Dr Archeville

What do you want the Absorption to do, Heal him or Boost some other power? If it Boosts his Blast, you could just have a rank in Blast (or even no ranks), at the cost of not being able to fire blasts unless he's absorbed some electricity. You could fit Transmit into the Alternate/Energy form; before transmitting he first converts his body into pure energy. You might could have the Datalink & Cyberspace power be an AP of the Transmit. In a given round, he can control computers or travel across/through them.

My one niggling comment/request would be to combine "Benefit (knights of the round table)" and "Wealth x2" into "Benefit 3 (Status [Knight of the Round Table], Wealth 2)".

Round 0 Players Grimalkin -- Full Health -- 1 HP ManBat -- Full Health -- 1 HP Nightrival -- Full Health -- 3 HP Reflexion -- Full Health -- 1 HP Initiative Orders 29 -- Hispanic Woman 28 -- Nightrival 26 -- Asian Woman 22 -- Reflexion 21 -- Slick Willie 21 -- Heavy 20 -- "Twitchy Pete" 19 -- Druggies (6) 17 -- Grimalkin 15 -- Manbat EDIT: I've just figured out what those Labyrinth people are doing there. It's deliciously horrific ;)

Ah, good to know!

Yes, since they're separate powers/not in an Array, and because both require only a Free action to activate. (And you can take a number of Free actions in a round equal to your Dex or Int modifier +1, with a minimum of one.)

It can also be useful for attribute vs. attribute contests (like an arm-wrestling match). If the result on the roll (d20 + relevant attribute modifier) is a tie, winner is the one with the highest ability score. At least, that's one way I've seen odd scores used.

Gotcha 8-)

Pelle, is Reflexion moving stealthily as he enters the crackhouse and walking amongst the druggies? If so, please make a Stealth check. If not...well, you'll find out :twisted:

According to Kenson himself, ol' Jack only aplies as many ranks of Penetrating as the host body has in melee damage, up to a maximum of +18.

It's cool as-is. You -- and the others -- should go ahead and roll initiative, though ;)

I'm not sure you can do that, much the same as you can't have more ranks in Impervious than you have in actual Toughness.

You don't need Mighty on your Enhanced Strength.

Before anyone could voice any real response, Archeville administered the first compound to the three samples, then waited a moment. "If zhis procedure vorks, zhese fresh samples should show some indication of it. It may not be much, Dryad, und may not even be visible to zhe naked eye, so do not be discouraged if ve do not see any immediate change." The super-scientist gave what was probably an attempt at a reassuring smile, though being in full "working" mode made it seem a tad disturbing. "Und now zhat zhe first serum has had a bit of time to soak into zhem, ve can proceed to step two!" He moved the samples as close together as he could, then and aimed the 'remote' at them and pressed a series of buttons. A cone of weird greenish light shone forth from the device, slowly shifting to red as he adjusted the controls. As the light shifted, the samples of leaves and bark began to twitch and pulsate, and change into hair and a bit of skin; the collected sap turned from an amber-brown to a rich red. "Ha! Better zhan I zhought!" Archeville turned off his device and quickly administered the second serum to the samples, then took out a microscope-like device and trained it on the samples, then plugged a cable trailing off from it to his laptop. "Ja, ja, see! Zhe samples haff all reverted to a purely human form, mit no sign of reversion!" Archeville studied the samples intently for some minutes more. After about 20 minutes he began talking with Dryad, going over some of the mechanisms behind his serums and morphological energy field adjustment device with her. When he sensed some unease from the guards who felt he was saying too much, he changed the subject and talked to Dryad about what she would do with her life once she'd served her full sentence. He talked some about his own life and exploits, too, to give her some idea of what she might do should the procedure not work and she was still a plant-woman by the time she got out, assuring her that her appearance and abilities need not mean she had to be an outcast from society. At no time did the guards let her out of their sight, more than a foot from them, or less than 15 feet from the table with Archeville's equipment. After about an hour of talk, Archeville checked the samples again, and found they were still normal human blood, hair and skin. He asked to speak to the warden, to tell him of the apparent success. Dryad was escorted back to her cell and Archeville to the warden's office, since Drummer didn't want to use a phone or radio. Archeville reported of hi success, and asked for permission to test it on Dryad herself. After about 20 minutes of discussion and debate, Drummer agreed. [[ If need be, I'll spend a Hero Point to convince Drummer to let Archeville do his thing. Maybe some stunt on one of his powers, for a "Flawless Logical Debate." ]] Seeing Dryad escorted in and out of her cell so much was causing quite a stir amongst the other inmates in her cell block. They'd seen her escorted out before, put into solitary for being superhumanly disruptive, but this was different. They could sense something was up, something big. Everyone reconvened at the infirmary, and Archeville checked the samples once more. "Status unchanged, ve're good to go" Archeville prepped two more hyposprays and double-checked his morphological energy field adjuster which one of the on-duty nurses -- accompanied by two guards -- fit Dryad with a patient's gown and laid her out on a table, then attached an electrocardiograph (as best she could) to monitor her heart activity. Once he was satisfied, Archeville wheeled his equipment over on a small table, one normally used to hold surgical instruments. "You should not feel anything from zhe injection itself," he said as he held up the hypospray, "zhis uses an extremely fine, high-pressure aerosuspension delivery system. Zhere's no actual needle. You'll probably feel a tingling as the serum goes zhrough you, und possibly a mild headache und nausea. After zhe injection, ve'll need to vait for von minute for zhe serum to sufficiently disperse zhroughout your body. Zhen ve'll begin zhe adjustments to your morphological energy field. Now, are you ready?" Dryad nodded rapidly. Archeville administered the serum at her carotid artery, then took a step back. Dryad immediately felt a burning sensation in her neck, spreading up to her head and face and then down to her whole body, until it felt like she was on fire. Then the headache hit, like white-hot nails had been driven into her eyes and into the middle of her brain, followed by waves of nausea. Her eyes squeezed shut with pain, and could not hear due to her own screams. "It should not be zhis painful!," Archeville cried out over the screams, "und-- Gott in Himmel, her heart!" The EKG showed a wild beat, as if her heart were trying to send some message in Morse code. "Nurse, paddles!" A defibrillator was wheeled out, which she worked on with expert speed to prepare. "Clear!" 1,500 volts of electricity surged through Dryad's heart, with no apparent effect. A second shock administered moments later succeeded in depolarizing her heart, allowing her heart's own pacemaker cells to reestablish a proper rhythm. Unseen by anyone, the first shock did have an effect. It triggered the release of very fine spores from Dryad's body, spores altered by Archeville's serum. Spores which traveled into the HVAC system and dispered throughout the adjoining cell block, and introduced a slight change in the populace. Many felt lightheaded for a few moments, and a few felt a small wave of nausea... and then they found something quite unexpected. As the nurse and Archeville checked over Dryad, and debated on whether or not to proceed with phase two of the procedure, some odd noises could be heard from down the hall.

[[ If neither of you have/want to say anything else, I can continue on with stuff. My next post'll have Dryad's powers coming back & the prisoner's in the nearest cell block breaking out. ]]

Would the char know he's got a parasite in him? That it's watching/reporting on him? If not, or even if he know it's a parasite but not that it's intelligent/reporting, then it'd just be a Complication. So, he regenerates while in his own body/when not possessing someone, but the people he possesses don't regenerate while he's in them? Can the duplicates do anything other than explode on enemies? If not, thjat's just a very funky descriptor for the Blast power. Also, as a Sustained power, any duplicates made via Duplication automatically poof out when the original is KO'd or stunned.

Captain Communist has his first Утверждение . When he gets a second, he'll be good to go.

Indeed. I'd say you'd need to know where the actual physical location ("receiving" terminal) is first, unless you also had Accurate on the teleport. The cyberspace extra on Datalink is essentially a form of dimensional super-movement, and so doesn't quite interact with the real world. I'd say "electrical networks" would cover both porting through power lines and across modems/ethernet cables. You'd need to apply it to both powers. Or, apply it to the array itself, and it'd apply to all the powers in the array. Your homework for tonight is to watch every episode of Superman:the Animated Series that features Livewire ;)

The Mystic Knight archetype from Book of Magic sounds like almost exactly what you want, though that Knight's sword doesn't shoot mystic energy bolts. Though, then again, neither did Excalibur ;)

Oh, having two Magic powers is perfectly fine, it's just having the spells so spread out made things a tad wonky to look at. I'll give him a more thorough look-over later, after I've had more sleep ;)

That Black Hand power is scary. :shock:

Nightrival moves to the upper floor, while Grialkin moves around back and Reflexion goes for the front door. The three find dingy windows to peer into -- Nighrival's window peers into a bedroom, Grimalkin's opens to a kitchen, and Reflexion's to the living room. All the rooms are sparsely furnished, and what items are within are very dingy and soiled. Grimalkin sees that the kitchen has been converted into some sort of Meth lab, framed by lots of scorch marks from out-of-control fires. A very jittery man is inside, staring intently at a swirling flask on one of the hot plates. Reflexion sees several painfully scrawny people in the living room, two sprawled out on the lone couch and three sprawled across the floor in the middle of the room. A sixth is curled around a busted television set in the corner. At first he's not sure they're alive, though after a few seconds he does see some weak movements from all of them. Nightrival spies four people in the bedroom, two men and two women. He recognizes the rail-thin man in the purple suit as "Slick" Willie, a known drug dealer and pimp. Next to him was his bodyguard, the large Samoan known only as Heavy. He wasn't a Metahuman, but was known to use Max and other super-steroids to enhance his musculature; the fact he was able to stand on this second story without the floors giving way indicated that the house wasn't in too bad a state of disrepair. Willie was talking rather excitedly to the two women, one Hispanic and the other of some indeterminate Asian ancestry. Both wore revealing dresses that accentuated their more obvious assets, with matching purses, though neither carried herself like one of Willie's girls. The indeterminately Asian one talked back to Willie, while the Hispanic one remained silent, looking back and forth between Willie and Heavy. As Nighrival saw the clouds pass over the moon, he could just make out something else in the sky, something barely seen from the corner of his eye, something that did not belong.

For my own convenience Grimalkin -- Full Health -- 1 HP ManBat -- Full Health -- 1 HP Nightrival -- Full Health -- 3 HP Reflexion -- Full Health -- 1 HP

Rarely as fast as most would seem to prefer One of the unavoidable pitfalls of PbP. That said, now that everyone's in position, I suppose I can star my end of things.

The three heroes stride off in the direction Catherine believed the murderous monsters had come from, a northwesterly direction. One hero is carried off. You all soon realize that the critters came from off-trail, and thus away from the scattered 'street' lights. Though there are no patches of complete darkness within the promenade's foliage, there are plenty of spots where it is mostly dark (and so are partially concealed, as described on pg.161 of the M&M core book). From what he can see, everything looks totally fine to Nightshyft. After cautiously moving for what felt like forever (especially to Catherine, though in truth it was less than 5 minutes), all three heroes can hear the low moaning sound again -- and you're all sure it's not just the wind, it's definitely being made by some creature -- though see nothing that might be the source it.

Archeville gave Dryad a half-smirk, "I doubt zhe guards vould allow you access to mein laptop. But, you are correct, since your DNA is unchanged, zheir should be some vay to make it... reboot und get your genes back to zhier normal expressions, und thus return you to your former state." The super-scientist walked over to one end of the table, where several electronic components were laid out. As he talked, he took up pieces and began combining them, "Based on vhat you haff told me, I haff been vorking under zhe assumption zhat the technique used to transmogrify you vas similar to zhe von Doctor Grovemont used to turn himself into zhe Green Man. Zhat is to say, some manner of alteration to your morphological energy field, altering zhe amplitude und frequency -- like tuning a radio -- so it was less like the field of a human und more like zhe field of a plant." Archeville now held what looked something like a television remote control, though across the top was a very small screen. "Based on my studies of zhe few notes on Grovemont's equipment zhe FCPD und STAR Squad allowed me to access, I believe zhis device can replicate zhe effects of the devices used to alter your field, und so change you back." Taking the device, he jogged back over to the other end of the table, which held numerous chemical vials. "However, I do not believe zhat zhis device can render a permanent change: Grovemont's early use of his devices vere temporary, zhe morphic fields eventually reset zhemselves once the stimulus of zhe devices vas removed. I believe he used a series of chemical injections to make zhe changes to himself permanent, und zhe same vas likely done to you." Laying the 'remote' down, he began to concoct two separate compounds. "Zhis first compound vill make your body more receptive to alterations to its morphic field, und thus make zhe process of changing you back easier. It vill also make it posible for zhe device to adequately affect you; mitout zhis injection, it vould require a device far bigger und more powerful. Zhis second compound vill be administered after your field is altered, and should render zhe change permanent." Once finished, Archeville loaded both compounds into separate hyposprays, then brought them and the 'remote' over to the middle of the table, where the blood/sap, hair/leaf, and skin/bark samples he'd taken from Dryad were set. A huge grin had spread across the scientist's face, "So, shall ve test it on zhese samples?"