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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

>>3514949
>A teenage girl

>>3514949
Boy

>>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.

>>3514945
Do we have to have watched Young Justice season 3 to participate I don't care about spoilers

>>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.

>>3514964
A boy, in that case...

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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

>>3515028
Honors Student (3)

>>3515028
Honors Student (4)
Smooth Talker (2)
Yours friendly neighborhood dealer (2)
Handyman (boy?) (2)

>>3515034
we have 10 dice we can divide up but the max for each is 4

>>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)

>>3515044
And THEN I can’t do math right.
>Occult Enthusiast, aka “Weird Goth Kid” (3)

>>3515028
>Violent Delinquent (4)
>Runaway (4)
>Thief (2)
I actually kind of like this one. I'm not the most creative, I guess.

>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.

>>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.

>>3515028
>Wallflower (4)
>Nerd (4)
>Wimp (2)
Unpopular bullied kid applies for cool superpowers, results not as expected

>>3515054
nigga it IS interactive. We're drowning in a test tube as our mody melts, what more do you want?

>>3515028
>Honors Student (4)
>Occult Enthusiast, aka “Weird Goth Kid” (3)
>Botany(3)

>>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

>>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.

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.

>>3515055
why then Martial Artist?

>>3515054
Suck a dick retard, go run your own quest.
>>3515044
>>3515046
Supporting this guy

>>3515063
do you mean criticism and feedback specifically so can we still continue discussing what we should vote here?

>>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.

>>3515064
Psychic Weapon Constructs?

>>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."

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

>>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.

>>3515079
replace this >>3515058 with >>3515056
just a embarrassing mistake

>>3515056
>Wallflower
What Wallflower means?

>>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.

>>3515056
+1
>>3515083
thanks

>>3515056
dont all of these feel redundant?

>>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

>>3515056
the reason why i dont vote for this is we dont really get anything from this other then being a nerd i think

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.

>>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.

>>3515105
Yeah honestly I'd vote for that if we switched Wimp to literally anything else.
Maybe Hacker (2)?

>>3515105
Deception, looking nonthreatening. It could also be a malus.

>>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.

>>3515106
Sure, that's fine.
>>3515107
and before anyone asks, my ID changed because the browser crashed

Right well switching my support of >>3515044
to
>Wallflower (4)
>Nerd (4)
>Hacker (2)

Wimp just feels like an actual Malus.

>>3515108
>>3515113
Yes, I see that Wimp was a mistake. I'm switching to Hacker (2) as well

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.

>>3515117
wallflower is not having a niche in the school

>>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.

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.

>>3515117
I'm fine with that

“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.”

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)

>>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)

>>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.

>>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."

>>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)

>>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.

>>3515130
>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man
This please.

>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.

>>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)

>>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.

>>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.

>>3515154
Curse you
Go for the shapeshifty write in.
Though I'm ok with that power too.

>>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.

>>3515150
What is Pillar Man? I prefer not to have turning into an animal as a power, but other kinds of shapeshifting is fine.

>>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.

>>3515156
Are you happy now anon?

>>3515159
Basically a pillar man is like a broken vampire with shit tons of control over their own biology.

>>3515162
Yes, thank you.

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>>3515167
:)

>>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.)

>>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.

>>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

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>3515197
Ben 10 in DC Land Quest when?

>>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.)

>>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.

>>3515131
>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man

>>3515179
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwsIHG-vLOQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GId6_wYtRK0

>>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)

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

>>3515131
>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man

What is winning right now?

>>3515437
Looks like Biokinesis or Light Manipulation to me.

>>3515445
to bad was really looking forwards to the layer power

>>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

>>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

the layer power just fits with our personality

>>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

>>3515131
>Biokinesis/Shapeshifting, basically Beast Boy meets Pillar Man

>>3515496
i think it needs to be fleshed out its kind of too generic and bland

>>3515500
You could say the same about third option

>>3515512
atleast option 3 has text instead of just saying its a crossovers of two characters and two keywords

>>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

>>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

>>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.

>>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

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.

>>3515604
so what are you going to do with the most generic and short power description?

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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

>>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.

>>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.

>>3515624
Dang it now I REALLY wish we'd get the flesh peeling as a power.

Please kind anons! Grant my wish!

>>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.

>>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

>>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.

>>3515131
>Onion power

>>3515643
Or the thing thats not said ever now i think of it where meta gene users get there energy from

>>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.

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

>>3515654
Remember you can vote for the thing you want more then the current winner

Calling the vote.

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.

>>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.

>>3515665
>Give me a bit to finish my protein shake
chad confirmed

>>3515665
I dislike having a flesh pocket dimension makes it too easy and takes the risk and fun out of collecting flesh

>>3515673
Jesus fuck.
Stop complaining.

>>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.

>>3515676
it was a joke lol

>>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

>>3515694
That'd be pretty dang awesome not gonna lie.

>>3515694
Oh god we're almost literally Alex Mercer.
Nice.

>>3515673
>flesh pocket dimension
what are talking about?

>>3515698
I love this game so much and then p2 happened it was basically Xboxes infamous even though it was also for PlayStation

>>3515707
Like Prototype storing away the mass and not even getting heavier

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.

>>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.

>>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?

>>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

>>3515800
Point taken

>>3515740
Thinking more of should we bulk up making us stronger bigger and heavier or should we be small and compact

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

>>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

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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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)

>>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

>>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)

>>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)

dont this guy have super strong skin? he can take a punch from super boy and more

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.

>>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.

>>3516093
and i am not sure we can even injure him yet

>>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!"

>>3516106
Im not sure if we want to be anywhere near that guy. Why would we want to hurt him?

>>3516119
same its like promethius with the rolling ship why run forward when you can run to the side and avoid the whole thing

>>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

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

Calling it, we're running.

Please roll me 7d6 for Nerd+Power dice.

>>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)

>>3516169
oof

Rolled 3, 4, 5, 2, 2, 3, 2 = 21 (7d6)

>>3516167

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

>>3516167

>>3516169
Really...

>>3516169

That's unfortunate man, just missed the cutoff. Feel free to roll some dice.

Rolled 3, 3, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5 = 29 (7d6)

>>3516167

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.

>>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.

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.

>>3516253
>>Just keep the adrenaline flowing and keep fucking running (Power dice)
look for how you can get out

>>3516253
Cannibalize parts of your body
Tonsils, pancreas, gallbladder, kidneys

>>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

>>3516271
we could also use the under skin fat then butt fat and thigh fat or we can keep it in store for later

>>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)

>>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)

>>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

Alright gonna give it 25 minutes and then I'm going to call it and ask for rolls.

>>3516309
I think we're good on votes

we are going to be like bike cop from C and H

>>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.

Rolled 1, 6, 3, 5, 4, 6, 6 = 31 (7d6)

>>3516350

>>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

>>3516362

damn.

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

>>3516350

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

>>3516350

>>3516365

I mean this in a good way for the record.

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.

>31 vs 18 our favor

It's a bad day for Mammoth.

>>3516399
so we have the legs of rick taylor now?

>>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

>>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

>>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.

>>3516485
+100

>>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

>>3516485
+1000

>>3516485
>>3516531
All of this.

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.

>>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)

>>3516485
Ditto

>>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.

>>3516756
Yeah, but our villainhero doesn't seem to know that.

>>3516463
all of these
>>3516579
>>3516485

>>3516756
This is comic land.
Stop trying to apply logic.
Superman once read a USB by looking at it.

>>3516485
+1
We would cannibalize our teeth and reinforce our feet with some spikes or simple make them harder

>>3517163
we dont need atleast two teeth and we can also use the nose and hair

>>3516485
This. I don't think it's necessary to cannibalize anything else though.

>>3517187
a hoof is going to be nearly half the size of a foot

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.

>>3517192
We have three power dice right? I feel like our chances of succeeding with that are... low. Would cannibalizing boost it?

>>3517192
No pumping the kick. I'd rather not overexert ourselves and leave us debilitated in case this doesn't work.

>>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

>>3517196

Intelligent cannibalizing relies on the nerd dice, so it would give you a larger pool technically.

Three minutes left before we call it.

>>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.

Well that's time. Looks like consensus is no pump, no cannibalizing just straight power dice.

Give me 3d6 please.

Rolled 2, 4, 1 = 7 (3d6)

>>3517206

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>>3517205
its a classic

Rolled 4, 2, 1 = 7 (3d6)

>>3517206

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

>>3517209
>>3517213
dice is being weird
>>3517206

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.

>>3517222
oof

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.

>>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

>>3517270
>You learn in school about Cephalopods and their suction cups recreate them on your hands and start climbing away from him.

>>3517274
support

>>3517274
Why the fuck not. We /octoboy/ now

>>3517274
support

>>3517274
>(Nerd and Power dice)
I think both should apply

>>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.

>>3517274
Octopi, Octopi, does whatever an Octopus can.

Supporting.

alright calling the vote. octo boy it is.

roll me 6d6 please.

Rolled 1, 6, 4, 1, 6, 1 = 19 (6d6)

>>3517357

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

>>3517357

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

>>3517357

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

>>3517358
>>3517360
>>3517362

Alright. Lets see how this goes then.

Rolled 6, 2, 2, 2, 4, 6 = 22 (6d6)

>>3517357

>>3517363
so we survive way

>>3517426
so we survived yay

so is it going?

test

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?

>>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.

>>3517500
Yeah, captcha was being an asshole and saying "you have mistyped the captcha" when all I have to do is press a button.

>>3517513
Yeah, the captcha was being a pain even though I did it properly.

>>3517513
>>3517500

you also had those?

>>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.

>>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

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.

>>3517726
>"Make me." Cannibalize our pain receptors then sucker punch him.

>>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.

>>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