Grrl Power #355 – Aerial areal detour
Sydney’s wrist-com and choker… (I mean cool tactical throat mic that’s not sexualized at all, especially when Maxima confronted Arianna about it when they were originally proposed…) Anyway, they both have trackers in them, so it would be simple for Maxima to find her.
When you ask people what super power they’d like to have, I think the answer varies based on their demographics. Kids tends to want to fly, partially because that would be awesome and partially because they haven’t thought of more subtle and complex powers like probability manipulation that would let them clean up in Vegas or lotteries or whatever. Especially young males may give you the answer along the lines of “Be able to drive a tank” or “Have a dinosaur as a friend” because the concept of super powers may not be entirely clear to them, though both of those things would certainly be pretty sweet to a 6 year old. Adolescent males will as often as not answer “invisibility”… because they are adolescent males, though that may be an artifact of every generation before recent ones where unlimited access to seeing naked women is a few keystrokes away. “The internet in my head” might be a viable answer these days.
I have little insight into what females of any given age may answer beyond the usual popular choices of flight and, well, to be fair, invisibility still probably ranks highly, though perhaps not for as unrelentingly prurient reasons. A female friend of mine once answered the question with “invisibility” but it was so she could not be noticed… not like a thief, but so she could escape embarrassing social situations.
If I had to pick now, excluding any big universe altering power like one might find on the Infinity Gauntlet, I’d probably go with Harem’s power, so I could draw this comic faster, but also work on one or two other comics I have buzzing around in my head. (And still have time to play video games) That or some sort of skill copying powers like the Taskmaster. I’d go around conventions shaking the hands of all my favorite comic artists and writers. And maybe one guy who was a super successful commodities broker.
Update: Fixed Max’s missing hat logo and posted a wallpaper-ish sized version over at DA.
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I think i would have to go with Contessa’s power from the Worm web serial. If you can visualize it and it is possible you know exactly how to do it and have the ability to go through the steps perfectly. It would be easy to use this power to tech your way out of physical vulnerabilities.
The shark guy’s ‘become whoever kills you and keep all the powers’ would be better imo.
The Butcher? I think that would be a kinda sucky power. Especially if you get to keep the minds of the other Butchers. Imagine 12 voices in your head, telling you what to do.
I think Contessa’s Path to Victory, would be the most OP, but not the power i want. I think i would like Shapeshifting. Not like Mystique, but total Shapeshifting. Organs, DNA, Abilities. Everything. But i’ll still have to keep my own mind, even if i transform into a cat or a tree
Utterly OP in a Mary Sue kind of way. Also could be put to a lot of good as well. Deal with political situations and could end world hunger if it is possible to do so.
All those extra minds and a fraction of their power? Plus you have to kill a super (if there are any more) before it even kicks in. You have no innate abilities yourself.
Invisibility isn’t useful for stealing, someone would notice the floating wallets. It’s for killing and spying.
I did a round of ‘what power would you want’ with a dude I know. I came up with the ability to manipulate all matter like magneto squared……and having a prehensile, size shifting penis that could lift cars. The next convo involved a million dollars to have random spontaneous orgasms throughout the day……..which i followed up with “and you work at a preschool”. I think we almost got kicked outta the bar.
Invisibility comes with alot of conditions. Is only your body invisible, or also your clothes? If not, you can really only use it around the equator, or during very warm summers.
If your clothes come with you, how exactly does your power determin what to effect? Is it a field extending out of you? If it’s a field, you’d be easy to spot when you are close to anything (as that’d be partially effected)
Maybe a cloak, a la Harry Potter?
The Taskmaster DOESN’T have skill copying ability, he has ACTION copying ability. His shaking an artists hand would do nothing, and watching them draw a picture would allow him to draw an IDENTICAL drawing, it wouldn’t give him the ability to draw in his style. His skill is to duplicate any motion he has seen.
Oh, well then, the version I meant was “copying a skillset” which would be super OP outside of a Superman level campaign.
“Knowledge Replication” like DaveA, I mean, Prodigy :P
Ooh, there is even a DaveC.
But is there a YorpY.
Technically speaking, Taskmaster’s power is “Photographic Reflexes,” the ability to see somebody do some kind of physical maneuver & copy it precisely the first time he tries it.
Yeah, that may seem pretty awesome at first, but there are limitations to that, based purely on what his own physical abilities & limitations are. He can duplicate moves, but if those moves require a level of strength or speed that he CAN’T duplicate, then he’s out of luck anyway. For example, he can duplicate Spiderman’s acrobatic moves, but he can’t jump 30′ while doing those acrobatics, like Spidey does on a regular basis; Spidey can leap far enough to fit in a quintuple-somersault with a single leap, but Taskmaster could only pull off 1 or 2 somersaults within his own maximum jumping distance.
There’s also the additional limitation that his mind can only remember so much. He’s forgotten most of his past because of when he gains new fighting style knowledge, he keeps it instead of getting rid of the last fighting style he had learned.
Also he is losing his mind as more and more of it becomes filled with combat abilities or did they change that?
Well he’s forgotten most of his past as a result, so yes :)
For me it would be a toss up between flying and the ability to stick to walls like a gecko.
You could use flying to pretend to stick to walls like a gecko.
True but flying doesn’t give me the ability to stick to just about anything and everything like gecko can, and I don’t have to stay conscious in order to stay stuck either.
So basically, you’d want to be Kif from Futurama.
Who’s Kif?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4f2vYh0EsM
The superpower to manipulate probability is pretty OP when you think about it.
“What’s the chance I’ll have the ability to fly when I wake up tomorrow? 0%? lets make that 100%.”
It can get you everything.
Ordinarily the probability has to be non-zero for there to be anything to manipulate.
Everything involving matter, including teleportation or creating stuff from nowhere has a non-zero probability…
For practical applications to this, read Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s guide to galaxy. ;)
So, yes, I’d say manipulation of probability could be one insanely OP power.
Plus it makes for AWESOME one-liners:
“So, what do you think is the probability of your gun getting jammed right now…?”
This hero’s name would be Ex Machina.
That’s Domino’s power. (And at one point Black Cat’s) It’s why such things happen like an opponent’s gun jams when it’s against her head or an explosion leaves a couple crossbeam in JUST the right place she doesn’t get hurt.
See Curveball.
Suddenly growing wings overnight is a little over the top.
I’d prefer a more sublte version, basicly having ultimate luck
Luck is a double-edged sword…Would you like Ultimate Good Luck, or Ultimate Bad Luck?
;)
Me, I’d prefer getting Ultimate Serendipity.
I want control over my luck
By definition, “serendipity” is always good luck (the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for). There’s no real need to control it.
I feel like when people are asked what power they want, a majority of them immediately start acting like Min-Max’ers :)
So Sydney leaves behind a rainbow trail and Maxima leaves a gold one… Hmmm. Reminds me of Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust…
Shapeshifting’d be my go-to if I’d be able to alter my mass.
I’d probably have to go with mind control. The things I could accomplish if only I could make the people who run this world think like me during a few key decisions…
*sigh*
Control with no wisdom. Nor any check or balance.* We all think we know what is best for the world. And you can guarantee that there are things which we have gotten wrong or have failed to consider. Some of which could have disastrous consequences, if the actions were implemented on a global scale.
Except for executing all paparazzi of course. That one is a perfect policy decision!
* I quite like the ’10th man’ concept described in World War Z. A good example of how even majority decisions can lack wisdom, if there is no dissent. Let alone minority of one decisions.
If people have the option to chose they chose wrong~ Said by all Marxists
I’d want high-end extremely free-form shapeshifting.
Then I’d move to Japan and get a job in the adult film industry. ;)
Could make for some awesome credits if everyone was played by the same person.
But you still couldn’t “go fuck yourself”.
Sure he could…If he shape-shifted into a particular configuration of siamese twins…
O.o
I was thinking more in the subgenre of “live action tentacle porn,” which needs better special effects. :D
Damn, lol, how could I not think of this possibility? :D
Then again, it might be harder finding actresses for live action tentacle porn…
You only need a few, and I’m willing to bet the ‘willing to be in porn’ and ‘has a kink for tentacles’ groups have at least a few common members.
Japan already produces live action tentacle porn. It’s just that the special effects are really bad.
I could imagine it is quite different for an actress to ride a CGI tentacle than to actually be impaled by a real tentacle though. ;)
CGI? You think they can afford CGI?
It’s all poorly puppeted plastic and rubber.
Sydney just made a sonic rainboom!
And in case no one has mentioned it yet, we really need that last panel in wallpaper format.
To me it looks like the cover page to one of those seventies era girl ’empowerment’ comics. They would probably call it something like the crime-fighting duo of “Rainbow Girl’ and ‘Glitter Gal’.
{* engage rant mode *}
They would of course have to lose the fatigues and be wearing pretty pink princess gowns or something. And throw in a pet unicorn for good measure. Because, you know, girls can’t possibly be interested in something for its own sake, like encouraging them towards a career in technology or the sciences. It has to have rainbows and sparkles in it for them to understand it.
{* disengage rant mode *}
Yeah, my niece got into archery and she got irritated that they had a “girl’s” line of compound bows that were all basically just Hot Pink and Purple Camo skins on the same bow her dad was using.
Daisy came out with a ‘girls’ BB gun. Of course it is bright pink.
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My neighbor made this:
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(See the top right-hand corner)
Ooh, how sweet. I hope it is fully functional? You would not want her to brew up a batch of mustard gas, only to find she was wearing a placebo gas mask!
You know, for a superpower I’d pick (flying is a good one way up there on my list but not #1) Telekinesis. Able to move object of near any size or mass with just my mind… Hell yeah.
Yeah, because you could fly yourself, just as easily as you could make anything else fly. You wouldn’t even have to worry about wind resistance or even inertia while flying, because you can manipulate the inertia of your own body & manipulate the air into a sufficient windshield that would still allow you to breathe.
My power would have to be super intellect paired with time manipulation. I want to be able to walk into a library, stop time and read the whole thing. And have the intelligence and memory capacity to remember and utilize the whole thing.
Sucks that the air would stop too
Ahh, but time manipulation, combined with a super-intellect would find a solution easily. For the purpose described a groundhog day would do the trick just as well. And prevent psychological problems from what would otherwise amount to indefinite solitary confinement.
Of course there is the boredom factor of the same things always happening/being said. But it is just an example of a more viable alternative, as opposed to being a perfect solution. And those books will provide inspiring alternatives, in their own right.
Time Manipulation doesn’t equal Time Stop, nothing prevents me from cycling fresh air into my time bubble.
The Solitary Confinement thing would be an issue, but I would just bring other people in to the bubble for a chat when I start going stir crazy then drop them out of it again when I am ready to return to reading.
Stopping time for everything around you doesn’t stop you from aging though.
So you’d age way faster than everyone else (depending on how often you use it)
Time Manipulation and super intellect means I could learn enough about aging and medicine to selectively de-age my cells, reversing any age based degradation.
I love opting for an IQ upgrade, myself. But do appreciate there is a huge flaw integral to that wish.
The last word in your quote being the problem. How you think is an integral part of what you are.
If you yank the CPU out of your computer, and put in a new one, it will still look the same from the outside. It will even have the same memories, if the hard drive is unchanged. But the operating system might need changing to utilise the improved capabilities of the new CPU.
Especially if you want it to ‘think better’ and do things that the old one could not. Rather than just do the same things you always have, but a bit faster.
Whilst we can envisage ‘thinking faster’ or ‘remembering everything’ or maybe having a built in computer in our brains, none of those actually make us more creative, inventive or likely to win a Nobel prize. Trouble is the former we could retain our sense of self if we gained them. The latter though, we would cease to be who we are and become whatever or whoever it was that could do those things.
Yorp would cease to exist and Einstein II would come into existence. I don’t want to die!
If I get mentally enhanced, I want it to only be in limited ways, that do not alter how I think, but just improves aspects such as I listed above. For instance it would be cool to get a ‘music appreciation’ upgrade. But that comes with a risk.
It might incorporate a ‘rap appreciation’ module. If I woke up liking that, and having an urge to wear baggy trousers, with the crotch dangling down at about knee height, I would no longer be me. I will have been possessed by some hip hop demon!
You gotta go duel core, you can run on one if you need to, or flip the other on and win all the chesses.
Yup. This whole idea of what changes would be wrought by an increase in IQ is pretty solidly explored in Flowers For Algernon, a book I think everyone has to read in high school.
So you want to be Dr.Who
Heh, it’s kinda funny to see Maxima drop the hard-ass attitude for a bit and be a little bit immature. It really makes me want to see more of teenager Maxima. A spin-off prequel miniseries would be cool, showing Max’s adjustments to her powers.
When I was a kid, my choice of powers was always either a Venom symbiote or DBZ-style energy manipulation.
Of course, it would have to top level 9000 to truly be effective…
My (sort of) power of choice would be being made up of a swarm of really versatile, really tough nanobots – kind of a gray goo. From there, it would follow that I could morph into basically anything, self-replicate, change my body mass (provided that I have access to enough material), and expand my cognitive capacity as I grew (since the nanobots would also act as my neurons). Also I could gain new powers as technology progressed. Forming rigid structures would be kind of tricky, though.
That’s a double entendre,
You could be like the nanobots in Big Hero Six… Those could make stuff.
Those aren’t nanobots though. Microbots at best
Fair enough, you don’t want to get much smaller though, smaller means more surface area by weight which means they burn easy… like, rocket fuel easy. Being a swarm of rocket fuel wouldn’t be ideal.
Even Pokemon picked up on this, with the Bug move Powder. Use it, and if the opponent uses a Fire move, it blows up in their face!
Incidentally, great weapon: flour and a match. Also a good gun counter (It won’t stop the bullet, but they’ll get hurt too if they fire–and burns hurt a lot.)
Toss-up for me
(1) The T-Port power as shown in the novel (and so-so movie) ‘Jumper’. Instant transportation, and the capability to do some pretty awesome stuff if I so choose.
(2) Time-stop / time-edit. Being able to halt time and then be able manipulate things in that state also sounds pretty awesome.
The fashion Ninja leader was pretty OP when you think about it:
He has the power to make you look fabolous no matter what you do.
Omniscience: I know everything. I know all things past, I know all things present, I know what any given individual is thinking, and I can predict the future, based on two criteria: whether you ask me the question or not and just how much of a bald-faced lie I give you as an answer. The pinch is that knowing how to do something doesn’t mean I have the ability to do it.
Flight
1. To hell with paying for gas
2. It would be a great way to pick up girls “I can show you the wooorld…”
3. I could make a killing as a private courier
4. I could make killing in private security as a mobile observant (Also, no pun intended)
5. Mount Everest, you are now officially my bitch
6. Search and rescue
7. But seriously, girls.
Well that depends on how fast you can fly offcourse.
I know neither are really superpowers, but I would love to have the ability to pick up any language so that people ask how many years I’ve lived in a country after only a couple of weeks study or (read: AND) a photographic memory. If I really push the boat out, I guess I’d like to be able to see the situation in which anything handwritten was produced while I’m reading it. but that might end up really creepy. sort of, here’s a medieval mansucript and here you can see the scribe gathering materials to make inks, there’s Bessie the Cow, Gertrude the Goat and Flynn the Fish (archnemeses, clearly) whose skins provided parchment for those folios… they would call me Bookstalker: The Hand of (In)Justice, i guess.
Actually, just being able to remember things like where I left the housekeys would be enough for now. please.
You would be disappointed many languages are so limited current translators know all the words in multiple languages. The current news about the Special Forces Sergeant getting kicked out of the military for beating up an afgan commander who raped boys has brought up a debate on the translation of the Koran on the acceptability of raping non moslem boys with no body hair.
…And again, other than being a political troll, I don’t see the what the point of this comment is.
My choice would be “Language”…
…as in, “Able to comprehend any form of communication instantly, no matter how many eons since it was last spoken. No matter how well-crafted a cipher it may be. No matter what species. Sign-languages / vocalizations / pheromones / facial-expressions / body-posturings / computer-languages / etc.”
The “flip-side” of this power would be that I would be able to speak/write/gesture/etc., in any of these languages, as long as it doesn’t require any form of bodily modification from the human norm. For example, while I’d understand what dolphins/whales/orcas said to me, I’m not going to grow a resonant cavity in my head in order to talk back to them. Nor would I want to generate scent-glands, in order to speak in pheromone-based languages.
OTOH, being able to speak-&-write in fluent binary would make me an “OMEGA”-level kick-ass programmer! And reading people’s “tells” flawlessly would make me very formidable indeed, both as a poker-player & as a lie-detector!
You’d be drafted by the NSA and forced to decrypt all our emails.
Or maybe I’d leave all those ‘horse-whisperers’ / ‘pet-whisperers’ in the dust…?
:P
Woof
Yes, well said
(…I apply ‘Belly-Scritches’ until the undignified-but-involuntary ‘Crazy-Legs’-response is impossible for [Yorp] to resist…)
(…without stopping…)
(…until the legs are too tired to move…)
(…& only then do I relent.)
“…& will there be anything else…?”
*lies exhausted, with one leg twitching, opening an eye*
Maybe a scooby snack?
Once you can get your legs to move again, there’s a whole box full waiting for you.
So, [Galactic], 2 points here:
1)__You really trust me to translate encryptions accurately under duress?!?! I might resort to misdirection, out of spite! Besides, why use a ‘stick’, when a ‘carrot’ is available? So, what’s the NSA’s pay-scale nowadays…?
2)__Making ME translate is a waste of my skills – just hire me to write a decryption-program.
Their primary goal of course would be to waste your skills in an area you’d be no threat to them… Welcome to government work.
It’s just like I said before (even though Dave already has at least a few pages scripted ahead of time): Sydney’s got a way of putting Human back into Human Resources & make people see with New Eyes.
That’s why I like her so much.
Heh…Making rooster tail trails over water…
Okay, so speaking as someone that has asked kids – boys and girls – in the 2nd thru 6th grades the “What superpower would you want, other than something like “all my wishes” or overly broad” question on the average of once a year for the last, wow it’s been six years?
>Flight is an equal-opportunity choice.
>Invisibility is WAAAY more popular than you may think, and again is pretty equal-opportunity.
>There’s been a massive uptick in “ice powers” amongst the female demographic in recent years for some reason (wink wink), it went from something I’d only heard one boy ask for that one time to a good fourth of the girls…
>This might be a local thing, but for some reason the ability to throw anything like it’s a weapon always manages to come up around once\twice a year.
>Given the context of where I’m asking this, you’d think “the ability to heal sick people” would be somewhat common but I’ve only had it come up a time or two.
Myself? “Broadcast Retrocognition”. The ability to see & hear the past at a location I’m at, and to do so in a way it can be recorded by a motion camera/recorder. There’s no way in heck I’d allow this in a Superheroic RPG I was running, or course, but it’s the power I’d want for myself.
I wouldn’t survive a week, I’m certain.
See Cian, in Awaken. (Check the cast page if you don’t want to read the comic.)
Record it? Is it projected on your belly like a telly tubby? or Fox’s Silver surfer?
After a quick trip to Jerusalem you could upset a lot of people by telling them “Sorry, what he actually said was ‘blessed are the cheese makers’ “.
I would allow it. It would mean designing adventures to accommodate that, but it is easy enough to work around. Knowing who did what can ruin many traditional story lines, but has no impact on others. Plus the character would still need to know where to look.
So just make sure that things you don’t want them to know about do not go broadcasting when or where a key event took place. Or at least make sure that it does not allow them to follow a trail to ‘that which you do not want the players to know’.
And, of course, it would allow them a lot of fun solving mundane crimes like kidnappings and murders, in the interim.
I just love the rainbow effect from the orbs’ flight.
Cryokinesis (Cold Control). As with all ‘elemental’ type powers, the limits are really only based on your imagination and how much power you can pump out. Sure, cold beams, ice armor, and ice slides are the ones that are immediately obvious, but then you can also create icy mists to hide in, make hand/footholds to climb up walls, go ‘skating’ across town, induce hypothermia in a target to incapacitate them, and so on.
I’d hope that you could do the exact reverse in many of those situations.
Always being warm would be a GREAT superpower! Because I’m usually always cold (even if it’s 100F or hotter out).
Both you & [Bayushi] are describing the same fundamental power, just using it in opposite ways…
…the terms ‘Cryokinesis’ & ‘Pyrokinesis’ are just subsets of a broader term – ‘Telekinesis’ While most view this as nothing more than a gross movement of large objects, it can also apply to increasing-or-decreasing an object’s molecular motion, to heat-or-freeze it. The main difference is one of scale, & whether you want to add energy into the system, or to remove it.
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Of course, you’d also need Immunity to Cold as a secondary power…Unless you want to wait in freeze-stasis for the next hundred years to thaw out after you first use it.
;)
Having a ‘computer’ in your head with your favorite online games (World of Warcraft comes to mind) installed and playable would be awesome.
Imagine the reflexes available at the speed of thought!? I’d be a PvP master, especially given how slow my hands have gotten over the years (and subsequent brain injury).
Think genie powers without the limitations. Grant any and as many wishes as you want. One can always wish over another wish. The limits are your imagination and your ability to make wise decisions.
Wise things to wish for: Wisdom; intelligence; perfect health; invulnerability; immortality; no need to breath, eat, sleep, etc, but still being able to do them; a bag of holding or access to hammerspace; and the list goes on…
Bad wish example: singing along with Oscar Mayer Wiener song…
“I wish I were an Oscar Meyer wiener…”
that depends on how literal the genie is being. malicious compliance is NOT something you want to deal with in this scenario.
After being cooped up in that tiny little lamp for a few hundred years, most genies do tend to get a little cranky…
I wasn’t suggesting one being a genie, I was suggesting only an ability (uber power) like that of a genie, to grant wishes.
Flight or teleportation would be super cool to have, plus you don’t have to worry about transportation until the FAA shoots you down.
Telekinisis is better because you should also have flight and shielding as a bonus… and maybe enough power to make black holes or wormholes and get the teleport thing going, albeit a dangerous teleport.
Mind control would make my life easier and hyper intellect would make it better, and with the latter I may solve the whole FTL thing and make the whole species cooler.
The only thing I need is a Lantern ring. Blue would be my preference but I would take a green. Just something to be said for a simple tool helping it’s user to do good.
I pick seriously posthuman superintelligence, with no immediate alteration of form-factor.
After that, the powers I wanted, I would make.
It’s an interesting thing whenever Larry King asks “What kind of super power you’d have” on his show. Interesting insights. King loves his invisibility.
My choice power would be ‘create snow storms at whim’ – as long as I could remain anonymous.
Why snow?
* Better for dealing with fire than rain.
* fun to drive in.
* makes for spectacular halos around the sun (look for “halo sim” or “parry arc” in Google)
Why anonymous? Most people don’t share my ‘fun to drive in’ opinion of snow
If you guys are going on what power would you want?
Power ring ala Green Lantern, etc.
They control light particles and on a macro level make constructs and shields based on their creativity.
The ring can do anything the bearer wants. So read a mind? Check. Learn a language? Check. Split atoms for controlled nuclear detonations? Oh yeah check. (That last one. Think about it. you do not need heavy radioactive materials for. Use your opponent’s own body for the reaction mass.)
And if you can control those lovely sub atomic particles you can also rearrange them at will.
Ring scan a device, then use other matter to make a duplicate device.
Step 1: Obliterate an enemy.
Step 2: Reform them into another power ring.
Step 3: … ?
Step 4: Profit
If i were given a single superpower, without the accompanying suite of powers, it’d be telekinesis, if i get the full suite I’d go for weather manipulation most likely because it’s basically a catch all as there is cosmic weather, local weather, even according to some things(gargoyles anyone) time travel and teleportation involves weather
Good Gal Maxima
I’ve thought about what power I’d want and it would have to be powerful telekinesis. Being able to control matter with more precision and power the closer it is to me. So for things I’m holding and which are within arms length of me I could manipulate on an atomic level, including myself. Further out to a certain limit I could lift and move things.
It would essentially allow me flight, great defensive and limited offensive abilities as well as performance enhancing abilities. Converting and creating elements and compounds would be very useful in daily life, not just when creating valuable materials.
The possibilities are almost endless I’d say.
So Sydney is pretty much TNG Enterprise.
She can split in two? EEEEEEW!
Not willingly, I’d wager…And somewhat difficult to manage if her shield is up.
If I had to pick a superpower myself, I’d probably choose The Gamer (from a Korean manhwa of the same name), with which I could live my life as a game, that is have trainable stats, skills, inventory and so on, even if I didn’t have access to full on magic, with The Gamer I’d basically have it more or less just as good.
An another choice would be a Tinker (term for a type of superhero/villain who basically builds technological gadgets and such) with a specialization in modern human technology and such, basically being capable of understanding, building and maintaining anything our current Real Life humanity is capable of manufacturing at the moment of time I gain my powers, or hopefully have that be constantly updating as the human race marches on.
But if either of those above are too complex or overpowered, I’d settle for… huh, barely anything comes to mind. I’d take what Achilles has.
Being able to combine materials together, taking qualities I want from either material to make a completely new alloy of my choice. Imagine the possibilities, something with the tensile strength of Titanium and the weight of Plastic. The conductivity of Gold and resistance to heat of Stone. I could make a fortune making new materials for the construction and automotive industry by making new and safer materials for public consumption.
I’m picturing Sydney mentally going through the trench run of Star Wars.
“Get clear, Maxima – you can’t do any more good back there!”
there are several ive been kicking around for a while.
1) the ability to travel back in time as an observer, and bring others along with me. want to actually attend a civil war battle? want to bring a modern high-speed camera to a nuclear test site? 50 bucks for historians, 100 bucks for everyone else, 200 for anyone film industry. don’t want to be able to change anything, and I want the future to stay a realm of unknowns.
2) the ability to permanently and selectively acquire the knowledge and skillsets of those I shake hands with.
would make college a breeze, just shake the professors hand on day one or two. auto-repair? shake hands with the head mechanic at a dealership. public speaking? politician or similar.
3) limited intellectus. that I know everything I need to know in order to complete any task. so if I wanted to build a time machine, I would know how to build it and how to use it.
however, upon completion of the task, I lose the specifics while keeping the general concepts. so if I were to write the worlds most comprehensive text on particle physics, I would be able to do so, and to later understand all my own work from the book, but I would not be able to perfectly recall all of the information at the drop of a hat. I would have to use my own book as a reference.
using the time machine example again, I would be able to use it, and would understand the concepts behind it, but I wouldn’t be able to state specific information unless I gave myself another task that required those specifics. (hence the need for me to make myself texbooks on the subject)
3b) telekinesis. no brainer.
2 and 3 are closely tied together.