonna end up some d-lister cause "biology doesn't work that way"


Alright and with that I'm calling it. Voting's closed lets see the results.
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>>3518257

....man I really need to stop and proof read shit before I post, there are way to many embarrassing typos in that post.
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>>3518089
i have been in quests like this before even if gaining weight is a advantage they dont want to do it there was even one where you had a certain amount of biomass you had and another quest that had a training/weight lose system and they where starving themself to be thinner rather then using it for muscle mass or as energy when running or surviving in the wilderness
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>>3518261
Meh, it reads just fine
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>>3518241
>>3518250
A seasnail? That isn't really my area of expertise but the shells are rather dense, what could we exchange to create our own?

We could always use lightening holes within our bones if we ever need calcium.

Would it be plausible to surround our d.phalanx with a strengthened muscle and constrain it until the bone shoots out like a bullet? Could an amplified muscle produce such a burst?
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>>3518195
This seems like a good way to go with: give tangible rules to the powers without going full realism with mass and shit.
I prefer for the MC of something to actually look cool, especially in capeshit, I'm not keen on looking like someone that should be demanding someone bring him Solo and the Wookie.
Plus, anons are aping the shit out of Prototype and Alex Mercer and I'm okay with that as an expy, hell it even works with the Nerd cliché since Mercer was a scienceboi.
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>>3518257
Understood Eig, looking forward to shooting webs of calcium wires to copy spiderman.

>>3518266
>starving themself to be thinner
Why on earth would the players vote for such an action?
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>>3518271
This sea snail is quite unique, as it has a very well-designed multi-layered shell which protects it from immense forces and is the only creature alive which integrates a form of iron into the shell.

Speaking of which, copying the skull designs of goats and/or woodpeckers would be quite prudent...
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>>3518282
they did not like to be fat
>>3518279
instead of being like prototype shifting in anyway in a split second i kind of like the upgrading way we upgrade get mass and repeat test them and improve them
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>>3517726

You look at the guy, and briefly consider mouthing off to him and asking for your own crate while using your new senses to probe at your neck to try and figure out what’s up with the “control device”

It takes you a second to figure it out, at first it feels like there’s not really anything there. Yeah it’s drilled into your vertebrae, and that’s bad, but it’s just kinda sitting there. There’s just the device, and a whole bunch of nerves. Since it’s your spinal column, you were kind of expecting a whole bunch of nerves.

Then you realize that the nerve bundle in that particular vertebrae seems thicker than it is elsewhere, which leads you realize that there’s synthetic nerve fibers coming out of the device that have integrated themselves into your spinal column.

The fucking thing has literally made itself part of your nervous system, and seems poised to intercept the commands from your brain to your body, or to send your body false signals about what’s happening bellow your neck.

Depending on how good the tech in that father box is, and if they can make an artificial nerve system and integrate it into your own as seamlessly as your new senses indicate, they could literally puppet your body. Or convince your brain you were being dipped into boiling oil or flayed alive.

Suddenly, testing them and seeing how bad the “punishment” is doesn’t seem like the best idea.

You sit up and try to get off the gurney to make your way towards the crates, but you stumble when you try to stand and nearly fall.

Your stomach is an empty pit, your muscles are aching, and you feel so hungry and weak you just might collapse. Now that the adrenaline has worn off and your body has had a bit of time to process everything is screaming at you that you need FUEL now, or things are going to get bad.
“Get up” The man with the box says “Come on move it we don’t have all day”

You struggle to your feet and stumble towards the boxes. Everything hurts, but your legs definitely hurt the most.

“I’m starving” You say to the man “Literally, I need food or I think I might collapse.”

“Do I look like the lunch lady?” The man asks you as he gestures around at the warehouse “Does this look like a cafeteria to you? Just shut up and get in the box.”

You quiet down and keep going, but your legs give out and you fall to the floor and your stomach rumbles audibly.

“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me” The man says, then he turns to the side and addresses one of the other goons “Antonio get the Meta on his feet and give him a ration pack, we need to get moving if we’re going to be on schedule and the boss ain’t gonna be happy if he’s not conscious when they get the delivery. “

One of the men, Antonio you suppose, jerks you to your feet and reaches into one of the pouches on his vest before pulling out a brown packet that says “MEAL, ready to eat” he shoves it into your hands and then manhandles you into the nearest crate, the one with the sobbing blonde.
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>>3518405

As you get shoved into the crate she raises her head from between her hands and looks to see what’s going on, and you are momentarily stunned. Not because she’s pretty or some stupid shit like that, frankly she looks kinda hideous with her eyes all red and splotchy from the crying she’s been doing, but because you recognize her. It’s kinda hard not to when she’s been on the news headlines for the last few days.

Now there’s been a lot of crazy stuff on the news lately. Aliens coming to visit, nearly blowing up the planet, being stopped by the Justice League. Honestly the Reach was all the news could talk about for a while, but lately there’s been a new story that’s been taking the prime time spot. After all, the kidnapping of a princess of the blood of one of the few nations that is still actively ruled by a monarchy is a pretty big deal.

Sitting across from you is Tara Markov, only daughter of the King and Queen of the sovereign nation of Markovia, who has been missing for 4 days.

The door to the crate slams shut and you hear a lock slide into place.

What will you do?

>Ignore her and eat

>Try to strike up a conversation (if you choose this option provide suggestions for dialogue)

>There’s a good sized slit in the door way that lets in air and light, you could probably see through it. Look through the slit and see what’s going on.

>Write in.
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>>3518412
>Ignore her and eat
Maybe offer her something rather than instantly scarfing it all down
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>>3518412
offer her some food then eat then try to talk with her if she does not understand us we go to the slit and look out
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>>3518412
>She may not have eaten since she was captured, regardless of how your body is acting you offer her half of the ration.

>Check under the gap to see if anyone is guarding.

>Once a short time has passed, introduce yourself, wait for her reply or ask if she understands English if she doesn't respond.

>Turn away from the girl and see if you have enough energy to move an eye to the end of your index finger. See if you can flatten it under the gap and spy for a bit.

>If you still have energy see if you can continue stretching your finger and explore the area. (Keep the finger skin close to corners and in the shadows!)
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>>3518465
Oh and most importantly.
>Inspect the box! Mainly how it opens and closes!
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>>3518412
>>Ignore her and eat
Yum :)
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>>3518498
Welcome back Beamanon!
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>>3518412
>Tear food bar in half, devour one half immediately.

>Once we're done acting like a starved animal, ask if she's hungry and offer the other half.

>Inquire if she's Tara Markov and introduce ourselves.

>Try to do something small with our powers, like stop having our legs in super muscle mode if they're still like that, and see if we have any access to our powers.

>If so, experiment with trying to remove the false nerves they implanted in us.

>Ask her what her power is, since apparently we're all MetaHumans now.
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>>3518525
>If so, experiment with trying to remove the false nerves they implanted in us
Oh shit yeah, forgot about this. >>3518412
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>>3518465
Support.
Hello there Terra.
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Well, I was hoping the girl wasn't a canon character so that anons would maybe tone down potential waifufaggotry, but seems the fears of >>3518089 will come true, it's Terra, after all.
Expect it to happen.
On a less poignant note, now we know out of character where we're being shipped to: The League of Shadows.
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>>3518605
>The League of Shadows
Oh shit, really?
That's bad on the "we gotta escape" side of things.
But good on the "we gotta train our powers" side.

...I have a sudden urge to go "Crashing this League with no survivors!" on Ra's
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>>3518649
Unless QM's taking liberties with Young Justice continuity, it's where Tara gets shipped off to, and where she stays for 2 years.
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>>3518649
I mean I'm sure we can always goopify ourselves (excluding our brain) and have Tara pull out the tech in our neck, which shouldn't liquify with us.

Sneaking out by ourselves wouldn't be fast nor easy but if we want to get out with more people, even just Tara, then recon is vital.

>>3518605
There aren't really any waifuable characters in Outsiders since they move away from the old cast and there are few new female characters, even fewer that are worth the time of day.
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>>3518649
Depending on how fast our powers develop we very well might be able to eventually crash the league with some no survivors
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>>3518684
like some kind of freaky catterpillar?
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>>3518711
Nah, that wouldn't scare the princess shitless. I was thinking, more of a liquid sludge. Like the woman from doom patrol.
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>>3518723
i was thinking of chunky goop with a human skull floating around in a indention in the floor forming a cocoon after removing the device
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>>3518730
>>3518723
In doing so, MC would need to roughly be able to reproduce the entire human body afterwards right? I’m not sure that’s the best idea...
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>>3518723
I don't get it, why do you want to "Terra"-rize the poor princess?
She's in the same shitty situation as us.
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>>3518733
then its kind of removing the bone and nerves around it and having her rip it out
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>Anons think it's that easy, removing the device literally grafted to our nervous system.
I mean if it really is that easy then there's no need for this extreme "goop" shit, just move the flesh around enough to expose the device lodged in our spine and ask our "roomie" to pull it out, the problem is if doing so might cause some kind of kill-switch function to activate and kill us or at least fuck us up very badly.
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>>3518821
When we get good enough we can probably just detach our head or something and then rearrange our body without fear of the implant obliterating us.
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>>3518821
Simple anon. Just cannibalize our entire nervous system, they can't affect us then!
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>>3518412
>Ignore her and eat
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>>3518412
>Ignore her and eat
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...It just hit me that given time, enough biomass and knowledge in biology we could give ourselves secondary(and possibly tertiary) major organs and a redundant nervous system comparable to Mass Effect Krogans.

Goddamn we're going to be a physical powerhouse once get ourselves rolling.
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>>3519141
>For shits and giggles decentralize nervous system, create redundant copies across body
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>>3518465
>>3518525
This
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>>3519155
Supporting this option
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>>3519141
>>3519155
thats why i like the upgrade way and not instant shift one this encourages us to make the best possible body we can have
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>>3519188
Anon, this isn’t an option right now. In fact, it’s a terrible idea right now.
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>>3518412
>Offer her some food.

Don't waifu her, all she does is betray people.
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Alright business concluded. Give me about 40 minutes for the drive back home, and I'll call the vote and get writing.

Last chance to vote.
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>>3519341
Can I cancel out one of the votes to give her food? I'm anti-voting.
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>>3518412
>Ignore her and eat
Bitch, I ain't got time for you
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>>3519354
I mean we're definitely eating at LEAST half of the bar. Having her help in any future escape attempts would be nice, but we're still starving.

On an unrelated note, we gotta find a way to make ourselves immune to mind control.
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Calling the vote. Gimme a minute to read through all of this and figure out where we go from here.
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>>3518089
>>3518605

Y'know, I honestly didn't intend for her to be a waifu. Wasn't even in my thought process. I was thinking plot hook personally.

I mean if you all want to waifu her I ain't gonna object, you have your agency to try and do so and it's certainly possible, but I honestly wasn't aiming for that.
On an unrelated note to that, I love all of the ideas for what to do with your powers, gotta admit I'm looking forward to the future there.

Anywho, back to writing now that I've read everything and had a good giggle about some of the posts.
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>>3518412

You’ll consider the fact that you’re locked in a crate with royalty later, there are more important things right now. You need to eat.

You tear open the outer packaging of the MRE you were given. Inside are a number of smaller pouches. You hold them up to the light so that you can make out what they say. The first pouch you hold up says ‘crackers’ you tear it open and shove one into your mouth to munch on while you look at the other packages.

After a few moments raising up packages to the light and squinting while munching on your crackers you determine that you have pouches that read “beef stroganoff”, “corn”, “peanut butter spread”, “dark chocolate granola bar”, a bag of skittles, and “gatorade mix”. You also have matches, toilet paper, and a chemical heating pouch along with other odds and ends, but you don’t need toilet paper and you aren’t going to bother to wait to heat things up.

After you’ve finished the crackers you tear open a corner of the beef stroganoff packet and tilt your head back, squeezing it straight into your gullet.

Being intimately aware of your digestive system is probably going to be an awkward experience you think, but frankly you could care less at this point. As the food hits your stomach it’s rapidly broken down for nutrients, which catches your attention. You know digestion doesn’t occur that quickly. It takes time.

Focusing on your stomach for a bit, you quickly come to the conclusion that when your Meta-gene was activated your brain wasn’t the only thing to change. What your feeling in your gut doesn’t correspond to the organ you remember learning about in anatomy classes. The shape is wrong for one thing, and you’re pretty sure a stomach isn’t supposed to be compartmentalized, or have a multitude of tentacles that end it little mouths that shred whatever drops in and sucks it up to run to the through the next step in the process.

There is weird shit going on in your gut, you frankly have no idea how it works or how to describe it without a more in depth study, but what you do know is that it’s breaking down the food you are shoving in your face almost as fast and you can choke it down. It's kinda freaky, but you aren't going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

As you squeeze out the last of the beef stroganoff and lick at the edge of the packet trying to get every last drop, you’re feeling a lot better. You’re still hungry, your body still demands fuel, but that helped to take the edge off and you feel much less faint.

As you contemplate which package to eat next you realize that the sobbing has stopped. You look up at the other occupant of your crate. In the dim light you can just make out that she’s biting at her lower lip and eyeing your remaining packages.

She hasn’t moved out of her corner though, and when she realizes you’re looking at her she quickly looks away, but she was definitely staring at your food.
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>>3519806

A part of you wants to just ignore her and finish eating, your instincts and your stomach scream at you not to relinquish a single bit, but it’d be pretty shitty of you to just eat it all in front of her alone if she’s hungry. After a moments contemplation, you pick up the packet with the granola bar and hold it out to her.

“Here” You say as you wiggle the bar in front of her “take it.”

She stares at it for a moment, and then she scuttles forward and snatches it out of your hand before retreating back to her corner of the crate. She watches you for a moment and then tears open the package and bites into the granola bar.

“Soo” You say as she munches on the bar and you reach for the package marked ‘corn’ “What’s your name?”

Perhaps not the best icebreaker, but you figure it’s better than asking ‘hey, are you that kidnapped princess I saw on the news?’

She stares at you and stops chewing for a moment, and then takes another bite from the granola bar.

Then the crate shakes, and you feel it moving. You sit up and look out of the slit to see what’s going on. Best you can determine the crate is being lifted with a winch onto the back of a flatbed attached to a semi. You can see the other crates already stacked and your crate approaching the open slot.

Your crate is set down with a thump, and you tear open the corn packet and swallow a mouthful.

“Guess you don’t speak English then” You say after you’ve swallowed the corn. “And I don’t speak Markovian, so I guess communication is off the table.”

She flinches when you mention her language, and then she says quietly in lightly accented English “How, how did you know I was Markovian?”

“Ah” you sigh as you scratch at the back of your head. Right, royalty. Probably had English tutors. “Recognized your face from the news, your parents launched an international manhunt when you went missing.”

You turn away from her and look back out of the crate while you finish the corn. Good news, signs are in English so you probably aren’t in eastern Europe, bad news, you don’t recognize any of the names.
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>>3519812

Idly you consider trying to remove your control implant and escaping. You might be able to manipulate your nerves and untangle it. You prod mentally at one of your nerve fibers that is tangled up with the synthetic nerves and order it to pull loose.

Your reward for your efforts is a horrible pain as you experience what you could best describe as how you imagine it would feel to have a large group of people attempt to beat you to death with cheese graters.

You scream and fall to the floor, curling up protectively until the sensation dies down. You feel the artificial nerve reach out and reconnect itself. Okay, so they’re tamper proof, good to know. If you’re going to get that thing out you are going to need more information and some tools, or greater control of your power so that you can excise it all at once. Probably wouldn’t hurt to know what your spine was supposed to be like before you go at it too just in case you damage things getting it out.

Objective, remove the control device set. Dc 30. Nerd and Power dice if attempted with powers. Hacker if attempted otherwise. Please note that failure in future attempts will result in serious consequences.

“What happened” Tara asks you “What is wrong”

How do you respond?


>Tell her what happened, maybe she knows more about the control devices. Can’t hurt even if she doesn’t, and you can start working towards a mutual escape attempt.

>Lie, she probably doesn’t know anything and what she doesn’t know she can’t rat you out forcibly

>Lie, they might be listening in, you can talk to her later when you can be more sure that it's safe if you have to.

>Write in.
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>>3519819

Damn typo's

*what she doesn't know she can't rat you out for.

Well good night anons, I'm going to sleep. I'll see you all tomorrow.
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>>3519819
>>Tell her what happened, maybe she knows more about the control devices. Can’t hurt even if she doesn’t, and you can start working towards a mutual escape attempt.
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>>3519825
gn love u no homo
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>>3519819
>>Tell her what happened, maybe she knows more about the control devices. Can’t hurt even if she doesn’t, and you can start working towards a mutual escape attempt.

And then ask her what her powers set is.
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>>3519819
>Tell her what happened, maybe she knows more about the control devices. Can’t hurt even if she doesn’t, and you can start working towards a mutual escape attempt.

Also
>see if we can still use our powers at all without punishment, do something in a part of your body that isn't directly connected to the devive.
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>>3519819
>Write in.
I tried feeling the device attached to the back of my head and pull on it. I think its attached to my nervous system. Do you have one too, attached your your neck?

Turn around and show her ours.
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>>3519819
>Write in.
I tried feeling the device attached to the back of my head and pull on it. I think its attached to my nervous system. Do you have one too, attached your your neck?

Turn around and show her ours.
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>>3519819
>Tell her what happened, maybe she knows more about the control devices. Can’t hurt even if she doesn’t, and you can start working towards a mutual escape attempt.

>If we finished all the food eat small amount of packaging and toilet paper see how our organism react to that with our new found powers
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>>3520033
i can support the eating Part but dont reveal our true Power
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>>3519932
>>3519977
Same fagging?
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>>3519819
>Tell her what happened, maybe she knows more about the control devices. Can’t hurt even if she doesn’t, and you can start working towards a mutual escape attempt.
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>>3520033
Be vague about it. "I used my ability and triggered chip they implanted"
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>>3520047
No i like it and voted for it but two long votes are more noticable then 1 and someone saying support
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>but two long votes are more noticable then 1 and someone saying support
It doesn't matter if it's more noticeable or not, the QM counts the votes all the same, if anything, doing what you just did makes things a tad bit more confusing as >>3520047 can show.
Just reply to the QM post with the word supporting or whatever and link to the post you're backing as well, it's the go to action for a reason.
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>>3520063
+1
>>3520055 (You)
>>3520033 (You)
Im both of this
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>>3519819
>Lie, they might be listening in, you can talk to her later when you can be more sure that it's safe if you have to
No idea what the lie would be, but we can't talk about this shit here.
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>>3519819
>Objective, remove the control device set. Dc 30
We have 3 power dice and 4 nerd dice, for a total of 7, right? That gives us an average roll of 24.5. Possible to reach 30 but unlikely. How many dice can pumping give us? We would need 9 to reach an average of 31.5, which with best of 3 would give us very good chances of succeeding.
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>>3519819
>>Write in.
"Besides this entire situation? Nothing's wrong, I'm fine." say this lightheartedly, some levity might help. Then use our MRE's packaging like an impromptu ouija board to communicate with her and avoid the possibility of being listened in on.
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>>3520105
support.
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>>3520105
sure I will switch from my vote >>3520033 to this >>3520105
But I still want to try and eat toilet paper
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>>3520105
This is a good idea actually. Support.
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Good morning anons.

Alright, voting is going to close in about an hour and 40 minutes once I get back from my morning workout. Last chance for votes.

Hope everyone slept well.
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>>3520105
Oooh, nice. Support.
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>>3520126
>once I get back from my morning workout
ChadQM detected
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so guys any idea how we can combat psiom?
Reduntant brains.
Also, we need some redundant organs soon
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>>3520131
We have our bones have tin foil capabilities
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>>3520131
Maybe we can distrubt our mind and memorys throug our entire nervous system? It woudl problay make it harder to control our mind
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>>3520131
Psimon? Well, I'm not too familiar with the dude so I got no idea on the specifics of his powers. But I assume from the whole "Psimon says" crap that people need to hear him for Psimon to control them. If that's true we can probably just shut off/cannibalize our eardrums to avoid getting controlled.
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>>3520131
Compartmentalize our brain?
See if we can find a way to block telepathy with some material?
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>>3520126
Welcome back Eig!

>>3520105
Supporting

>>3520131
For now, since we have no idea of the conditions a psion required to control us, I think the element of surprise is our best weapon.

>Also check the box and see how it works.
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Hey E-16, I'd recommend getting a tripcode.
Just put ##password in the name field after your name. (password can be anything)
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>>3520142
>E-16
>not Eig

You don't understand how disappointed I am in you anon.

In any case, you really should make a trip, otherwise someone could steal your identity, make a new thread and we'd be none the wiser.
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>>3520136
Its fucking simon says
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>>3520176
Wait is psimon then its the fucking actor that says simon
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Alright, on my way home so there's about
15-20 minutes before voting closes.

Last call.


>>3520143
>>3520142

Huh, so that's why they're called trips. I'll get on that. Let's see if it works.
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>>3520180
"Dr. Simon Jones, alias Psimon, " ok what the fuck is anyone sure what he is saying?
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So here's a wiki page for Psimon.
https://youngjustice.fandom.com/wiki/Psimon
Pretty standard psionic, but he's as strong as Miss Martian and his commands can stay for a long time.

This makes me wonder how much a Tardigrade-inspired adaptation could help us...
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Voting closed. Lets see what we got.
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>>3520193
>This makes me wonder how much a Tardigrade-inspired adaptation could help us...
>Tardigrade-inspired adaptation
>Tardigrade

Jesus christ anon. I hope not.
We could always spew our stomach acid at people, give ourselves human-sized chameleon tongues within our wrists and become a knock-off spider-man or sharpen our arms to mimic the rostrum of the carpenter shark.
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>>3520131
I have a pretty efficient way to deal with psimon and the implant:
First: wait until we are sent on a mission (refine and practice with your power meanwhile), then harvest as much biomass as possible.
Second: Cover the implant nerves with scar tissue and bone, isolate it from your nervous system and rip it off.
Third: Enhance your vision and snipe psimon (when he is alone) with a bone spike, a fang or a dart with a neurotoxin
Fourth: Eat him and get the schematics for his brain, then get rid of mammoth (by psionic attack or bone spike through the head) and discover how his body works (how he is so strong, resilient and fast, even for someone of his size), and then everyone that tries to stop you. Try a nonlethal take down for those controlled by implants.
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>>3520200
Or just go full Mercer.
Our ability isn't adaptation.
The people above might think it is but in actuality our ability is far more broken.
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>>3520193
I want too look into that we can go into hibernation and stuff or only do that to part of us to use less energy and storing all the water in a pouch
even survive in space or for years without food and water
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>>3520209
From what I know we can move and control our cells, I don't think we can change their fundamentals. If we could then all we'd need is a drop of kryptonian dna and then we'd be a
god.

>>3520206
The same response goes to you, but why the hell would we want to eat a... is that thing even human?
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>>3520215
Yeah just weird and very experimented on
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>>3520215
Oh, and if we gain some weight I'd recommend creating sacs within ourselves and hide objects within them. People think you can't hurt them and you pull a gun from your hip.
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>>3520209
Right now, we are limited to work with our own body parts, not genetic manipulation yet, but with enough practice and samples, we could turn into something that would give nightmares to Mercer.
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>>3520222
We may not be as fast or volume and mass weird as him but we are not as crude or limited as him
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We should see if we can work towards an organic monomolecular blade, or at least an ultrasharp one.
Gonna be difficult making a molecule thick blade out of cells but maybe we can repurpose some cells into creating one out of something else.
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>>3520234
So you're saying we use the Brilliant Bone Blade? I support this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avT1MT7EoWg
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“What happened?” Tara asks you “What is wrong?”

“Other than the whole kidnapped and experimented on thing? Nothing.” You say as you struggle to sit back up. “I’m fine.”

You can’t see her too well in the dim light, but you’re pretty sure she’s looking at you like you are crazy. Before she can doubt your sanity any further you raise a finger to your lips and mime “shush”. You really hope she understands that. Do they use the same shush sign in Markovia? Is that universal or just an English thing? You heard once that different cultures have different hand signs. You’re just going to have to hope she gets it.

You repeat the shush gesture, and then reach for the packaging. You hold the bag of skittles up to the light and point at the I, and then point at yourself, and then point at the I again. She cocks her head, and then nods slowly, so you think she gets what you’re trying to do.

You point at the ‘I’ again, and then grab the peanut butter and point at the “T” then the “E”, followed by the “S” on the skittles and back to the peanut butter for “T” again. Then you turn and bring your fingers up to the device on your neck.

Her own hand reaches up and touches the back of her neck, then she looks down at the packages. Tentatively she reaches for the packaging, but she stops her hand a few inches away and then looks at you as if asking permission before she touches them.

You nod, and then she picks up the packages and looks at them for a minute, then she lays them in the light and starts pointing. “N” from the corn, “O” from the corn, “T” from peanut, “S” from skittles, “A” from peanut, “F” from stroganoff, “E” from peanut. She pauses for a moment and then continues. “S” from skittles, “E” from peanut, she lifts her finger and then points at “E” from peanut again. “K” from skittles, “I” from skittles”, “L” from skittles once, and then a second time.

She looks at you, points at her eyes and then away from herself, before bringing both of her hands up to her throat and rolling her eyes up into her skull. Then he shakers her head side to side once, up and down once, and then looks at you again.

What do you do?

>That last little bit of miming was asking if you understood. You think. Maybe. Nod just to be safe and then keep using the packaging to communicate. Ask her what she knows and what her powers are.

>Yeah no, the charades ain’t cutting it, let’s just wait until we can talk freely and stop the conversation there. We still got stuff to eat, and we can’t do that if we’re busy using it to

>Rather than try to explain using letters on the packages show her your powers, just change a finger or something, and then see if she will show you hers

>Write in.

I'd do more, but I gotta get to work. See you all when I go on lunch break, probably about 4 hours from now.
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>>3520259
For the other anons.

US: I'LL TEST
TERA: NOT SAFE. SEE, KILL.

>Points at her eyes and then away from herself
I think she's trying to tell us the implant transmits what we can see to our kidnappers.

>Stop using the packet to communicate, look away and try to write letters on her palm. (make sure both of you aren't looking at it).
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>>3520265
Oh right.
>Ask her how she was kidnapped. If the palm thing works then great! Else we whisper it to her.

>>3520259
>See you all when I go on lunch break, probably about 4 hours from now.
See you soon QM!
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>>3520265
ok that seems right so lets start doing that also eating
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>>3520265
>>3520267
Supporting.
Pretty smart, anon.
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>>3520259
>That last little bit of miming was asking if you understood. You think. Maybe. Nod just to be safe and then keep using the packaging to communicate. Ask her what she knows and what her powers are.

>>3520265
Not quite.
''I TEST.''
''NOT SAFE, SEE KILL.''
>She looks at you, points at her eyes and then away from herself, before bringing both of her hands up to her throat and rolling her eyes up into her skull.
This is just her using charades to act out what she just 'said' - that she has seen people killed by the implants.
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>>3520352
It still seems like a reasonable assumption that they can somehow tap into our visual centres, and are probably keeping an eye on us after we tried to disconnect from the implant.

I support >>3520265 for that reason.
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>>3520352
Oh I see.
Yeah I'll switch to supporting you.
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>>3520200
the funny thing with that picture is that being fat is the most optimal with our powers
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>>3520411
Nah, we can probably just do the prototype Biomass thing.
Or just see if we can store Biomass as a supercondensed energy store or something.
It's comic books stop being such a buzzkill.
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>>3520411
All behold the glory of Fatman, whose power is being extremely obese. Also top level fleshcrafting and making man-eating plages and abominations, but that's not important.
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>>3520419
>All behold the glory of Fatman, whose power is being extremely obese. Also top level fleshcrafting and making man-eating plages and abominations
...Nurgle? What you doing here this isn't the WH40K universe!
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>>3520419
>Also he has the DNA of the universe's strongest beings and is basically fleshy Amazo but he's a fuckin fatass nigga
Ha.
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>>3520352
>Not quite.
>''I TEST.''
Ah, my bad anon. Thanks for fixing it!

>>3520352
>This is just her using charades to act out what she just 'said' - that she has seen people killed by the implants.
This makes a lot more sense than what I had imagined, though I still think we should attempt to communicate a la palm just in case, plus I doubt the ration packaging will have every relevant letter large enough to be seen.

>>3520271
>Pretty smart, anon.
Thanks anon...
>>3520363
>Yeah I'll switch to supporting you.
:(

>>3520411
It really is, I say we use our increased weight to build our secret identity. Nobody will think we're Mr. Biology if we're a good foot taller, chubby and a different ethnicity.
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>>3520461
Either way works honestly.
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>>3520352
Supporting
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>>3520500
Aye that's true.
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>>3520461
i cant stop laughing and being sad that hero six pack
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>>3520461
belive me there is going to be nearly everyletter on the back just tiny
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>>3520597
Tiny is the problem, if the characters are too small then a human finger will be unable to point to the intended character accurately.

>>3520590
Well as >>3520416 suggests, we could spend our gained fat into improving our muscles, then transfer them out if you require any further changes.
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>>3520601
you mean the prototype metod where you store the mass in a average sized guy with the normal weight for a guy of that size and just being "nope have infinate fleashe"
but i like the idea of shiffting the mass around
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>>3520609
I think Mercer might be Super dense actually.
When he runs fast he cracks concrete and his jump landings leave behind large craters.
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>>3520609
What >>3520615 says, we can target our muscles and bones and make them denser with the gained materials.
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>>3520615
This is true, you run around cracking the shit out of the concrete and bending cars when you land, hell you can use your increased weight to elbow drop a tank in the game
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>>3520615
he control the effect of gravity on his body atleast he can get as heavy as he want and only as light as the mass he has in the world if he weight as much as he has packed away always he would sink into the ground like its water or really thin jelly
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>>3520615
>>3520622
there is a diffrence between being super dense and controling there own weight and mass he would be the most dense object for his size thats not a blackhole
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>>3520625
What?
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so we should try making ourself really dense, to pack as much biomass around as possible
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>>3520259
QM, we summon thee frometh the break of Lunch!
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>>3520624
>>3520625
The hell are you smoking?
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so, how much info do you think that our wardens , have on our abilities?
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We should combine the best of every method:
We become bigger (not monstruous, but 7 feet tall at least) and swoler, increasing our biomass storage and also becoming an intimidating fucker. We seek ways to compact as much biomass as we can (a few hundred pounds at first. Increased density will benefit us in many ways: strenght, endurance and, if we create dense fibers and structures instead of just mashing a lot of mass together, increased agility and speed). As a way to make our "I can store docens of tones of flesh without breaking the the ground and falling to the sewers" or "making myself so solid I can't even pump fluids" more rational, we should seek a pocket dimension (small at first, bigger with investment) and go full Zion from Worm.
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>>3520627
>>3520639
one of the virus infect ate the whole city compacted it all into there body and still had the weight of a normal human his size

mercer eats a giant monster a few hundred times his size or a 100+ humans and he can walk without cracking or sinking in the ground even if he has all that compacted into his body.

he can fuck around controlling his own weight
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>>3520644
Most of these are solutions we could only fix in the far future, it's unlikely we'll find a pocket dimension any time soon, plus I doubt we can control parts of our body that have been severed from the main portion of ourselves.

>if we create dense fibers and structures
So we create a 3d lattice structure with our bones, and use the remaining calcium for upgrades?
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Alright, lunch time.

Give me fifteen minutes to eat and catch up on what's been happening in the thread, and then I'm going to call the vote and get writing.

Seeing as time is limited I probably won't respond to much right now, but I'm here and will get something up before I have to skedaddle again.
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>>3520644
Also, try to study a lot of anatomy, biology and physics from now on. Study not only the human body, but also animals, plants, fungus... every creature we find really. Physics is for finding ways of making our organism as dense as possible without making it collapse. Make this a priority, but we should learn as much as we can from everything else (we need a bigger better brain).
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>>3520657

When I say won't respond to much, I mean to speculation or questions if you have them. Not that I'll cut corners on the write up.

Felt that needed clarification just in case.
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>>3520658
One of the first things we need to test is our regeneration capability.
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>>3520657
QM hath beeneth summondeth. All hail Eig.

I'm just wondering when the next update will be, once the current one has been posted. In five or six hours?

Also, how's the food?
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I thought of a way we could potentially rid ourselves of the control chip (- problem is, this method is quite likely not feasible in our current situation.)
So, the chip is connected to a small section of our spinal cord and a vertebrae, yes? Then in theory we can "snip off" said section of our spinal cord without touching the synthethic nerve fibers on the chip.

The problem with this method is that we may not have the knowledge necessary to regrow a missing portion of the spinal cord, making it VERY risky to attempt removing the chip like this.
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>>3520663

Next one after this would be in about 5 hours once I get off of work yeah, maybe a bit longer depending on traffic and how long it takes me to get home.

Foods good. Grilled veggies and chicken leftover from yesterday. I fucking love peppers.

Calling the vote and writing.
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>>3520658
I mean, maybe we can cannibalize and/expel it for boosts? That seems like a good way to always keep weight and mass balanced.
Say we jump really high but want to do the "impossible" move of changing direction mid jump? Airdash by shotgunning biomass in the opposite direction we want to go.
Say we want to fly for a limited time? Propel ourselves by expelling biomass at a constant rate.
Also, if we manage to be able to create extra brains, organs and such, we can create flesh constructs.
I'm also pretty sure we can't naturally regenerate beyond human limit, we don't have an "healing factor" as much as we're plugging holes and replacing what is lost through biomass manipulation, that has comes at some cost.
By the by, considering anons' propensity for moral-fagging and diplomacy, especially in capeshit, I'm expecting us to not be consuming the corpses of our enemies left and right, and unless we're rich or don't care for the law, we won't be consuming entire cattle either.
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>>3520690
Damn, I meant to reply to >>3520644
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>>3520690
>By the by, considering anons' propensity for moral-fagging and diplomacy, especially in capeshit
You know, there’s been something of a revolt against moralfaggery in a lot of quests recently. I wouldn’t be so sure about that....
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>>3520699
It would honestly be nicer to play a character that didn't murder the shit out of everyone for once.
Fuck Psimon though.
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>>3520699
I know it's not always the case and if playing obvious villainous and pragmatic characters, anons will often throw away morality if it gets in the way of gains, just saying that it isn't usually the case, especially in this combination of fanfic and capeshit.
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>>3520259


You nod to her. You’re pretty sure that last little bit of miming was her asking if you understood, and if that’s the case you got the message loud and clear. The control chips can be lethal. You really need to get that thing out of you.


You decide to ask her how she got here and what her powers are, but after looking at the packaging for a moment can’t find a large W. There are smaller ones, but they’re hard to make out and would be hard to point to, she might confuse it for one of the letters around it.


After a moments contemplation you come to a conclusion. Rather than point to the letters on the packaging you should be able to draw them on her palm. You move to reach out, but stop when you see your hand.


Your left hand still has the single claw you had grown earlier. You stare at it for a second, and determine that it would probably be best not to accidentally cut her, so you’re going to need to do something about it.


Well, you had been wondering if you could use your powers without the implant acting up, this seems like a good opportunity to test it. You focus on the nail, and imagine it being broken down and smoothing back out, picturing a normal finger nail. There’s a sensation of pressure and then you see it shrinking back down until it’s once again blunt and thin like the rest, and there’s no pain from the implant.


Apparently you can use your powers, at least on a small scale, without repercussions. you just shouldn’t mess with the implant directly.


With your hands safe again, you slowly reach out towards her hand. You stop a few inches away from her hand, the same way she had hesitated before taking the packets, and then look at her and smile. She stares at you for a moment, and then nods her head.


You take one of her hands between yours and then flip it palm up and trace the words “I understand” across her palm.


She nods and then she pulls gently at your right hand until your palm is facing up and traces on your palm “Do you know where we are going?”


“No” You trace back “I don’t. How did you get here?”


“My Un-” She starts to trace and then stops and starts again “A man took me from my home. He took me somewhere, and then there was a loud noise and a bright light and I was somewhere else.”


You think about that for a moment, that sounds uncomfortably like some sort of teleportation. If they have access to something like that, you could end up anywhere, and it would make it much harder for cops or the Justice League to track them.
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>>3520713

You think for a moment more and start writing on her palm again. “They experimented on me, gave me powers. Did they do the same to you?”


You have to know if she’s being kept for Meta-powers, or if she’s been kidnapped for more conventional reasons like ransom.


She shudders and breathes deeply for a moment before hesitantly writing across your palm “Yes. There was a black water, it covered my mouth. I thought I would die, but instead it changed me.”


“What are your powers?” You ask


“I” she signs and then hesitates, she looks at you, then at the empty wrapper of the granola bar, and then she starts writing again. “In my country there is a legend, that long ago the royal family was blessed by God with control of the mountains and the earth to keep Markovia safe. Now I wonder if they were true. I control dirt and rock.”


Geokinetic huh, that’s pretty amazing. You wonder what her upper limit is, how many tons she could move.


When you go to flip her hand palm up so you can write she resists and shakes her head, then starts writing on your palm again.


“Who are you? How did you get here?” She asks.
How do you respond?


Name


>Don’t tell her your name.


>My name is Joseph Mercer


>My name is Alejandro Santana


>My name is Logan Kinney


>Write in


How did you get here?


>Tell her the truth, that you responded to an internet add and got nabbed.


>Lie, the truth makes you sound like a dumb-ass. Just tell her you got grabbed on your way home from school


>Write in.
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>>3520713
>>My name is Joseph Mercer
>Tell her the truth, that you responded to an internet add and got nabbed.
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>>3520716
have we told her our power?
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>Mfw I can't think of a good decision to end with
>mfw I'm running out of time before lunch ends
>mfw I realize we don't have a name

I'm sorry for the placeholder question anons, and for being a dumbass. Forgive me please, I'm still figuring this whole questing thing out.

Gotta go in just a minute, but I'll be on until I gotta run so I'll try and respond to some stuff before I go.
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>>3520716
>My name is Joseph Mercer
>Tell her the truth, that you responded to an internet add and got nabbed.
No reason to lie to sound cool, we're trapped in a box being shipped off to god knows where.
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>>3520723

No, but you all can vote and decide if you want to tell her, and how much you want to tell her.

Add that to the vote

>tell all

>tell some

>don't tell.
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>>3520716
>My name is Joseph Mercer

>Tell her the truth, that you responded to an internet add and got nabbed, Like a dumbass we are
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>>3520729
>tell all
Our power is actually really cool and might allow for an escape down the line to get help from the JL or something.
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>>3520716
>My name is Kars Mercer

>Tell her the truth, that you responded to an internet add and got nabbed.
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>>3520716
Eig, out of curiosity are we looking away from our palms in case people are watching through our eyes like we fear?

> Our name is Joseph Mercer, though you introduce yourself simply as James.
People use the name 'James' instead of Joseph all the time. Bite me.

>Tell her the truth, that you responded to an internet add and got nabbed.
>Point out the obvious differences in our social standing and discuss why they would bother kidnapping a princess when they seem fine with kidnapping idiots off of the street.
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Now on the subject of mass and fat, before I go.

Fat can be used, but you'll get a lot more bang for your buck from muscle. Muscle is denser and takes up less volume than fat. It's also more useful in its default state, and a lot of what you make is going to be making muscle.

So while having some fat would be nice for energy stores, if we're talking max mass and max utility, getting buff is the way to go.

Being a lardass would be funny though, and possibly a good cover.
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>>3520724
Truth be told, this is much better and I prefer it. Learning about character thru story rather than info dump in chargen is preferable
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>>3520716
>>My name is Joseph Mercer
>Write in.
"Don't take this the wrong way, but I'd rather not say, it's kinda embarrassing" I don't know man, I don't want to lie, but telling the girl that was kidnapped and sold that all we did was answer an internet ad for superpowers seems kind of... insensitive? I don't know if that's the right word, but just feels odd.
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>>3520729
>tell all
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>>3520729
>>tell all
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>>3520735
>Point out the obvious differences in our social standing and discuss why they would bother kidnapping a princess when they seem fine with kidnapping idiots off of the street.
I should clarify, I'm suggesting this because I assume we didn't get a masters in metafuckery knowhow from Oxford and don't understand how difficult it is for a shady organisation to subtly test people for the meta gene.
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>>3520729
>tell all
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>>3520716
>>My name is Joseph Mercer
>>Tell her the truth, that you responded to an internet add and got nabbed.
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>>3520735
I would prefer James Mercer myself.

>My name is James Mercer
>Tell her the truth, that you responded to an internet add and got nabbed.
>Tell All
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>>3520773
Joseph "James" Mercer?
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>>3520788
I mean preferably just James Mercer, but it's whatever.
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>>3520788
He could just prefer being called James instead of Joe...
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>>3520788
i like it
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Intetesting things we should try to replicate from animals to use
>enhanced night vision (cat? fox?)
>enhanced vision (eagle)
>enhanced sense of smell (bear)
>echolocation (bat)
>enhanced hearing (bat)
Those are just basic sense enhancements though.
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>>3520799
Joe Mercer is great, every dumbass enemy will underestimate a guy called Joe instead of Ra's Al Ghul, Kal El or Black Adam or some other flasy shit.
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>>3520738
Along with my previous question >>3520735 , how different are we to the Princess in terms of body shape and size? Also how old are we, do we have facial and body hair?

We could control our hair to make clothing, if we knew how to knit or sew...
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>>3520826
Who the flying fuck would want to be called Joe when James is a far better name!?
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>>3520826
ok imagine justice league is name dropping super villains and suddenly there is Joe, Bob and BIll on the list
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>>3520846
Most secret identities are pretty mundane though.
Clark
Bruce
Hal
Barry
Etc
Our Superhero/villain(?) name will be cooler
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>Insist people refer to us as 'James'
>We use 'Joseph/Joe' for our fatass alter-ego
I can dig it


Speaking of names - and I know this might be a little premature - but what's our cape name going to be? I'm having trouble coming up with anything.
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>>3520876
mr meaty?... i think i can be a little hungry
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>>3520876
are we going to be italian in the detroit way?
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>>3520716
>>My name is Joseph Mercer
>tell all
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>>3520876
Meat Boy?
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>>3520876
How about Cytoplasm?
It's the part of the cell that every cell component is suspended in.
Every cell has it too (including plant cells)
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>>3520876
Parasyte/Parasite
Prototype
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>>3520876
+1
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>>3520876
Ok i am all for those names you have my support for it
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>>3520903
We’re not parasitic though, more adaptive

>>3520896
Cool, but I don’t want to be the man who names himself after cell juice

Maybe Taxon, since we biologically can span across it all so long as it is multicellular?
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>>3520903
Kind of too meta
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>>3520917
How about Synthesis?
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>>3520876
I vote for Ouroboros (the dragon that eats himself, simbol of an endless cycle of renewal, literally meaning "I eat"... just read the link)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros&ved=2ahUKEwjJkd7r_KriAhVKDWMBHWLjD38QFjABegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw1Zkmj27LPtzqJ0QxNp3zMF
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>>3520876
Maybe Bios or Dr. Biology if we want that golden age villain name (if we don't escape before the brainwashing).
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>>3520922
If we take the villain route, sure.
Kinda hoping we can be a hero here.
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>>3520921
Don’t hate it, pays some homage to our “Synthetic” origins

>>3520922
Neat name, but not science-y enough for this power imo
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>>3520922
Def support ouroboros for our cape name.
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>>3520903
>>3520917
>>3520896
>>3520921
>>3520922
Wait, why are we thinking up names that hint at our powers? Shouldn't we pick something vague and unrelated so our enemies can't figure our what our power is...
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>>3520927
Is not evil, more like antihero name. It really has a lot of meanings from a lot of ancient cultures. It can be interpretated in many ways (which opens a lot our morality choices, not only muahaha DR EVIL or White Paladin of Justice, we eat dangerous villians and cure little girls from cancer)
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>>3520940
No because that's dumb.
Synthesis or Taxon are cool.
Ouroboros is far too villain sounding.
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>>3520922
>>3520937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjTzGepowCQ
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>>3520951
I like Synthesis
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>>3520940
That only works the first time you fight them, also I think is vague enough for most enemies to discover our whole powerset from it (let them think we are a dumbass that calls himself electro because can only do electric stuff, then fore them bone spikes)
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>>3520961
*fire some
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Hmm
What about Physis?
>Ancient Greek φύσις (physis), meaning 'nature, origin', and -λογία (-logia), meaning 'study of') is the scientific study of the functions and mechanisms which work within a living system.
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So, do we attempt to take Terra with us in our inevitable escape attempt?
We can probably do some hyperadvanced surgery with our powerset when we get better with it to remove both our circuits.

Also I just realised but Terra and the Traffickers will basically be the only people who've ever seen our original face and know our true identity if we change our face permanently.
And I don't intend to let these traffickers get away with this.

I don't want to kill them but can somebody say Lobotomy?
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>>3521093
>So, do we attempt to take Terra with us in our inevitable escape attempt?
Of course anon!

>Also I just realised but Terra and the Traffickers will basically be the only people who've ever seen our original face and know our true identity if we change our face permanently.
True, it may be for the best if we disguise ourselves for the short while after we escape. Maybe change our height and ethnicity.

>I don't want to kill them but can somebody say Lobotomy?
We could create crab claws or sharpen our fingers to a needle's width, stick it in their jackseye and make the needle spiky.
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>>3521104
Terra will come to Japan with us, we will disguise as Oda Yamamoto, a fat ugly bastard that seduces all the ladies with his charisma. It will be glorious, also eat the Traffickers, no body no evidence.
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>>3521128
>Terra will come to Japan with us
Well first we need to escape.

Anons we need to escape the box before we're teleported to a secret training island for the league, if we're not there already...
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Okay this might be really Advanced for where are we are in the quest but can't we just cannibalize our spine in such and then remake it this probably would be really hard but that is a thing we could do
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>>3521157
>Make tiny meat body with huge empty head
>Move our brain into new body
>Eat old body except for the implant
>???
>Profit
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>>3521164
That seems harder than what I said
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Alright on my way home.

So probably about thirty minutes, and then I will call the vote.

Here's to hoping traffic ain't too bad.
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>>3520876
>>3520922
I think ouroboros works as a villain name, but for a hero name, maybe something like 'the bird of hermes', or hermes/bird for short? Also related to autocannibalism, has a relation to vampires like the pillar men and with changing form as a trade, and works as a vague enough name we don't give hints?
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Alright, I'm home. Calling the vote.

Give me a bit to read everything and figure out how I want to handle what comes next, and we'll get the write up going. Also dinner, dinner would be good.
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>>3521203
I still like Synthesis the most.
Hermes also exists already as the actual god iirc.
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>>3521203
I still don't get why Ouroboros is a villian name, is it for Wesker?, because is a serpent/dragon eating itself? (Because is the simbol of clan tzimisce, whose members are fleshcrafting vampire pychos?), seriously, both the historical meaning and the alchemical one are kind of positive, the only edge I see there is the simbol itself, not the meaning.
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>>3521157
If we really wanna get rid of it. Disconnect the surrounding tissue around the implant and eject it. We'll lose some tissue in the process but there isn't anything they can do about it given our powers. After that, all we gotta do is regenerate what we lost.

To guard against brainwashing all we have to do is create another hidden brain that will cannibalize the brain that got brainwashed. Same is true for defending against mind fuckery. How many brains can you hack vs how many brains we can create/devour?

One thing I wanna point out with our powers we can literally create a mutagen virus that can share some of our abilities and influence its hosts for us. Use this to create spies, enhance friendly supers, and upgrade minions.

We can also create fleshy abominations that are in truth disguised clones of ourselves. We just disguise said clones as horrific abominations so its impossible to tell. Good luck trying to kill us when we can swap at will.

Honestly, with our powers, we seem to lean more towards going full supervillain and hellish living nightmare. Another thing I wanna point out is that we don't have to store biomass within ourselves. If we create our own pets or establish lairs we can store easy to assimilate biomass within them to devour as needed...

I find its best to think ourselves as a living sentient mutagenic virus who just happens to take the form of a human in terms of coming up with what we can do.
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>>3521229
Good point about the other meanings, hadn't thought of that. I think it might just be the sound of the name, or the general depiction of snakes and serpents in media. Idk, it just sounds foreboding to me.
Maybe we could have him use multiple names later on? Goes by one name to other capes, another one for civilians, and another for villains and criminals?
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>>3521237
Why not just have a different name every time we change appearance?
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>>3521233
I wouldn't say we lean more towards going supervillain, there's plenty of good that can be done with the manipulation of the body. Those viruses you talk about can be used to actively fix people's bodies rather than anything malicious. Enhance friendly superHEROES. Fuck cancer right up the ass. We can make some refined looking creatures rather than fleshy abominations to act as watchdogs for crime. Depending on how bullshit this comic book science gets, maybe we can create lifeforms that feed on garbarge and just solve a fuckton of humanity's problems.

All for that one moment in which we reveal ourselves to be a supervillain and have full access to every living being with our cells inside them, of course. Man, it's nice to have good publicity.
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>>3520716
>>3520729


“My name is Joseph Mercer” You trace across her palm “But please, call me James.”

“I...” You pause for a moment before continuing. Hopefully she can’t see you flushing with embarrassment. “I answered a self help advertisement online. They grabbed me when I went to the address on their website.”

So stupid. Seriously, not trusting people online and never going to strange addresses is the first rule of online safety, but it had seemed legit. It wasn’t like you were talking to somebody in a chat room who wanted to meet up.

Best not to dwell on that. Moving on. She trusted you with what her powers are, only right you tell her what yours are. You don’t even really consider omitting information or lying. After thinking about it for a moment you decide on how you want to explain it.

“You control the earth” You trace across her palm “I control my flesh. After I came out of the Tar they put me in a pit with a giant who tried to hurt me. I converted other parts of my body to make my legs stronger so I could run.”

As you finish tracing your message across her palm she starts to shake, and you hear her sniffle. You can’t tell for sure, but you think she might be crying again. She pulls at your hand signaling you to give her your palm so she can trace letters, and you do so.

“That is horrible” She traces across your palm with a shaking finger “Is that what is going to happen to us? Fighting for our lives in pits?”

Her finger stops moving, it just sits there for a second then she draws in a rattling breath and pulls her finger off of your palm.

“Why, why are they doing this?” She sobs aloud.

You’re contemplating how to respond, or if you should respond, when you realize you are no longer moving and you can hear men talking outside of the crates. You were so focused on your conversation and figuring out what she was spelling you hadn’t really been paying to much attention to what was going on outside, but now you listen intently.
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>>3521494

“Made it in time” says one of the men “A few minutes to spare even.”

“Just call up the boom tube and send them along” Says another voice “I don’t wanna be here any longer that we have to.”

“Right right” Says the first voice “One second.”

There’s a chime, and then a boom and a bright golden light. The crate shakes, and then it feels as if you are sinking. The sinking sensation lasts a few seconds, and then you stop moving and the light disappears.There’s a moment of silence, and then there’s an electronic ding, and the door to your crate falls open.

“Everyone out of the crates” A man shouts, voice amplified by a megaphone. “Now!”

You hesitate a moment, and then step out of the crate before reaching back a hand to help Tara climb out. Once both of you are out of the crate you look around.

You’re standing on a rocky beach. It’s cold, frigid even. You can see trees further inland, but only one building. A large squat mass of concrete. A charitable person might compare it to a low income apartment building. In your opinion, it looks like a fucking prison.

Standing in front of you is a group of Five. In the center is a middle aged woman with her auburn hair up in a tight bun wearing a pantsuit. On her right hand side is an older man with streaks of gray in his hair holding a clipboard and a Father Box. On her left is a younger man with a buzz cut holding a megaphone. They are flanked by two men holding large guns. You’d say riffles, but these don’t look like any guns you are familiar with. They look more like ray guns from a Scifi movie than anything, but something about the boxy profile of the weapons they are holding is menacing.

Looking to either side there are a little more then a dozen crates like the one you just came out of on the beach, and there’s about eighteen teenagers that have piled out of them onto the beach. You recognize the three from the crates next to you. The sullen kid and the catatonic kid are here, as is the blue kid. Who was apparently a girl. Good to know.

Looking around you see that.


>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)

>Most of the others are about your age, with Tara being the youngest you can see (age set at 16)

>You’re one of the oldest. There’s maybe one or two others your age. (age set at 17)
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>>3520827

Excellent question. Lets put it to a vote.
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>>3521502
>>Most of the others are about your age, with Tara being the youngest you can see (age set at 16)
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This is probably it for me tonight. It was a long day at work and I'm kinda bushed. Think I'll relax for a bit and then hit the sack.

I'll keep an eye on the thread and will be happy to answer questions, but I don't think I'll be getting in another write up tonight. Tomorrow morning for sure, but probably not tonight.

My apologies to any anons disappointed by this.
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>>3521502
>>You’re one of the oldest. There’s maybe one or two others your age. (age set at 17)
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>>3521502
>>Most of the others are about your age, with Tara being the youngest you can see (age set at 16)
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>>3521502
>>You’re one of the oldest. There’s maybe one or two others your age. (age set at 17)
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>>3521502
>>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)
Would be cool to see how age would play a role in our interactions as we would likely have a larger body later.
Also, the young are more impressionable, meaning we might actually not be moralfags...
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>>3521502
>Most of the others are about your age, with Tara being the youngest you can see
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>>3521528
nvm changed to this
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>Most of the others are about your age, with Tara being the youngest you can see (age set at 16)

Makes more sense to be at the typical age requirement one has to be in order to get a job.
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>>3521502
>Most of the others are about your age, with Tara being the youngest you can see (age set at 16)
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>>3521502
>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)
Upside pick
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>>3521502
>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)
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>>3521385
I only say that because honestly, our powers are pure nightmare fuel and thankfully very hard to identify. We can easily masquerade as a shifter until its too late. Trying to go hero would be most difficult considering just how horrible our powers really are. Now antihero might be possible...even if the other heroes would honestly be more scared of us then the villains.

>>3521502
>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)

Would really help explain our stupidity at answering an online ad.
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>>3521502
>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)
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Woah wait does our age determine what we know about the human body and animals? I mean typically you'd know more about biology as you go through school. Considering how much we've already shown we know, we gotta be pretty dang smart if we're young.
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>>3521674
Unless what we exhibited during our fight with Mammoth was pretty much the extent of our knowledge.
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>>3521677
>>3521674
We have Nerd (4), which I take as "You're pretty damn smart."
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>>3521674

Nerd (4) in this case is. Damn, you are smart.

No dice pool can go beyond 6 dice. That is the hard cap. We have 4/6 possible in Nerd. We are damn smart. Honestly it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume we skipped grades or took advance placement, so having done an AP bio by 14 wouldn't be impossible. If we pick an older age we might have audited some college courses even.

Ultimately it can be whatever you all want, and we will make the story fit it from there. Considering dc comics has Tim drake, who figured out batman's identity based on a vague memory from when he was a small child and then self taught himself to be Robin before he was thirteen and could do all kinds of advanced hacking and shit (I know I'm misrepresenting it slightly, but that's pretty damn close to what happens) I don't think it would be unreasonable to have us be really really good at science or some shit like that even if we were younger.

Older or younger it is entirely up to all of you, and I will work with whatever you give me to make the best story and experience I can.
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Real quick before I go to bed, Just wanted to say I love all of the cape names. Much better than anything I would have come up with if put on the spot. They're all great. Seems a shame to only use one. Course depending on your character arc you could shuffle through a few if you swing between villain hero and antihero a bit.

We will see what happens.

If anyone has anything they'd like to ask me regarding the quest, or just wants to get my opinion leave me a question, and I'll do my best to get to them in the morning.

Good night anons.
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I see that anons want to try two personas (Fat Joe and Slim Jim) but why not go further? Why not have a full set of disguises?
>adonis
>little kid
>old coot
>thot
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>>3521736
Goodnight QM!>>3521502
>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)

Well shit. A remote island? Let's hope we can shift into some kind of fish to escape. We could inflate into some kind of boat if we want to rescue Tara as well.

We're Nerd(4)? Damn anons, we need to check the stars as soon as possible. Maybe we can determine our relative position on the earth.
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>>3521801
Fat Joe came from the discussion we had about how best we could gain additional mass. QM has stated that building muscle will be more efficient than building fat, at least in terms of mass gain and potential shifts we could accomplish. So if we really do create fat Joe then it'll be a facade at best.

Also yes, a full thot body is possible.
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>>3521820
>Let's hope we can shift into some kind of fish to escape. We could inflate into some kind of boat if we want to rescue Tara as well.
We could also transform into a whale or something if we get enough biomass, and when we escape we carry Tara and whoever else we might choose to take inside us.
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>>3521834
Abandoning Tara once we realise it's easier to escape without her could be an interesting plot point for later use...

In any case we want to be rid of the implant. Eig set the DC at 30. We have 4 nerd dice and the base rate is 3. If we use our powers we roll both our power and nerd dice, meaning we roll 10d6? QM?
>>3521736
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>>3521844
I thought the base rate was our power ie if we roll nerd and power that's 7d6 total.
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>>3521502
>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)
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>>3521844
Actually abandoning Tara would bite us on the ass in the long term for our escape. Since they know who we really are. Therefore we cannot go back home or reclaim our original identity. Tara is a Princess of an entire country who would be oh so very grateful to have her back. So it would be the best possible place to go in terms of safety during our escape. If we return their princess they grant us refuge and a new identity. Tara is actually someone we need for our escape. So we are stuck with her, if only for her connections.

>>3521824
Fat Joe is still a great disguise. Just throw fat on top of the muscle and use fat as a cushion for our organs. Still, look like a fat ass but is secretly a very strong one with superpowers.
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>>3521844
>Abandoning Tara
Perish the thought
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>>3522000
>Actually abandoning Tara would bite us on the ass
Oh I know, that's why I suggested it! Not only would she feel betrayed but it's likely that the girl will join Slade like usual, while we are forced to run from someone we previously knew as a friend!

Fat Joe for life man!.. What areb we going to do about our immediate family? Keep them in the dark? What about our education!?
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Or we could.
You know.
Get these kids home because it’s the right thing to do?
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>>3522007
We could, but we're a kid up against the league of mother fucking shadows.

Personally I would like to save the kids, or at least a few of them. I'm suggesting we leave them because it sounds like an interesting development for the quest, where we spend many weeks contemplating escape then running off my ourselves because no other method would work. I'd hate for it to become a 'we can save anyone and everyone!' capequest.
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>>3522013
>>3522003
Jesus christ, my spelling today...
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>>3522003
I can understand why you would want that plot but as a player, I do not want the MC to make that mistake.

As for our immediate family, they probably think we ran away or got kidnapped. They will be fine until our escape. since the people who took us, have no reason to target them until then. Keeping them in the dark is a must after we escape they will be watched closely since they'll be expecting us to make contact with them or attempting to use them as bait.

As for our education, our power is reliant on us being smart. Meaning they will be forced to teach the MC in particular. Since they obviously aren't going to waste our superpower and relies upon our own knowledge. In fact, they will even force us to serve in medical once they realize we can upgrade our own body so a better understanding is a must.

The other kids will probably be very jealous of our 'easy' treatment but you don't fuck with the medic and we can't skip combat training.
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Yeah lets NOT leave Terra
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>>3521494
>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)
>>3522012
>we're a kid
Like that's ever stopped anyone with powers in DC before.
Besides, if we escape we can get the Justice League to help us.
And also I want to rescue Tara.

Also I swear to fuck the people who complain about moralfaggotry don't realise the vast majority of quests have hyper pragmatic killer MCs at least.
Also it's DC ffs, I don't quite feel like being stomped by the heroes on a villain/antihero route.
I want to be a hero.
We might not be able to save everyone but we can save a few and get the JL to save the rest.
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>>3522020
I mean Tara
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>>3522021
>And also I want to rescue Tara.
As do I, I was just pointing out how leaving everyone could be interesting in terms of storytelling.

>Also I swear to fuck the people who complain about moralfaggotry don't realise the vast majority of quests have hyper pragmatic killer MCs at least.
Anon, I ain't complaining about moralfaggotory. I just like MCs to have fears and concerns which ultimately lead to poor decisions- who leaves because he can't figure out how to save anyone and fears his chance to escape is closing, rather than a cold and strategic mc who immediately abandons the group for his own survival.
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>>3521502
>Most of the others are about your age, with Tara being the youngest you can see (age set at 16)

How would being a Vigilante go, I wonder?
One pro I can think of is that lying low would be relatively easy.
A con would be that we'd be alone and have very few ways to easily acquire biomass without raising all sorts of trouble.
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>>3522020
>>3522024
>Terra
>Tara
Same person :^)
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Oh, my own two cents on leaving people behind?
We absolutely have to. At most I can see us escaping with one, maybe two people tops. We should be able to render our own control chip a non-issue, but what about the chips in others?

Unless we figure out how to use our fleshsculpting on other people, become able to perform neurosurgery or succeed in hacking the chips it's just not happening.

Hmm. I wonder what the range on that Father Box is. can it track the control chips?
So many questions...
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>>3522013
>>3522021
I'm only interested in rescuing the kids who would be of use. Mostly due to the difficulty in escaping with them in tow and how useful they are as in worth the trouble involved. Tara happens to be oh so very useful to the point we have to take her with. She is vital in fact.

As for moralfagging...I took one look at our power and went 'there is not a chance in hell we are going to be a hero'. That shit is pure nightmare fuel. Villain, antihero, mercenary, I don't really know or care. I just think in terms of the MC that with his superpower of pure nightmares incarnate he REALLY ain't gonna turn out to be a hero. I just don't see it happening. I'm sorry. Will he actually be a monster? I hope not. Him having the appearance of a monster but having a caring heart even if he is one twisted motherfucker sounds far more interesting.

It's not his fault he became a monster but the fact of the matter is...he is one. His powers are nightmarish and if anyone knew the truth they would consider him far too dangerous, but that doesn't make him a vile character or pure evil. He's just one unlucky son of a bitch is all. So in terms of morality, his superpower ensures he is never going to be a good guy or much less a hero. It just ain't happening with that kinda nightmare fuel of power. I'm not interested in handicapping him like that or revealing his secrets because of the heroes if they knew the truth would absolutely be his #1 greatest enemy.

>>3522033
Our superpower can affect others too we just don't know how to do it yet.
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>>3522033
We should at least try to escape with Tara
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>>3522037
Nice attempt to go down the villain route but nah, fuck you.
Our powers are incredibly versatile and don't require us going full nightmare mode.
I don't get your reasoning.
We don't need to take the appearance of a monster and can in fact shift our appearance to anybody we want.
Hell, just our shapeshifting makes us a useful hero.
And if we can use our powers on other people that makes us an excellent healer.
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>>3522037
>if anyone knew the truth they would consider him far too dangerous
This is bullshit.
Pretty much anyone with a top tier superpower is dangerous. Doesn't mean Superman has to wear a kryptonite bomb collar.
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>>3522046
We'd be a hoot as a magician's 'sexy' assistant. Especially if we can shift our skin to appear as clothing!
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More abilities we could attempt to replicate
>Electric Shocks (Electric Eel)
>Poison Skin (Poison Dart Frog)
>Camouflage (Cuttlefish)
>Wall Crawling (Gecko)
>Bootleg invisibility via reflection of light? (Sardine?)
>Detect magnetic fields (Pigeon?)
>Infrared vision (Pit Viper)
>Enhanced colour perception (including Ultraviolet) (Mantis Shrimp)
>imitate any sound heard (Lyrebird)
>Tardigrade (Tardigrade)
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>>3521502
>You’re one of the oldest. There’s maybe one or two others your age. (age set at 17)
Mentor mode activated.
As for cape name, I vote for Cyto, short for cytoplasm, which is too long and clunky. It's biology related and emphasizes the malleability of our form. Also sounds cool.
>>3522055
Remember that we don't HAVE to use an already established ability. It is true that copying nature would be easier though.
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>>3522037
>>3522048
It's less about the power aspect, and more about the icky factor, which is exacerbated by the power. I don't think we could ever be a mainstream, parent-approved, Justice League superhero, but we could still be an underground hero/vigilante. That'd be cooler too.
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>>3522070
Yeah but copying nature gives a good base.
Also they are examples of what's actually possible.
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>>3522071
Justice League Dark exists.
We also don't have to use our power in the most nightmarish ways possible.
It's a highly versatile power in what it can do.
Icky factor be damned if we can perform hyperadvanced lifesaving surgery on people in the field.
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MAybe we should give ourself the Space marine upgrades
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>>3522075
They've got some good features but in DC a space marine would be a mook beaten up by pretty much anyone.
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>>3522077
I'm not a 40k guy but I'm pretty sure space marines would be at least street level.
>>3522074
Isn't Dark just supernatural people? Zatanna and shit?
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>>3522084
My point was that JLD is kinda full of non family friendly heroes.
We could get the Spess Mahreen upgrades that are useful but we shouldn't go all in on copying them.
Ultimate Kars + Mercer is a better inspiration for what we should be going for.
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>>3521502
>You and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others are older than you. (age set at 14)
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>>3522070
>>3522055
What I like about a lot of those natural abilities is that they don't require too much mass (which I think will be a limiting factor when it comes to sheer power for us). Especially imitating the wall-crawling of the gecko (DARPA has a prototype using the same mechanism so yes, Van de Waals force scale up to human size) or imitation of the lyrebird.

>Poison Skin (Poison Dart Frog)
We can do better than that ... http://theconversation.com/the-worst-kind-of-pain-you-can-imagine-what-its-like-to-be-stung-by-a-stinging-tree-103220
Cover our skin with a furry coat of microscopic glass needles and use that to deliver a mix of agony juice and heart-stopping frog venom.
Hell, with a bit of bit of creativity we might even be able to cough balls of the needle/poison mixture at people.
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Ok, I'm back. Calling the vote in 15 minutes to give me time to read all of this.

Last call for votes.
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>>3522188
Welcome back Eig!

We're definitely going to be 14, it's a sure landslide.

Looking forward to another update on knockoff spider-man.
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>>3522071
>underground hero/vigilante
We've got a shifter power and a history of being a Wallflower, so it's perfect. Although really, until power level increases, underground shit is the only stuff we can do anyway. Even after we're stronger, having the attention of the Justice League or Legion Of Doom or any top-tier group is gonna be a pain in the ass.
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>>3522188
Oh, nice timing. I was just about to start tallying the votes to help speed things up.

>>3522055
I was thinking about insectoid compund eyes for a massive view angle, but apparently they have crap image resolution so it might not be worth it.

Another idea I had was that when we eventually start making our combat body, what's to stop us from stepping out of said combat body with our normal, human appearance? We'd effectively 'shed' off the combat body and leave it 'parked'
Think of it like a fleshy Mech suit.

>>3522195
>We're definitely going to be 14, it's a sure landslide.
*grumble*
Not too happy with it myself but oh well. Majority vote's a majority vote.
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>>3522195
>We're definitely going to be 14, it's a sure landslide.
>tfw no big older brother for all the other kids to look up to route
Oh well, my main reason was just for extra experience and knowledge in bio and OP shut that shit down anyway. Perks of being a huge nerd I guess
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>>3521844

To answer your question you currently have a pool of 4 nerd dice, and a pool of 3 power dice, so if you make a combined Nerd + Power roll you roll 7d6. Now, that could hit 30, but it's rather unlikely, and if you fail there will be consequences. If you wanted to safely make the roll, statistically you'd need 9d6, as the average roll of 9d6 is around thirty one or thirty two.

In the event you didn't wish to wait for however long it would take you to gain two dice in either Nerd or Power or some combination thereof, you could choose to do a pump. Pumping a dice roll does allow you to exceed your normal limits, however a pump represents surpassing your limitations knowing you will likely hurt yourself doing it, and carries mechanical consequences. Were you to pump the roll by 2 dice in order to have the target pool of 9d6, then following the roll you would take two dice of damage to the pool you had pumped, which would be your power pool.

Now unlike a mid combat pump where you strain or tear some muscles that can be fixed up after the fighting is done, this would represent damage done to your spine. This damage to your power pool would eventually be reparable, but it would take time and effort to recover.

So you could choose to try and remove the implant right this second if you wished. Just brute force it, excise part of your spine and hope you can patch up whats left, but it would mess you up. If you wait then you can do it more safely, but there's the chance that while you wait other factors could come into play which would make your escape more difficult.

As always I respect your agency as players to do what you feel is best, and what you feel the character would do, but there will always be consequences for your actions no matter what way you jump.
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>>3522203
>Having a 2nd body
It's a good idea but we currently don't know if we can control or interact with parts of ourselves once it is separated from the main cluster. I'd assume we can't, that the cells of the skinsack would reach G0 and would begin to decay.

>>3522203
>*grumble*
It's okay anon, I'll keep you happy with my spider-memes
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Rolled 6, 2, 4, 1, 5, 1, 4, 5, 4 = 32 (9d6)

>>3522209
For funsies. Also did we regrow our kidney and stuff back?
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Rolled 6, 2, 5, 2, 3, 2, 2 = 22 (7d6)

>>3522214
Ayyy. Rolling for 7.

>>3522209
>That entire post
Yeouch. Undertood Eig, that's gonna be a problem that should be discussed once more of the gang show up, since we don't really want to leave her majesty behind.
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Rolled 6, 6, 3, 1, 2, 2, 4 = 24 (7d6)

>>3522217
> since we don't really want to leave her majesty behind.

I mean't her royal highness.
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Calling the vote.
>>3522203

On the bright side you can certainly manipulate your body to physically appear as an adult later once you get the hang of things, so it's not like you are hard locked as being small. If that is a concern.

>>3522208

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to influence the vote. Honestly it's why I'm kind of afraid to respond to things or put my two cents in a lot of the time and kinda try to stay quiet when you all are talking even if I really want to participate. I don't want to influence things unduly, and if I did so in this instance I apologize.

I just wanted anons to understand that mechanically your knowledge and ability would be the same either way, the difference would have been in the character and the story, not in your ability to use your powers.

I personally kinda wanted to go older myself, but I felt I needed to provide the option, and I'm okay with it either way.

>>3522214
>>3522217


Haven't regrown them yet, it's been on the back burner and you will get the chance to do so.

....Are you just rolling to roll and see what you'd hypothetically get, or are you advocating that you try and get rid of your implant right now? Cause I'm kind of confuzzled by these dice rolls.
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>>3522221
Mine was just hypothetical.
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>>3522221
>....Are you just rolling to roll and see what you'd hypothetically get,
Since I didn't pass either time.. Yes.

>>3522221
>and if I did so in this instance I apologize.
It's alright QM, your word is final and we all accept unconditionally.
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>>3522221
>I'm sorry, I didn't mean to influence the vote.
Nah man, no problem, if that's how it was supposed to work then I would expect the clarification. Otherwise people would be voting for stuff that didn't actually have the effect they were thinking it would. Of course I don't expect it for stuff like story votes regarding what to do next but mechanic stuff I fully understand.
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>>3522203
why use insectoid compound eyes when we can use mammal and crusteacean eyes and form a compund eye out of them would look creepy as fuck but massive view angle and tracking
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>>3521502

Looking around you see that you and Tara are two of the youngest teenagers here. Most of the others look older than you. It’s an eclectic bunch. Redheads with pasty freckled complexions, tattooed pacific Islanders, Blondes both natural and bleached, Blacks, Latinos, Asians. Little bit of everything in this grab bag really.

You’re attention is pulled away from observing the other teenagers by the amplified sound of a woman clearing her throat. You look over and see that the woman in the pantsuit is now holding the megaphone. She smiles and then begins to speak.

“Hello children.” She says in to the megaphone. “Welcome to the Higher Institute for Vocational Education. My name is Adeline Wilson nee Kayne. I am the headmistress of this fine institution of learning.”

Her voice is chipper. Honestly she sounds like the motivational speaker at a pep rally. The contrast between how happy she seems and the dour surroundings, and y’know the armed guards with guns, is rather jarring.

“First of all I’d like to congratulate you all on your admittance into our program.” She continues. “You are the Elite of your generation, the hope for the future of the human race, and I’m honored to have the opportunity to work with you.”

“What the fuck are you on about you crazy bi-” One of the teenagers on your left shouts before collapsing to the ground and writhing in pain while screaming. You can see the man with the clipboard holding up the Father Box.

The woman pauses until the kid stops screaming and then starts speaking again. “Please do not interrupt. It’s rude. If you have any questions please hold them until the end of orientation. Now, where was I?”
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>>3522279

“Ah yes, class schedules.” She says, and then gestures at one of the gunman. He lets his riffle hang from a strap around his neck and takes the clipboard from the man with the father box, and then slowly approaches the group of teenagers.

“Please wait in an orderly fashion to receive your individual schedule” The ‘headmistress’ says. “Each of you has been assigned classes specifically tailored to your needs based on your performance during your entrance examination.”

“Here at the Higher Institute for Vocational Education it is our aim to help you become the best you can be, and help you prepare to join the workforce as productive members of society.” The woman continues as the man passes out papers to the teenagers slowly working his way towards you. A few eye the man and his riffle with considering eyes, but the prominent display of the Father Box seems to stifle any thoughts of making a move.

“Our curriculum is high paced and intensely focused on necessary skills only, allowing us to complete your education within eight months rather than wasting your time with unnecessary filler classes like some institutions.” The woman says with a smile. “And, we guarantee employment upon graduation. Isn’t that wonderful?”

It is at about this time that you get handed a piece of paper by the man going around with the clipboard. It has your name and a mug shot picture of you unconscious in the left hand corner. At the top it proudly proclaims “Schedule”

Looking at it you see there are three different class slots that alternate days, that Sundays are labeled “test day”, and that your evenings are listed as “free time”. The first class is designated as “Power management.”

The other two classes are listed as...


pick two of the following

>Advanced Negotiation (potential to gain cliché “Con Artist”)

>Advanced troubleshooting (potential to gain cliché “Hit Man”)

>Electronic warfare (potential to improve cliché “Hacker” )

>Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )

>Practical analytics ( potential to gain cliché “Detective”)

>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
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>>3522280
>Electronic warfare (potential to improve cliché “Hacker” )
>Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )
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>>3522280
>Practical analytics ( potential to gain cliché “Detective”)
>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
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>>3522280
>Electronic warfare (potential to improve cliché “Hacker” )
>>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
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>>3522280
>Electronic warfare (potential to improve cliché “Hacker” )
>Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )
Full spy mode. Also I did not expect HIVE at all.
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>>3522284
Hacker goes well with nerd.
Cut burglar should work nicely with wallflower.
OP can we use 2 cliché and power?
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>>3522280
>Acquisitions
>Interpersonal relations
Agility and stealth + actually knowing how to fight. Both of these have great synergy with our power for either lethal and unlethal sneaky sneak or fighting.
The way I see it, things like hacking and detective work can be left to goobers and handlers. We are nature/science nerds not computer geeks anyway.
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>>3522298

Generally it's going to be one cliche and power dice, or just one cliche.

The only thing that can stack onto a cliche is your power dice, cliche's can not stack with other cliches.
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>>3522298

You are right though that cat burglar and wall flower have some really nice potential synergy from a potential mechanical standpoint.

While you can't use them at the same time, you could potentially use both in the course of an infiltration by switching off between going unnoticed and picking locks and crawling through ventilation shafts.
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>>3522280
>Electronic warfare (potential to improve cliché “Hacker” )
Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )
We definitely need to find a way to boost our nerd cliché..
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>>3522280
>Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )

>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
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>>3522280
Oh, can we check on what Tara is picking. If she's struggling to decide then suggest we take the same classes.
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>>3522294
Switching to
>Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )

>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
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>>3522280
>>Electronic warfare (potential to improve cliché “Hacker” )
>>Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )
works good with our power set and personality and i really want to see what we cna do with our power and electronics and cybernetics
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>>3522321
It's not a choice in Story
These classes have been assigned already.
OOC we're picking what they are.
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>>3522329
ohh, I'm dumb. Thanks anon.
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>>3522280
>>Practical analytics ( potential to gain cliché “Detective”)
>>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
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>>3522280
>Acquisitions
>Advanced Negotiations
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>>3522285
seconding this
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>>3522280
Given what they know of our power but not our personality, I think these make the most sense.

>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
>Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )
>Advanced troubleshooting (potential to gain cliché “Hit Man”)

I know you said pick two, just consider my vote to be for whichever two of these receives the most votes from others. I'm fine with any of these three.

Well really I'm fine with any of the classes, as them wanting to give us skills outside our power specialty would also make plenty of sense, but these classes are the ones I feel we'd.most likely be given.
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>>3522280
>Advanced troubleshooting (potential to gain cliché “Hit Man”)
>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
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>>3522280
>Higher Institute for Vocational Education
Also fuck HIVE, we need to grab that Father Box and boom tube outta there as soon as ASAP
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>>3522366
Aye man, we need to work out how the father box is controlled, and if it can disable our implants.
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>>3522280
>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
>Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )
I don't fancy being completely helpless in a fist fight without using our powers.


>>3522297
>>3522366
>HIVE
...Hmmm. Is ending up in HIVE worse than being snatched by the League of Shadows? All I know about HIVE is through the DC quests that have been on the board and even then it's little.
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>>3522280
>Advanced Negotiation (potential to gain cliché “Con Artist”)
>Electronic warfare (potential to improve cliché “Hacker” )
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>>3522374
>Is ending up in HIVE worse than being snatched by the League of Shadows?
On one hand, it's high school for villains.
On the other, it's a place where we can network, and you get apprenticed to a villain after you graduate.
On the extra hand, it's high school. For villains.

FUCK HIVE
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>>3522374
Well, to simplify things, the League of Shadows is just a group of a skilled assassins. HIVE also has assassins but they also have full blown supervillains. Here they also have the Fatherbox as well, which means access to just about anywhere they damn well please. I'm not too sure about the League but HIVE is definitely capable of brainwashing, or at least mind controlling, so we are fucked extra hard if we stay too long. I think it would be easier (but still difficult) to escape from the League than HIVE.
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Also, I want to touch on the choices of subjects.
>Advanced Negotiation
Not very useful, as our power doesn't lend itself to con jobs yet. Low priority.
>Advanced Troubleshooting
This also doesn't mean with our power, since we'll probably tend to use brute force and maneuverability until we gain enough control and knowledge of biology to do fun things.
>Electronic Warfare
Now this is fun. It covers the base our power can't and we already have an affinity for it. This is a definite pick.
>Acquisitions
It could work well with our power in the future. Possible pick.
>Practical Analytics
Not our MO, yawn.
>Interpersonal Relations
Now this is the gold. Knowing how to fight would be a godsend if we mixed it with our power. Definite pick.
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>>3522280
>>Advanced troubleshooting (potential to gain cliché “Hit Man”)
>Interpersonal relations (potential to gain cliché “Martial Artist”)
Perhaps we could eventually get to Kimimaro tier body manipulation combat.
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>>3522393
>Now this is the gold. Knowing how to fight would be a godsend if we mixed it with our power. Definite pick.
I get your point on how Martial Arts would benefit us, though I feel we should learn Acquisitions since this is a school for villainy so the teachers should be some of the most prolific or proficient in their trade. I don't want to be a hardhead but the number of heroes and villains who known Martial Arts far outnumber those who are experts at stealing, seducing, pickpocketing and lockpicking. We can learn martial arts in the future while this, this is a rare opportunity.
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>>3522394
Oh, I remember that guy. And I think this level of body manipulation is... probably mid-tier considering how wide our powerset is compared to just bone control.
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>>3522405
True, but one should also consider what fits Jim -- at the moment he's a bruiser and not much else. What he'll be doing for now (until we can start scanning brains) is punch, stab and possibly shoot things.

However, that's just my two cents, and I'll concede that he does have affinity for Acquisitions.
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>>3522394
Why stop there? We can go even further with shrapnel, poisoned points and edges, infectious marrow... the possibilities are endless once we reach that point.
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wait, i just got an idea, culdnt we make a mini brain somwhere in our body and connect the nerves that the implants are connectet to, to the mini brain, we migh be able to remove it that way
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>>3522417
Anon, I think we shouldn't mess with the flesh that makes us, well... us. At least not yet.
Plus what if something goes wrong? In any case the QM has already stated that it will be a dc 30 roll.
sorry anon :(
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Alright, voting to close in an hour, last call for votes.
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>>3522449
i think you dont need to wait anymore
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>>3522280
>>Advanced troubleshooting (potential to gain cliché “Hit Man”)
>>Acquisitions (potential to gain cliché “Cat Burglar” )
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>>3522280
>Practical analytics ( potential to gain cliché “Detective”)
>advanced troubleshooting (potential to gain cliché “Hit Man”)
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>>3522449
Just call it now, I doubt you'll get any votes within the hour that changes anything.
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>>3522449
I'd hate to tell you how to run your own Quest but probably to five votes or 20 to 30 minute timer is probably the best
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>>3522522
atleast not hour on hour long voting times
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Alright, I'm back. Voting closed. Lets see what we got.
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>>3522482
>>3522512
>>3522522
>>3522523


Anons, I think there may be a misconception here. When I drop these last calls, I'm not sitting here watching the thread waiting for the timer to run out. I'm usually going about my business. I drop in for a few seconds to give everyone an idea of when I'll be done with what I'm doing and will take a moment for the quest. I do this as a courtesy so anons know what to expect and when to expect me to be around.

I'm sorry to say that with my schedule a few updates a day with several hours between updates is the only schedule I can reasonably fallow for the Quest. I apologize if you find this unsatisfactory. I understand that waiting can be frustrating, but I'm afraid that I can not reasonably do twenty to thirty minute timers, or even one or two hour timers. I mean I could, but that wouldn't speed up the updates any because I'd still have to wait until I would be able to take a minute to write, so I leave the voting open until I'm here and ready to write.

Regretfully this is unlikely to change anytime soon. I may update more frequently on weekends, or on days when I have more free time, but I can't guarantee that. I'm afraid I have to ask you to understand that. I appreciate your participation in the quest, and I appreciate your advice. If I were in a position to do so, I'd happily follow it, but I'm afraid I can't.
Anywho, I need to get caught up and tally votes. I hope for your continued participation.
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>>3522558

addendum.

If I misunderstood what you are trying to say, I apologize. In the event that I have misunderstood, feel free to explain what you meant.
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Alright, so with everything counted up assuming I didn't make any mistakes which I may have, we have

Acquisitions (cat burglar) -10 votes

Interpersonal relations (martial artist) - 9 votes

Electronic warfare (hacker) - 5 votes

Analytics (detective) - 5 votes

Troubleshooting (Hit Man) - 5 votes

Negotiation (Con Man) - 2 votes.
writing.
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>>3522568
Long voting times enables samefags to rig votes by changing their IP.
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The other two classes are listed as “Acquisitions” and “Interpersonal relations”. You’re pretty sure that Acquisitions is a euphemism for theft, but you honestly aren’t quite sure what to expect from a class listed as “Interpersonal relations.” It probably doesn’t have anything to do with getting along with your colleagues in the workplace though, you can safely say that at least.

You look up from your schedule. The woman with the megaphone is still speaking, and it’s probably important.

“You’ll notice that your evenings are designated as free time” She says with a smile “We understand that time to relax and decompress is important to the learning process, and that healthy development requires socialization. You are encouraged to use this time to get to know each other and to develop friendships, maybe even assist each other with classwork, but you may also use this time to pursue personal interests with faculty approval.”

“In addition to your scheduled classes you will also have scheduled appointments with our facilities therapist on a case by case basis depending on your individual needs.” The ‘headmistress’ tells you as the man going around with the clipboard passes out the last schedule and walks back up to stand by the others.

“Dormitories will be separated by gender” She continues “You are not to enter the dormitory of the opposite gender. If you wish to meet with a friend of the opposite gender, you may meet in common spaces. Also, please note that there is a 9pm curfew. You are expected to be in your dormitories by curfew. Lights out is at 10 o'clock sharp.”

“That concludes our orientation. Now I’m sure you’ve all had a long day, I know I have” She says with a chuckle “So if you’ll all please follow me we will make our way up to the facility and I will show you the cafeteria and the dorms, where you can have dinner and then go rest.”

The woman turns and begins to walk up the trail towards the concrete building. The two men with the guns and the man with the father box step out of the way to make a passage.

“Follow along now.” shouts the man who had originally had the megaphone while gesturing for you all to step between the guards and go up the path after the woman.

After a moments hesitation one of you, an older boy with bright white hair, steps forward and follows after the woman. The other teenagers start to flow forward as if a damn has broken.

What do you do?

>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.

>Try to approach one of the other students, you should probably get to know the others sooner rather than latter.

>Attempt to make your way to the front to talk with the headmistress. She said to hold questions until after the orientation, well it’s after the orientation and you have questions. (write in questions encouraged.)

>Write in
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>>3522667
>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.
Wallflower mode activate
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>>3522667
>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.
B l e n d i n
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I've got to go, but I will be back to close voting and start the next write up in about two hours, maybe two and a half. I'm working from home today and I've finished most of what I had to do, so it might be sooner. I'm afraid I have an standing appointment this evening, so my next update is likely to be the last one for today. Hope everyone is having a pleasant day.

>>3522664

That is a very reasonable concern, and something I hadn't considered. I'm open to suggestions as to how we can avoid this issue. I do worry that if time is limited it may cause some people who would otherwise like to participate not to be able to do so, but that then opens the question of how many of those people are really one person repeat voting. I'm not familiar enough with questing to know how other qm's get around this issue, but I am open to suggestions and promise to give them real consideration so that we can work something out that meets the needs of myself and the anons participating in the quest.

I'm sorry if I came off somewhat defensively, I may have overreacted.
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>>3522667
>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.

>Dormitories will be seperated by gender
*laughs in shapeshifter*
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>>3522667
>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.

>>3522687
You can't really get around it. The best thing to do is run at times that work for you, and maybe try to have particularly important votes open for longer if you want more people to have a chance... which then opens up the samefag issue.

All you can really do is watch out for suspiciously similar votes and hope people won't be assholes.
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>>3522667
>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself

>>3522687
I would say leave it open and don’t worry about samefaggery. It’s not a problem after chargen and early threads for the most part, and little can be done to limit a dedicated samefag. Build the voting system however is convenient to you, as the QM is the most important element of any quest.
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Also if it gets too much for you, don't be afraid to take a break. And if you want to put the quest on a longer break or even just end it, please let us know. There's nothing worse than a QM just quitting out of the blue with no warning.
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>>3522667
>>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.
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>>3522667
>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself. While your at it, observe the other teenagers. If something sticks out, it might tell you about their mutation
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>>3522731
replace my vote with this^
>>3522719
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>>3522667
>>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.
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>>3522667
>Stay near Tara and keep your head down, at least you know her, and you don’t want to draw attention to yourself.
Sneaky sneak-sneak
We gotta familiarize ourselves with the layout of this place as much as possible.

>“In addition to your scheduled classes you will also have scheduled appointments with our facilities therapist on a case by case basis depending on your individual needs.”
...
Yeah that's where the lowkey brainwashing/indoctrination comes in, isn't it?
Anons are right, FUCK HIVE


So! What are some powers sets we should be vary of?
I'm thinking anything 'elemental' is going to be a major pain in the ass for us to deal with - ice/freezing powers in particular. I imagine any frozen biomass is going to be useless to us until it's thawed. Fire, I think, is going to be slightly less annoying since we can simply shed off ignited biomass(wasteful though it is)
Other than that, psionic/mental powers are another thing that we don't really have an easy answer to, other than raw willpower...

>>3520250
>Brilliant Bone Blade but it's the size of the Blade power in Prototype (see pic attached)
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>>3522761
are there not anti-freeze protein? or am i thinking of fiction? and to protect from burning simply be covered in something that cant burn that way we cant burn then heatprofing somehow? wait flamethrowers throw burning fuel at us ok this is a real problem
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>>3522761
>>3522772
This is DC comics, land of gods, monsters and any kind of being you can imagine. We just need to find something with elemental resistece and copy it's skin, scales, etc [mammoth is resistent to some energy attacks and has a lot of exposed parts, just saying]).
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>>3522761
Ice is a possible problem but can probably be solved with clever use of our power.
Fire is more difficult as it's very effective at burning flesh, Bone Plate Armour would probably be effective enough as a countermeasure.
Even more effective for both is if we manage to get some sort of biometal to manipulate.
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>>3522824
we need some kind of biological material or some material we can extrude that does not burn kind of chemically inert and i wonder if we need to experiment or can we copy dna?
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Alright I'm back, looks like we have a clear consensus so I won't bother waiting any longer.

Calling the vote. Give me 4d6 for wallflower to observe your fellow teenagers and the facility without anyone noticing you doing it. Just another face in the crowd, nothing to see here. Dc 12
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Rolled 4, 2, 3, 4 = 13 (4d6)

>>3522873
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Rolled 4, 6, 2, 4 = 16 (4d6)

>>3522873
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Rolled 4, 6, 1, 6 = 17 (4d6)

>>3522873
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Rolled 3, 3, 6, 4 = 16 (4d6)

>>3522873
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Rolled 1, 4, 3, 5 = 13 (4d6)

>>3522873
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Safe to say we made it.

Writing.
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>>3522667

You decide to stay near Tara. At least you know her. Sort of. That, and trying to talk to the others would draw attention to you. Something tells you that flying under the radar would be better than drawing attention to yourself. The nail that stands out and all that.

Still, that doesn’t mean you can’t look around while you are walking and try to learn about where you are and the other teenagers by observation.

Between the air temperature, and the presence of a good number of evergreen trees you can see nearby, you figure it’s safe to say this isn’t a tropical island. While you had initially thought there were no other buildings than the nearby structure the headmistress is currently leading you towards upon further observation now that you’ve come up off the beach you think you might see one or two other structures in the distance behind the tree line that you had missed at first.

Looking at the facility you are headed towards you see that it is actually comprised of a large central structure with three smaller structures that surround it and are connected to it by walkways. The whole thing is encircled by a concrete wall, which is set with several guard towers, further reinforcing the feel of a prison. You can see figures moving along the wall.

You and Tara are about two thirds of the way towards the back of the line of teenagers being marched towards the concrete structure, which gives you a good opportunity to observe those ahead of you.

There are a few that stand out One is the girl with the light blue skin and the side cut, who is about two bodies in front of you. In front of her there’s a black guy who you swear is fluctuating in height. Maybe it’s just your imagination, but it seems like out of the corner of your eye you’ll see him get taller and thinner, and then you’ll look again and he’s back to normal.

You keep looking up the line, and do a double take when you see what looks like an old woman. Grey hair, floppy wrinkled skin on her hands and arms, liver spots. You can’t see her face to tell for sure, but from behind it looks like someones grandma.

You look up a little further past a few normal looking teenagers, and then there’s a guy with greenish skin. It’s subtle, he’s not bright green like a star trek extra, it’s just a tint, but after looking a bit longer you can definitely tell that he’s kinda green.

Another that stands out is the pacific islander girl. Less because of any unnatural aspect to her appearance, and more because she’s huge. Seriously, she’s built like a brick shit house. Easily the biggest girl out of everyone in front of you. Bigger than a good number of the guys as well.

“I do not understand” Tara says quietly to your left, drawing your attention away from the other teenagers. “Why does she act as if nothing is wrong? As if this is a private school we are privileged to join while her men wave guns at us? It does not make sense.”
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>>3523088

“I don’t think she’s all there” chimes in a soft contralto voice from behind you.

You turn to look over your shoulder and find yourself forced to look up quickly in order to look the girl in the eye. Forget the islander, this girl is huge. 6’6 at least with a wild mane of strawberry blonde hair. She’s not as broad through the shoulders as the other girl, doesn't have the bulging muscles, but she’s still noticeably muscular. And stacked, but you do your best to ignore that.

“Sorry” she says and looks down. “I shouldn’t have butted in.”

“What do you mean” Tara asks “Not all there?”

“Well it’s just a feeling really” The tall girl says as she wrings her hands. She seems really nervous to be talking to you, uncomfortable even, and as you keep walking and talking you notice her stumble and catch herself a few times even though there was nothing to stumble over, like something was throwing her balance off or she was expecting her feet to come down in a different place. “But she just seems off, like she doesn’t see the world the way normal people do, you know?”

You nod. That would make sense. That or the bitch is just fucking with you all, it could go either way really.

“I’m Caitlin by the way” the redhead tells you as you reach the gateway leading into the compound.

You hear Tara murmur back her name, but she falls silent as you pass through the gate. There’s something ominous about being inside the compound. Maybe it’s all the bare concrete. Or maybe its the highly visible guards walking the walls toting assault riffles. Whatever it is, chatter dies down, and you all are silent as you troop across the yard after the headmistress into the building.
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>>3523092

The first floor of the building is mostly open space. There’s couches and some chairs, a few pool and foozball tables and other bits and bobs. You’re pretty sure you see a DDR machine over in the corner. A quick peek around also identifies several cameras on the ceiling. There are three halls that lead out of the room, not including staircases leading up to the second floor of the building.

The ‘headmistress’ raises her voice “This is the main common room. The hall to my right leads to the men’s dormitories. The hall to my left leads to the women's dormitories. The hall directly in front of us leads to the cafeteria.” she points as she speaks to each of the hallways in turn.

“Follow me please” she says as she leads you down the hallway into the cafeteria. Honestly it looks a lot like the cafeteria from your school. Couple of windows that peak into a kitchen which are presumably where you line up to get food. Big tables. The only thing that really sets it apart are the cameras and the catwalk that you hear creaking as an armed guard prowls overhead.

“Feel free to get something to eat if you are hungry” Says the headmistress “And please do remember to keep an eye on the clocks and retire to your dorms before curfew. I’d hate for any of you to be subject to disciplinary action on your first day. It would look horrible on your permanent record, and employers look at that sort of thing you know. Why you might even end up having to look outside of the domestic market for employment.”

She pauses for a moment and then says. “I assure you, you do not want that.” Her tone is completely different. The cheer is gone. Her voice is cold, harsh even. Her omnipresent smile slips and her lips press together turning her face into a stern mask.

Then her personality does a complete 180 degree turn again and the smile is back. “I’ll leave you be now, feel free to get to know each other.” She says, and then she walks away and moves over to a heavy steel door built into the side of the room. She taps something on a keypad and presses her thumb down, then the door opens and she steps through before it closes again.

What will you do?

>Take the opportunity to socialize and try to get to know the other kids

>Ask Tara and maybe this Caitlin girl what they think about your circumstances

>Ignore the others unless they come to you and continue to observe

>Focus on eating, and maybe test out your powers a bit.

>write in.
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This is probably the last update from me today like I mentioned earlier. I've got to get going to make my appointment here in a few minutes and unless it gets done early I'm going straight to bed when I get back, but in the event it does conclude early I might pop in for a bit, and I'll stick around until I have to go in case anyone has any questions they want to ask or has something to say.
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>>3523098
>Focus on eating, and maybe test out your powers a bit.
SUSTENANCE
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>>3523098
>Focus on eating, and maybe test out your powers a bit.
>There is only us and food
>Consume, absorb, devour!!
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>>3523098
>>Focus on eating, and maybe test out your powers a bit.
"I apologize in advance for eating like a pig, but I gotta regrow my organs."
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>>3523098
>focus on eating, but invite tara and caitlin to join you to talk. Pile plate up with meat and, if possible adjust teeth and throat to eat bone. The more material for testing, the better
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>>3523098
>Ask Tara and maybe this Caitlin girl what they think about your circumstances
Time to form the basics of some sort of escape squad.
We'll need to study our nerve implant in our spare time. We could possibly attempt to grow a new spine and sever the old one or something.
Gotta find a way to get the implant out of our allies too. Maybe with enough practice we can do something, invade their body with a vein or something and sever their spine before breaking it down and creating a new one?
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>>3523116
Actually I'll switch to this
>>3523108
We do need to eat to gain strength but I do want to gain as many allies as possible before our inevitable escape attempt.
Terra will be more stable and less likely to betray everyone if we get her out quicker.
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>>3523106
Oh this for sure and eat everything bone and all
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>>3523098
Focus on eating, and maybe test out your powers a bit.

Delicious biomass well that and we are sorta missing some organs...
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>>3523098
>>Focus on eating, and maybe test out your powers a bit.
so we can heal and dont starve
possibly altering our jaws and body to eat better so kind of this >>3523105 and this >>3523108
we want to have as wide a diet as possible and i say we keep the mutations and changes we use and if we dont want them we let them "fade" away slowly so we are underestimated we dont want them knowing our full power

>>3523100
can we force flesh to move without muscle mass like a form kinesis over our body like some kind of moving silly putty? and can we control things we have ingested like we have dissolved and eaten metal and we extrude it as claws or we make a mold of flesh and fill it with the metal?
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>>3523098
>Focus on eating, and maybe test out your powers a bit.
>>3523108
This. Also eat with Tara if we can.
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>>3523098
>>Focus on eating, and maybe test out your powers a bit.
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>>3523141
Seconding seeing if we can consume metals to turn into claws or coat our bones.

The Reach would bust a nut if they got their hands on us.
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>>3523152
we can possibly escalate our eating as the very clearly starved person and kind of chew up the table, spoons,forks,plates,drinking-glasses, all to experiment and as a test for our upgrades possibly several layer jaws and bumbs and shapes lining the inside the throat so we grind and pulp the food even more like a industrial shredder and mulcher
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>>3523182
and due too lever physics if we extend the jaws and if we focus all the musculature to the middle as in the front of the jaw we would get like two mouths and also the greatest force and speed possible for the jaws
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>>3523186
imagine one mouth on each cheek with this we have two mouths we can feed while having the strongest possible bite we can and we widen and lengthen the jaws to make it work better a normal sized mouth would be too small for it to be of any use
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>>3523207
Depending on what sort of muscles in the mouth we make and if we can (possibly using the bone) form more teeth, we could turn the mouth into some sort of blender thing. Or just pull a gaping dragon, split up into a giant mouth, bodyslam a pile of chicken wings, and move on. Both could also have some fear factor with the others, but it might show the ability too much.
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>>3523207
I'd rather we not turn into an abomination while attempting to blend in.
>>3523141
I think producing and manipulating some sort of biometal is a good goal for our powers.
Should we attempt to make a Super team if we escape with Terra and others?
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>>3523182
>>3523186
>>3523244
I don’t think biometal is a viable option, and there are plenty of organic compounds we can use to similar affect
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>>3523108
this
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>>3523098
>Focus on eating
For obvious reasons, we need Biomass to redistribute into our body and continously form redundant organs, multiple hearts and back up brains are always useful, which we can MOVE while their in the body! But at the same time,

>Take the opportunity to socialize and try to get to know the other kids
We organizing a jail break up in this bitch cause FUCK HIVE.

>>3523141
I like the ideas of Biokenisis here, where we move our flesh as a whole instead of seperate parts, like tendrils that we can morph to fit our needs right?

>>3523182
>>3523186
>>3523207
And yeah, this too. Increasing our bite force and the strength of our teeth is a good idea, not to mention with extra biomass that we absorb, we can make ourselves bigger and badder as we go. Like how our boi Mercer absorbs others, right? Cause as far as I understand the more mass we have to distribute via absorption the crazier shit we can do...
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>>3523249
We could dissolve metal into small particles (dust) and cover our spine, claws, fangs and parts of the skull.
Also, I suggest developing full meat ooze mode to consume biomass.
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>>3523261
what body plan do we want to go for currently any of those or agumented small one i am for the big one even at a reduced size being stout and fat and muscular makes for more mass too work with
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Why not just make the bones and muscles super dense? Bones can get as tough as steel when dense enough.
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>>3523244
>Should we attempt to make a Super team if we escape with Terra and others
we can change our appearance, they can't. I imagine it's hard to lay low with two other people, one is huge and the other a princess and this is assuming we escape this place. I think we want to ask ourselves what our top priorities are.
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>>3523269
a cheap and easy version of that is to eat like a sea cucumber nearly with our stomach that has teeth we have it come out grip with all its jaws and just drag it back in just
or make the biggest possible pile then throw the sack over it and suck it in or form a flesh sack around the food and drag it in like a fucked up net gun
>>3523274
i think it has something to do with brittleness
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And we should think about making our body a colony-hivemind of cells we can turn into anything we need, also a nervous system so alien and complex that psimon's brain just melts from all the redundant neuronal nets and nerves he has to controle at once.
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>>3523249
It's comicbook land. We can probably replicate a biometal if we get a sample at least.
Going full Wolverine or Collosus would be fucking awesome.
>>3523261
What do you think we should look for in a potential Jailbreak partner?
We've got a potential way to remove the implants with us and Terra can probably provide transportation for escape via levitating a rock.
We'll need somebody able to cause a distraction remotely so their focus on on on is diverted away from us.
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>>3523282
We can probably use our powers to perform plastic surgery on others.
>>3523270
Muscle is denser and thus better than fat.
As for our appearance we should probably strive to remain human looking, just super dense.
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Forget fleeing as a blue whale, RELEASE THE KRAKEN, which is far more suited to dive into the abyss while regulating the internal pressure (so our friends won't die) and attacking/defending/evading (lots of tentacles with claws, maw full of fangs and a beak...) if needed, also giant water syphon jets. We just need the byomass and eating an octopus, an squid, a sepia for camouflage...
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>>3523294
the problem over a certain limit the weight is just too much and packed for the human size that its just soo ridiculous you wonder how he dont just penetrate right to the soil thru cement and metal
and we could store it in a more dense form then fat for the juggernaut
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>>3523309
It's comic book land, don't think too hard.
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>>3523309
Go brawler: fast, strong, resilient and also having a hot bod. It'll be funny when a superheroine tries to hit on us and we are like "duh.. I'm 14".
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>>3523284
Fucking with telepaths should be another goal we have.

I just realised we could probably bioengineer a sort of ultrafast supercancer using one of our cells to inject into people, especially people with healing factors.
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>>3523341
Lets give Slade hypercancer.
Fuck that guy, he's an asshole.
Also the ten percent of the brain myth isn't a myth in DC, Slade can specifically use 90 percent of his brain compared to the normal 10 percent.
We can one-up Deathstroke by using all 100 percent.
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>>3523098
>>3523108
Supporting.

Also, how strenuous is healing? We used up our fat storage, shifted our body a bunch, exerted ourselves moving around, but we managed to repair our broken leg without feeling much other than the pain.
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>>3523383
>Inb4 his hyper cancer causes him to become insane and immortal and he starts going by Wade
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>>3523270
Def a brawler. Provides a good balance of stealth and strength, along with being able to convert mass when needed. Juggernaught we could save for a really dire situation, like we need to act as a bullet sponge versus a firing squad or something.

>>3523285
Ideal partners would be a tank for disfraction, maybe a ninja or a technopath to handle the surveillance and Tara to escape since she can outright levitate rocks. The big girl I forget her name seems to fill out that roll quite well, all we need is someone for the technical aspect.
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>>3523397
I assume it doesn't take that much biomass considering all the stuff to fix is still there, just needs to be moved back into place.
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>>3523383
Why stop at hyper cancer when we can give him hyper AIDS? Jab him with our white blood cells that not only eat his immune system but the rest of his body from the inside out. Like a fucked up ulcerative disease but ALL over the body.
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>>3523401
Brawlers are like ten foot tall though.
Bit big for stealth.
Personally I think we should go for the Kars look rather than becoming a humanoid abomination.
Unless something absolutely terrible happens to Joseph I don't see him wanting to look like a monster.
>>3523409
Sounds fine, normally I wouldn't advocate killing but just... fuck Slade.
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Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d2)

Well, my business did not conclude early I'm afraid, so the next write up isn't going to be until tomorrow after my morning workout.

But, I see that while I was gone some questions were asked, So lets get them answered while I'm here. Also while I'm at it I'm going to make a few rolls. Pay them no mind, they're just to help me decide on the actions of a few npcs for the next few write ups that's all. Once I've finished these dice rolls I'm off to bed.


>>3523141
>>3523152

Alright, regarding the metal question. After some consideration and a quick google search, I've come to a decision. Apparently Spiders incorporate metals into their fangs, and technically speaking is a metal actually, so, here's my answer. It will be possible down the line for you to incorporate metals into bio synthesized materials. You could do that finger trick, though it wouldn't literally be steel knives it'd be close enough. Possibly even superior. After all spider silk is stronger than steel, and this is comic book land, so getting you some bio metal that's better than steel is possible down the line if that's something you all want to invest time and effort into developing.

Regarding your question about forcing your flesh to move, I'm not quite sure I understand the nature of the question, or the need for it. I mean if you wanted to form like tentacles or strands or something that works just fine, and you've already demonstrated an ability to shuffle biomass from one part of your body to another. I honestly don't understand the question. I'm sorry, could you please elaborate.

Regarding the incorporation of ingested materials, i'm going to have to ask you to hold on to that one, there should be some relevant content coming up in the next few write ups, so please hang on to that question until after them.


>>3523397

Regeneration depends on the nature and extent of the damage. There is some loss of biomass, and the more complex whatever you need to regenerate is the harder it will be, but honestly healing is pretty easy compared to a lot of the other things you can and will do.
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Rolled 3 (1d4)

>>3523691
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Rolled 9, 3, 6 = 18 (3d20)

>>3523692

If I've missed your question, or you feel I've failed to properly address something, please let me know.

Good night all.
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>>3523696
Gnight, thanks for the content!
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>>3523691
I imagine healing damage from blunt attacks is the easiest, telling broken bones to just reattach doesn't waste much biomass I think. Healing holes in puncture or slashing wounds probably depends on the complexity of the organ damaged. Stitching our flesh back together seamlessly is probably super easy though.

Really the problem comes from if we lose a limb or organ entirely, though since all our cells listen to us if the body part isn't destroyed we can reattach without much issue.

What I'm curious about is if our brain or heart are still important organs. I mean, once we achieve proper control of everything, we can just will our blood to move properly even without the heart muscle...

Regarding the brain, basically I wanna know if we're more like a bio Clayface, or if we're like a Slime with a core that if damaged, destroys everything else.

Also of interest is that we don't have a natural state we revert to when asleep or forced unconscious, meaning if our guy doesn't pay attention he can quickly forget what he's supposed to look like.

Lastly, if our stomach just instantly absorbs everything we consume, do we still need to use the bathroom? I mean, if we don't, we got some organs we don't need anymore.
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>>3523739
>Lastly, if our stomach just instantly absorbs everything we consume, do we still need to use the bathroom? I mean, if we don't, we got some organs we don't need anymore.
For one, we could repurpose our appendix to produce whatever chemicals we could need, like poisons, corrosives, various fun gases...
For another, we don't really need two kidneys, because we can replace one with an outlet to the poison factory.
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>>3523309
Depends on how much realism QM is aiming for, but either way we could still be pretty fucking dense. We won't be dense enough to straight up sink through floors, but cracking concrete with a landing? That's just badass.
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>>3523771
>realism
See >>3518257
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>>3523098
>>Focus on eating, and maybe test out your powers a bit.
>Ask Tara and Caitlin to join us. Maybe that blue girl if we can catch her eye.
Sit, have them talk, find out what Caitlins power is.
Meanwhile we focus on shoveling superhuman amounts of calories into our more. I think we should regrow all the organs we cannibalised and try some subtle internal changes to improve our feeding ability but make any obvious changes that would bring focus the headmistress' attention on us.
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resting things we could improve without being too obvious:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-most-unfortunate-design-flaws-in-the-human-body-1518242787
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>>3523809
Supporting this. Keep with the pack.
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>>3523691
>Bio-Metal and Metal Incorporation is possible
Fuckin nice.
Speaking of spiders we could probably go full Spiderman with web production for some swinging action.
Though we can probably just grow wings and fly.
Can't wait to Brilliant Bone Blade our metal blade arms/claws and just cut through pretty much any non super bullshit material.
Also if we need money? Just produce pearls.
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>>3523877
We could also incorporate tooth enamel into our combat mode when we get it, which is harder than steel on the Mohs scale.
Alternatively, Limpet Teeth, which are apparently stronger than spider silk.
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Perhaps we need to start carrying many calorie dense foods like granola or just plain fat. We dropped from double digit fat percentages to around 1% in the fight. We need fuel, we attrition easily.
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>>3523908
We just need to eat enough before getting into a fight.
Right now our body is unready.
Limited Biomass is only a problem until we get swole
I don't want to start carrying around bars of fat like an autist, I'd rather we started photosynthesising.
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I do hope our bio-shifting gets faster with experience - right now we actually have to think and focus on what we want our flesh to do. Maybe later down the line it'll get more instinctual?

>>3523809
>find out what Caitlins power is.
I bet she's younger than what she looks...
>>3523092
>and as you keep walking and talking you notice her stumble and catch herself a few times even though there was nothing to stumble over, like something was throwing her balance off or she was expecting her feet to come down in a different place.
This sounds like a tell-tale sign that she was WAY smaller before having her Meta-gene forcibly activated by the Tar - Caitlin probably has some sort of physical superpowers like enchanced strength and durability.

>>3523877
>Speaking of spiders we could probably go full Spiderman with web production for some swinging action.
I dunno, why bother when we can just morph our arm into a tentacle of bone and sinew and use it as a grappling hook? We can even "reel" it back and not lose any biomass unless it gets cut off and we can't reacquire it.

>>3523739
>Also of interest is that we don't have a natural state we revert to when asleep or forced unconscious, meaning if our guy doesn't pay attention he can quickly forget what he's supposed to look like.
I've wondered about this as well. It would seem that we don't have a so called natural state since the internal changes we made to evade Mammoth stuck like GM stated in >>3522221
But then, those were internal changes... I'm hoping Jame's mental image of himself acts as an effective "footnote" for his default appearance - I hope. To me, completely forgetting what you used to look like sounds like a way to have severe identity problems.
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>>3523914
Or Joseph could just keep a picture of himself.
A natural state is silly and will ruin us when disguised.
Web is more useful for binding criminals honestly.
Still holding out on the hero route here.
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>>3523914
Caitlin being around Tara's or our age would make sense as she decided to speak with us instead of people that look her supposed age.
As for her powers I suppose super strength/durability could be useful for our future gang/escape group/super team.
What would we call our team if we got one?
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The fun part about Jame's power is that we are only seem "weak" because we are facing H.I.V.E., organization specialized in capturing and enslaving all kinds of metahumans, while low on biomass and with only a few hours of training (at best). Also, our first fight was against fucking mammoth and psimon. After we eat our first few tons of biomass and get rid of the implant, this guys are getting a John Carpenter themed party.
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>>3523925
>What would we call our team if we got one?
It would depend on who we had.
We could go with a professional group or be grandiose.

We might even strike out alone, once we reach the point of being a one-man army or a literal army.
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>>3523930
Please, if you insist on calling him James, at least put the apostrophe in the right place.
"James' powers" not Jame's.
He's not called Jame.
Rant over.
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>>3523931
>HIVEMIND MODE ENGAGED. Imagine you are a criminal/heroe fighting this guy in an alley and suddenly you get a Neo vs Mr Smith fight but against supersoldiers and your power isn't Neo aspull.
CONCERN.
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>>3523936
I don't like the James either, I prefer Jon or Joshep but I was answering his post, so I thought using different names would be confusing.
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>>3523939
*Joseph
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Well this is going pretty well so far, a bit disappointed by class choices but eh too late to change it now.

Once we start getting into manipulating the biology of others, could go for giving internal bleeding mid combat.

Besides, we need to think bigger than mimicking animals for new powers. After all, Martians and Kryptonians are still made of flesh and bone and blood and cells after all.
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>>3523945
I think that if we do get to that point, a Kryptonian/Martian/anything else suitably bullshit hybrid superbeing would be ridiculously end game and we shouldn't be able to do that for a very long time.
Something like that could feasibly defeat the Justice League after all.
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>>3523950
>Something like that could feasibly defeat the Justice League after all.
I'll say it again, something like that would be Bio-Amazo.
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Hm.
I forgot to account for one thing when I was worrying powersets that would give us trouble in >>3522761

Magic
God DAMN magic
If there's something that can be as bullshit as Joseph/James can potentially be then it's powerful magicians!

Oh man, us vs Lobo would be a fight that would never end I think.
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>>3523955
With a hefty amount of Doomsday thrown in.
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>>3523955
Hopefully we'd be a hero if we reached that level of power.
Hell at a high level of our power we could possibly even copy Metagenes to become even more broken.
But yeah, Bio Amazo is a long way off.
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>>3523958
>powerful magic
That sort of bullshit wrecks basically everyone though.
We can probably find a way to defend against it depending on how far we can go.
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I think we need to bring our inside outside. Literally.

Those tentacles in our stomach have mouths right, so we just need a way to rapidly grow them and them morph them together to create biological matter consuming tentacles. Throw a few at a body and free biomass.
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>>3523973
After a lot of practice.
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>>3523959
Oh, and we should eat a sample of Doomsday too! Good thinking, anon
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>>3523973
We start actually eating people in fights and the Justice League are gonna come down on us harder than a ton of bricks.
Maybe against animals or parademons we can do something like that but people tend to frown on eating other people.
A last resort attack for when we're out of actions or immensely pissed off? Maybe.
As an opener? No way.
Being a monstrous villain really doesn't tend to pay off when Superman is only ever seconds away.
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Please, keep kriptonian and doomsday dna out for at least when we fight brainiac, darkseid and the like as regular enemies. Superman is broken but doomsday is immortal, indestructible and unstoppable on the long term, I can't see a way we could balance his powers.
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>>3523980
I can see Doomsday DNA massively backfiring actually.
Won't be nice if the cells start fighting back.
Kryptonian or Martian physiology or Metagene copying should really be saved for when the world is in deep peril.
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>>3523979
>>3523984

Anon, you're not helping to convince that being a hero is the best option that we have. And thinking far too small for what we have, if we have the chance for power than we had best take it
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>>3523988
I don't want us to go from 0-100000 instantly and start trying to beat up the JL because we want to eat people.
We'd just lose.
Being a villain generally sucks because the heroes are so broken.
>IF WE HAVE A CHANCE FOR POWER, TAKE IT!
Shit tier motivations there, DIO.
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Remember,
If we become a villain, HIVE wins.
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>>3523980
>>3523984
I more meant how we would be similar to Doomsday. His powers are like ours just more automatic.
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The only way I could see being so OP and not breaking the quest would be either imposing limits (which angers the powergamers like myself) or finding rational ways to "not becoming doomsday" like: Doomsy DNA is alive and reacts to our cells as an attack, so we need to be Superman tier to even try to replicate it and not becoming a screaming mass, Sups DNA is easy to obtain, but is so hard we can't scan or dissolve it. Darkseid knows about our powers and Omega Sanctions our ass as soon as we appear. This way, we could make a character with no evolutive limits, instead having limits to get the samples we need.
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>>3523991
No, if we become one of the sheeple and go through the full course HIVE wins. What we need to do is break out, and then we can decide what we want to do with our life.
>>3524002
Anon, we're already limited by the fact that we need to improve first. All of this is just ideas for the far future after we go full Prototype, and we shouldn't expect Jim to do much more than punch shit and eat like 50 tons of biomass right now.
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>>3524002
Two questions
How would Darkseid know about our powers?
And Who the hell is Omega and what does him Sanctioning us mean?
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>>3524009
What he's talking about is the Omega Sanction, a special function of the Omega Beam that traps its victim in an infinite series of increasingly shitty lives.
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>>3524011
Oooohhh I see now, thanks Anon. I wasn't aware Darkseid could do that.
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>>3524015
Honestly if we're fighting Darkseid and we haven't become Bio-Amazo by that point something has gone very wrong and we're going to die.
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>>3524025
In a situation like that, we sic Supes on Darkseid and focus munching on Parademons!
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Alright, lets get to writing.
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>>3524039
Parademons can reproduce by infecting other beings, so we either become Mr. Smith or a Parademon.
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>>3524058
We'll see how well they do against a biological projectile designed to replicate itself and mulch any organic matter it hits.
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>>3523991
Not it we're a villain that destroys HIVE.
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>>3524138
No anon that just means Hive succeeded at creating the ultimate supervillain.
Don't you want our group of misfits to be Heroes/Anti-Heroes/a band of rogues with hearts of gold?
Being a villain is so cliche with our powerset, I want to attempt to be a hero despite us having the ability to C O N S U M E.
There's no reason to be evil just yet.
We can use our powers for good, become a combat medic even the Justice League themselves would want.
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And we don't have to spare someone like the Joker when he murders a puppy orphanage or something. Wonder Woman breaks necks and she's still a hero.
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>>3523098

You breathe in, and you smell it. The iron tang of blood, the savor of seared meat. Your mind grabs a hold of the smell until it’s hard to think of anything else. Your mouth starts to water and your stomach rumbles. Meat, delicious warm and red. Your body screams at you to CONSUME. Even though you’d been hungrier before you ate the MRE you didn’t want it like you want whatever that wonderful smell is.

You move before anyone else steps forward and immediately head straight towards the smell emanating from the second window from the left. You’re able to exercise enough self control to keep from sprinting, but its a close thing.

You quickly move up to the window and look in. There’s a few kitchen staff working at grills, and as you watch one flips a steak. Your eyes immediately go to the cut of meat. Succulent juicy looking meat with blood welling to the surface as it cooks.

“I’ll take two, no three.” You say to the man behind the counter, not even looking at him as you make your demand. No you don’t have time for courtesy, you only have eyes for the steak.

“Those look good as is” You say pointing to some of the rarer steaks rather than the ones that look more well done. “Those rare ones, just slap them on a plate for me.”

It’s funny, you had never really liked rare steaks before, it had been kinda gross, but they look so good

There’s a pause and then you see the man at the counter shrug and turn out of the corner of your eye and say to the cooks “Well you heard him, three of the rare steaks.”

You watch impatiently tapping your foot as they plate your food.

“You girls need three steaks too, or just the regular portions?” You hear the man behind the counter ask slightly sardonically. “Vegetables?”

Glancing to the side you see that Tara and Caitlin have followed you, then you go back to watching your food.

You can hear Tara and Caitlin asking for their food, but you don’t really pay too much attention to what they say, because the cooks are bringing out your meat.

“Here” says the cook “Three rare steaks.”

You nod and grab the plate. You manage to wait until Caitlin and Tara get their plates as well before turning and walking away, but it’s difficult. It smells even better up close. As soon as they are handed their plates of food, noticeably smaller and greener than yours, you spin on your heel and speed walk towards the nearest table. You grab silverware on the way, pausing just long enough to figure out which is which so you don’t get to your table and find you’ve grabbed two spoons or something equally useless.

As you sit down Tara sits to your right and Caitlin sits down across from you.

“Are you alright” Tara asks you hesitantly.

“I apologize in advance for my poor table manners.” You say as you pick up your knife and fork “But I Need this.”
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>>3524166

And then, you attack the plate of meat in front of you. You work the knife back and forth furiously to carve off a piece of the first steak and then shove it into your mouth. The texture on your tongue, the gush of juice that slides down your throat as you smash it between your teeth, it’s fantastic.

You chew frantically and swallow, forcing it down your gullet to your waiting stomach and start carving off the next piece of meat. As soon as it hits your stomach you can feel it being torn apart by the waiting tendrils. As this happens, you become aware of two things.

The first, is that as the tissue is torn apart and broken down by the grasping tendrils in your stomach, you start to understand how it’s put together. In the back of your mind is an awareness of the structure and composition of the meat you are consuming. You feel like you could replicate it if you wished to do so, restructure your own flesh to copy it according to the new knowledge you gained as you consumed it.

The second, is that as the meat is broken down, you can almost immediately feel the sensation of having more material to work with. It’s rapidly incorporated into your body taking only moments from the time it hits your stomach to be broken down into usable material and then for those materials to begin being distributed throughout your body. It’s not a perfect process, there’s some left over material, a little waste after all is said and done, but the vast majority of what you just swallowed is now part of you.

You direct some of the new material towards your liver. It’d be nice to have a whole organ again, and you want to do some quiet testing of your powers. Working internally will probably be unnoticeable to an outside observer you figure. You prod at the organ with your mind and feed it proteins and lipids and nutrients and order it to regenerate.

It rapidly starts to regrow the lobe you had cannibalized earlier, but it’s barely begun when it exhausts the material you’ve consumed. You feel a horrible pain as the regeneration stalls, and instinct screams at you that you need material NOW, that you need to finish what you’ve started. The knife and fork are too slow, small measured bites are too slow, you need that meat in you now to fuel the reaction.

You drop your utensils and they clatter against the tabletop. You grab the steak with both hands, and you feel your teeth lengthen and sharpen in response to a subconscious instinctual command as you bring it up to your mouth and tear a chunk off of it.
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>>3524170

You tear into the steak like a rabid animal, barely pausing to chew as you shred it and gulp it down. The regeneration of your liver picks back up as your stomach processes the steak providing fuel for the fire. By the time you’ve finished the first steak and started in on the second your Liver has finished regrowing itself and you’ve started building back up the kidney you’d consumed. You gulp down the last of the second and rip into the third, your kidney has regrown at this point. The rest of the biomass is being distributed across your body, building up your muscles and your reserves.

You finish the last of third steak, and look down at your plate. You feel much better than you had, though not quite fully sated. You idly consider going back and asking for more, wondering if they’ll give it to you, when another steak plops onto your plate.

Looking over you see that Tara has shoved the steak off of her plate onto yours. She smiles a wan smile at you, looking just a little bit green around the gills. You look up and realize you’re little show had drawn a bit of attention. There’s a few people standing around staring.

“What the hell was that freak?” demands one of the spectators, the guy with the white hair who’d been the first to follow after the headmistress. Some of the others murmur agreement, and you can hear a few whispers of “freak” along with “disgusting” and “animal”

“Hey you’d be pretty damn hungry too if you were regrowing your internal organs” you blurt out defensively under their scrutiny.

There’s a pause after you say that, and then the guy with the white hair shouts “regrow your what?”

The throng starts muttering again, and then there’s a loud metallic screech that cuts them off. Caitlin’s fingers have sunk into the metal table as if it were play dough, crumpling it and causing it to sheer where she had gripped it’s edge.

“Shut up” she hisses as she stands and wheels around to face the crowd.

“Shut up” She says again as she marches right up over to white hair and gets in his face, pointing imperiously down at him. “Don’t you call him a freak you bully!”
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>>3524172
>“Hey you’d be pretty damn hungry too if you were regrowing your internal organs” you blurt out defensively under their scrutiny.
Boy, we are one dumb ass mother fucker.
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>>3524172

You can’t hear the pacing of the guard overhead anymore, white hair’s face is flushing red and you can see hoar frost spreading from under his feet as his fists clench. You half expect them to come to blows right then and there, when there’s a commotion from the crowd as several people shout and jump away from something.

All eyes go to the source of the newest commotion, a girl who is floating a few inches off of the ground and pointing straight at Caitlin. Her hair is platinum blonde, and is flowing weightlessly around her like she was suspended in water. Her eyes are jet black, no whites, no iris, just black pits.

“You” She intones as she points at the red head. Her voice reverberates and sounds as if it was a whole chorus of people speaking rather than a single girl. “Death hangs heavy across your shoulders like a shroud, red is the hand that you raise.”

Caitlin stumbles back as if she had been struck and wraps her hands around her own torso like she was hugging herself, and overhead you can hear a man’s voice saying “I repeat, we have a situation in the cafeteria.”


What do you do?


>Stay seated and keep your head down, it sounds like the guard is calling in the cavalry, and you don’t want to end up guilty by association and punished.

>Get up and back up Caitlin, she stood up for you, least you can do is return the favor.

>Get up and try to diffuse the situation before things escalate any further.

>Write in.

Gotta love the cluster fucks that dice rolls can generate, took a bit of doing doing to put it together though.
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>>3524175
>Pull Caitlin away from the gathering, away from the strange lady.
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>>3524172
>She smiles a wan smile at you, looking just a little bit green around the gills
Also QM, what emotion are you trying to describe here? Embarrassment?
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>>3524182
Repulsion.
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>>3524175
>Get up and back up Caitlin, she stood up for you, least you can do is return the favor.
So we can copy tissues very well if we consume them, interesting...
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>>3524175
>get between caitlin and the others. Don't start a fight, but be prepared for one. "In case you haven't noticed frosty, we're all 'freaks and monsters' now. Don't even try to someone's mutation here." And gesture around yourself
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>>3524188
>Repulsion.
At us? Damn, we need to apologise to her Royal Highness as soon as we can.
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>>3524198
Try to mock someone's mutation here* god damnit
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>>3524182

wan- showing or suggesting Ill health

Green around the gills - sickly looking

Smile- to form one's features into a pleased, kind, or amused expression, typically with the corners of the mouth turned up and the front teeth exposed.

I'm sorry if the response feels somewhat pedantic, I don't mean for it to be, but I can't just go explaining exactly what a character is feeling.

Think about the actions she has taken and what they might mean, in combination with the look. That's all I'll say.
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>>3524175
>get up and back up caitlyn
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>>3524203
Well we are 14 year old neard not knowing how others feel and having trouble to read other should be ours speciality
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>>3524175
>Get up and try to diffuse the situation before things escalate any further.
"I'm sure there are zero people in this room that would enjoy getting Father Box'ed? Then let's cool it."
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>>3524175
Deescalate by escalating.
>FOOD FIGHT!!!!
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>>3524199
I mean we probably just grossed her out a bit, but she's trying to be nice to us and not judge based on the barbaric display.
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>>3524220
>Throw leftover steak at platinum blonde face

Then try to use fallflower to get us and girls away from this
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>>3523739

And it looks like I missed a question earlier.

Regarding your question concerning the brain, that particular organ you need, and you need to keep safe.

If your brain were to be damaged it might not kill you outright, depending on how bad the damage, BUT, and this is a big but, you don't get the ultimate regenerator cop out.

That being that they regrow their brains, and despite the fact that it's new brain matter they somehow avoid loss of knowledge, memories, and personality. Deadpool or wolverine can regrow half their damn brain and remain the same person, you can't. If you suffer brain damage, you are going to actually suffer brain damage.

Protect your pumpkin.
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>>3524224

There may be ways around this to an extent, but the point stands, you aren't immortal or an invincible regenerator like some others. You can die. On the flip side, you lack some of their limitations as well. Wolverine can't unleash the Kraken after all.
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>>3524175
>Get up and back up Caitlin, she stood up for you, least you can do is return the favor.
>Get up and try to diffuse the situation before things escalate any further.
"Congratulations, you all realised that we all got turned into freaks. Regardless, I am starving and You are interrupting my desperately needed meal time. We are all going to get zapped if you don't sit down." Glance at the kid who started it all. "I might have to find alternate food sources..."
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>>3524203
Aye, no worries Eig. Thanks for clarifying that much!
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>>3524227
Could we unlock better brain regen in the future, like keeping at least some memories or stuff like that?
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>>3524175
>>Get up and back up Caitlin, she stood up for you, least you can do is return the favor.

"You're not helping ghost lady!"
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>>3524235
For clarification, I am not actually advocating for cannibalism or actions along those lines, just putting on a show for the headmistress we can guess is insane. He is just trying to intimidate everyone to sit the fuck down and point out our immanent zapping.
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>>3524237
Project failsafe brain is a go.
We've got internal space we no longer really need so we could probably create a copy of our brain somewhere in case we get splattered with a bullet through the head.
Preferably two backups.
>>3524218
Support.
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>>3524175
>Get up and try to diffuse the situation before things escalate any further.
Wow man, wait a minute, do you really want to start a fight with a metahuman?, in a place were you'll probably get shot or get a shock at the first sign of troubble? I don't give a fuck of what you think about me or my powers but stop your bullshit before someone get's hurt now I'll go back to eating some steaks...and any other thing they serve. (do this whitout noticing that your hands [with sharp nails] and mouth [with fangs] are covered in steak blood).
WE DIFFUSE BY BEING A RATIONAL AND SCARY FUCKER.
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>>3524252
The image of a scary Nosferatu-looking dude trying to calm people down gave me a chuckle.
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>>3524237

I'll be honest, I'm don't have an answer right this second. I'm going to have to think about it and get back to you on that.

See thing is right now as it stands, I'm trying to figure out limitations on what you can do. Way I figure it it's important to have limits. It adds challenge and tension. There are a few things that I've identified as limiting factors, not all of which are relevant at this time but may come up at later dates when you run into said limits, but this is one that you have to know about to make informed decisions.

As I've said, there may be ways around this, and frankly if you are going to tango with the upper echelon of capes characters on either side of the moral divide you are going to need a way around it because the brain is squishy.

I'm just not quite sure how I want to handle it for right now. We can discuss it, and I'm open to input and experimentation from you all, but I'm going to need a bit of time to figure it out.

For right now, brain go squish, very bad for you, and we will revisit it as you progress and as you guys have ideas, and I will keep thinking about it and will be open with you all about it. That's the best I can do for now I'm afraid.
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>>3524251
Also with three brains we can probably tap into all 100 percent of them at once for some crazy processing power.
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>>3524261
Maybe the human brain is something that is a tad too complex for us to completely replicate, even after we've had some time to get used to being a flesh monster? Maybe in order for us to know how brains fully work we have to eat one or more human brains to fill in the gaps, and the problem with that is readily apparent?
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>>3524251
For the long run, why not engraving our memories into our genes like a xenomorph?
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>>3524266
I don't think it's that it's too complex, it's just that repairing a brain like new will also delete all of the memories it had.
And our power is mostly conscious activation.
Also multiple back-up brains to be automatically switched on should the main brain be compromised, damaged or destroyed should allow us to beat telepaths.
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>>3524175
>>3524218
Supporting.

>>3524261
I much prefer having the weakness than not. Having to actually expend resources and find a way to fix it. That shit makes for great moments when we actually successfully defend our brain. Being able to steamroll right past because enough time went by makes shit way too easy.
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>>3524266
Mindflayer is a go then. But seriously, we should avoid eating people (in public) until we cure all the illneses in the world and no one gives a fuck about us killing our enemies.
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>>3524276
We can probably just break into a morgue or something if we need samples/human biomass that badly.
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>>3524274
Yep, working to achieve something makes it more satisfying, we could create some brains and use them as "lives" in a game: Spend all and you're dead, you want more? Insert coin (get enough mother cells and time to regrow one).
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Anyway
Thoughts on back-up/extra brains or some sort of memory storage organ we have multiple of in case of massive damage?
Multiple brains will allow us super calculation speed if we use them all together.
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>>3524218
+`1
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>>3524174
We literally got sent here because we answered an online ad. I am afraid we are one dumbass motherfucker.

>>3524288
Consuming biomass allows us to perfectly replicate said biomass. This means we definitely are going to try to take a bite out of people and other metahumans in the future in order to copy their abilities.

Hell if we eat a brain we can even figure out a way to replicate said brain...imagine eating the brain of a telepath?

>>3524235
Backing.

>>3524237
Create backup brain. Download memories and experiences into said brain. For extra fun give said brain its own body we grew or stash it in a living lair we made.

Who needs computers when we can grow brains instead and find cybernetics to connect it to the internet?
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>>3524331
We're not dumb, we're a little naïve on account of being well, 14.
And it did look like a legitimate organisation.
We don't need to eat people, a single cell should be enough to replicate their DNA, metagene and body parts.
Biomass we can just eat an entire slaughterhouse.
Don't forget pearls are biological and thus are easy money.
Backup bodies is a bad idea, begging for evil clone shit.
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>>3524261
I look forward to bypassing our limitations with clever use of our power and practice.
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you know, we should take a picture of our face so we dont forget
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>>3524366
And our fingerprints.
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>>3524373
How about no?
No point keeping those the same unless we join a group that use fingerprint scanners.
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>>3524175
>>Get up and try to diffuse the situation before things escalate any further.
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>>3524175
>>>Get up and try to diffuse the situation before things escalate any further.
reinforce your skull and be ready to be beaten down
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Killing.
Yes?
No?
Last Resort?
I want to eat people?
How do you feel about it anons?
Right now I'm firmly in the "No/Last Resort" camp
Unless we get absolutely mindfucked at HIVE before we escape I don't see James/Joe/JJ? being comfortable with murdering people.
Even less with eating people.

Though I think we should see if we could create a slow working paralytic agent for use on the guy with the control box for our escape.
Create a cell that targets his nervous system or something and infect him somehow.
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>>3524444
If they violate the NAP, their brains are fair game
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>>3524446
Anon we're 14 and not some troubled child either.
Probably want to avoid murdering people indiscriminately unless you want Joseph to become a real monster.
Killing rn is super OOC.
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>>3524444
I'm also in the last resort camp, and am a bit iffy on eating people parts. Maybe a good compromise would be to take small samples?
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>>3524444
By this point he's still just a kid so yeah, killing and eating seems off the table. Considering how wild he was for steaks, though, I have a feeling all bets are off if he's sufficiently starved enough. I'd rather we just see how things go, though. I'm not about to pounce on any killing or eating options - well, eating definitely not, but if we meet someone really fucked up and dangerous I'm gonna want a permanent solution.

>>3524446
Thanks for reminding me of that one Worm quest with the ancap protag. RIP
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>>3524444
I'm thinking under desperate circumstance, where we're starving and angry, maybe someone we care about has been hurt, the person is right there in front of us, and maybe the person has something genetic we would want (like psimon.) Under those rules, i think murder cannibalism would be a fair choice
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>>3524451
Just saying that’s the policy in the future for me
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>>3524455
Yeah, if we ever meet someone Joker/various Batman villain level crazy then there's no reason at all to let them live.
Especially the Joker.
Somebody like Lex Luthor however is a villain but he's not actually pure evil like Batman's rogue gallery and has done some good before.
Also I doubt our ability to actually kill somebody like Lex considering he's so fucking smart.
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>>3524458
I mean sure but mentally that's gonna fuck us up for a real long time.
Killing somebody for the first time is bad enough but fucking consuming them?
Jesus.
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>>3524463
But what if we become Luther-tier smart after eating his brain?
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>>3524466
We'd probably get his ego too and become a douche.
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>>3524451
My problem isn't with killing, honestly.
Not advocating for the wanton murder of innocents, but if some guy with criminal intent comes at us with the intent to kill, well, no skin off my back.
Eating/consuming humans however... you can kill and still be in the clear, however the moment we eat another person's meat/organs, that right there is when we lose our humanity, there's no coming back from cannibalism Ayys are a grey area, one I'd rather deal with when and if we get there.
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>>3524466
It's Luthor, there's like a 80 percent chance trying that shit leads to him taking over our body because fuck you I'm Lex Luthor.
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>>3524175
>Get up and try to diffuse the situation before things escalate any further.
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>>3524473
>Carnage and James both trying to ASSUME CONTROL
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>>3524473
How about taking small samples? (A few cells or something.
But yeah, a superpowered metahuman going around eating people is gonna attract all sorts of attention from heroes AND villains.
I'd prefer the Justice League not come kick our shit in and throw us in gay baby jail because holy fuck they couldn't ignore that for long.
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>>3524481
Symbiotes are a Marvel Thing.
Honestly it would be easier to get away with the eating people stuff in like any other universe but not DC.
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>>3524485
>How about taking small samples? (A few cells or something.
You mean for replicating meta-genes and such? Taking blood seems fine, if a bit unsavory in how we get it Nosforatu looking dude drinking blood? PR nightmare getting a "blood transfusion" whether the donor is consenting or not seems like a good self imposed code to live by. Then again, if the majority of anons want to go full monster and consume, who am I to fight against majority vote?
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>>3524496
I think it's more interesting character wise to have powers that so easily lead to becoming a monster yet clinging onto our humanity.
Eating everyone who opposes us is the opposite of what I'd like to see.
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What if we ate something that could regenerate as quickly as we could digest it? If we kept it to eat constantly, would that just mean we'd have infinite materials? I'm not suggesting we do this, it'd probqbly be boring, I'm just wondering
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>>3524496
We don't have to look like Nosferatu, we can look like a beautiful sparkly vampire. We can change our body however we wish.

In fact, I'm sure it's only the constant danger from superhuman killers and dozens of armed guards that has prevented this teenage nerd from giving himself a huge dong. (For more biomass, of course.)
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>>3524508
Genitalia is a weak point, for optimum results we should remove benis until needed.
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>>3524512
Whoops dropped my pic
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>>3524512
That, or make it prehensile and big enough to use as a weapon. Also teeth and spikes
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>>3524507
>What if we ate something that could regenerate as quickly as we could digest it?
It'd had to be a pretty fucking specific individual/thing. For example, Lobo has a healing factor in the levels you're talking about IIRC... but considering that Lobo can regenerate completely from a drop of blood eating him would lead to some... messy things.
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>>3524529
How about we don't do that?
We want an extra permanent limb we grow a tail or something, not a spiky prehensile shlong with teeth.
Thanks for understanding.
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>>3524512
Excellent point. Maybe we can also harden our crotch region so anyone that tries a dick kick is in for a very bad time.

>>3524524
Hmm, this reminds me, I want to pull off Kars shenanigans like shooting feathers at someone and then turning those feathers into goddamn piranhas. Lot of versatility in manipulating separated parts. But if the brain is important to manipulation, I'm guessing anything we want to manipulate outside our body must also have a brain?
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>>3524547
Hair is also a possible weak point to grabs.
We should turn our hair into hedgehog quills.
Maybe work on passive bone/pearl/enamel armour too so we don't need to switch to combat mode totally.
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>>3524567
The first sort of armor I can see us using is either keratin or bone - whichever is the easiest/cheapest to make with the limited amount of biomass we can gather in the near future.
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>>3524235
+1
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>>3524261
next post when?
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>>3524803

My apologies. I got called in to deal with something, and I wasn't sure how long it would take, so I didn't provide a time frame.

Still, should have said something, and I'm sorry if I've worried anyone. I'll be back shortly hopefully, just one quick meeting to go if everything pans out.
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I'll go ahead and call the vote here, it's probably been long enough, and I'll get writing as soon as I can.
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>>3524878
Don't worry about it QM, its cool. Its great that you've giving warning for the other times, most don't do that so it's appreciated. Also, good luck with your next meeting.
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Ok, bad news. My little meeting turned into big problem with a short window for resolution. I gotta get this done this evening or I am going to lose a pretty big opportunity. I don't think I'm going to be getting anything else posted tonight.

I'm sorry, I will post first thing tomorrow.
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>>3524910
No problem we are not your boss or anything and i just want to wish you good luck
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>>3524340
>>3524444
Reread the eating the steak and being able to replicate the tissue...not the DNA itself. Otherwise, we wouldn't have just been limited to that muscle we would have also unlocked everything else too. This means we haven't unlocked the ability to assimilate and manipulate DNA directly yet. Which means we have to devour things like a telepath brain in order to create a telepath brain.

Being able to use knowledge instead is our workaround over the direction assimilation(devouring). So IF we don't understand how it works...we HAVE to eat it in order to USE it. Devouring allowing us to skip the understanding process directly and vice versa. Considering how QM hinted we don't know how to safely regenerate our brain...eating another person's brain may teach us how to do so. Truthfully I don't think that is guaranteed to work unless its a psion in which case at a minimum we will steal their ability.

Not to mention there is not a chance in hell we can understand bullshit superpowers using just our knowledge. We aren't some super genius sadly. We have to take a bite out of them in order to replicate it. Downs side is we cannot still the powers of those who rely upon knowledge or items. Even if we can steal their smarts(delicious brains).

If you wanna avoid eating people then hunt down a super genius so we can munch their brain. So we use our new smarts to understand things instead of resorting to direct assimilation. At least until we unlock DNA assimilation at which point we no longer need to eat whatever we're after just a sample is enough.

Another thing to be worried about is if we start starving. Our superpowers draw from our body directly...and if we get hungry enough we may very well go cannibal in the process. In that regard experimenting with concentrating nutrients and calories within ourselves is not a bad idea to create some kind of biomass storage.
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>>3525398
>If you wanna avoid eating people then hunt down a super genius so we can munch their brain.
>Eat people to not eat people.

Nigga we'd just need a biopsy sample to get the info.
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>>3525453
I just answered that. We haven't unlocked DNA assimilation yet. Only organic tissue. So we have to eat whatever it is if we cannot understand it. After that yeah we only need a DNA sample but we haven't gotten there yet. Neither have we unlocked the ability to manipulate other people's bodies. We ate the steak but only got the ability to copy the tissue NOT the DNA itself yet.

So far we can copy whatever biomass we eat and whatever we already know. We cannot manipulate others flesh or DNA yet. It's within the superpower's ability but we haven't learned how to do it yet.
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>>3524512
We're 14, we would totally give ourselves a big dick. Remove the extreme pain sensitivity from the groin, then it's not a weak spot. We can regen it anyway.
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>>3525477
We aren't eating people you massive edgy faglord.
Also if we can't manipulate DNA then eating Metahumans is worthless.
No metagene, no power.
We're actually pretty fuckin smart also so we don't need to eat brains considering we can use 100 percent of ours, augment it further and were already fairly smart.
There's no reason to go cannibal as there is always biomass.
Eating people because "I'm hungry." Just gets heroes to deal with us with extreme prejudice.
In a pinch, wood might work considering it is biomass technically.
Also you realise that eating somebody and replicating their brain because "they are smart." gives split personality at best and our mind death at worst.
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>>3524910
Just as an FYI, it's spelled rifle not riffle. Enjoying the quest so far OP.
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Alright, I'm back let's do this.

>>3524968

I get that, but way I figure this is a reciprocal relationship. No players, no quest, so I figure it's best to try and be courteous to you all. Don't wanna be a dick that's all, and I figure keeping you all in the loop is the least I can do.

>>3525858

Thank you, my spellings kinda shit when I'm in a hurry. I'll keep that in mind.
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>>3514945
You alive, Monitor?
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>>3525895
Wow, well.
That's hilarious.
25 seconds.
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>>3525895

Yes, just very tired. It was a late night.
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>>3525899
>Yes, just very tired. It was a late night.
Sorry to hear that Eig, glad you're back though.
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>>3525901
Why call QM Eig anyway?
E-16 is short for Earth 16.
And a monitor is picrelated.
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funny though we are the living example of "you are what you eat"
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>>3525905
Because Eig sounds better thank E-iG. Plus I'm not going to call him European Investment Bank.
Eig needs a name anyhow, something to call them other than QM.
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>>3525910
We aren't though.
Also the same is true for literally every single animal.
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>>3525911
How about
"Monitor"
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>>3525912
i mean literally we are what we eat we can copy paste what we have eaten it seems
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>>3525915
Too many syllables, and 'Mon' is too short. You could try 'Monnie'?

I do like calling QM 'Eig'...
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>>3525920
>Tor
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>>3524175

This is way out of hand, you need to deescalate this before before it explodes in your face and you end up writhing on the ground after Father box convinces your brain you’re being dipped in boiling oil or something.

You push yourself to your feet and raise your hands up in front of you and say “Whoa whoa guys, lets all calm down.” You step out around from the table and start to walk towards them hand still raised palms out in a nonthreatening manner.

“I don’t think any of us want to be Father Boxed” You say as you move towards them, nodding with your head to the guard watching you all from above on the catwalk. “Or at least I know I don’t.”

You step up and move in front of Caitlin, who is still trying to shrink in on herself. You glance over at her as you step past her. Her face is pale, and she looks stricken. As you move between her and frosty you contemplate what the scene must look like from the outside. Considering how much smaller you are than her physically it probably looks kinda comedic for you to be trying to shield her with your presence from the larger boy in front of you, but who gives a damn. She stood up for you, you’re going to return the favor. Besides, you’re all Metas here. Size doesn’t mean shit.

“So” You say with your most charming smile “Why don’t we all just sit down and finish our meals Yeah?” It’s only after you flash your pearly whites and his face blanches that you realize they’re still sharp at the moment. And possibly bloody. Minor details really.

The older teen looks at you, then he casts his gaze up to the guard on the walkway, and he steps back. “You aren’t worth it freak.” He says as he steps back away from you.

“That’s a bit hypocritical ain’t it? We’re all Metas here after all.” You respond as he walks away.

He stops and turns to sneer at you before saying loudly “There are Metas, and there are Monsters. I’ve spent long enough in Gotham to know the difference. Forgive me if I don’t trust the second coming of Killer Croc. I don’t wanna be around when you decide to start dragging people into the sewer for dinner Morlock.” With that parting shot he turns and keeps walking, the crowd dispersing as they follow his lead.
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>>3526033

“Well now.” Calls out a twangy voice from the side after he’s gone a few steps. “I reckon that makes you the next coming of Freeze then? The successor of one of the Icicles maybe?”

It’s the green kid. He walks over and stands at your side as he says. “I mean, as long as we’re profiling people based on powers, I can think of a number of Ice villains, and between the two of you y’seem more the type y’know?”

The white haired kid flushes, but then looks up at the guard again and turns and stalks off to the farthest table across the room. A few kids follow him, a blonde and girl with flaming red hair, but the rest disperse across the room.

“Fucking asshole” Snarls a female voice you don’t recognize from behind you. You turn around and see the blue girl has made her way over to your little clump of people with her tray.

“Small minded folk like that ain’t worth the anger darling” drawls the green kid. He flashes a smile, and you can see wood grains running across his teeth. “They ain’t never gonna change, all getting mad does is ruin your day.”

“Still” He says as he looks over at where Frosty and his groupies are sitting “I reckon you’re right all the same, he is an asshole.”

A voice comes over the intercom “The cafeteria will close in thirty minutes children.”

“Well then” Says the boy after a moment as he turns towards the table you had been sitting at and starts walking. “In that case I reckon we should sit down and eat then. Come on Yawl.”

The blue girl follows after him, and they sit down at the table across from each other. He sits next to where you had been sitting, and she sits down next to Caitlin’s tray. Caitlin stands there silently for a moment frozen in place after they leave, then starts stumbling over to her seat.

What do you do.

>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and ask her if she is alright

>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and thank her for standing up for youngest

>Give her space, go sit down and introduce yourself to the newcomers.

>Go sit down and thank Tara for the steak, then wait for the newcomers to introduce themselves.

>Write in
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>>3526037
>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and thank her for being there.
>Go sit down and thank Tara for the steak, then wait for the newcomers to introduce themselves.
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>>3526037

*thank her for standing up for you.

Damn autocorrect, how did I miss that.

>>3525901
>>3525905
>>3525911
>>3525915
>>3525920
>>3526003

Call me whatever you like, I don't really have a preference.


There any questions or anything I've missed?
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>>3526037
>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and ask her if she is alright.
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>>3526037
>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and ask her if she is alright

>already being compared to a monster
Wow, that was quick.
Killer Croc aint got shit on us.
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>>3526049
This sounds good +1
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>>3526037
>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and thank her for standing up for youngest
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>>3526049
+1
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>>3526037
>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and thank her for standing up for youngest
>Also get a fistful of napkins the first chance you get


>>3526033
>I’ve spent long enough in Gotham
*eyeroll* figures the trouble-maker is from Gotham. I'd hope he has enough sense NOT go on to be a supervillain in that particular city but eh, he deserves a beating from Batsy or Robin.
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This guy is going to be a problem in the future. If he comes back, be polite and try to talk things out. If he attacks you or any of your friends try to get a sample to replicate his ice powers so we become immune (if we can't now, we should store the DNA and study it later).
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>>3526037
>>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and thank her for standing up for youngest
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>>3526078
>(if we can't now, we should store the DNA and study it later).
I don't think we CAN store any DNA or tissue samples reliably at all currently.
When/If we end up fighting Popsicle I think our best chance will be to rush him and K.O him as fast as we can.

Well, that's a problem to solve when we've had a chance to really get a handle on the basics on our power.
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>>3526037
>>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and ask her if she is alright

>Get back to 'normal' and try to eat without disgusting anybody else. And use your fork and knife ya dingus!
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>>3526037
>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and thank her for being there.
>Go sit down and thank Tara for the steak, then wait for the newcomers to introduce themselves.
Did Caitlin just got mindraped? If the "enemy team" has a psychick (get it? because she's a girl and she i also a...never mind) we could be in trouble.
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>>3526037
>>3526049
Support.

>>3526093
>red is the hand that you raise.”
Accidentally killed someone maybe? Feeling some guilt.
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>>3526089
We should study how some frogs can survive being frozen and use that knowledge to help us defend against Elsa. It won't stop him entirely, but it'd make it easier to shrug off.
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>>3525920
>Monitor of E-16
>Monitor of E
Maybe monty?
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>>3526075
Yeah the idiot from Gotham can make his own escape group or something.
>>3526078
Probably a good idea to get a sample or at least see what we can do with someone else's DNA.

Is our Super Breakout Team gonna mostly consist of people with altered appearances?
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>>3526093
>If the "enemy team" has a psychick (get it? because she's a girl and she i also a...never mind) we could be in trouble.
Depends... I don't think the psionic floaty girl is a part of Winter Boy's impromptu clique. She could still end up being an enemy, of course.
Bet y'all five internet points that the floater was the catatonic kid we saw when we got shoved into a crate.

>>3526095
>Accidentally killed someone maybe? Feeling some guilt.
Seems fairly likely, if Caitlin's Metagene gave her a growth/strength burst.
She was probably made to square off against another Tar-tube kid and she accidentally killed them due to her super strength, maybe?


What's the first thing we should start improving with our power?
I'm thinking survivability/toughness. Being able to dish out damage is all well and good, but there's no point if we can't take damage as well.
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>>3526037
>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and thank her for being there.
>Go sit down and thank Tara for the steak, then wait for the newcomers to introduce themselves.

>>3526114
That second spoiler of yours would explain why we faced off with mammoth
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Alright, got one thing to do, and then I should be able to take a break for a bit and do some writing. Sooo maybe about an hour, two hours tops before next write up.

Quick question. See I've been filling spots in the faculty, and for the most part I know who I want to use, but there's one position that I have a few different options for, and despite mulling it over for the last few days I can't quite decide.

So I figure you all can help me make the decision. On a scale of "1" to "What the fuck Qm?" How big of a bastard should I be?
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>>3526148
>On a scale of "1" to "What the fuck Qm?" How big of a bastard should I be?

I'd say between four and seven, or, if you're gonna hit ten, make sure the others are kept back at like, a five or less.

We can all enjoy one really bullshit moment/regular encounter, but if everywhere else is similarly as bad it'll be a bummer.
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>>3526148
Well, you could always ask the dice as the Dice Gods are truly impartial...

But! On the "QM is a bastard" scale, I'd say 5.
I have a feeling about the "What the Fuck QM" option that I *really* don't like, as I have an idea on who you'd end up using and I would very much like our escape to within the realms of possibility.
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Rolled 4 (1d10)

Rolling to determine the voice of the dice gods.
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>>3526159
The Dices Gods have spoken. Let their will be made manifest.
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>>3526148
Depends on how “fun” the other selections already are. I’d say if the average pick is over a 5, go with a 4. If the average is under a five, go with a 7 or 8.
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>>3526148
Which position is it?
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>>3526155
Put me down for a 4, boss.
I'd like our escape to be possible without turning this school into an SCP Containment Breach.
Really wanna avoid eating peiple
Like ever.
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>>3526181
Agreed man,

>>3526148
Put me down for a 3 Eig.
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>>3526148
keep it medium punish stupidity and stuff and having a bad or ineresting enocunter sometimes is well and good but too often it losses its flair
have it float around on a 5-6 possiblly having it spike lower and higher depending on what we do and background roles and our interactions with others and stuff
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>>3526148
Full bastard, lets make this fun!
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Alrigh, vote called for our mc's actions.

Writing.
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>>3526148
That depends on how much biomass we can consume before the fight or how much time we have to develop our powers. If we have a few days, I'll say 6, maybe 7, if not, 5.
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I think the saying "You are what you eat" applies to us pretty good. If we eat bad people, we're a bad person. If we eat good people, well then we're worse. Guess it doesn't apply to everything.
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>>3526310
Let's try not eating people.
People don't eat people.
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>>3526148
5
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>>3526310
There's always the possibility of 'accidentally'eating people. HIVE seem like the kind of assholes to feed someone with a mutation like ours human meat just to see what happens.
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>>3526324
We'd probably be able to realise what it is almost immediately too.
Probably not a smart move on HIVEs part unless they want us to eject our spine implant and rampage.
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>>3526037
>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and ask her if she is alright
>Intercept Caitlin before she can get to the group and thank her for standing up for youngest
>Give her space, go sit down and introduce yourself to the newcomers.
Literally no reason not to do all three of these. I like Caitlyn too, seems like someone in need of some friends. Plus groups and cliques already seem to be forming, so the larger our group of apostles gets early on, the better!

>>3526148
Hey swing for the fences my nigga, dial that shit up till you break the knob off full throttle up in this bitch no brakes on this train type of deal , so long as it's fun AND keeps the quest fresh and keeps players on their toes!

Also, who here wants to go full Magneto and start a Meta Liberation Front? We hunt down meta human traficking rings, bringing kidnapped meta humans back to their families that we then move to a secret facility we carve into a mountain or some shit like pic related?

Maybe throw out some vlogs detailing our manifesto for the creation of a Meta-Human Utopia? No doubt the governments of the world would label us domestic terrorists to protect their interests cause they obviously have a hand in some of this...

I just wanna be a Meta Malcolm-X but that's just me. A 21st Century Moses. LET MY METAS GO!

>>3526315
Eeeeh I don't think we qualify as "people" anymore, sport. Pretty sure we're BETTER than people.
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>>3526342
>Metahuman Magneto Motives
Now that's an alliterative character concept I can get behind.
Still don't want to eat people though.
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>>3526346
the thing with humans they dont really have any big improvments its more a emergency thing and a dead body from a enemy we would kill anyway could make a big diffrence for our survival
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>>3526349
Life or death sure, eat a human to survive. But only if we're 100 percent going to die unless we do it.
Let's not make a habit of eating people ever.
On an unrelated note if we create a Meta-human only utopia we could probably have our followers raise an island from the sea or something.
Also Waller would get a nice surprise if she sent the suicide squad (she would) after us and we just remove their brain bombs.
The JL may or may not attempt to fuck with us.
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>>3526365
and if we need to hide or escape we can become some other human or fake being a diffrent kind of mutant to blend in
and i like creating our own island idea
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>>3526380
Escape right now is the most difficult aspect.
We gotta remove our spine chip, kill the guy with the father box control, maybe MAYBE Mercer consume and shapeshift into him, spear Psimon through the face by surprise ala T-1000 and then announce a takeover on the intercom.
It's evil-er than most escape routes but allows us to save everyone somewhat.
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>>3526349
Bruh we're gonna have to eat someone SOME TIME. It's pretty much par for the course for our character arc. Symbolizing our acceptance of our new identity and destiny or something. Like, we NEED to eat people by default.

How about a compromise, we eat people that try to hurt us. Voila. That basically abstains us from any moral wrong doing via self preservation! Or better yet, kill off anyone who would dare oppress our Meta-Brothers and Sisters, or halt the progress of our Meta-Human Liberation effort? Can't be evil if we eat slavers, right?
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>>3526403
No you fucking retard we aren't going to eat people because "it's our destiny". It's not a part of our identity unless you want to be known as a dangerous psychopath that gets put down by a superior force or his own allies.
Not many people will follow a guy who eats people at every opportunity except out of fear, and that's not a Utopia.
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>>3526403
>Like, we NEED to eat people by default.
Says who? Dude, nah, we aren't eating people.
>How about a compromise, we eat people that try to hurt us. Voila. That basically abstains us from any moral wrong doing via self preservation!
No it doesn't. Cannibalism is the ultimate moral taboo. Eating a person because they tried to "hurt us", Jesus Christ man. Being forced to kill someone trying to kill us is self preservation, eating them is not.
>Can't be evil if we eat slavers, right?
You can, actually.
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>>3526403
>Like, we NEED to eat people by default.
The justifications you're using to eat people are really damn strange. I can understand from a meta perspective wanting to eat people to get power and go full Mercer but how is it in anyway part of our default identity?
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>>3526416
Literally the only person we might need to consume is the guy with the Father Box so we can perfectly shapeshift into his doppelganger.
I really don't want to do that though.
I'd much rather we just killed him and shapeshifted without resorting to eating anyone, I just worry about telepaths.
Killing is taboo
Eating people is as anti human as you can get.
Maybe just destroy his corpse or something.
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Oops, completly forgot my pic
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>>3526426
Why carve a base into a mountain when we can literally just have our followers create an Island?
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>>3526403
i am mostly thinking self preservation and if we are going to use our power effichently and if we are killing them anyway we can eat them.

But it can be one of those things or the thing that can kill us or will kill us like have the others turn on us for some reason like "HE ate them so how long until we are NEXT!" bullshit from the next person wanting to be leader and get betrayed and also i dont want the others complaining about morality when dealing with human life no matter how vile(IC and OC) but it dont need to be our "destiny" or identity
"Bruh we're gonna have to eat someone SOME TIME" may sound strange but i can see the logic behind it, then it got a little too weird with "It's pretty much par for the course for our character arc. Symbolizing our acceptance of our new identity and destiny or something. Like, we NEED to eat people by default." is that the monster accepts he is a monster plotline kind of meta but i can see it? but people are being too soft about this if we ever need it they are just going to say no and we are eventually going to need too in situations like us starving while fighting if we fight our way out or eating someone to copy them if we are going to sneak out or want/need there powers/genes or even when someone else killed them and we need the extra mass to survive
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>>3526441
No.
Killing people is bad enough if we do it.
Eating their corpse is something a monster would do.
I don't want to become a monster unless we decide the world deserves our worst (our followers are annihilated.)
Nobody will ever follow a monster loyally.

We're still a human.
Let's stay that way.
Even from a character arc perspective "People call me a monster so I'm a monster now. I guess I'll eat people." Is dumb as fuck.
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>>3526441
i got way to ranty but to keep it short there are pros and cons to eating them but we are eventually going to need too and some are being too soft about it but you are too much for it i am trying to look at it from a pragmatic and practical attitude most of the time
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>>3526470
It's not pragmatic or practical.
Eating people is just going to lose us every single ally we have because we couldn't be assed to go eat a cow.
Honestly if we get to a point where DNA manipulation is possible all we'll need from people to replicate any aspect of them is a single cell.
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Anyone else thinking in the future we could create a bioship tyranid style.
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>>3526412
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>>3526457
Alright so clearly my intentions were miscommunicated so let me explain this as bets I can. Our whole deal is bio-kenisis. It has been established that we heal faster and get stronger the more bio-mass absorbed like a fucked up Katamari. Thus far we've had cafeterias and stake to save our ass, but our powers basically preclude us from EVER being truly good per their very nature of having to absorb or stagnate. In the sense of the narrative we will inevitably be confronted with the choice to confront our selves, wether to absorb or not to. I say absorb!

I make the case that there isn't going to be a Golden Coral nearby everytime some death-squad or Leaguer lacking communication skills rolls up to push our shit in, so logicaly the answer is to ABSORB, not CANNABALIZE because YES there's a difference, people who we deem necessary, e.g. members of HIVE, hostile Anti-Meta Sympathizers, the Reach, irrideemable Villains, and others that no one would miss.

Y'ALL motherfuckers are SOFT, advocatating that we DON'T absorb the very same people that slapped a control chip on us, enslaved us, and are now trying to BRAINWASH us into their obedient weapons, or at the very least only absorb a bare minimum, hoping to God that's all we'll need. Life comes at you fast, and I'd rather we be as prepared as possible by packing on as much bio-mass as we can from people who DESERVE it. It doesn't have to be an edgy type of situation either where we think of ourselves as a "monster", only that we accept the fact that we are irreversably changed and need to deal with it somehow. That somehow just so happens to be absorbing people. I'd go for an alternative, like maybe working to produce more cells BY OURSELVES, but it's been shown absorption works so much better. Way I see it we either eat others who merit it or we eat ourselves from the inside out.

>tl;dr
Absorbing people who deserve it doesn't make us a monster by default, regardless of morals that don't even really apply to this very near life/death scenario.
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>>3526483
we could.
*In theory*
but where the hell would we get the amount of biomass needed for that??

And WHY would we need a bioship?

Now, land/water vehicles out of biomass sound more viable... especially since I doubt many would be comfortable getting into a fleshy car so we could keep them on one-person-only scale.
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>>3526483
Biometal is a possibility so we could probably make a non-fleshy bioship.
Why not.
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>>3526491
>Bad pweople puwt thwingie in mu hweadi so immi gonnuwu nuzzle them and eat them OwO.
Yeah mate sure. That's totally fair.
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>>3526491
Anon stop.
As it stands eating people is both OOC and stupid and if we do it anyway then it's gonna both lose all our allies and make Joe a psychopath with all the mental issues.
You use WAY too MANY randomly CAPITALIZED words.
We aren't eating people.
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>>3526148
Oof, threads getting hard to sort through. OP, if you could either make your posts obvious with colored text, or always reply to the last post you make, I would be deeply grateful.

As far as the choice goes, I suppose it depends on how long you want us to stay in the school. If you want us to stick around for a while, you’re gonna have to make it closer to the high end, cause MCs power level is high and about to go meteoric once we get our heads in some biology textbooks. If the school is a tutorial level of sorts, then keep it at a 5 or 6.
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>>3526475
thats why i am saying there are pros and there are cons and i talked about the betrayal thing before
>our power spends biomass
>the ground is not made out of cows and we are not on a giant industrial farm
>fighting for survival and rights of all meta people agains people that installed us with a body-control-chip is brainwashing us and have been using the tar like a meat-grinder meta after possible meta activated in a way that killed them and we are going to be possibly sold to a new master after our training that possibly work with a alien tyrant from a planet of slavers, murderers and tyrants and our masters are the kind of people that would sell the human race like cattle to aliens if they could for profit so if there has been a moral high ground as some of you desire there has not been one this high before

i am not for eating everyone or something stupid like that but some are way way too soft
and is it not pragmatic/practical.to weight pros and cons or fighting for your survival with all you got
>>3526483
most likely we are the ship with us swallowing a FTL engine or field generator or something with intergrating ourself into/onto it >>3526495
its a possibility but it will be hard with how metal is not really organic but we could coat stuff in it or extrude it like how rhino/deer/caribou/moose/elk grow horns or make like a flesh mold that we can use to cast the metal we have digested this also makes me think of cybernetics and stuff we could integrate with our body more easily due ot us not really needing to adapt the implants for a human body instead us adapting for the implant and being able to place the nerves and stuff where ever we want
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>>3526491
Anon, if it ever comes to pass that we're in truly desperate times with no way out, biomass gone, some superfucker breathing down our neck and about to detach what it's attached to, I'm going to vote to eat out of survival. However, I'm not going to vote to actively eat someone without distress, no matter how fucked up our enemy may be.

Outside of that, the only way I can see our protagonist wanting to eat someone is if he's starved enough. By that point, the decision would be well out of our hands.

And I think trying to pretty the action with "absorb" is pointless, at the end of the day we're taking them in, perhaps in a more efficient method, but it's still just as cruel as "eating."
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>>3526530
It's comic book land, biometal will eventually be possible.
Why must you continually post illegible walls of text.
Your argument for eating people is that we might run out of Biomass or something which is silly as we should be fine once we've got enough in reserve.
They did bad things yes.
That doesn't mean we should FUCKING EAT THEM YOU LUNATIC.
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>>3526536
Imagine trying to pretty up eating people to our allies like that.
"Oh no no don't be silly! I didn't eat them, I just absorbed them! Totally different ok? I don't eat people."
Makes us look like a delusional psychopath that defends his evil actions as righteous as opposed to a normal psychopath.
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>>3526536
Supporting this. While i HOPE something like this might happen with psimon, or someone else where it would massively benefit us, if its out of character (which it would be in almost every circumstance,) and/or bad in the long run, I'm not gonna go "ah, time to chomp on some faces!" Unless we have to
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Making a homunculus when?
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>>3526549
Would be neat if it was possible.
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>>3526540
Wrong anon fuck head, and you know he has a point. Bio-metal can easily be achieved via the iron we absorb from other beings that we temper and then use.

But by all means, continue limiting yourself because you want to literally be an hero.

>>3526545
What evil actions?! Evil is subjective! We need to eat to use our power! Trying to reason out our changing world view when we eat another person would be a pivotal character flaw but nooo "eating people is wrong".

>>3526507
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>>3526536
>>3526540
Fine then! Keep your "morals", wait till you're out of options and our friends are all dead! There's no gurantee we even become a hero to begin with, since our power set is the antithesis of heroic. Have fun with HIVE figuring out our weakness and starving us to death! Have fun in the knowledge your in-action permits the suffering of thousands of others. There will come a time where our back is against the wall and we will have no choice but to gorge, killing way more than if we simply ate as is, and it'll be your fault. Don't say I didn't warn you!
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>>3526565
Go live out your vore fantasies somewhere else, faggot.
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>>3526259
Hey Eig what are the limits on what we can turn into biomaterial? Could we turn anything that used to be living into material? Like wood or other plants?
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>>3526536
its mostly about survival
>>3526475
practical attitude Dictionary
"making sensible decisions and choices, especially the types of decisions and choices that you have to make every day. Despite their wealth, they were always practical about money. a practical attitude to marriage."
and its more the ""making sensible decisions and choices," part i want to point towards.

the definition of pragmatic
"The opposite of idealistic is pragmatic, a word that describes a philosophy of "doing what works best." From Greek pragma "deed," the word has historically described philosophers and politicians who were concerned more with real-world application of ideas than with abstract notions."
i dont really care for the morals, just the results of our actions the scale of pros and cons all that and stuff like survival.
>>3526549
humans do that already
we need to figure out how the self-impregnate and reproduce asexually (like making a clone with possibly genetic randomization) or
simply creating something that dont need our power to survive.
we could first try with a rat or something, eat the whole thing so we can try and reconstruct it again with our own flesh and see the result
>>3526545
this is actually one of the things i can agree too its just eating in a diffrent way
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>>3526037
“Hey” You say step up next to Caitlin and walk with her over to the table “Thanks for standing up for me, I appreciate it.

Her head jerks over at the sound of your voice and she stares at you for half a second before smiling shakily and saying “It was nothing, really. I just don’t like bullies.”

“Still, I’m grateful.” You say as the two of your arrive at the table. “thank you Caitlin.”

“Your welcome” She says her smile growing slightly less stilted, before she turns and begins to pick at her plate.

She still seems a little off, you can tell the thing with the floating girl really threw her for a loop, but you don’t want to push. Especially not in front of the the others. After all you haven’t even known each other a day yet. You may not have the best social skills, but you’re pretty sure you should give her space.

You circle the table and sit down in front of your tray, and pick up your knife and fork again. Now that you’re feeling more full and have calmed down a bit you cringe a little at the memory of tearing into the steaks like a rabid animal. You’ll have to be more careful in the future and make sure to control your impulses so they don’t end up controlling you.

You look down at the steak on your plate and decide you really should thank Tara for it. But first, you should probably fix your teeth. You focus for a second and picture a normal set teeth rather than the chompers you’re sporting at the moment and feel sensation of them being broken down and receding up into your gums. It kinda tickles. When you’re done you run your tongue over them once just to make sure there aren’t any sharp edges you missed, and everything feels normal. The whole process takes maybe two or three seconds.

Satisfied, you turn to Tara and say “Thank you for sharing your steak Tara, but are you sure you don’t want it?”

You figure it’s probably polite to ask. She’s probably hungry as well.

“No” She says with a shake of her head “It’s fine, go ahead.”

Seeing as she’s okay with it, you decide to tuck in, at a more reserved pace of course. Small bites, elbows off the table. You’re pretty sure that’s good manners, and after your last display it seems like a good idea to mind them.

While you eat you look over at the two newcomers. Way you figure it, they choose to come and sit with you, so they can start the introduction if they want to. Besides, the green bean seems pretty outgoing, he’ll probably kick things off.

True to your prediction, the boy with the slight tint to his skin is the first to speak. Setting down his utensils he leans in and says. “M’names Ralph, Ralph Benem. Pleasure to meet you.”

“Leslie Willis” Says the blue girl with a smile as she looks around at the rest of you. “Call me Liz.”
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>>3526591

“Caitlin” murmurs the redhead across from you quietly with her eyes still on her plate.

“My name is Joseph but please, call me James” You reply and give both of them a smile, and then you look over at Tara.

She hesitates for a moment and bites her lip, and then glances at you before saying “Tara, my name is Tara.”

“Well now, that’s introductions out of the way.” Says Ralph. “Pretty crazy right, this whole school charade?”

“Better than it could have been.” replies the blue girl with a grimace “ This is weird, but way better than being stuck in that crate like livestock.”

“Makes you wonder when the other shoe will drop.” Caitlin mutters.

There’s a brief pause after that, and then Ralph starts the conversation up again with a forced smile. “So, what’s everyone’s schedule look like? Lets see if we share any classes. Be nice to have a friendly face around I reckon.”

“I’ve got Acquisitions and Interpersonal relations.”

“I also have Acquisitions responds Tara.”

“And I have Interpersonal relations, along with something called Asset preservation” says Caitlin, looking up from her plate to pull out her paper,

“Asset Preservation huh” Says Ralph “I got that too, don’t have either of those other’s though. How bout you darling?” He says as he looks over at Liz.

“Troubleshooting” She replies. “Anyone else got that?”

“I too have the troubleshooting” says Tara.

“I don’t like the sound of that” Says Caitlin as she looks over at the smaller blonde girl. “If it’s what I think it might be, I don’t like that at all.”

“I don’t like it either” blurts out Liz “I hate pretty much all of this, but we don’t have much of a choice Red. You saw what they did to that kid who interrupted the head bitch, what do you think they’ll do to us if we try to refuse?”

She seems to realize what she said a moment after she said it. Out of the corner of your eye you see Tara stiffen, and Ralph’s hand reaches up towards the back of his neck before falling back down. The stark reminder of your situation seems to put a damper on the discussion, and the others quiet down and focus on eating in silence. Each seemingly lost in their own thoughts.
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>>3526592

When the meal period ends the voice of the headmistress comes on over the intercom and instructs you all to make your way to your dorms because ‘we start bright and early tomorrow, and you don’t want to be tired on your first day of class.’

Your dormitory number is printed on the back of your schedule. You’re in room 6. It’s bare, with plain cream colored walls and simple tan carpet, but the mattress and sheets are soft and you slip off to sleep soon after lying down.

All to soon you are awakened by the sound of an alarm being broadcast over the intercom, followed by the chipper voice of the headmistress “Good morning students! I hope your exited for your first day of classes. Breakfast is being served in the cafeteria in half an hour. After you’ve eaten please consult your schedules and make your way to your classes.”

You stumble out of bed and make your way to the communal washroom. You get cleaned up and dressed, and then head towards the cafeteria. On the way you are greeted by Ralph, who falls in beside you.

“So Power management huh” He says as you walk over to get your food and are greeted by the girls. “Wonder what that will be like.”

“I just hope it isn’t like the ‘entrance exam” you say while making finger quotes.

“Yeah that was a doozy” He says with a smile. “But I’m sure it won’t be that bad.”

You find yourself sitting down at the same table you had occupied last night. Breakfast is eggs, sausages, fruit, and pancakes. Tara looks at her sausage dubiously for a moment before starting on her eggs.

After a few bites she turns to you and says “Where do you have your class James?”

Looking down at your schedule you see it states your class will be in classroom 3-A on the third floor of the main building. “3-A” You tell her. “You?”

“It says to meet my teacher in the courtyard.” She says with a sigh “I had hoped to have a friend with me, but it looks like it did not work that way.”

“Well you’ll have me” says Ralph as he smiles at Tara with his wooden teeth. “Mine says to go to the courtyard as well.”

“And me” Says Caitlin around a check full of pancake.

“Mine says to wait in the common room.” interjects Liz. “What’s up with that?”

“Who knows, maybe they want to see how you do on the DDR machine?” Jokes Ralph.

You all finish your breakfasts and then it’s time to head to class. Ralph and Caitlin flank Tara, and Caitlin takes the smaller girls hand as the three of them walk out to the courtyard. They stop right before they step out, and wave at you and Liz before walking out the door. Liz plops herself down in one of the couches and salutes you as you make your way over to the stairs.

“Good luck” She calls out to you.

“You too” You reply as you start to climb.
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>>3526596

There’s a few other students headed upstairs. The floaty silver haired girl is one, though she’s not floating now and her eyes aren’t black either. Most of the others are giving her a pretty wide berth. You don’t see the white haired kid, or either of his flunkies, so that’s good.

A few stop at the second floor. You’re the only one who stops at the third. As you step off of the stairs you find yourself in a hallway that runs around the outside of the third floor. You only have to go a few feet before you see a large doorway. Above the doorway is a plaque that reads “3-A”

You step through the door into the room. It’s a large open space, You’re pretty sure it takes up most of the third floor. You look around. The room is almost completely empty, just bare concrete floors and pillars. There’s only one other person in the room. A large muscular blonde man wearing nothing but a pair spandex shorts. After you’ve stepped in and close the door he starts to walk towards you.

“You must be the boy they’ve hired me to teach then.” He says. His voice is lightly accented. His words have a lyrical tilt to them you can’t quite place.

“My job, is to train you to effectively use your powers.” He says as he continues to move towards you. He stops about ten feet out and then pauses for a moment before speaking again. “Shape shifting is different from super strength or controlling the elements.”

“Shape shifting requires control” He says as he steps decisively forward with his left foot. His leg ripples, and his flesh is consumed by a brightly glittering crystals up past his knee, but not reaching to his torso.

“You can’t just hit something as hard as you can and hope for the best” He says as he steps forward with his right foot. His flesh ripples again, and wood grain runs up his leg and his skin turns to bark. Once more, the transformation doesn’t touch his torso, just his leg.

“You must have precise control and honed reflexes” He says as he steps forward again and rolls his right shoulder. His arm shudders, and then it swells and sprouts hair. It looks as if the arm of bear had been grafted onto him seamlessly.

“But above all else” He says as he looks you square in the eye and points right at you with his left arm “effective shape shifting requires imagination.”

His arm ripples, growing and sprouting scales. His bones twist and deform and grow in an instant, and you find yourself face to face with a massive saurian head growing out of what had previously been his wrist. It’s maw opens an inch or two showing you a hint of razor sharp teeth and it hisses at you. Watching you with slit pupilled yellow eyes.
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>>3526565
Kay bai faggart.
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>>3526606

>>3526606

“Now that I have your attention, listen up” He says “I’m only going to say this once.”

“You’re in the life now.” He says with absolute certainty. “Like it or not you’re part of it now, and there’s no escaping it once you’ve been sucked in. Your life is going to depend on how well you can use your powers, and I am your best bet at getting powerful enough quickly enough to survive.”

“You’ve probably been thinking you’d keep some of your abilities secret” He says and then pauses as his whole body shudders and then shrinks back down to normal.

“That’s smart.” He continues after he’s done turning back. “I’d do the same. You never know what will happen tomorrow, and in this business today’s friend may try to kill you tomorrow. Keeping an ace up your sleeve is smart.”

“But” He says “I can only help you with something if I know about it. Me personally kid, I’d be honest with me. I can help prepare you a lot better if I know what I’m working with, and the more you can get out of these lessons the better off you are going to be.”

“Now, Why don’t you tell me about your powers, and ask any questions you have, and then we can get started on your first lesson.” He tells you as he folds his arms across his chest and looks at you expectantly.


What do you do?

>Be candid with him, he seems damn good and you shouldn't pas up the opportunity.

>Downplay your ability. He's working for the people who are trying to turn you into a meta human slave soldier, and you don't want them knowing.

>Ask him to tell you about himself first and put off telling him about your powers, that was some crazy shit and you're curious.

>write in.

+ five internet points for the first person to identify the character.
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>>3526586

That will have to be determined via experimentation I am afraid.
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>>3526518

As it is I try to chain together the story posts, but if it's difficult to parse I will look into a way to make them stand out more. Don't want people missing anything important.
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>>3526618
>Downplay your ability. He's working for the people who are trying to turn you into a meta human slave soldier, and you don't want them knowing.
Is it Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man?
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>>3526631

Well damn, I really thought that would take longer. He's not the most well known character after all. +5 internet points to you mate.
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>>3526631
>Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man
for people that dont know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlGimS5KVoU
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>>3526618
>>Be candid with him, he seems damn good and you shouldn't pas up the opportunity.
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>>3526606
Holy shit, we're the only one? And we get what seems to be a top-tier shapeshifter for a teacher? Gotta milk this for all it's worth.

>>3526618
Kinda torn between being able to have massive improvements right off the bat and just self experimentation. Maybe we can leave out some parts like the unholy monster that is our stomach. Or how easy healing is as well. Leave something that'll surprise them.
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>>3526618
dont tell him everything like but enough you can train remember this is like a prison
>Downplay your ability. He's working for the people who are trying to turn you into a meta human slave soldier, and you don't want them knowing.
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>>3526618
>Be candid with him, he seems damn good and you shouldn't pas up the opportunity.

Git gud>>>>Ace up our sleeve
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>>3526635
ok i kind of feel bad watching this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6QAalIvkc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PitCWbbX1E8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7pFaqwuXNs
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>>3526618
>Be candid with him, he seems damn good and you shouldn't pas up the opportunity.
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>>3526618
please if you are being candid whisper in his ear
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>>3526665

Y'know I've not seen these. This from the new doom patrol show?

In other news wow, they really ripped into him. Shame. Goofy name aside I've always been of the opinion he was under utilized.
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>>3526618
>>Be candid with him, he seems damn good and you shouldn't pas up the opportunity.
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>>3526688
i think the problem with live action is that they could not do him justice its hard if not expensive and impossible too do his real power justice
i also did know know about this show
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>>3526688
Lazy writers see a goofy name and think THATS A GOOD JOKE CHARACTER HAHA, where in actual fact his power is pretty fucking bullshit and terrifying
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>>3526643
Changing my vote to
>>Downplay your ability. He's working for the people who are trying to turn you into a meta human slave soldier, and you don't want them knowing.

Let him know about our shifting and our fast digestion, but leave out that we 'learn' about anything we eat.
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>>3526618
Be candid
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you dont think they are listening?
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>>3526618
>Be candid with him, he seems damn good and you shouldn't pas up the opportunity.
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>>3526618
>>3526652
I'll more definitively support >>3526698
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Guys god damn it we're obviously being watched and you want to blow our load right here and now and get totally FUCKED over?
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>>3526706
He will tell them everything we told him so what the point in whispering?
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>>3526698
I'll support this is we leave out our awareness of the inside of our body too.
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>>3526717
i am saying if they are candid please do it in a way that atleast has a chance of not telling hive and he could leave out details
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>>3526714
Actually, maybe the fast digestion should be kept a secret. That's not really necessary to tell them, right?
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>Be candid with him, he seems damn good and you shouldn't pas up the opportunity.
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Lets comply list of our super abilities and then fecide what we want to tell and what to keep
super regeneration
super digestion
super awareness of body
ability to grow tissue
ability to change that tissue
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>>3526749
>ability to grow tissue
>ability to change that tissue
Honestly would be the minimum we can get away with telling them.
But bring up how it costs us biomass so we're limited in it's use
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Hive knows about limited shapeshifting, regen, biomatter consumption (only that we need to eat after shapeshifting because we consume ourselves in the process, not that we have control over everything we do with our power), we can train those and make them think our powers improve slightly over time instead of the real monstruous gains we'll be getting, also that the more we shapeshift, the more we need to eat (we spend 10% of our mass, compress the rest until we are thin enough to fake starvation and eat 60-70%) that way they'll give us all the meat we want.
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>>3526755
Honestly if we just show off the ability to change our face into another person's then HIVE will probably consider training us to be some sort of special assassination specialist.
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>>3526755
i like the ideas
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Can't believe we are at nearly a thousand posts. I really didn't expect this much participation when I started this, and I love it. Just wanna say thank you all for being here and I'm honored to be running for you all.

Got a bit to do, and then I'll be back to do some more writing. Probably be back in an hour and a bit.

Also, many thanks to everyone who responded to my question regarding the faculty member that needed to be decided on. I've come to my decision, and I'm actually quite excited.

For the anon who asked, it was the psychiatrist.

See you all shortly.
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>>3526618
>Be candid with him, he seems damn good and you shouldn't pas up the opportunity.

Do we know if we can biologically affect others or can we test if we can?
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>>3526753
this is good we cnat tell to much without giving the game away
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>>3526770
>it was the psychiatrist.
aaa.
Aaaaa
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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>>3526771

You don't know if you can Yet. It is something you could test. Whether or not you want to do it on the down low or not is your decision.
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>>3526770
I really appreciate it when you give people a heads up on when you're updating or if you aren't able to run. Way too many quests die with the QM just going away without saying anything.
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>>3526773
what?
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>>3526760
When they see us turning into literally anything we want (from the president to a fucking Kaiju), they are going to use us as the as under their sleeve in every important mission. Just imagine having an agent that can fulfill any role on the roll, you just train him to do something and he adapts his entire organism to do it in the most eficient way possible.
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>>3526770
>it was the psychiatrist
Guessing hard mode would've been a telepathy. I'm sure telepathy and mind control would be perfect for taking care of all the kids' problems.
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>>3526781
Anon, remember, we don't want to work for them, we want to escape, what I'm saying is that if we show off that sort of ability they would be less inclined to delve deeper into our potential powers.
They'd be satisfied by that and not expect us to eject our spine and regrow it.
>>3526780
Lot of people they could imply for "psychiatrist" when they want to mindfuck kids into being evil.
None of them bode well.
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>>3526774
I Imagine curing eyesight or upgrading others (Even if slightly) would make us popular with the headmaster.

Being forced to enhance soldiers or even the highest bidder.
When everyone's Super...
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>>3526789
>curing eyesight
We could even give that prick Slade his other eyeball back.
If our powers work on others.
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>>3526798
I'd doubt he'd let a 14 year old stick anything made from him into his head. He'd be paranoid that it'd be a tumor bomb.

And he'd be right.
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>>3526798
Like I said mate, Highest Bidder.
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>>3526808
No Syndrome, let's not go full Jewish Power Dealer and ruin everything for everyone.
We can be a hero or a liberator for our people.
We don't need money when we can literally just produce pearls from biomass.
>>3526807
Yeah, fuck Deathstroke.
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>>3526808
Beware the Reach, they're a leech.
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>>3526785
My headcanon is that the posts in this thread are Mercer's subconcious thoughts, both his old human part sayingDO NOT EAT EVERYONE, THEY ARE PEOPLE, and his new Metahuman part saying EAT EVERYONE, CONSUME EVERYTHING, THEY WON'T MIND IF THERE IS NO ONE TO MIND.
>Mercer enters the room.
This one will be easy.
M: Hi.
>The telepath scans his mind and sees: Hi.
>The telepath scans his subconcious mind.
>A 14 years old kid with a white suit and a halo is fighting John Carpenter's Thing on a heavy diet of steroids, one screams "Don't eat his face!", the other says "But I can eat the rest of him, right!!?!, we need a HERO mask anyways".
>CONCERN.
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>>3526819
I have literally no problem with eating the robo-bug assholes.
If you're not Human, native to earth and sapient, Kryptonian or maybe Martian then you're fair game for biomass.
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>>3526827
The power doesn't control Mercer, Mercer controls the power.
It's not a fucking symbiote for fucks sake.
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>>3526828
Don't be racist, everyone should be consumed equally.
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>>3526828
Reach are still people. But their biotech is fine.

>"The Meatbender is eating our guns!"
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>>3526831
It's a joke about anons in this quest man, just chill.
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>>3526836
Sorry, I just really don't want us becoming an edgelord who eats pretty much everyone who crosses him.
>>3526835
>aliens
>people
The Kryptonians and Martians get an honorary human pass but fuck these bug faggots.
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>>3526835
>what do we do boss?
>...BRING MORE, BIGGER GUNS, that way we will surely defeat him.
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>>3526618
>>Downplay your ability. He's working for the people who are trying to turn you into a meta human slave soldier, and you don't want them knowing.
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>>3526841
you made me think of the GUN-gun
also good night
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>>3526618
>>Be candid with him, he seems damn good and you shouldn't pas up the opportunity.
Alright, I like this thing you got going here. I hope you don't mind if I join with my very barebones knowledge of capeshit,
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>>3526618
>Downplay your ability. He's working for the people who are trying to turn you into a meta human slave soldier, and you don't want them knowing.

Let them think we're only a shapeshifter like beast boi!
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And we are back. Time to tally the votes. Pretty important decision here, wonder how it went.
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>>3526898

Hey if you enjoy it and you want to participate you are more than welcome here, no knowledge of capeshit required.
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>>3526986
What's the verdict on the whole being able to use other people's meta powers if we eat them?

Depending on how far you go with the prototype stuff Alex Mercer doesn't replicate their DNA he just looks like them and has SOME memories
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>>3527037
Anon if we can replicate meta-powers then eating them won't even really be a factor.
We'll just need a sample of their Metagene.
Kryptonian Cells though, that's what we should go for near the end game.
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>>3527048
I just think it's really dumb we eat people we get stronger physically and maybe mentally no bulshit power Gathering stuff
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>>3527053
1) We aren't eating people for the last fucking time
2) If we can replicate powers we'd really need to get to the level with our power where we can manipulate single cells and the organelles within them. Which is a long long way off.

But seriously eating people is retarded. Why do you even want to do that?
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>>3527062
Whatever eating people getting some of their cells not that big a difference it's just eating a lot less of them
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>>3527066
I suppose you're technically correct.
BIO AMAZO is a long long way off if possible at all.
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>>3526618
>Downplay your ability
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>>3526618

You know you don’t have long to think. If you take too long it makes it obvious you were thinking about what to tell him and what not to tell him. If you are going to hold anything back, you have to decide quickly what it will be, and how much you can get away with hiding.

“I can reshape my body.” you say slowly, trying to buy yourself some time to think while stating information they already have. “I was able to strengthen my legs and make suckers on my hand to get away from Mammoth.”

“I was also able to make a claw” You say, gaining a little more confidence and speaking faster as you come to your decision. “and yesterday during dinner my teeth grew.”

You decide to be mostly candid with him. He is right, you can learn a lot more from him if you work with him, and you kinda want to learn how he did that trick with the lizard-head-hand. He seems like he knows his stuff, and it’s not every day you get handed a personal super power tutor.

But, and it’s an important but, there’s no way in hell you’re going to tell him everything. Your, albeit limited, ability to influence your nervous system needs to remain a secret as does your knowledge of your body through your new internal senses. Those particular facets of your power are your best bet of getting out of here, they’re what let you poke at the implant and hopefully how you’ll get it out eventually, so you can’t let him get that information. You also decide to leave out your newfound knowledge of bovine tissue gained during last nights dinner.

“There’s a cost though” You say with a grimace. “I think I need fuel to do it. I think my body started eating itself. I’m skinnier than I was, it hurt, and I was really really hungry afterwords. As soon as I started eating the yesterday I felt better, and I think I put some weight back on.”

He looks at you for a moment, staring at you with dark eyes, before he nods his head.

“That lines up with what was in your dossier” He says with a small smile “Smart kid, very smart. Don’t bullshit me, and I’ll make you a force to be respected.”
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>>3527279

He rubs at his chin for a moment “Alright” He says “Alright, we can work with this. Wait there for a moment, I need to order us some supplies.”

He walks over to the wall and presses a button on a box with a speaker.

“This is Larson” He says into the speaker. “I need a camera, a head and shoulders bust for sculpting, modeling clay, a large mirror, a three dimensional imaging scanner, a computer and monitor capable of the best graphics rendering you can get me, and a catalog of hairstyles delivered to my class room no later than tomorrow so I can have everything set up before my next lesson. I’ll also need several hoops at varying heights, some hurdles, crash mats, a sandbag and some rope, and a hand ball. For now, I need a full range of dietary supplements, particularly calcium and Keratin, immediately.Oh, and I’ll need you to cook and bring up a few turkeys. Bring whatever is left over from breakfast while they’re cooking.”

There’s a long pause and then a voice responds through the speaker system. “Understood.”

You wonder if whoever is on the other side of the intercom is as confused by that list of items as you are.

With that done Larson walks back over to you and starts talking again. “Alright kid, its your first day, and we don’t have most of what we’re going to need for the training I have in mind, so I’m going to give you a choice on some of what we work on today. Don’t get used to it, I probably won’t give you the choice in the future. We can either start getting in practice to develop your first mnemonic for a combat trick, or we can do a bit of experimenting and figure out if you can alter your skeleton.”

“Whats it going to be kid?” He asks you with a smirk.

>Learning a combat trick sounds nice.

>Messing with your skeleton

>Neither, you’d rather have him help you with X if he’s feeling accommodating. (write in.)
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>>3527285
>Messing with your skeleton
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>>3527285
Messing with your skeleton

Don't want to give them even more info on us, but this is something that can seriously alter what and how much we learn, and we haven't figured it out ourselves yet, so we might as well learn together.
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>>3527285
>Learning a combat trick sounds nice.
This is fine for now. We can experiment with our skeleton on our own time.
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>>3527285
>>Messing with your skeleton
Could lead to both offensive and defensive options. Vegetable Mineral Man or whatever seems like a cool dude, at least as long as we keep to his expectations.

>There’s a long pause and then a voice responds through the speaker system. “Understood.”
>fuckingshapeshifters.jpg
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>>3527285
>>Messing with your skeleton
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>type everything up
>Read through it once just to make sure you didn't miss anything
>looks fine
>post it
>look at it again a few minutes later
>There's a fucking typo you missed.

Every fucking time I swear. Anyway, good night anons, I will see you all in the morning.
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>>3527285
>>Messing with your skeleton
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>>3527316
gn love u
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>>3527285
>>Messing with your skeleton
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>>3527316
>>Messing with your skeleton

Good night? it's 3 in the afternoon.
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>>3527285
>>Messing with your skeleton
For sure.

>>3527296
Like this anon says, we don't want to tip our hand but even more important is learning all we can about our powers. And I think a bit of experimentation now will benefit us in the long run.
I'm sure we will be able to alter our skeleton ... how much is the question.
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>>3527285
>Messing with your skeleton
We gotta learn sometime.
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>>3527285
>Messing with your skeleton
STRETCH time. Maybe we can learn to get some armor later like pic related?

Also Monitor you should totally make another thread this thing is like... in the 1000s even though it's only page 4. Getting kinda cluttered.
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>>3527596
>Getting kinda cluttered.
It is? Honestly I thought it was fine...
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>>3527604
same
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>>3527468
In whatever country youre from
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>>3527285
>Messing with your skeleton
So they don't actually know how we work.
I don't want us going full Mercer and eating people fpr greater understanding yet blood drinking might work.
Vampirism is somewhat less frowned upon and will probably also enable us to understand.
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We've been talking about getting many brains to become immune to psimon, turning into a kraken to scape with everyone inside, even our possible warforms, but we don't have a way to do any of that because we lack biomass. Training with A.V.M. Man and eating all they serve in the cafeteria will give us some of what we need, but we should find ways of getting tons of biomass on top of animals to copy abiloties from. Our first goal should be creating drons to scout for defenses and security measures (make it the size of a fly) and then make a fish eat it whole, consume the fish and then hunt (stealthy) all bigger things, maybe store the processed biomass in a cave under the sea or something. Also eat some coral and filterer organisms to filter nutrients, algae placton or krill.
When we go to the beach, let's "swim" a little and make some small drones give us meat (pretend you are eating a normal fish, this will please the headmistress, because a self sufficient hunter sells better than a shapeshifter that requires constant food to work). Also get a filter form, like a cluster of polips.
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>>3527804
>Talking like we know how to create brains or controlling cells disconnected from our body.
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>>3527838
That's why we should train to get those powers, I mean, our character is based on Alex Mercer/Kars/The Thing, we can infect other beings for sure (we just need a sample from psimon, just a little cut and a drop of blood and we will have wifi brain)
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>>3527838
Anon is getting overexcited and forgetting we've had our power for all of like 10 hours and for most of that we were sleeping
While ULTIMATE LIFEFORM shit might be possible in the future right now I feel autonomous drones, turning into a seamonster, creating homunculus friends or creating a meat mountain in the sea is a little beyond us.

Creating a perfect replica of a human being with a Homunculus could be neat though.
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>>3527285
>Messing with your skeleton
What does the combat trick thing mean anyway?
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>>3527853
Ok, no powergaming, just eat some seagulls, alvatros, regular fish and wildlife in general, maybe clams and other filterers. WE NEED AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO OBTAIN BIOMASS, not tons, but at least enough to make a basic warform and upgrades to our baseform (regen and digestive sistem first, then brain). H.I.V.E can stomp us right now and in the long run, the will only need the implant and limiting our food to keep us under control. We need more power, to get more power we need biomass, to get biomass we need to hunt and be smart. AVM man will give us enough for our sessions, maybe a little more, and our 3 meals a day are maybe 4-5 kilograms at best, but the ULTIMTE LIFE FORM will never happen if we get stomped by psimon and mammoth or any other hive agent in this island (and that's exactly what will happen if we face them now with our underdeveloped powers and our lack of resources).
Next time you want to complain about a suggestion, make sure to offer an alternative.
Also pic related for a quick and simple speed/agility warform (in time we will have all it's powers, right now only the aesthetics and minor weapon shapeshifting and regen).
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>>3527891
Something to do during combat to catch an opponent off guard that has to do with our shapeshifting. I would guess it might be something subtle, like constantly messing with our height or the length of our limbs to throw them off?
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>we see psimon
>briefly think about how we want to foil his powers
>he instantly knows and is on guard
So uh, how do we deal with this? Hope we don't see him until we have two brains?
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I should've collated these in one post, but here's one more thread question; are there any body changes that we want to make "permanent" right now?
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>>3527898
See if any of our metahuman friends has psy powers (the blue lady), ask her for a sample of blood in return of making her look more human (change her more inhuman traits, just simple things, don't go full surgeon unless we really can).
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>>3527898
I'm not sure Psimon actually has the ability to mind read, looks like his telepathy is more on the presence detection, mental blast and control side.
But yeah other than that we could try occupying our mind when around him by like focusing on turning our hand into a claw and back.
>>3527901
Other than enhanced muscles?
Maybe enhancing our senses? Some animals can see Ultraviolet and Infrared, possibly enhanced hearing from a bat and maybe enhanced smell from a bear.
Possibly turn our hair into porcupine quills/hedgehog spines to avoid it being grabbed by an enemy.
>>3527903
Blue lady is Livewire, she's got electric powers.
Won't be much help.
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>>3527901
Improve our digestive sistem even further, denser bones and structures in general (weave them like carbon fiver, with many layers), retractile claws and fangs (changing them over and over again is stupid, also bonus for intimidation), bigger body and muscles (and dong) and maybe create new organs and improve/replace old ones (a heart with more chambers, ribs that act like subdermal plating, new tendons and muscles... just be creative and "realistic".
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>>3527906
So no psions in our crew?
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>>3527911
It's unlikely.
We could also attempt to coat our skull in Lead or some other dense metal temporarily to attempt to defeat a telepath.
Might need some sort of special bullshit metal ala Magneto's to block it though.
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>>3527906
>I'm not sure Psimon actually has the ability to mind read
At the beginning of the quest, right after the mammoth fight, he mind reads our insult towards him. He can read, at the very least, surface thoughts.
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>>3527918
Fuck.
Ok then, Fuckload of dense metal around our noggin plan it is then.
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>>3527921
That's not even suspicious either, it's a good idea for protection reasons as well.
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What about different brains thinking different things, only one controles the body, the other brains emit a horrible psy scream to stun him for a few seconds (then stab him in the head) Also we need to learn how to consume through our skin.
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>>3527932
As long as when you say "consume" you don't mean people.
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>>3527906
>>3527901
>>Are there any body changes that we want to make "permanent" right now?
First thing is to become a big boi. We're a weedy 16y 60kg old kid. We could look like 190kg Hafthor Bjornsson by the end of today. That'd give us the baseline strength we need for hand-to-hand combat (especially if we can make our muscles super efficient) and means a lot more mass to play with when it comes to morphs.
After that come all the hardened bones, toughened skin, super vision/hearing/scent etc
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>>3527970
Lets make getting bigger something we do gradually, if we focus on a streamlined form we can try getting the most bang for our buck, so to speak.
Focus on creating denser biomass for a while.
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>>3527970
We're 14 and no, we shouldn't permanently change ourselves. At least not for a while. We just got these powers and we want people to feel safe around us, not see us as a freak who becomes taller or changes colour the next time they meet us.
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>>3527901
Clean up our circulatory system so it's less tangled and messy than a normal human one.
Fix our eyes' photocells so they don't face backward and rewire it so we don't have a blind spot.
Make our bones harder by filling the holes.
Cannibalize the beginnings of our wisdom teeth, the muscles that let us waggle our ears, and the arrector pili muscles.
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>>3527912
Since calcium is a metal, maybe a bone faraday cage as an additional layer of our skull might work?
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>>3528048
Anon, I...
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>>3528048
Anon, just...
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>>3528090
>>3528081
I was mostly going for comic book logic, but what am i missing?
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>>3528048
anon, what...
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>>3527980
those are some good ones and a good thing with untangling the nerves and circulatory system and making it better is that those super chi/martial-arts things are not going to work as well with some of them needing "pressure points"
>>3527596
start with something easier like pic related
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>>3527980
i kind of want to keep improved teeth trying to form like two giant teeth plates to make them stronger and then improve the pattern so the bite is much better
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>>3528081
>>3528090
>>3528141
Faraday cages block out electromagnetic and electrostatic waves, which is the typical comic excuse for mind control/reading. Calcium is an alkaline earth metal. A mesh of bone around the brain could block out psimon. Am i missing something, or...?
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>>3528157
>Am i missing something?
Yeah anon, you're missing quite a bit. Mainly how electricity jumps, conductivity and how faraday cages work- mainly them needing to be surrounded by non-conductive materials else they act no different from lightning rods and the electricity would jump.

add the rest of the skull & cerebrospinal fluid into the mix and you have a useless mesh in your head.
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>>3528157
>Calcium
Calcium is harder than lead but can be cut with a knife with effort. While calcium is a poorer conductor of electricity than copper or aluminium by volume, it is a better conductor by mass than both due to its very low density.[8] While calcium is infeasible as a conductor for most terrestrial applications as it reacts quickly with atmospheric oxygen, its use as such in space has been considered.[9]
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>>3528167
Lead plating our skull would probably work better. We'd have to make it a temporary thing though.
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>>3528168
It's not about hardness, it's about density.
If it were about hardness then limpet teeth would be much better.
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>>3528174
>"While calcium is a poorer conductor of electricity than copper or aluminium by volume, it is a better conductor by mass than both due to its very low density"
it conducts eletricity not so badly and its a very chemically active element or was it thinking of reactive?
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>>3528189
Wat.
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>>3528167
Fair point, but if its just weak electromagnetic waves, it could be enough to disrupt psimons mutation, or interfere enough he cant read it?
>>3528168
About the hardness, i was suggesting the cage was within the skull, so it's strength against a knife wouldn't really be relevant considering tue other enhancements that have been suggested.
Sorry if I'm wrong on this btw, it's been a while since i was involved with this stuff, and I'm mostly thinking since we aren't going full scientific accuracy this might work in-universe
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>>3528157
>>3528167
>>3528168
>>3528189
>>3528192
>>3528194
"Because calcium reacts exothermically with water and acids, calcium metal coming into contact with bodily moisture results in severe corrosive irritation.[51] When swallowed, calcium metal has the same effect on the mouth, oesophagus, and stomach, and can be fatal.[42] However, long-term exposure is not known to have distinct adverse effects.[51]"
i think this is some vital info
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Alright back, lets see whats up.

Calling the vote now. Write up on the way.
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>>3528199
I'm mostly talking about bone, though, not pure calcium. And yes, i know its calcium in an ion form, but as the QM has said before, we aren't going completely scientifically accurate.
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>>3528212
Welcome back!
Oh and uh, I think you forgot your trip QM
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>>3527285

Honestly you aren’t sure what he means by combat tricks. You get that it’s something to use in a fight, but that’s kind of a vague description and the other option sounds so much more useful.

“Altering my skeleton Sir” You tell him.

“Perfect.” The blonde man says as his smile widens. “In that case sit down. I have a few things to say on the subject before they get here with what we need.”

He gestures at the ground and then plops down and sits cross legged. You follow his lead and plant your but on the concrete.

“Alright, so, bone shaping.” He says as one hand comes up to his chin. “There are two common uses for bone shaping in the business.”

“The first” He says while holding up one finger “Is to reshape your facial structure. By doing so you can alter the way you look completely. It’s a good way to avoid notice. Either do the job under a false face so they go chasing after a bum lead, or change your appearance so they won’t know it’s you even if they find you.”

‘It is also possible to mimic the appearances of others with a bit of change to the fleshy bits as well and a whole lot of practice.” He says as he raises his hand over his head. “Watch this.”

He passes his hand over his face from top to bottom as if he was pushing down the visor of a helmet, and his flesh writhes and his hair recedes into his skull.

“Unacceptable” Says the glaring visage of Lex Luthor. “I asked for medium rare, not rare[/]. How dare you make a mistake in my order. Do you know who I am? I’m the smartest man on earth, never mind the fact that the league can figure out Zeta beams and I can’t. Mercy, shoot this man for incompetency!”

You don’t understand the hate boner for one of the worlds premier philanthropists, but damn if he doesn’t look exactly like him. The impression is horrible though. Luthor is one of the humblest and most genteel men on the planet. Everyone knows that. His hand slides back across his face and his flesh writhes again and blonde hair shoots out of his skull, and after a moment he’s returned to his regular appearance.

“This is one of the most useful, and most complicated, applications for shape shifting.” He says as he looks you square in the eye. “It can take months of trial and error to get a look right, and that’s assuming you have enough practice to be proficient in reshaping your face. For an amateur it takes longer, assuming they can do it at all. You have to get the bone structure just right, just the right amount of fat, make the muscles just so. Then there’s the matter of being able to mimic their mannerisms. Just a face isn’t enough, if you can’t act like them people will figure out somethings up quickly, trust me I'm speaking from experience. Months of preparation and careful observation at the minimum to pull it off if you intend to do something substantial with someones appearance.”
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>>3528614
>The impression is horrible though. Luthor is one of the humblest and most genteel men on the planet. Everyone knows that
Oh boy are we in for a world of surprise.

>“It can take months of trial and error to get a look right, and that’s assuming you have enough practice to be proficient in reshaping your face."
"Sir, if that's the case then why do you have Mr. Luthor's face?"
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>>3528614


“It’s also very dangerous” He continues. “For a couple of reasons. It is not uncommon for shape shifters who spend a lot of time impersonating others to have issues of identity. I know a guy who literally can’t remember his own face and name, just drifts from job to job because that’s all he has anymore.”

“I know another guy who got hired to impersonate Green Arrow.” He says with a rueful shake of his head. “Poor bastard spent so long prancing around in green tights he ended up convinced he was Green Arrow.”

“That isn’t the only thing. Practicing it for the first time is tricky as well, you can really fuck yourself up. Not just your face either. I’ve heard horror stories about young dumb asses giving themselves brain damage messing with their skull shape.”

“So” He says looking you square in the eye “You are absolutely forbidden from trying it until I give you the go ahead. We are going to have a lot of work to do establishing the basics first before we try anything complicated like that. I’m only telling you so you know better than to try anything cute.”

He pauses to stare at you for a moment, letting that sink in, then he continues.

“Now the second use of bone shaping that is common in the business is altering your height or proportions.” Larson says as he holds up two fingers. “Usually you make yourself bigger to hit harder, though slimming down to make yourself harder to hit can be viable as well.”

“This is one of the most common things for shape shifters to attempt when cornered and panicking.” He says “They figure if they just grow a bit and throw their weight around it’ll work.”

He stops and looks you square in the eyes again “Guys who try this on the fly, they get their asses handed to them. You know why?”

Without waiting for you to respond he answers his own question “Because you can’t just grow a foot, completely change the length of your limbs and your center of balance, and expect to move like you are used to.”
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>>3528631

“Changing your stature throws you off.” He says “You’ll stumble over your own feet, go to grab something and end up grasping air when you reach past it as what you tried to grab gets knocked over by your forearm. Forget about running and fighting effectively, you’d be lucky to be able to walk a straight line and touch your fingers to your nose.”

“The only way to be comfortable in a form, be able to fight and run and act in a form, is to practice with that form.” He says. “Lot of young bucks don’t take that into consideration and they pay for it.”

“So today the first thing we are going to do is figure out if you can manipulate your bone structure.” He says “And if we can we are going to pick out a size for a good combat form, and you are going to practice walking. Maybe do some hand eye coordination drills.”

It’s about at this time that the door opens and a few members of the kitchen staff start pushing in trolleys. The first trolley is covered in bottles, and the next trolley is loaded high with eggs and sausages and pancakes.

“Good our supplies are here.” Says Larson as he stands up and looks over at them. “Thank you for bringing that. Be a bit quicker next time, and double to order of Turkeys I asked for.”

“Yes sir” says one of the men who pushed in the trolley stiffly, and then they turn and leave.

Your teacher walks over to the cart and starts picking up bottles and reading the labels.

“Zinc? No. Vitamin C? No.” He mumbles to himself as he picks up bottles. “Ah, here we are. Calcium, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Vitamin KD. Bone Restore? What the hell why not.”

He plucks out several large bottles puts them under his arm. Then he goes and grabs a large jug of water that you hadn’t noticed sitting by the wall. He walks back with it, grabs a heaping pile of eggs on his way over to you, puts the whole lot in front of you and then steps back.

“Alright, take few handfuls of those supplements and eat all the eggs and we’ll get started. Go for something small first while you’re figuring it out. Try and make your a few fingers longer, then if it’s working and you’re feeling confident we’ll tackle something bigger.”


What form do you try and take for your first alternate?

>He’s a big guy, try to grow to about seven feet. Big, but still within the realm of possibility for non-metas. Roll powers dice (3d6) Dc 10.

>They called him Goliath, try to grow to about nine feet. You’ll clearly not be a normal human. Roll powers dice (3d6) Dc 13.

>Go big or go home, try to grow to twelve feet. You will literally look down on lesser titans. Roll powers dice (3d6) Dc 15.

>Rather than trying to just scale up your height, alter your proportions. Widen your shoulders and lengthen your arms, reshape your legs. The human form isn’t that of an apex predator, but you can fix that. Roll power dice and nerd dice (7d6) Dc 31.

>Write in.
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>>3528640
>They called him Goliath, try to grow to about nine feet. You’ll clearly not be a normal human. Roll powers dice (3d6) Dc 13.

>eat all the eggs
YOU HAVE TO EAT ALL OF THE EGGS

Wait when do we roll?
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>>3528640
>>He’s a big guy, try to grow to about seven feet. Big, but still within the realm of possibility for non-metas. Roll powers dice (3d6) Dc 10.
Start relatively small. Once we've got the knack for it, then we can try something more complicated.
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>>3528640
>Rather than growing, we'll shrink our main body while extending our arms and fingers.
At best we become some weird monkey thing, that way we can pretend we're limited in our bone control.
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>>3528317

That I did. Takes some getting used to.


>>3528653


rolls to be done after voting is finished.

Sorry, I forgot it's been a while since that came up. I'll make sure to mention it in future votes. My bad.

Rolls to be done after voting is closed. I repeat, rolls to be done after voting is closed
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>>3528614
Alright I'm loving this old guy more and more. Absolutely based.

>>3528640
>He’s a big guy, try to grow to about seven feet. Big, but still within the realm of possibility for non-metas. Roll powers dice (3d6) Dc 10.
Start small.
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>>3528640
>go big or go home
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>>3528630

Well if you want to know you can certainly ask him.
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>Rather than trying to just scale up your height, alter your proportions. Widen your shoulders and lengthen your arms, reshape your legs. The human form isn’t that of an apex predator, but you can fix that. Roll power dice and nerd dice (7d6) Dc 31

Go beyond! Plus Ultra!
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>>3528674
Yes please Eig. :)
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>>3528640
>He’s a big guy, try to grow to about seven feet. Big, but still within the realm of possibility for non-metas. Roll powers dice (3d6) Dc 10.
For younow.
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3528640
>Rather than growing, we'll shrink our main body while extending our arms and fingers.
or
>Rather than trying to just scale up your height, alter your proportions. Widen your shoulders and lengthen your arms, reshape your legs. The human form isn’t that of an apex predator, but you can fix that. Roll power dice and nerd dice (7d6) Dc 31
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>>3528688
wait i keep it >Rather than trying to just scale up your height, alter your proportions. Widen your shoulders and lengthen your arms, reshape your legs. The human form isn’t that of an apex predator, but you can fix that. Roll power dice and nerd dice (7d6) Dc 31
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>>3528640
>Rather than trying to just scale up your height, alter your proportions. Widen your shoulders and lengthen your arms, reshape your legs. The human form isn’t that of an apex predator, but you can fix that. Roll power dice and nerd dice (7d6) Dc 31
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>>3528640
>>He’s a big guy, try to grow to about seven feet. Big, but still within the realm of possibility for non-metas. Roll powers dice (3d6) Dc 10.
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>>3528640
>>Rather than trying to just scale up your height, alter your proportions. Widen your shoulders and lengthen your arms, reshape your legs. The human form isn’t that of an apex predator, but you can fix that. Roll power dice and nerd dice (7d6) Dc 31
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>>3528640
>Try and grow about 7 feet
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Alright, I should be back in about an hour, maybe a bit more for the next update.

A few anons have mentioned starting up a new thread. What's the conventional courtesy and board etiquette regarding that? I know on other boards you wait till it hits page 10 before starting up the next thread so as to avoid unnecessary clutter, how's it done around here?

Also, and this is embarrassing to admit, my 4chan skills are shit. I have no idea how to archive stuff. So when this gets close to dying I'll need someone to explain how it's done if that's alright. Or if we could get a volunteer when the time comes that would be great.

Anyway, see you all then.
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>>3528814
wait until 10
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>>3528814
above the 'style:' there's a list of 4 numbers seperated by three '/'. Once the farthest one reaches 10 you make a new thread since the old one is about to close.
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>>3528814
One ip is able to have up to five threads up at same time and Quest is a slow enough board that you probably could make another one it's up to you though
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>>3528814
Depends, man. /qst/ is a slow ass board so usually anything already in the 7+ pages are dead, no harm done in creating a new thread and pushing one off. Most quests don't get to as many posts as this one. I follow One Piece Bounty Photographer Quest and the QM there makes a new thread after 1000 posts because it's absolute hell on mobile by that point.
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>>3528842
Meh, I'm a mobilefag but I find it fine. Honestly I don't see a problem in waiting one extra second for the page to load.
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>>3528814
Just make a new one when you hit 1000 posts + generally.
That's around the point threads start getting too big.
You hit the bump limit when your thread is 5 days old or has had 750+ posts (thread won't appear at top of catalog/front page, limiting new player exposure) you want as much exposure as possible near the quests start.
1000+ post threads start lagging.
>>3528824
>>3528829
Don't listen to these anons.
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>>3528857
seconding this, you don't want an unbumped thread for a new quest
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>>3528857
>Don't listen to these anons.
and why not anon? I'm not shitposting.
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>>3528814
Oh, and as for archiving:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/requestqstinterface.html?
Thread # is the original post of this thread. The rest is pretty obvious. Tags should include your name as QM, or at least a shortened version like "E-16"

>>3528857
I think by this point the quest has an incredibly large amount of players and it's pretty common to reach a max for your first thread - you tend to steadily lose them as the quest goes on. We'll probably get a few more people with a new thread but chances are it won't have that much of an effect. This quest benefits in that its players actively discuss a ton of things which always makes it feel like there's more people.

Regardless, I agree in starting up a new thread.
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>>3528814
When you DO start a new thread it'd be nice to link the new thread here so Anons can find their way to the active one. I'm not actually certain how to link a different thread into a comment, sadly.

Thread archiving can be done here:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html

on the left, you'll see a square labeled "Add Thread". Simply click on the "Request Interface" button to proceed.

Now, the "Thread #:" bar needs the thread number which can be found at the end of the page URL; it's the series of numbers at the end. Simply copy/paste it to the request form.

Next steps are self-explanatory, just write in the title of your Ques, and a description of your choosing.

Tags could be along the lines of your QM name (like Monitor E-16), quest name... I think those are the most important ones. You could add "capeshit" as a tag, I suppose.

I think that about covers it. If I missed something, fellow Anons, let me know!
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>>3528814
Oh, and don't forget to link the quest archive in the first post of the new thread!
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>>3528874
You're not shitposting, you're just wrong.
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>>3528640
>He’s a big guy, try to grow to about seven feet. Big, but still within the realm of possibility for non-metas. Roll powers dice (3d6) Dc 10.
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>>3528887
>how to link a different thread into a comment
Just the same as you would with a regular post. Except you can't do it automatically by clicking on the post number, you have to copy + paste it.
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>>3528915
The irony of the situation here is that you're shitposting. You're so damn aggressive it's annoying. I thought it was just the whole eating shit but apparently it's just how you are in general. Calm down, anon.
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>>3528920
...Wait so-
It's that simp-
...
Fuck, I'm a dumbass.
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>>3528929
Whatever you say.
I'm as calm as possible, I'm just saying that people are wrong.
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Alright I live. Lets close the vote and see what's going on.
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Okay, we have a winner

>He's a big guy

Roll me 3d6 dc 10.
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Rolled 3, 2, 5 = 10 (3d6)

>>3529038
For you.
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Rolled 1, 6 = 7 (2d6)

>>3529038
Damn, now I want to square off against Bane
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Rolled 5, 6, 4 = 15 (3d6)

>>3529038
ahh dammit, wrong dice in >>3529046
sorry about that
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Rolled 5, 1, 4 = 10 (3d6)

>>3529038
rollin'
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>>3529050
>>3529049
>>3529041

There's our dice, and it looks like you made it.

Going to get to writing. May or may not make a new thread. I need to read everyone's responses and get a feel for what's best. If I do, I will of course link it.
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>>3529046
We need to become even more of a big guy for that.

Super roids when?
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>>3529061
>Us: "Pfft, you call yourself big? watch this"
>We bulk up to Bane size
>But we forget to adjust head size
>Bane: "...Are you mocking me?"
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>>3529093
Well have to remember to put a pair of panties on our head and impersonate him too.
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>>3529118
Meanwhile, Animal Vegetable Mineral Man is off in the distance, nodding approvingly.
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Write up is nearly done. Upon consideration, I think I'm going to be starting up a new thread. So it might be a bit longer for me to post while I get things figured out as far as how I want to handle that.

>>3528688

I wish so much I had an edit of this without the hair spikes, and y'know the actual spikes on the shoulders. I would use that as Larson's appearance in a heartbeat. That vicious smile is great.
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>>3529143
I can see if I can edit it for you if you want.
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>>3529152

I mean if you want to that would be pretty sweet, but no need to worry about it if you don't want to. I just think it's a cool picture is all.
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>>3529143
Did i do good?
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>>3529330
?
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>>3529330
No.
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New Thread

>>3529455
>>3529455
>>3529455
>>3529455


Time to migrate everyone.
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>>3514945
Dear GOD/GODS and/or anyone else who can HELP ME (e.g. MEMBERS OF SUPER-INTELLIGENT ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS):

The next time I wake up, please change my physical form to that of FINN MCMILLAN of SOUTH NEW BRIGHTON at 8 YEARS OLD and keep it that way FOREVER.

I am so sick of this chubby Asian man body!

Thank you!

- CHAUL JHIN KIM (a.k.a. A DESPERATE SOUL)
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>>3553579
Fortunately, >>3529457
Darkseid has heard your plea.
Unfortunately, Darkseid has heard your plea.



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