You nod to let him know you understand his instructions, and grab the jug of water and the nearest bottle of pills and start stuffing your face with eggs and dietary supplements. Then, you get to work. Before you start however he whips out a tape measure and records the length and dimensions of each finger.

“It’s important to have a reference when you’re working under controlled conditions. Hopefully we won’t need them, but it’s better to have them and not need them rather than need them and not have them” He tells you as he records the numbers. “When you do it on the fly you have to eyeball it, but when you can it’s best to be clinical. Remember, precision is key to our work.”

Once he’s done he gives you the go ahead to start, and you get to work on your fingers like he had suggested. You think back to your anatomy classes and you imagine the bones. You picture the cartilaginous segments that allow for growth and feel for them with the awareness of your body given to you by your powers until you find them, and you order them to grow and lengthen your bones. As they expand you will materials into the new growth forcing it to ossify as it grows.

Larson watches you closely as you work, commenting on the growth of your fingers and making sure you keep it even. You add maybe half an inch to their length, and then he orders you to try reversing it and shrinking them back down.

Reversing it is harder, you start by trying to break down the ossified material, but experience pain when you try that so you cut that out real quick. After a moments contemplation you have an idea and order your bones to compress in on themselves and try to shrink them down by making them more dense. Packing the same amount of material in as the larger bones down into a smaller space.

It’s uncomfortable, there’s a sensation of pressure and your hands feel stiff while the change is ongoing, but it works. You manage to shrink your fingers back down to their original proportions. Then Larson orders you to grow em back out and shrink them again. You do this for about an hour, maybe an hour and a half.

>>3529465

In the beginning it’s slow going, it takes minutes to grow out the bones and shrink them back down. It’s a lot harder to manipulate bone than it was to manipulate muscle and flesh, but you can do it, and as Larson makes you do it over and over you begin to get faster at it. By the time the kitchen staff arrive with two whole cooked turkeys you’ve got it down to about half a minute all together between the extension time and then the time to shrink them back down.

You’ve been choking down supplements and eggs the whole time, actually to be more accurate you finished the eggs about an hour in and started on the sausages. Most of what you’ve been using has actually been the stuff from the dietary supplements you’ve been downing by the handful. You’re pretty sure if a doctor was here they’d tell you not to do that, but it’s working so far. While some of the material from the eggs and sausages has been used, both for the cartilage growth and as fuel for the reactions, most of it is just getting distributed or being used to make storage for the excess nutrients from the pills.

You experiment with trying to compress your flesh as well as your bones to keep the new mass from being readily apparent. While the flesh had been faster to respond to your mental commands than the bones, the bones are oddly enough easier to compress. Still, you manage to force your body to comply with your wishes after a bit of practice. It feels kinda like flexing everything all at once. There’s a sensation of tightness and effort from head to toe. It isn’t exactly uncomfortable but it’s certainly distracting. You have to focus on it at first, but after a while you find yourself just kind of maintaining it without thinking while you focus on your bones.

You decide that what your teacher doesn’t know won’t hurt him. If he thinks you’re burning everything he’s feeding you powering the use of your powers on your fingers you aren’t going to clue him in on the fact that you’re managing to store a good bit of it for later use. He told you himself that keeping some secrets to yourself is smart after all. He’d probably approve.

After the turkeys are delivered he tells you to stop for a moment. He goes and grabs another jug of water, sets the roasted birds in front of you and pulls out a few more bottles of supplements.

“Alright” He says as he sets them in front of you “How do you feel kid?”

“Good” you say, flexing your fingers “I think I’m getting the hang of it.”

“Sure looks like it kid.” He says with a smirk. “You pick things up fast and you don’t bitch. That’s good, very good.”

“Now” He says “Take a break for a minute, use the facilities if you need to, and then come back here. When you get back we are going to start the next step.”

>>3529470

“Thank you sir” You say and you get up and stretch. As you stretch you think about what you’ve seen your teacher do, turning his hand into a damn working dinosaur head and mimicking Lex Luthor. You’ve got a long way to go. Though that thought does bring up a question you’d had.

“Sir, You mentioned that copying someones look took a lot of time and effort right?” You ask him.

“He looks at you with a somewhat bemused look. “Yeah, why are you asking? I told you to hold off on that till your ready.”

“Of course” You reply quickly “I was just wondering Sir.... well, why are you so good at copying Mr. Luthor’s face.”

He looks at you for a minute and then throws back his head and laughs. “Worried I’ve been using his face for nefarious purposes? Defaming him maybe?” He says with a smirk. “Ha, I wish. No, he hired me on as a body double to attend some meetings for him while he was collaborating with the Reach to take over the planet.”

….What?

“To quote dome-head. ‘While it is necessary that I appear to attend these meetings for the sake of maintaining our business relationship with these aliens until we are ready to make our move, to place myself at risk by going in person would be imbecilic.’ He had a telepath hook us up to each other and I went as his mouthpiece. Damn good money too, hazard pay you know?”

Seriously, What?

“But that’s a story for another time” He says as he chuckles a bit more. “Don’t want to smash all of your illusions about society all at once. Go take a walk kid, hit the head, and then come back.


You nod, and then go take care the necessities. When you’re ready you head back in. When you walk through the door he’s munching on one of the turkey legs. He gestures for you to sit down next to him.

>>3529476

“Alright” He says after swallowing. He pushes one of the turkeys up to you. “Next step. Lie down on your back. We’re going to start working on other bones besides your hands. Rather than trying to grow everything at once and overwhelm you, we’re going to practice one section at a time so you get used to working with them, and then combine it all.”

You lie down on your back and start repeating the process you’d just done with your fingers on other bone groups. Your arms, your legs, your ribs cage. Your spine. It takes hours, cycling through one section at a time. After each section Larson has you get up, walk around and stretch out. Take a short break, and then you lie back down and start on the next section.

You go through both of the turkeys, and the next turkey they send up after those. You burn a lot of it. Doing larger body parts is a lot more energy intensive. As you grow the bones you have to grow the muscles to match, and then when you’re done you have to compress the lot. Slowly but surely you feel yourself getting heavier, denser. You feel like your body is more solid than it had been. Your original size is accompanied by a faint sensation of pressure and tightness, and expansion feels like your pushing against a wall and slowly forcing it back.

You’ve been at it for hours. The light filtering in through the windows is tinted orange from the setting of the sun and the fluorescent lights have come on, when Larson claps his hands together.

“Alright, it’s time.” He says. “Time to put it all together kid. Lie down on your back and do the lot, all at once. Go slow though, you don’t want to rush it and botch something. Speed will come later, for now focus on not making mistakes.”

Lying down you focus. By now the sensation of manipulating your bones is much more familiar to you then it had been this morning. You focus, and then you start to grow. Your limbs lengthen, your rib cage swells and your shoulders broaden. It takes a few minutes, but when you’re done you feel good.

You sit up and look at your hands, they’re as big as plates. You could probably palm someones skull in one hand easily. Larson whistles and then holds out a hand to help you to your feet. You take his arm and let him pull you up. Once you’re standing you realize that you’re actually taller than him now. Not by much, but he has to tilt his head up slightly to look you in the eye and give you a smile. You smile back.

“Good job kid.” He says “Damn good job. Now, go ahead and walk.”

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>>3529484

Flush with confidence you take your first steps...and nearly fall flat on your face. Larson chuckles behind you as you stumble to catch yourself.

“Did better than I did the first time I tried to mimic a T-rex.” he says as he chuckles. “Everyone thinks I was trying to crush Robot man with my bulk, truth is I just tripped. Least you didn’t land on your face. Here, lean on me.”

He walks up next to you and extends an arm, and using him as a crutch, you stumble around the room. After a few laps you are able to release your grip on him and walk on your own, and after a few more he urges you into a slow jog for a bit before telling you to stop.

“Alright, that’s enough for today” He says. “Shrink back down.”

You concentrate and start compacting yourself, feeling the sensation of pressure build as you shrink back down. It’s quicker than growing had been, it takes a lot less mental effort to make your body return back to it’s original proportions than it did to force it to grow. It feels natural.

“Well kid I don’t know about you, but I’m bushed.” Your teacher says as he makes his way over to the pile of stuff he had been retrieving jugs of water from throughout the day. “Wonder what time it is.”

He pulls out a watch and looks at it and then curses. “Shit.”

He turns around to face you and says “Well kid, we went a bit over time. Dinner is almost over. Headmistress probably won’t be happy, but don’t you worry about that I’ll take care of it. I can get something delivered to your room if you want to go rest, you’re probably exhausted.”

What do you do?

>You are exhausted, though not necessarily hungry, going back to your room and vegging out sounds great.

>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

>You are pretty tired, but you don’t want to waste the time vegging and you don’t really feel like seeing anyone. Maybe you could see if there’s a library and do some research or pleasure reading.

>Write in.

>>3529485

That's fucking awesome anon. Thank you.

Now, If you all will give me a minute, I need to type up some mechanical stuff. There's some information that needs to be imparted regarding the fruits of our day of labor.

>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
So wait, are we physically stronger now in our smaller form?

>>3529497
+1
that's what it sounds like

>>3529490
>You are exhausted, though not necessarily hungry, going back to your room and vegging out sounds great.
Library option is tempting, but it's no use trying to research when tired.

Speaking of, it's almost 3 a.m for me, I gotta crash. Thanks for running E-16!


>>3529485
Daaaamn. Nice work anon, very nice.

>>3529497

That's going to come up in a bit, but you've just consumed like three turkeys worth of biomass not including the eggs and sausages and Incorporated a good chunk of it into yourself. It may not seem like a lot compared to the kind of gains people have been talking about while discussing eating whole cattle and whatnot, but it isn't anything to sneeze at either.

>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

>>3529503

Go sleep man, thank you for being here.

>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
I like this guy. Gonna be a real shame when we inevitably have to go up against him.

Also when we go full 7 feet, is everything proportional? By everything, I of course mean... everything. Shit should be like a dream come true for a 14 year old nerd.

>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

>>3529485
That's pretty good anon.

>>3529512
>Look down at our foot long cock
>"Huh, it didn't grow with me."

>>3529504
Did we eat the bones too? Powdered bone broth soup aint half bad....

>>3529497
I think we are denser, so we probably have more damage resistance and stronger bones by default.

>>3529526
Based. Gotta wait til we hit the shower rooms to say that.

>>3529485
can i save this, this is some real good work

>>3529546
Of course anon.

>>3529550
kind of want to keep it as a possible future look/persona for us so what program did you use and how did you keep the style the same?

>>3529555
I normally use GIMP 2.
There's quite a few different methods I used.
At the end I added some noise to it to make it fit the original style a little better.
For the armour I just copied some of the texture and edited it slightly before pasting it over where the spikes were.
I used the smudge tool a little too much in some places, it works pretty well when combined with a half transparent brush.

>>3529568
i am a msp user so i had one third of a idea what you did

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>>3529568
can you make like a under jaw for this? its supposed to be like a skull but a biohazard symbol and i did not make it i just have it in my folders and this could be like our symbol

>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

Super villain name, Biohazard? Bioshock?

>>3529615
Plasmid?

>>3529615
We aren't decided on our path yet.
I think Ouroboros is a good villain name and Synthesis is a good hero name

>>3529615
super villain?

>>3529615
Someone suggested Taxon last thread, that one's cool. Rolls well off the tongue.

>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

>>3529597
>>3529615
>>3529617
>>3529626
>>3529619
a biohazard like symbol would work for us

>>3529615
Biohazard isn’t bad, leans towards the villain side, but will work as a antihero or hero name too. Support.

>>3529638
How, though? Mercer may have been an inspiration but we're straight up cellular manipulation. The only thing that's really similar is the ability to consume, but even that's not really connected to a bio hazard symbol.

>>3529638
But are we even going to use a soopa suit? Don't we want to be sneaky and/or turn into a monster?

>>3529626
Nvm, I’ll switch to supporting this. Much more versatile and fits what our ultimate power set will most likely end up looking like.

Alright, mechanics blurb incoming. Buckle up.

Due to the nature of our powers I’ve decided that I will need to add a few mechanics to represent them and make training with your power worthwhile without just throwing power dice at you. That, and I think it will be fun and add a bit more depth to your decisions in combat. Therefore, we are introducing two new mechanics for your use. The first is Forms.

Through rigorous training you have created

Form: Big guy (1)

Forms can be assumed through a successful powers roll. While in a form it adds dice equal to it’s quality to applicable rolls. These dice can stack with both your cliché dice, and your power dice for applicable rolls. Forms may subtract dice from rolls they are unsuited too. For instance certain forms may be bad for sneaking around, while other’s may not be useful for a fight.

You remain in a Form until you either voluntarily leave it, or take damage equal to it’s quality, which forces you to abandon the form.

Form: Big guy is currently quality 1. Spending time in this form and practicing with it to familiarize yourself with the new form will increase it’s quality.

The second mechanic is Combat tricks. Combat tricks are practiced actions that can allow you to get an edge in a fight. An example of a basic combat trick would be to grow yourself a small bone blade to shank someone with. An advanced example would be turning your hand into the head of a dinosaur to bite someone. These represent combat applications of your power that you have practiced before hand, rather than on the fly creative uses of your power.

A combat trick has limited uses, equal to its quality. Therefore, if it’s quality is 1, it can only be used once in a fight.

A combat trick functions as a pump for a single dice roll, increasing your dice pool by a set amount. However unlike a pump, use of a combat trick does not cause you to take damage.

1/2

>>3529653
if we can change pigments we can put it on our skin and remove it if we want

>>3529657

The advancement of your forms and combat tricks will directly effect the advancement of your powers. Your number of power dice will increase when the combined quality of your forms and combat tricks reach a predetermined threshold. For example if you have a form of quality 2 and a combat trick of quality 2 the combined total would be 4.

The threshold for your first increase in your power dice will be a combined number of 5, at which point your number of power dice will go up from 3 to 4. You are currently at 1/5 for upgrading your power dice.

No pool can go over 6 dice, however in the instance of your powers when it has reached 6 dice it will be possible to continue to progress. In the event that your powers pool is at size 6 and you earn an increase, the number of dice in your pool will be reduced to 5, but the size of the dice will be increased.

For example if you have 6d6 and you earn an increase you would then go to 5d8. If you get to 6d8 and then increase it further you would go to 5d10, and so on and so forth.

If you have any questions or objections please let me know. I’m going to be putting together a paste bin of the mechanics for easy reference, and will put a character sheet together. There should be no further mechanics introduced after this unless absolutely necessary to represent an evolution of our powers that can not be represented with what we have already.

I’m going to go eat, and then when I get back I’ll call the vote and get writing. Probably be 40 minutes to an hour.

>>3529657
>take damage equal to it’s quality, which forces you to abandon the form.
Hmm, I don't know about this. We're shifting our body, are we not? Why would taking damage force us to revert back? Unless it's from losing biomass and not having enough to sustain it, but surely we can still maintain it as much as we can (e.g. big guy form but an arm's gone).

>>3529672
good questions we dont revert if we dont decide to revert

>>3529679
or atleast it seems like that

>>3529615
I'd think it depends on if our character picks his name, or HIVE assigns it. I like biohazard and ouroboros for the first, or If it's the second one, what about parasyte or maybe krieg?

>>3529672
This is true, but on the flip side forms would need to have other limitations to replace that. Ive thought of two possible alternatives to simply reverting:

1) every action while in a form, roll a d6, where dc == (8-(quality))/2 rounded up. Moderate Success means nothing happens, major success(6, or DC+4 whichever is lower ) means success with a benefit. minor failure means a minor malfunction, major failure(1 or DC--3, whoever is higher) means a major consequence.

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>Based on the mc from prototype
>In DC where the most heroes names end in -man
>Not going for the most universe appropriate name

>>3529704
Meatman.

>>3529700
>damn my fingers

2) Forms have significant drawbacks that accumulate over time and can only be fixed by reverting back to normalize. For example, using Bane Mode could create micro-fractures in the bone, which lead to braking more bones in combat. This would leave the exact consequences up to the op and less to the die.

>>3529623
well obviously were not gonna stay villains but for the meantime, until we can free terra and friends we ain't going nowhere.

>>3529704
Well Bio-Man sounds like we work in sewage.

>>3529704
ok meat-a-man
ham-man
biomorph-man
morph-man
bio-man

>>3529700
>>3529708
1 holds the same problem for me as reverting due to taking damage: it's as if we're going through a temporary transformation rather than actually changing our body's shape. Maintaining our current form shouldn't take concentration because it's just the form that we're at - we've already forgotten stuff like our claw and teeth before. I do see it as a natural consequence of taking on an uncomfortable form though, like when we were shifting our flesh before.

I think 2 is something that will actually just happen naturally whenever we make new forms. Right now Big Guy mode is just... a big guy, so no drawbacks.

>>3529707
>>3529718
>>3529720
I can't tell if I'm getting fucked with or not.

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>>3529597
Maybe?
What do you guys think?

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>>3529731
Glowing Red version

>>3529731
>>3529733

ok you do good quality stuff

Looks like an undead anteater skull.

>>3529731
It gives me jellyfish vibes more than skull.The shape of the top kinda reminds me of a Metroid. Mostly though, it's the jaw part, feels too long.

Okay, I'm back.

>>3529728
>>3529700
>>3529672

Alright, I hear what you are saying and I get where you are coming from. So, lets work this out.

I want to keep the mechanics fairly simple to keep things from gumming up under the need for multiple rolls to resolve a single action. I'd like to stick to things that either add or subtract from your pool of dice, and simple dc checks. Keep things streamlined y'know?

What I've realized is ultimately it doesn't really mater from a mechanical stand point if you technically stay in the form, if you take damage your dice pool is going to go down. So we'll just apply damage to powers and cliches like normal, and you can leave the damage to the form as the last one to go, unless you want to drop it earlier, but dropping it will be your choice unless you literally get absolutely smashed down to the last dice.

The weakness, or drawback to a form, will be the time spent assuming it. To assume a form there will be a DC check. If you pass the check, you assume the form without getting caught flat footed while changing. If you fail the check, then you still manage to assume the form, but they get you while you are changing. The higher the quality of the form the lower the Dc. So basically you take a round to try and assume the form. If you succeed you just increased your dice pool. If you fail you take some damage, which may or may not even out with your new gains. Amount of damage to be determined by how badly you fail the check.

How's that sound? I feel like it's pretty consistent with what's been established so far.

>>3529708
>>3529700
>>3529657
I don't really like the idea of having to revert or having downsides to being in a form.
Like the other anon said, we're changing our body. We should stay in it until we decide to change it again. Being reverted back on taking damage doesn't make any sense to me.
I don't see why we need a mechanical method to encourage us back into our original form - it should be a narrative thing, if we want to stay in a new form 24/7 then so be it, that is our new body.

>>3529742
I feel like that’s more of a positive than a drawback though. An abstract skull is way better for a career in villainy, especially one that can easily be confused for a jellyfish.

>>3529757
*heroism, not villainyz

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>>3529742
Here's a more compact version.

>>3529752

This is of course assuming you are trying to shift during an active combat situation. You're not going to get btfo lying in your bed just shifting.

>>3529657
Could you explain the dice again please? What the booklet you are using called?

>>3529752
>The weakness, or drawback to a form, will be the time spent assuming it
That makes a lot more sense to me.
If we get practiced then we can jump to a torm in a flash but if it's a new form then we need to get lucky ... and the newer or more complicated the form the more thought we need to put into it to shift in time

>>3529752
Sounds pretty good, a compromise between mechanics and lore. But that brings up another question: how will a non-cliche buff work? Will form powers always slot into cliches? Will a form that doesn’t align with a cliche automatically get slotted into power? For example, if we make a form that can move really fast, would that still add a dice to the power pool? Would a form that increases our brainpower increase our nerd pool?

Honestly I think another system would fit our character better.

>>3529764

No problem.

So basically your character is described by a series of Cliche's.

Ours currently are

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

and power dice (3)

When you try to do something appropriate to a cliche, like a nerd knowing trivia, you roll the dice pool for that Cliche. Dice are d6 unless specifically stated otherwise. You add up what you rolled, so if I rolled 3 dice and they came up 1 2 and 3, i'd have rolled a total of 6.

When you are doing a skill check you are trying to beat a set number, a DC. So something easy might be DC 5, something hard would be more like 10+. If the combined total of your dice is higher than the dc you succeed.

In combat you and your opponent both roll the dice appropriate to what you are trying to do. Whoever rolls the higher total wins the combat round. The looser takes damage, which is represented by loosing a dice from the cliche they were using.

We can stack our power dice with an appropriate cliche for an action that uses both our powers and one of our cliche.

A pump is when you push yourself beyond your limits knowing it will hurt you. This adds a number of dice to your pool for a single roll. So If I had a cliche of 4 and I pumped it for 2, then I'd roll 6 dice. But, after that your cliche takes damage equal to the number it was pumped by.

That's it.

>>3529752
I definitely like this method more than before.

>>3529757
Fair point, though I'm not sure about a jellyfish being our symbol regardless. I guess if we're also abstract in it's meaning? Like the many tentacles representing all our many forms.

>>3529759
Oh yeah, much better than the other one.

>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

Well I've opened up a real can of worms here.


>>3529768

When you are in a form, that form will act like a cliche and provides dice appropriate for things that form would be good at. So big guy is good at big guy things, like hitting stuff or being scary. If you make a big brain form it will be good for big brain things, like solving problems. Big guy will give no dice for solving problems, and big brain isn't going to help you hit things harder. For all intents and purposes they are cliche's that describe your character only while you are in that form. I hope that addresses your question.

>>3529774

There may well be anon. There may well be. When it comes right down to it no form of abstraction is perfect. I picked something I felt would work for me, for the purposes of running this quest. Something simple and quick. Now I've fucked up and complicated things a bit, but I still think it's pretty simple and I still think it will work well for my purposes with this quest. I wanted something between the extremes of just rolling d100 with a dc, because that wasn't quite meaty enough for me, and some of the more complex systems I've seen used here on quest with multiple different stats and damage mechanics. I thought this would hit just about right where I wanted it. I didn't quite envision how the quest would evolve, and it looks like I got a little over enthusiastic and in trying to evolve with it I may have made a mistake, but honestly I think that >>3529752 will work pretty well.


I'll be honest, I don't want to switch systems. I'm sorry if it isn't to everyone's liking, but it works for me. I hope it can work for all of you as well, but I have no desire to try and learn a new system and re-stat our boi. Not at this point. I just want to explore a collaborative story with you all and play in the young justice/DC universe sand box a bit, not do more book keeping.


Now, I'm going to get back to writing, and I'm going to try and get the next write up done for tonight and then I'm hitting the hay. If you wish to further discuss mechanics feel free to do so, but I probably won't be responding to any further mechanical inquiries until tomorrow.

>>3529857
this is actually a fun idea for a system

>>3529756
Maybe it should be we take damage only we we won't have enough energy stores for the revert. So we either stay in our form until we do or we revert back at a cost to our heath, which makes some sense...

Perhaps the damage comes from our flesh being turn and shifted around by the musculature changes, since flesh is attached to bone...

>>3529763
so rapidly changing or shifting can cause damage? I can live with that.

>>3529873
same and it makes some sense

>>3529857
I like something a nit more developed than just 'roll1d100'. This system sounds pretty elegant to me, not tok complicated but not too simple either.
Same with the test to change form quickly

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>>3529490

While going and resting is tempting, you want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went more. You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You aren’t quite certain what you are, you haven’t known them very long and you wouldn’t want to presume, but you’d like to think of them as friends.

“I think I’ll head down to dinner anyway” You tell your teacher. “Maybe relax in the common area with some other students I met yesterday.”

“Alright, have fun kid.” Larson tells you as he waves you towards the door. “Go on ahead, I’ll tidy up. See you in a few days for your next lesson.”

He then turns and starts picking up the bottles and plates and stacking them onto one of the empty trolleys. With that clear dismissal, you figure it’s alright to leave. You hop on down the stairs and make your way to the cafeteria. Despite your late arrival there’s still a good number of people there.

Looking around the room, you can see that cliques are already forming. It seems that teenagers will be teenagers, even if they're at super villain academy rather than in a normal high school. The white haired Gothamite is sitting at the same table he was last night on the opposite side of the room. In addition to the redhead and the blonde you can see he’s been joined by a pair of older boys, a smaller one with dirty blonde hair and pretty fit one with black hair.

There’s also two smaller groups sitting towards the middle of the room. One is made up of the large pacific islander, a short Caucasian kid with broad shoulders and thick mutton-chop sideburns, and the tall black kid you could have sworn was stretching yesterday. The other is made up of an Asian girl with long hair that’s either been bleached to a bronzy color or who’s been mutated a bit by her meta-gene, a tall black haired guy with a hook nose and his hair shaved close to his skull, and a short Hispanic kid.

>>3530013

Then, there’s a few kids who are sitting alone. There’s the silver haired girl who had done the whole floating resonating voice thing sitting off in the corner away from everyone else, a petite girl with a pixie cut that has a purple streak dyed in it, and the old woman whom you can now see clearly and confirm is in fact an older woman. Though she looks younger than she had. Still someones grandma, but you could have sworn she was more decrepit than that yesterday. But to be fair you did only really see her from behind a few times and hadn't really payed her any attention other than that.

Finally, there’s your group, sitting at the same table you had occupied the last few meal period. Your table now you guess.

As you step in the door Liz sees you and nudges Tara, who turns and waves at you with a smile and gestures for you to come over. You wave back, but looking at them, you notice something. It’s not odd per-see, but there is a very obviously empty space at the table. Caitlin isn’t with them.

>What do you do

>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.

>Head straight over to them and ask how their days went. Caitlin probably just ducked out early, not a big deal.

>Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the petite girl with the purple streak in her hair, you know how it is to be alone and it sucks. Maybe she’d like some company

> Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the silver haired girl. She may have been creepy, but it was probably a misunderstanding and no one should be isolated.

>Tell you’re friends you’ll be there in a moment and go talk to the old woman. You have no idea what she’s doing here, and you kinda want to know.

>Write in.

>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.
She clearly wasn't in a good state the last time we saw her.

>>3530016
>>Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the petite girl with the purple streak in her hair, you know how it is to be alone and it sucks. Maybe she’d like some company
>> Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the silver haired girl. She may have been creepy, but it was probably a misunderstanding and no one should be isolated.
One of these two. More allies is always good.

>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.

Talking to the psychic is tempting, but doesn’t feel at all like what a teenager would do. Maybe once we get something to eat and we’ll swing by and check up on her.

>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.
Actually, changing to this.

>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.

>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.

>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask how their days went. Caitlin probably just ducked out early, not a big deal.
She's probably either still with her teacher, or recovering from whatever her training was.
If she's still missing tomorrow, then it's time to worry.

>>3530016
> Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the silver haired girl. She may have been creepy, but it was probably a misunderstanding and no one should be isolated

>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask how their days went. Bring up Caitlin if they don't mention her during the conversation.

>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.

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>>3529857
>big brain form
YES
>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is

>>3530461
>mfw that the way to get psychics powers

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>>3530485
You didn't post a face.

Okay, this is gonna sound pedantic but...
How do our current clothes respond to our transformation? I don't think E-16 touched on that particular point when writing our first shift into Big Guy.
Unless HIVE has us dressed in some sorta clothes with bullshit-tier stretching capabilites I'm picturing a seven-foot us with a comically ill-fitting outfit.

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>>3530488
HE HAS NO FACE

>>3530032
support

>>3530301
Support

>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.

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>>3529759
I tink anons want a biohazard symbol that resembles a skull a little more, like pic related.

>>3530648
Oooohhh! I don't know about other Anons but to me, that's a villain symbol if I've ever seen one.

>>3530655
A biohazard symbol is villanous on itself and quest has been torn between being a hero or being a magneto-like antihero , that's why I support Biohazard as a villain name, Ouroboros as an antihero name and Shynthesis as a hero name. Remember that our name should be connected to our powers but never reveal entirely what we can do, not every enemy is an idiot.

>>3530648
YES YES thats the one i have been searching for i could not find it thank you anon

>>3530648
Yeah, no, I don’t think this fits our (current) ethos at all. Maybe if we turn into a full blown villain one day but not otherwise. This just screams malevolent.

>>3530720
remember we are a shapeshifter if we dont have several identities we are not doing it right

>>3530737
Having a villain identity is also called "being a villain."
You can't just go for both and not expect to eventually be caught out.
>>3530648
That's far too fucking evil for James. As a villain sure but I want to go down the Anti-Hero/Liberator or the Hero route unless something terrible happens that changes our mindset in character.

>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.

>>3530762
Unless we scape soon, I see Joe/James/Whatever posing as a villain to please H.I.V.E. until he figures how to fuck themup.

Alright I'm back. Give me just a minute, and we will get the next write up done.

>>3530800

voting closed by the way. Good to see you all, hope everyone is doing well.

>>3530798
Honestly escape by ourselves should be pretty easy if we can get the implant out.
Then we can just swim away by developing gills or fins or some shit.
But I don't want to go the solo escape route unless we absolutely have to, even if we could just get the Justice League to fix everything or whatever.
Posing as a villain might work too.

>>3530762
I also support Liberator Anti-Hero path, like Magneto but without the terrorism and racism or the inhumans but open to everyone who wants to join.

>>3530817
I personally want to scape with every other kid they have trapped in here, that would not only give us a small army of metahuman allies, also fame as Justice League promising future recruit for hero path, powerful Metahuman concerned with other safety as Liberator path or fucking dangerous and competent monster as villain (if we eat everyone in the facility). Whatever we do, let's take samples from everyone, maybe create microneedles and give hanshakes like a madman or bite enemies and succ (nonlethal takedown or let them dry, you choose). Also scan your own brain to make sure we know if we've been fucked by the "psychologist" in any way that is not regular conditioning.

>>3530914
Microneedles the funny thing with that it matches the abstract biohazard skull jellyfish

>>3530016

You head straight over to the table where your friends are sitting. You’ve been eating all day anyway, and you don’t know if the cooks will give you anything if you ask this late in the dinner period, so you don’t bother trying to get any food.

“Hey guys” you say as you plop down onto your spot on the tables bench. “Where’s Caitlin? She get held up by her teacher too?”

“Ah no” Says Ralph as he shakes his head slowly. “She didn’t, got pulled out right before the end of class actually. The headmistress sent someone to take her to the psychiatrist. Reckon she’s still with em probably.”

“Might be a good thing.” Says Liz in a considering manner as she taps her chin with her fork. “Big reds been kind of out of it y’know? The psychiatrist could be helpful.”

“Might be where they do the brainwashing too” drawls Ralph with a scowl “I don’t think they got our best interest at heart darlin.”

Out of the corner of your eye you notice Tara look down at her plate. You can’t see her expression because of the curtain of her hair which has fallen across her face, but you can see her white knuckle grip on her utensils.

“So” You say, perhaps a little too loudly cutting off Liz’s response. “How were your classes? Mine was actually pretty okay. How about you Tara?”

She peeks over at you. You notice her eyes are a little bit watery, but she blinks away the moisture and gives you a small smile. “I was given several large blocks of stone and told to move them. Lift them, stack them. It was difficult, but boring.”

“Ugh tell me about it.” groans Liz as she slumps down onto the table. “So boring. Hit that target, now hit that one without shocking the first one. Higher amperage, lower amperage. Adjust the voltage. Here, feed lighting into this battery! It was so tedious.”

“Lightning?” You ask with a raised eyebrow. You never actually asked her what her powers were come to think of it.

“Yeah” She says as she lifts up a hand and it crackles with electricity as power arcs between her fingers. “Did I not show you?”

“I guess I forgot to ask.” You say. “How about you Ralph?”

“Got a video chat lecture from Poison Ivy.” He replies with a bemused expression. “She spent most of the morning lecturing me on our responsibilities to the environment and the evils of pollution and deforestation, then we got around to growing some big ol vines and tested how many I could control at once. Hard capped out at four for now, but she said that was pretty good for my first day and that I would soon be ready to ‘fight for the future of plants everywhere.' not quite sure what to make of it t'be honest."

>>3531079

“Poison Ivy?” Tara replies. “I know of her. She was involved in the injustice league yes?”

“Did Markovia get caught up in that?” You ask, trying to think back to the Injustice leagues attack a few years back. You don’t think they did.

“No” She replies “But Perdita mentioned it at Tea on occasion.”

Perdita...oh right. The Queen of Vlatava.

“So, what was your lesson like James?” Tara asks you as she looks at you expectantly, and Liz and Ralph lean in with interest.

“Learned to grow my bones.” You say. “Took a lot of practice but here, watch this.”

You look around to make sure no one is watching, and shield your hand with your body to block line of sight just in case. Then you lay your hand down on the table and start growing it to about the size it is when you’re in your seven foot tall form, and then shrink it back down.

“Cool.” says Ralph and Tara claps her hands a bit.

“Yeah, nice parlor trick” Says the older blue sitting next to you with a sinful little smile as she leans back and raises an eyebrow at you. “The question is can you do that little growing display anywhere?”

It takes you a second to understand what she’s getting at, and then you flush in embarrassment. You hadn’t really considered that, but now that you think about it….

Liz cackles at your red face and Ralph chokes on his drink and starts coughing, as Tara looks back and forth between you and the blue girl with visible confusion on her face.

“I do not understand” Tara says “What is the joke?”

“That isn’t important” You splutter as you try to get the conversation back to a less uncomfortable topic. “So, what’s everyone’s hobbies?”

Fortunately they go for it. Dinner period ends as you exchange small talk and move yourselves out to the common room. Ralph reminisces about hiking near his home in the mountains, and laments that he doesn’t have his dulcimer. This kicks off a small good natured argument with Liz about music, who insists that ‘twangy country shit’ has nothing on synth. Tara stays pretty quiet. She mentions her brothers a few times, but seems uncomfortable when asked for details about her life. Neither of the other two make any references, oblique or otherwise, to her being royalty. You wonder if maybe they don’t know.

Maybe they didn’t watch the news, or they might have been taken before she was. After all Tara was taken several days before you were, and yet you both ended up here. Who knows how long ago they got snatched. It’s not something you’ve talked with about them. They haven’t asked you, and you haven’t asked them. It’s like there’s a silent agreement not to go there. You do wonder though.

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Time passes and eventually free period ends and it’s time for you all to troop back to your dorms, and still no sign of Caitlin. You wave good bye to the girls and head off with Ralph. You go back to your room and start preparing for bed, which is when you make a discovery.

You have abs now!

You knew that you were growing your muscles while you were growing your bones, kind of had to for things to work, and you’d made your new form buff while you were at it, because why not, but you hadn’t considered quite what condensing all of that back down to shrink would do. You look ripped, like there are steel cords running under your skin. You poke at your stomach. Rock hard.

Man, this is awesome. Best side effect ever. All the gains, years working in the gym not necessary. Suck it Jerome, so damn proud of your muscles and your achievements on the football field, well whose ripped now Jerome! This guy! This is great, this is….this is a clearly visible indicator of how much your powers are changing your body. One the faculty can observe easily.

Shit. This could be evidence that you can store a good bit of what your teacher was feeding you, that you don’t ‘have’ to be eating in order to change. It might be a bit of a leap of logic, but it's possible they could connect the dots. Slowly accumulating enough mass to work with unbeknownst to your kidnappers seemed like a good way to start stacking the deck in your favor, but it’s no good if it gives up the goose.

Fortunately, your ‘uniforms are really baggy and loose, and stretchy too as you discovered when you grew. As long as you are wearing it you really can’t tell much bellow the neck. You’ll just have to be careful and hopefully think of something down the line. Maybe if they see it they’ll just think you were using your powers to make yourself look better for vanity reasons. Actually, that’s probably a good excuse. Alright, maybe this isn’t such a big deal, but you’re definitely going to have to keep an eye out for this sort of thing. You can’t afford slip ups.

Lying down in your bed, you slip into an exhausted dreamless sleep.

The following morning you get cleaned up, dressed, and head to the cafeteria for breakfast. You look over at your table, and see Caitlin talking animatedly with Tara and Liz with a large smile on her face, gesturing animatedly with her hands to illustrate whatever it is she is saying to them. It’s a massive shift from how reserved she had been the first dinner, or at breakfast yesterday.

“Well now” Says Ralph as he slips up besides you. “That there looks like some mighty effective therapy.”

What do you do?

>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more

>Best not to pry, if it comes up it comes up, but you’ll leave that up to her.

>Best to avoid the issue, steer the conversation away from the topic by speculating on today's lessons.

>Write in.

Be back in a few hours, two to three.

>>3531095
>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more

>>3531095
>Best not to pry, if it comes up it comes up, but you’ll leave that up to her

>>3531095
>>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more
has anyone ever noticed it looks kind of better without male nipples even if it looks less human https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlNDv8lV77c

>>3531095
Wait, we are still 14 right? Our age hasn't been retconned was it?

>Talk smack about the headmistress and the guards. It could be a good laugh, and if Caitlin responds strangely then we know she's brainwashed.

Also anons. We need to run before any more of us have therapy sessions.

Eig, on the next night would it be possible for us to, or at least try to, work out roughly where we are via the stars? Would that fit with our cliche?

>>3531116
Supporting this write-in.

>Would that fit with our cliche?
Pretty sure it would, but I think we'd need to read up on... (navigation? astrology?) - first. James/JJ is a biology nerd, after all.

>>3531116
Support.

>>3531116
>>3531095
Sure, this

>>3531116
support, also first learn biology, then eat a few migrating birds and replicate their orientation sense (or read about them and justify it as solving the equilibrium problem in future warforms, birds have an incredible resistence to getting sick while doing werid manouvers while flying)

>>3531178
We ate turkeys didn't we? do they have the migratory deal?

>>3531271
No, they don't. We'd have to catch a seagull or some shit.

>>3531095
>Eat breakfast.
Why didn't we try t oat least eat a little bit or have food sent to our room? That probably raises red flags, and there could be camera's in our rooms too.

>>3531095
what else i vote on try to eat some food

>>3531095
>>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more

>>3531095
>>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more

>>3531289
Then they alredy know about us being on peak human shape from one training session. If they know about every external effect of our powers, then we should focus on things with little external impact, like making our organism the most efficient and effective we can: when muscles are required to work harder than they're used to or in a different way, it's believed to cause microscopic damage to the muscle fibres, resulting in muscle soreness or stiffness. Solve this by using local regen, which combined with a better waste management and oxigen/nutrient transport, will increasing our stamina. Create new bones, tendons and muscles in our base form, rearrange our joints for maximum flexibility and mobility, get rid of all useless parts, change the internal structure of our body to be a "natural" superhuman (something like Captain America but better).

Alright, gonna be a bit longer than I'd expected. Just got news a friends having some issues, so I'm going to be held up. Just letting you all know, I don't think I will be back in an hour.

>>3531379
Hope everything's okay.

>>3531379
I hope everyone's okay Eig.

>>3531374
Well we missed dinner which probably raises eyebrows to anyone seriously observing us. They might decide to cut back on our food to better control us in difficult situations or as disciplinary measures if we are shoved in confinement or something to that effect.

>>3531389
We were training.
If anyone gets shouted at for that it's AVM-Man.
And we were literally eating there to fuel our powers.
If they are observing us they will probably just discount it as a 14 year old nerd wastefully giving himself muscles with his power.

>>3531400
No I mean after the training, we didn't eat more food to fuel us so to keep up the image of how energy intensive we want them to think, so they can probably better gauge our "fuel tank" so to speak. I'm assuming they have low level mooks or goons watching our every move and reporting back anything of note or discrepancies.

>>3531095
dont forget to eat as much as you can you must keep the facade up

>>3531406
probably a way to keep it up but this is most likley a stupid idea is to grow larger with time like the mutation is trying to reach a "base form" growing larger but skinnier more compact so we have a excuse for our diet they dont want to risk starving there growing mutant supersoldier to death we are still a growing child of 14 summers and winters think of it as super puberty

>>3531439
I don't want to limit our size just keep up a image of how much energy or feed we need to fight or make transformations, as I feel that keeping that closer to our chest would be beneficial. I don't mind if we bulk up a bit and put on some fat I think we should definitely do that.

>>3531476
what? please explain? what did you think i meant?

>>3531483
>most likley a stupid idea is to grow larger with time
I dunno. I reread this twice and I still feel retarded.

Things are going to be okay, but I'm needed here for a bit. Emotional support and all that.


>>3531116

Yes, you are still 14. No retcon. Just ripped. I had abbs when I was 14, figure it ain't odd that your character would. My apologies if I confused you.

And yes, reading some star charts and figuring things out is well within your cliche nerd.

>>3531491
my idea is too instead of compacting we expand under the guise of a "base form"
>>3531476
and how the heck did you get this idea"I don't want to limit our size" its the opposite we grow larger, keep looking skinny making them think our "base form"
that our kind of normal body is growing larger in some weird superpowered puberty
this way they dont think we are bullshitting about our energy needs and stuff this way we can eat as much food as we can and continue bulking up
fuck my grammar is just bad and my punctuation is even worse and i am ranty like a god damn old man, that dont remember how to use a with the rotating dial tv thing so you cant sit in the sofa FUCK i actually cant remember how to use one
>>3531510
i have never seen a 14 year old with abs thats not the weird record holder for youngest strongest person thing

>>3531476
Getting fat is the opposite of what we should do: Fat means that we are storing mass or that our body can't process all the food we have eaten. If hive sees Mercer with a little overweight, they'll limit the food either because they think we want reserves to escape or because we don't need more food to shapeshift. We should make them think that, as long as we aren't using our powers, we eat only a little more than a regular kid, that way we explain not eating dinner today. We could also pretend that our powers are immature because we are a 14 years old, so they will fully develop as time passes, requiring more biomass.

>>3531510
>And yes, reading some star charts and figuring things out is well within your cliche nerd.
I underestimated how much of a nerd James is

>>3531095
>>3531526
Oh and I'll support >>3531116 if vote isn't closed yet

>>3531526
never underestimate a nerd we know things like a human is one of the creatures with the biggest dicks for our bodily size and that we mated for size instead of most other traits
and how to make napalm and things like blackpowder with eggshells or rockets out of sugar when i think of it way too many things that could be used to hurt people bodily lots of things how to burn down buildings and people in a alleyway with chemicals and how ot build a nuclear reactor in a garage from old glowing clocks

>>3531546
ok why do i know how to make explosives out of the metal out the parts of a engine in kitches fans?

>>3531526
>I underestimated how much of a nerd James is
Our nerd stat is 4 out of a maximum of 6 anon, our nerd sight allows us to perceive the world in strange ways.

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>>3531546
I can imagine Mercer fighting capes alredy.
Random cape: HAHAHAHA, you are only a kid, what are you going to do.
M: BY THE POWER OF WIKIPEDIA, I HAVE THE POWEEEEER.
>He goes Max level Big Guy Mode.
>He only wears pic related.
>Everyone in his team facepalms.
>Some people in the enemy team facepalms.
>Queen Bee facepalms.
>The guy that bought us as a partner looks at the contract: No refounds. He facepalms.

>>3531589
Hey don't shittalk He-Man, he kicks the everloving shit out of Superman every time there's a crossover.

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>>3531512
>"base form"
Yeah I'm down with that.

>>3531512
>rotating dial tv thing
What?

>>3531514
I was thinking more alone the lines of compressed "fat" or muscle that is shaped to look like fat. I'm certain we need some fat anyways because its easier to convert than muscle, but if density of fat and muscle is the only argument, why can't we compress the fat and packed it just as tightly as we do to muscle?

>>3531597
You don't understand how much I want to go full Freeza on almost any possible opponent.
>"THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!"
>forms get bigger and bigger up to final form which is just a small streamlined Kryptonian/Martian/Metahuman/whatever hybrid

>>3531621
we could do that i would see it as a thing a unsocial young nerd would do thats the mc and it would be pretty funny to read

>>3531621
Why do we need to transform when we can just compress a springy loaded limb and extend it at will? It would cost us less energy and burn less body "mana". Course the setback is, it would be harder to make out something we need specifically. Trade off customized weapon for a specific need for more universal one like a bone blade that we can pop out at will or a stretching tentacle limb that is all coiled up.

>>3531883
For the style points.

>>3531889
We'll get a skateboard.

>>3531883
Mechanics wise, because forms give us bonus dice. Why would we not transform? Especially when what you talked about sounds like a Combat Trick, which means they can work very well together.

>>3531920
We can do both can we not? I want to be able to conserve our energy use until we really need it, our battle with that muscle meta human whats his name? Mammath? Really shows we need to have better reserves and use our power more carefully and intelligently.

>>3531095
>>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more

>>3531937
Yeah we can do both, which is why they work very well together. Remember that for Mammoth, we were at our most unprepared: just found out our powers and had no extra biomass, scraping for every bit we could muster. Don't think we'll reach that state again anytime if we can help it.

Still not sure if shifting stuff around and transforming expends any actual energy. We've gotten hungry before but we were exerting ourselves physically and using everything for biomass anyway. Would we be able to shift mass we already have freely?

Well, I'm finally home.

I'm going to get some sleep, and then I will update first thing tomorrow when I wake up, and will try to dedicate some more time to this tomorrow. I should be pretty free, so we'll see about doing some shorter voting periods and more updates than usual.

I'm sorry not much got done today, but real life takes priority. Voting is still open. Looks like we have a tie at the moment based on the count I did while contemplating staying up to write. We'll see what it looks like in a few hours.

>>3531381
>>3531384

Thank you for your support.

>>3531512

I suppose I should clarify that when I say abs I mean visible abdominal muscles and not necessarily a full 6 pack. Active life style and and a good diet for low body fat percentage and it ain't that hard.

>>3531995

Shifting mass you already have isn't completely free. There is some cost, but it's negligible really unless you're trying to make really big changes.


See you all in a few hours.

>>3532485
Wolverine claws when

>>3532521
Whenever we want actually. Minus the adamantium anyway. They sound like a good combat trick to learn.

>>3532615
Without the adamantium we probably wouldn't be able to make full size wolverine talons - they'd be too fragile and likely to snap. We could definitely make some bone spikes maybe 5'' long or so.
Then once we get a bit more experienced start incorporating biometals into them a la limpet teeth or deep-sea snails. That'd allow us to extend the talons another couple of inches and maybe shape them more like knives than spikes.
Another trick once we've got the skill would be to line the spikes with nematocysts. One strike to deliver a bolus of neurotoxins and then we just stay out of reach until they drop dead. Even if they're too strong to be killed by one dose or we're in too much of a rush to wait the minute or two it would take for them to lose consciousness ... well they'll lose control of whatever limb we punch almost straight away and that'd make the rest of the fight a damn sight easier.

>>3531589
We are going to wear lots of straps or latex lots of latex
A stupid idea so when people hire us we give them a cataloug for our personas and pretend they are there own person or they can like order what they want for a job like how our doom patrol villain teacher is kind of like a actor
>>3532615
There is a reason why horns and bones are round

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>>3532831
<We give them a catalog with many personas.
>They choose the horny maiden.
>Nope.
Also yes, lots of shapeshifted latex (unless we go for the totally normal civilian clothes).

>>3532926
There is going to be much leather

Did not expect to oversleep that much.

Okay, I have one thing, just one thing to attend to real quick, that will take me about 2 hours, and then I've got nothing else for the rest of the day.

So, I'm going to go take care of this, and then I'm all yours for the evening. Eight hours or so of my undivided attention. Looking forward to seeing how far we get.

We should have a Danny Devito-esque form.

I am sorry about the delays, but I swear I'll make it up to you all.

>>3533031
Don’t worry about it, we appreciate that you keep in touch

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>>3533031
you keep in touch with us then most do with there parents
also have a kermit as thanks for keeping in touch

We could use some of the spare time to decide what to do next, make something that resembles a plan at least. We can't bruteforce our way out right now, and staying without measures to counter the brainwashing is a no.

>>3533031
No apologies, only punishment. Execution is the only option.

>>3533057
I don't think we can counter the brainwashing without figuring out how exactly it's done and actually being able to manipulate our brain. We've got too little experience. Gotta find that sweet spot where we've stayed around enough to have the experience but just before we're full HIVE

>>3533088
>I don't think we can counter the brainwashing without figuring out how exactly it's done
I PRAY it's the more mundane kind of brainwashing and not the "forced psionic laundry day in our head" kind!
The way I see it, HIVE using mundane brainwashing would mean that we potentially wouldn't have to rush escaping so much.

Alright, calling the vote, and writing.

>>3533242
If they use chemicals and conditioning via shocks and subliminal images or that kind of shit we could deal with it easily, the only problem would be faking it's effects to avoid getting a visit from Psimon. We could observe and replicate a mix of what we see in others after they visit the psychiatrist (the problem is if they reach a supposed high level of loyalty and ask us to kill another student/innocent as a trial). When we get psy dna and a decent understanding of psy powers, we disagree with one of Headbitchstress orders/suggestion and get a delivery of fresh Psimon ready to get lobotomized.

>>3532831
careful now someone might freak out at the thought of latex clad fetish villains!

>>3533451
we could make our skin leather like to mimic clothes in some way

>>3533479
Why not go nude and have a freaky bad ass bone Armour meat suit that doesn't give us hot or cold sensations?

>>3533497
>Why not go nude and have a freaky badass..
>Why not go nude.
No but seriously, the good thing about being a shapeshifter is that we can wear whatever we want, whenever we want.

>>3533515
the question is if we can make the clothes and make them convincing, leather would be the easiest due to it being made out of skin already

>>3533515
Won't it be time consuming to get all the little details and texture of inorganic clothes correctly? What if we need to take off our hat or jacket in public like a restaurant?

>>3533541
I was just going to mention leather.... But doesn't it undergo a chemical treatment then drying?

>>3533541
>wearing skin made out of human leather
Slow down there leatherface.

How does Mercer in the games actually do his clothes? Maybe we can replicate that.

>>3533558
It could be leather from anything.
Could be crocodile skin if we want.
Spider Silk will probably be our go-to for clothing though

>>3533563
He just eats people and steals their character model.

>>3533558
did you forgot our power we just make our own outer layer look like leather

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>>3531095

Suspiciously effective therapy, you think to yourself as you get in line to grab breakfast, loading your plate high. It’s omelets today. You tell the cook to throw in everything, all the veggies and meat options and extra cheese, and then ask for two of them. Then you look back over at your friends.

Now you aren’t a therapist yourself, and you’ve never been to therapy, but you were under the impression that it takes time. It could be you’re just being paranoid, and that Caitlin was just feeling a bit out of it and all she needed was some rest, but her sudden change of demeanor right after her “therapy” session sure doesn’t feel like coincidence.

As you approach the table you contemplate how to go about it. You decide you won’t just straight up ask, at least not immediately. You’ll test the waters a bit first. See if there are any other changes besides the smile, a new outlook on life here at the H.I.V.E. maybe. You decide to start by making some unkind comments about the guards and the staff, see how she reacts. If she jumps down your throat defending them, then you’ll know for sure something is wrong. If she doesn’t, then you’ll ask outright.

“Hey James, hey Ralph” says Caitlin with a sunny smile as the two of you sit down at the table.

“Pleasure to see you to darlin” replies Ralph with his own grin.

“Hi Caitlin, Tara, Liz” You say with a smile and a nod for each as you sit down and then apply yourself to your first omelet, waiting for the right moment to enact your plan.

After a few minutes when the introductions are done and there’s a lull in the conversation you point over at one of the guards in the corner. Ever since that first night in addition to the guy on the catwalk they’ve had one or two on the ground floor as well.

“So” you say as you gesture at the uniformed man “Where do you think they get those guys? Put out an add online maybe? Jackbooted thugs wanted, must be comfortable with the kidnapping and imprisonment of minors?”

Liz snorts and Tara looks at you with wide eyes, glancing around nervously as if to make sure no one heard, while Ralph just sighs. You’re focused on Caitlin’s reaction though. Caitlin brings a finger up to her chin and adopts a thoughtful expression.

“Maybe they train them in house.” She says. “I don’t think they’re PMC. At least, I’d like to hope they aren’t PMC, but I suppose they could be. If they aren’t, there is a large population of ex-criminals who often have difficulty finding lucrative employment. Perhaps they recruit and train them. Or they might just hire active criminals depending on their connections with organized crime. Of course this is assuming they hire out of the United States. If they recruit internationally, which they likely do, that opens up numerous possibilities...”

>>3533558
I'm glad moralfags are on edge, but seriously, relax man, the edgenons in this quest seem more focused on utilitarianism than pure evilness.

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>>3533586

She trails off and then blushes and looks at you all sheepishly “Sorry, I think out loud sometimes. Mama always told me it was a bad habit.”

Well, that was not the response you were expecting. Still, she didn’t defend them. That’s probably a good sign. Maybe they didn’t mess with her head, or if they did perhaps they need more time before it shows results.

“S’fine darlin” says Ralph, and then he asks “PMC?”

“Private military contractors” Says Caitlin as she tucks a strand of hair behind her head. “My father was one after his term of service ended.”

Things quiet down again after Liz makes a joke about what kind of qualifications you would put in an internet add for jackbooted thugs that falls a bit flat, and you wait a little longer before you move on to the next part of your plan to figure out what’s going on. Beating around the bush didn’t quite hit on anything, so you’ll just ask outright.

“Hey Caitlin” You say as you look over at her. “Forgive me for prying, and if you want me to drop it tell me and I will, but I was worried last night when we didn’t see you at all during free period. Was everything alright?”

“Oh” She says “Yeah, everything was fine. I was just talking with Doctor Wax. I’m sorry if I worried you, but it was fine. Really. Doctor Wax just helped me come to terms with a small accident that occurred when my powers were activated.”

Her eyes glaze over just a bit as she speaks, and her smile seems kind of stiff.

“Accident?” Asks Tara as she looks over at Caitlin with concern “Were you hurt?”

“Oh no” says Caitlin cheerily. “I wasn’t harmed at all. When I came to after the procedure I was naked on a table and my measurements were being taken by a scientist and it startled me. Startled him as well, I wasn’t supposed to be awake yet I think.In any case, I slapped him as hard as I could, and his head sort of just popped.”

She tells you this with a sort of unnatural mechanical cheer, as if accidentally killing a man is no big deal, and she has no issues with it.

“Doctor Wax helped me to understand it wasn’t my fault.” She says, still smiling. “He really is a very nice man.”

Tara is white faced and looks horrified, and Liz and Ralph are staring at Caitlin in shock.

What do you do?

>Ask Caitlin if she’d grab you some fruit, try to get her away from the table so you can talk to the others.

>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.

>Continue your line of inquiry and ask Caitlin about this “Doctor Wax”

>Write in.

Voting will be open about an hour, forty five minutes or less if we get enough to establish a clear majority quickly, and then I'll start the next write up.

>>3533600
>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.
I see, very cool!

>>3533595
yeah i am not into that evil for evil crap i am not even into evil its more about having a practical and pragmatic attitude

>>3533600
>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.
Right. Definite brainwashing. We need to gtfo fast.

>>3533600
>>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.
Hmmm. Headfuckery, trauma, or traumatised headfuckery?

>>3533623
like they would only use one
so why not all?

>>3533600
>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.
>"I see, that's very cool Caitlin but second opinions should always be sought after."
>"Anyway, my instructor told me that Lex Luthor is evil and tried to take over the world with aliens!"

>>3533600
I also vote to ask when everyone's earliest scheduled therapy session is.

>>3533600
>>3533628
Supporting.

Well alright then. Brainwashing confirmed, just not to as large an extent as I thought. Starting it off slow, likely can't turn the students into murderbots right off the bat. Certainly can make them comfortable with killing, or at least accidental killing.

>>3533623
>>3533627
I dunno... hard to tell from just the little Caitlin said. Might not be anything too heavy-handed at this point, maybe this "Doctor Wax" just... expedited the healing from trauma? At least it's good her memories aren't altered.

In any case, this just confirms that HIVE is going kinda slow and steady on the brainwashing.

>>3533600
>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.

>>3533635
Even if you expedite the healing and rationalize the murder, it isn’t “normal” for someone to shrug off inflicting severe trauma to someone else

>Doctor Wax
I might have found our man.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Agent_Wax_(Wildstorm_Universe)

>>3533600
>>Continue your line of inquiry and ask Caitlin about this “Doctor Wax”

>>3533646
>rationalize the murder
It was an accident. She didn't kill the guy on purpose.

>>3533648
>The mental pushes are temporary along with the fact those affected can remember they've been hypnotized and must be constantly exerted to have long-term effects.
Huh. If they're the same guy (and the powers are the same), then this means if we get away in time the effects could fade and Caitlin goes back to normal.

>>3533654
Anon do you understand how murder works and the traumatic effects it has on humans?

>>3533654
Then it's manslaughter, that's not the point.

>>3533664
It still isn't murder, dude. In fact, it's most likely even more traumatic for her because she never intended to actually kill anyone.

>>3533648
Ha, okay. This guy being on base isn't TOO bad, going by a cursory look into his powerset.

Shit will hit the fan if any of the Fearsome Five or HIVE's head honcho you-know-who show up though.

>>3533600
I say we stock up on food, eggs and whatever doesn't go off, immediately. Practice exerting control on others as soon as possible, and practice with our powers during lights off to boost our power dice! The food is to hide our practice.. hopefully.

>>3533674
>Spoiler
You mean the Queen? If Kane is here then the Queen's not involved, I don't think. Probably will be after a while, though.

Right, seems like they didn't implant loyalty, but did rip out her PTSD. Unless she actually asked for them to do that, I am horrified. And we can't exactly trust her word on that.

If we copy an organism's traits, does it scale up to our size, or is it diminished somewhat? For instance, there's a mite that can run 322 body lengths per second, and if it was human sized that would be 1,300 mph (2,100 km/h), slightly past the speed of sound. So if we eat one could we mimic it to move at supersonic speeds, or just very, very fast.

Also I made a pastebin wishlist with animals with useful traits. There's no animals with for us to get mobility from because that depends on whether or not their traits scale up, I'll repost it depending on what the answer is.
https://pastebin.com/AU9cWSTU

>>3533703
>Also I made a pastebin wishlist with animals with useful traits.
Anon.. holy shit, I appreciate it!

>>3533703
some tricks just dont work when teh size is changed

>>3533703
I would imagine that it could be faster or slower, considering there would be less surface area to volume, meaning less air resistance, proportionally. But it also means that we need more structure to support it and more heat venting due to the vastly increased volume to surface area ratio. (Also strange stuff starts happening at such small scales, dunno if there's a special effect it exploits.)

>>3533664
Anon do you understand how manslaughter works and the traumatic effects it has on humans?

>>3533665
It is the point Im making. If he only gotten rid of the feeling of guilt from her traumatizing memory it's not that bad. If he make her feel good about murder it's very bad. What's yours point?

>>3533703
This is good shit anon. For now, we should probably focus on stuff that doesn't have a visible indicator, like the dolphin eyes.

>>3533595
I'm just joking around. I actually am one of the edgeanons. I legit want to eat people.

>>3533706
Eh, Most of this stuff I already did for another thing where the protagonist has animal shifting. Speaking of which, new pastebin because I didn't fully remove that character's name.
https://pastebin.com/L80b33XQ
>>3533712
There are totally exploits and smaller sizes. That mite would shatter it's limbs from the force before flaying itself from the wind if it moved at supersonic speeds at human sizes. There's a reason that if you start measuring speed by body lengths per intervals of time insects start winning everything instead of cheetahs and peregrine falcons.

If Wax makes Mercer fine with killing/using his powers in a more violent way, I'm going to laugh so hard I'll wake up the neighbours. That's just like splitting your group into the creepy forest where a lot of people were brutally devoured yesterday, then covering yourself in steak juice to disguise your human smell and start screaming and moving your torch to scare any possible monster.

>>3533703
We could go for the thing Salmon have
>Salmon and some other freshwater fish have an enzyme that switches their visual systems to activate infrared seeing
Don't need to morph our eyes constantly like this

Well, Looks like there's a pretty clear majority. Calling the vote and getting to work.

>>3533648

...I give up. I'm never going to slip anything past you all no matter how obscure the character I pick is. Seriously, I went with a minor character from a comic that wasn't even really DC, and whom I only remembered because he creeped the shit out of me at the time and I found him abhorrent, and ya'll figure it out in like ten minutes.

Damn google, I thought for sure that would take you all a while. Still, this at least gave me a good image to work with for him since I don't have those issues any more, or a means to scan them if I did for that matter.

He shan't be exactly the same. I'm taking some artistic liberties to make him fit how I want, but yeah, you're right. That is indeed the character.

>>3533703

Damn anon. Nice.

>>3533703
the only reason some some tricks work is the stuff that happen when stuff are small like a mite if you copy how it moves to human size and you are X times bigger then a mite then the stuff you are made of need to also be X times more durable/elastic and even then we are not acounting for gravity and air-friction
like how a bee is just the perfect size for it to fly

those water bugs that glide on teh water surface cna only do that due to water tension

but some other stuff is perfect that can be guided with by us and adapted most bug trick really depend on there size and volume

>>3533754
the most important thing is to be inspired by other animals and copy paste some so we can improve or atleast mimic it at a bigger scale

>>3533751
Always happens in established settings, at least it you use canon characters. I always use a bunch of OC. Also disallow metagaming.

>>3533754
Luckily this is comic land so some tricks might work regardless.
Superman is apparently solar powered after all yet has billions times more power than he should have.

>>3533751
To be fair, you did give a name. If you go to the DC wiki, look at the category page for "Mind Control," you get only one result from ctrl+f "wax."

>>3533754
>>3533757
but hey this is comic book land
>>3533759
most of the times its some magic crap or some other dimension it takes energy from
>>3533759
but remember we are talking about copying small bugs and animals as normal ones and so its best to copy a small bit and then improve it with our smarts.
Remember that the only reason why nature is this good is that they have tried billions and upon trillions of times, even then remember nature is not about survival of the fittest its about survival of the good enough its about living and reproducing and not using up more energy then needed to do it.
we dont have those limits and we can do with way faster with imagination and the human knowlage of the world we are like the eloin musk and einstein of evolution

>>3533751
I agree with you, he is a murderer and a reincident rapist, like really reincident, also now works brainwashing kids into weapons. If we're going to eat someone's brain to get psy power is this guy. Even if heronons win the vote and only take a sample, he needs to die horribly (or get a perma lobotomy).

>>3533751
All he had to do was a simple google search.

Super power quests tend to get metagamed hard.

>>3533800
But won't we become murdery rapey? What if we somehow end up having to battle for control of our own mind or body?

>>3533819
i think we dont need to copy his brain completly if we did we would just erase ourself just compare it to ours to look for weird meta stuff

>>3533814
Let's try not to metagame at least.

>>3533751
What if all the people had alias instead of their villain's or actual names? Then we can be left figuring out who they are based on their powers or descriptions and not really being told the answer unless we find out more about that particular persons background or history? It'd be like a game of clue or detective.

An excuse could be given that their real names are not provide due to company policy and to protect themselves from any backlash or something.

>>3533842
I try not to, that's why I haven't advocated or joined in on going full Alex Mercer ...... Yet.

>>3533819
>>3533824
We would just study how his metagen affects his brain to give him his powers and replicate said mutation inside our brain or a secondary brain to make sure we don't go full asshole.

>>3533861
Or this could just be an alternate DC universe with different names.

>>3533874
Like Batman and Manbat just switched names?

>>3533874
Nah, I prefer the "hide your name to make sure they can't track you" stuff, but I'm Ok with giving us a description or a part of the villain's name, it's fun to guess who wants to kill us.

>>3533600

Ok, they definitely messed with her head. That is not a normal reaction to killing someone.

You grab Tara’s hand under the table and squeeze lightly, shooting her a small smile before looking over at the other two, trying to communicate with them using your eyes to shut up and not draw attention.

“That is interesting Caitlin.” You say, “The doctor sounds very good at his job. I wonder when the rest of us will be meeting him. Does anyone have a session scheduled?”

“There wasn’t anything on my paper about therapy” Says Liz in a slightly strained voice.

“Me neither” Replies Ralph.

You look over at Tara and she just shakes her head no. Now that you think about it you don’t recall seeing anything on your schedule about a therapy session, so maybe none of the rest of you are meeting with him this week.

“They aren’t regularly scheduled yet” Caitlin pipes up. “I didn’t have the appointment on my schedule before either. Doctor Wax told me that for now he’s scheduling his meetings with students on a case by case basis, and that once he has a better understanding of our needs he’ll be working out a more regular schedule.”

Okay, crap. So you could just get called away to meet with this Wax guy any time. That’s problematic. In more important news your hand is starting to hurt from Tara’s death grip and Ralph is looking greener than usual. Time to change the subject before this gets any worse. You’ve found out what you needed to know.

“Hey guys guess what?” You say with forced enthusiasm. “My instructor told me the craziest thing yesterday. He told me that Lex Luthor’s evil and was working with the Reach to take over the planet. Isn’t that nuts?”

>>3533938

“That is nuts” replies Ralph, latching onto the conversation. “I mean, sure he had that partnership with them for the whole Lexcorp Farms thing, but that doesn’t mean he knew what they were planning. He was just trying to make progress towards ending world hunger.”

“I don’t know” Says Liz. “He’s a politician now. There’s no such thing as a clean politician, just one’s with better PR than the others.”

“Mama says Papa believed you should never trust anyone who makes more in a month than you do in a year.” Caitlin chimes in with her two cents.

“Mr. Luthor is a great man” insists Tara as she looks you in the eye “He brokered the peace in Rhelasia, ending a senseless war that had gone on for generations. A bad man wouldn’t do this.”

“Hey I’m just telling you what my instructor told me” You say “No need to get up in arms over it.”

“He probably just helped the Rhelasians to boost his image.” interjects Liz “And everyone knows how much he’s outsourced over there. It’s not like he didn’t profit off of it. No such thing as a politician who cares about people, they only care about what people can do for them.”

“That is not a fair thing to say.” Tara insists. “My p-..my countries monarchs love their people very much. They work hard for the Markovian people.”

Liz smirks somewhat condescendingly, and you can just see her gearing up to knock some naivety out of the younger girl. Only she isn’t just going to be talking down about someones world view if she does, she’s going to be badmouthing Tara’s parents.

Your desperate attempt to steer things away from sensitive topics is starting to hit on sensitive topics. Great.


What do you do?

>Grab Tara and leave for class, get out before things escalate. You don’t know how to fix this, so you’ll run. Sure breakfast period isn’t over, but you can just tell them you want to make sure you aren't late or something….

>Just let things play out, you aren’t good with people you might just make it worse if you try to interfere. For all you know it’ll be fine and you’re worrying to much, maybe you’re misreading Liz’s intentions...

>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...

>Write in

>>3533947
>Grab Tara and leave for class, get out before things escalate. You don’t know how to fix this, so you’ll run. Sure breakfast period isn’t over, but you can just tell them you want to make sure you aren't late or something….
Oh boy. Time to be a hero.
Also Eig, could we have a list of everyone's powers? As in the powers we know? Sort of having a lapse of memory here.

>>3533947
>>Just let things play out, you aren’t good with people you might just make it worse if you try to interfere. For all you know it’ll be fine and you’re worrying to much, maybe you’re misreading Liz’s intentions...

Half an hour, maybe forty five minutes, and then vote will be called and I'll get started on the next bit.

>>3533758
>>3533764
>>3533814
>>3533861

I mean I'm not really unhappy about it. I figured you all would figure it out, I just figured it would take longer. I hadn't really thought 'Wax' was a whole lot to go off of, but it looks like I was wrong.

I know that whenever I introduce a character and start giving names and more than cursory explanations you'll peg who they are sooner or later, and I'm fine with that. It really isn't a big deal. I actually like seeing you figuring it out, I was just hoping this one would be more of a puzzle.

Just have to be more cryptic if I want to stump you all I guess, but that really isn't a huge priority for me.

As for Meta gaming, well honestly I expect it. There isn't really much I can do to stop it, and since Meta gaming requires you all to converse with each other, and I want you to converse with each other and for there to be discussion, I honestly kind of want some good natured meta gaming. Like the list of animals thing. That was cool.

I might throw in an OC here and there as necessary, but where I can I like to use existing characters. For instance every single teenager here at HIVE with you is based on comic book characters.

>>3533955

Sure anon, one moment.

>>3533947
>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...

Our harems falling apart before it’s even begun...

>>3533947
>>Just let things play out, you aren’t good with people you might just make it worse if you try to interfere. For all you know it’ll be fine and you’re worrying to much, maybe you’re misreading Liz’s intentions...

>>3533947
>>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...

>>3533947
>Grab Tara and leave for class, get out before things escalate. You don’t know how to fix this, so you’ll run. Sure breakfast period isn’t over, but you can just tell them you want to make sure you aren't late or something….

>>3533955

Okay, so what you know so far.

Tara- has told you she is a geokinetic

Ralph- has told you his lesson consisted of a video conference with poison ivy and controlling some giant vines

Liz- Has shown you her power by arcing electricity between her fingers.

Caitlin- Has just told you how she "popped" a guys head by slapping him.

White haired kid -you saw frost gathering when he was squaring up with Caitlin during the argument in the first dinner hour.

Silver haired girl - Floated, had her hair turn weightless and her eyes turn into black pits, and somehow knew Caitlin had killed someone

The Black Kid - You're pretty sure you've seen him changing heights out of the corner of your eye.

Doctor Wax- was clearly able to alter Caitlin's mental state.

Larson- Turned his hand into a fucking Velociraptor.

Mammoth- was huge and deformed, but incredibly fast and strong.

Psimon- weaponized a children's game as his preferred method of controlling people.

I'm pretty sure that all the instances of Meta-human ability we've encountered so far.

>>3533947
>>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...
Panic! Gotta try to diffuse it somehow! Uh, er...
>So, Liz, it turns out I really can grow myself anywhere!

>>3533982
>Silver haired girl
We should really figure out what exactly her power is. If it's some extrasensory type thing where she reads people's secrets or something, could be useful in escaping if we need to find something.

>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...
>So... do you guys like Bionicles?
First step to diffuse: make their focus change.
>No one? Well, there is something you like?, I like an anime called Berserker, someone knows it?
Second step: weird them out so they forget about the previous coversation.
>...I also like horror films, new, classic, I love them all. Oh, and drawing animals and plants, it was useful for biology and I could go to the park all day.
Step three: Make the conversation a little less scary so they join.

>>3533986
Anon no, they don't serve pasta today.

>>3533982
Thanks Eig! Awesome that you included the teachers as well!

>>3533994
With our power we can make as much spaghetti to spill as we want!

>>3533947
>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...
Oh god how do we fix this.

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Now that I think about it, we could strike out as independent if push comes to shove, being somewhat as an identityless nomad.
>Become an untraceable thief and mercenary, changing our identity every job.
>Have Homunculi act as stand in replacements for a portfolio of identities to use.
>League can't do shit since they can't find us since we are a needle in a 7 billion haystack.
>With enough preparation, can evade facial recognition, dna tests, iris tests, mannerisms, and much more.
>As it stands, with enough training, we could infiltrate any organization, even the league.
Perhaps our powerset has a slight proclivity towards crime and plotting...
Of course, this is if we go full merc mode, we also could prove ourselves a useful asset to an organization, netting us much protection as we become very valuable.
Anon would be a cool underground name...

>>3533967
>>3533977
>>3533986
>>3533991
Hell, if we're going down this path I just want to check if you all really want to hint at Tera's regalty? Personally I'd love to keep it under wraps if they don't know.
Plus it's not really our secret to tell.

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>>3533947
>>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...
>>3533991
>>3533986
support

>>3534007
We could always bring up our cool new powers and bring up what we'll use them for when we've completed our courses.
Should give us some insight into our comrades in chains and change the subject.
Again.
Poor Tara.

>>3534007
Nope, if she doesn't want to tell everyone her secret, we should respect it (and if she wants, she'll do it wwhen she feels ready).
As a side note: Are people waifuing Tera or we'll wait to see who else appears.

Well I'm calling the vote.

Also holy shit my sides. Give me a minute.

>>3534006
>>League can't do shit since they can't find us since we are a needle in a 7 billion haystack.
I have a feeling magic bullshit courtesy of Justice League Dark could find us. I like the idea of being a meta liberator, though, which would benefit greatly from good relations with the League.

>>3534007
I think they'll find out eventually but for the sake of what little control Tara has in her life right now, it's probably best to let her be the one to do it.

>>3534016
That's cute as fuck

>>3534023
I may have a bias thanks to growing up with Teen Titans but I certainly wouldn't mind her. Not really into going after anyone right now, though. Survival and escape is top priority.