Dr Archeville

The dripping sound Nightshyft heard started the same round as Catherine's ritual; unless she stops or he makes her stop she'll be murmuring and drawing circles in the dirt for four rounds. It is currently the second round of her ritual (I'm keeping round-by-round track of things for now since there is a time constraint, due to the ritual being done). Would he try and stop her after a round or two? Would she let him stop her?

So much time spent in front of a television..... Alfred Hitchcock Presents Alien Nation Babylon 5 Buffy (and Angel) The Carol Burnett Show Centurions Chuck The Daily Show all the DCAU stuff (B:tAS, S:tAS, BB, JL, JLU) Doctor Who (old and new; Torchwood's grown on me) Dresden Files Eureka Fantastic Four (all the 'toons) Friday the 13th: the Series Fullmetal Alchemist Futurama Gargoyles Ghost in the Shall: Standalone Complex G.I. Joe (COBRAAA!) Good Eats He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the 2002 one) Heroes How It's Made Invader Zim The Invisible Man Iron Chef Jeopardy Kolchak the Night Stalker (the original; revamp felt "wrong") Legion of Super-Heroes LEXX Mama's Family New Amsterdam The Outer Limits (original & new) Pinky & the Brain Police Squad! Quantum Leap ReBoot Robot Chicken Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In Simpsons (and some Family Guy; can't stand American Dad) Skeleton Warriors Sliders Spider-Man (the two 'toons; didn't care for the live-action one) Stargate: SG-1 Star Trek (all flavors) Talk Sex with Sue Johanson The Sarah Connor Chronicles Tales from the Crypt Tales from the Darkside Teen Titans Threshold ThunderCats Transformers (original 'toon, Beast Wars, and the newest 'toon) Twilight Zone X-Men (and X-Men: Evolution) X-Play Your Show of Shows/The Red Skelton Show

Arrays in Containers are certainly allowed: the sample Battlesuit Archetype has an array (the Blast/Enhanced Strength) in his Container (his hard to lose Device). The Archetype Gadgeteer has an array (Blast/Dazzle) in her Container (easy to lose blaster), too.

Like Marvel has for the past few years? ;)

Indeed. And the two Power Feats/Alternate Powers are based solely on the pps in the actual Prehensile Hair power, not the entire Prehensile Hair Container.

No prob :)

Why would a limit on the rank of Prehensile Hair impose a limit on anything else? The Prehensile Hair power would be a part of the Prehensile Hair Container, like the Elongation power is part of Professor Fathom's Liquid Form container. In other words, it'd be something like Prehensile Hair 4 (Container, 20 pp) [*:20d5qsit]Prehensile Hair 5 (100 feet, 25 tendrils; PF: 2 APs) [7pp] [*:20d5qsit]AP 1: Deflect 5 (slow projectiles) [*:20d5qsit]AP 2: Flight 2 (25 mph; "helicopter hair") [*:20d5qsit]Enhanced Strength 14 (Limit: Only with Prehensile Hair) [7pp] [*:20d5qsit]Super-Movement 2 (Slow Fall, Swinging) [4pp] [*:20d5qsit]Super-Strength 2 (Limit: Only with Prehensile Hair) [2pp]

But do be afraid of our answers :harley:

Specifically, Super-Senses 4 (Postcognition), which'll take 4 rounds to enact as an improvised ritual. ;)

......... blast! *shakes tiny fist* (Actually, this was sorta something I was working on, trying to pin down when assorted adventures were occurring to try and formulate some sort of Official FC PbP Timeline. And not just adventures, but stuff from character backgrounds, too, where dates were provided. Unless otherwise indicated, I'm using the date the character was fully approved as the date they 'debuted' in FC.)

*peeks in* *raises hand* Doc Archeville's got nothing to do 'till Cosmicarus returns to do the "We Are Legion" story, so count me in!

I, for one, welcome a continuity-maintaining overlord.

[[ 3 days later, no one's posted anything, so I'll move things along a bit. ]] Suddenly, Nightshyfts' well-trained ears hear an odd sound. It sounds like rain falling through the leaves of the trees, though the evening sky is clear, and no rain is seen. Concentrating for half a moment, he can determine that the sound -- a focused dripping -- is coming from about 10 feet behind Catherine.

Alternate Form doesn't give a benefit, either, not cost-wise, or in any other way I can think of. And thematically, it makes perfect sense (to me) to have all the "Prehensile Hair" powers tied into one Container. If anything happens to the Hair, you know exactly what powers get affected. It's like having a well-attached bionic arm (one as well-attached as a natural/real arm): it's not a Device, but all the arm-granted powers are in that one arm; if the arm gets fried, you lose all those powers. Makes sense to put 'em all in a Container to show that they're all tied to the one thing.

I'd think a Container for it would make the most sense. What was said to make you decide against that?

[[ *continues watching, silently, plotting doom for the PCs....* ]]

Yup yup. (And I was sure I'd PMed you about it weeks ago. Weird.)

That's like saying Knowledge (Streetwise) has no use by itself. True, the use isn't as concrete as, say, Stealth, but it's always been up to the GM to determine how useful Knowledge skills are. It's entirely possible for Knowledge (Tactics) to be of use aside from the optional rules of using it to set Master Plans and set/detect ambushes. It could be used to identify someone's fighting style, for example, which can be used to identify the person and their instructors. Master Plan isn't for "adequate tactical decisions", though, it's for truly innovative and inspired ones that give a decided advantage, the kinds that take a lot of intel and scenario imagining to work out. (And are usually made well before a battle begins, or is anticipated to begin.)

But for how long? :P

Per the core book, Boost cannot be used to boost Permanent effects; per UP, neither Permanent nor innate effects can be Boosted. (Using Boost on an Elephant won't make it bigger, since it doesn't have the power to grow, it's simply naturally larger than a human.) I'd go with a rank or two of Permanent innate Growth, and then a few more ranks of non-Permanent Growth.

[[ I've got nothing to add at the moment; y'all can keep RPing amongst yourselves for now. Oh, and the Judges here don't really have any sort of "What you know of other PCs based on a Gather Info check" guidelines, so I'm leaving it to Nightshyft to determine what, if anything, Catherine knows of his character. ]]

Now if only Cosmicarus were back.... :(

Saw a pretty good movie the other day (via Netflix). Molly, starring stars Elisabeth Shue, Aaron Eckhart, and Jill Hennessy. It's loosely based on one of my favorite sci-fi stories, Flowers for Algernon. I recommend it.

[[ Spectre, Catherine actually sees Nightshyft near the scene. You may act accordingly. ]]

I hope not! *pokes Cosmicarus*