I would think any crime fighting team, especially one shadow-organized by the military and intelligence agencies, would want their personel trained appropriately the same as cops or swat. That way if it can be avoided they could just knock someone out/tackle them as opposed to blowing them up. Conversely, say you're "caught without your gun" so to speak. Your powers get cancelled out by your opponent's, you've used too much energy and might pass out with another blast and need to defend yourself from an attacker with a knife. I would think you wanted some realistic scenarios along with the larger scale super battles. Like, we could stop a bank robbery without necessarily reducing the robbers to parapalegics or giving them cancer like our powers might otherwise. Still using our abilities to say, destroy their guns or disable the bomb they planted.
I would think this would be something all the characters get better at at their own paces and see the value of over time after quite a few missions. Conversely training enemy agents who might defect later with effective hand to hand combat skills lol
I do apologize if I've been unclear in translating the intended atmosphere, but I don't by any means mean to suggest that they're going to be anything but a super-human execution squad. The BIA still has no means of containing super-powerful inhumans, and no qualms about solving the problem with an execution. It's starting to get expensive throwing 3-mil-a-pop soldiers at the problems that the BIA can't handle, not to mention multi-million-dollar vehicles and munitions. Super-OP-losers-taking-deals are a lot cheaper, and there's already significantly less red-tape when they die. Having an official super team also like ... eases Inhuman hate in the general public, and the feeling of alienation in inhumans, and the feelings of justification among vigilantes, that's what I was thinking anyway.
I actually can see the opposite. If they don't provide more than minimum of training for the inhuman team, then they save on the money of training and it could be cheaper than spending on bullets themselves while granting some denial of responsibility when said inhumans get killed while contributing something to the world that hates them beforehand too. The team having a high turnover rate, especially if we end up fighting other inhumans would be "expected" and more worthwhile than locking us all up forever. But the attitudes of the world is ultimately Cat's decision.
Yeah, yeah, you gettin it, that's the way! We're disposable! We're not even people! We're like if nuclear bombs had brains attached, most people think it would be fine to kill the brain to deactivate the bomb, even if its a really nice brain! We're already getting a free place to stay and free meals in prison, isn't that enough money invested to demand a few meat shields?
@ Cheshire Cat
Edited. Yāomò has never really bothered to pay much attention to politics nor about more... unusual things going on in the world. The things he deals with aren't quite Inhuman in the same way as he is, but they are certainly Nonhuman and, to standard military, a Threat.
*steeples fingers* My worry is this; the game world has a parallel history to our world, right up until superhumans appear in 2030. I've been pretty strict with the other players about this, and it would be unfair of me not to enforce the same standards on you. Yāomò is also twelve years old, if my math isn't failing me.
heardddddd I understand what you mean. Nathan's own martial arts training on his own might rub off on others but nothing official going on in the team. Would there at least be like, a gym in the facility?
The facility they get moved to will be pretty decent living facilities as part of the PR aspect, a very gilded cage type deal. I could see a gym, a pool, that kind of thing. I even look forward to a characters finding themselves in a situation that will force them to go to another character for help, and having a clear, teachable skill like martial arts makes that like an open door to other characters looking to grow, it's great and I think it will come into play more than once! U w U
His skills could even become like ... a cornerstone of their protest against their handlers if he teaches them more effective means of applying non-lethal neutralization and forcing the BIA to deal with apprehended inhumans, instead of always being able to blame their totalitarian-level violence on the heat of the moment, or even staging an escape that leaves all of their guards alive but unconscious to make a point that they aren't terrorists or out to hurt anyone.
I'm actually kind of regretting not giving my character a more group-friendly skill that she could help others with! I'm not sure anyone is going to ask for help with like ... relay racing :P I can see my character ending up making friends with yours if they're both spending a lot of time in the gym. Kinda akward being the only two people on the treadmill every time :P
@ Cheshire Cat
His outfit may appear similar to the game outfit, but it is somewhat different as his is usually in shades of dark coppery brown and scarlet and he usually wears a very particular mask so as to not be identified .
And I intended him to be mid-late twenties in age.
His skills could even become like ... a cornerstone of their protest against their handlers if he teaches them more effective means of applying non-lethal neutralization and forcing the BIA to deal with apprehended inhumans, instead of always being able to blame their totalitarian-level violence on the heat of the moment, or even staging an escape that leaves all of their guards alive but unconscious to make a point that they aren't terrorists or out to hurt anyone.
heardddddd I understand what you mean. Nathan's own martial arts training on his own might rub off on others but nothing official going on in the team. Would there at least be like, a gym in the facility?
You are quite right, my dear. What is a magician without his secrets?
But, nevertheless, I plan to share some of them. Do we post character sheets here?
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*This file was last Edited on Dec. 13th, 2031. First Name: Henry
Last Name: Victoria
Subject Designation: S#14
Alias: Blindfold (Note: This is what Dr. Requirem likes to refer to him as, because his eyes are damaged and have to be covered by a strip of cloth.)
Date of birth: June 6th, 2009
Birthplace: Calinfornia, US
Registration Status: Inhuman
Power/s: Temporal Cognizance
This is giving Dr. Requirem a headache, but it seems he can see time. All of it. All at once. This seems to be what the Ink is feeding him, and understandably is very, very hard to 'control'. It is understandably overwhelming for him and he has asked multiple times for us to take his Sight away. You are not to indulge these requests, as we can do many things with his predictions.
The nature of these powers are mysterious. We don't know if this is actual future sight, or an algorithm that the Ink is feeding him. The Ink
It seems he can manipulate the Ink consciously, as well, occasionally using it's strength to boost his strength and speed, and projecting it outward in the form of inky tentacles. He seemed to learn this slowly, as the Ink was not a mutated Inhuman trait, but was rather thrust upon him from another. This means that it is not in his natural instincts and needs to be a learned trait, instead of an instinctive one, unlike many other Inhumans. Telekinesis
This power is dormant, inaccessible to him by any means, unless he has one of his 'attacks', in which a blast of impressive power is radiated in a small radius from the Subject.
Weakness/es: Attacks
The Subject's attacks, which have happened twice over the course of him being awake, seem to be as a result of him using the Ink too much, or otherwise being too excited, and it attempts a hostile telepathic takeover of his brain. Telekinetic power is radiated from the Subject, seeming to want to eliminate as many variables as possible - people trying to harm it's host, or stop the takeover. The attempts we've seen have not been successful, and it took him less time to recover the second time, so it seems that he is getting better at it - we haven't seen much of these attacks, though, so judgement is reserved.
It is our opinion that the risks of his attacks are outweighed by the potential benefits of his precognition. If we can develop this ability, then we would have the upper hand of any that might be opposed to us.
Distinguishing Marks: His dirty-blonde hair, his tall, somewhat skinny frame, and his notable absence of eyes.
April 12, 2031
-Found the Subject a little ways away from the telekinetic barrier while investigating the explosion of activity - not unlike James'.
Nov. 10th, 2031.
Um, we don't know.
Hi, this is me, Tricia, or Dr. Requirem, if you prefer, which most of the people around here seem to. I was pulled in - I use the word 'pulled' because it wasn't entirely my choice - because I was an authority on supernatural goings-on, especially with Inhumans, I was actually the one to coin the term, from my book on them back in 2023, which nobody took seriously, and they needed that to study this, uh, particular case. Not that there's been much to study, him being comatose for nearly half a year by this point, mostly I just discovered that the visual and sensory part of his brain has been absolutely exploding with information ever since they brought him in. No wonder he's comatose, right? So, that's interesting, because there isn't nearly that much information in the universe alone, which brings up some interesting questions. Other than that, there are two ink wells in where his eyes used to be, this substance, well, I've already written a thing about that, I guess I'll link it here...
We have conducted a long, arduous, and largely unfruitful study of the mysterious substance that is the source for his supernatural and, as of yet, inexplicable power set. It seems that the substance emits an interference that makes all things go on the fritz - a sort of bad luck radius. Depending on the mood of the subject, It's power can range from barely noticeable to completely crippling... in some cases. The Ink also has the power to heal it's host, since the Ink had recognized the unique makeup of the host's cells and is able to manufacture them at a slower rate than it normally generates. The replaced cells don't seem to be any different from the host's regular cells, and no harm is seen from the Ink healing the host.
The substance can range from extremely flexible to iron-hard qualities and can range between the two at incredible speeds, changing it's molecular structure on the fly. It is made out of cells, making it somewhat organic, but it cannot be confirmed if it has a mind of its own or possesses the qualities of a living being. It can be likened to a symbiote or parasite, living off of the subject if it is alive, and living off of something indeterminable if the subject is dead.
Yeah, and if we try to touch him, the Ink comes alive, disrupting my electronics and lashing out at anything and everything it can. After several valuable pieces of equipment were damaged, and one of my assistants lost a limb, we got the hint and stopped. So, uh, yeah, that's where we are so far.
Despite this, his brain is forming new neural pathways, shortcuts, if you will, to cope with the information. It's... amazing, actually. I think he'll wake up soon.
Nov. 30th, 2031.
He woke up today. I- he was strangely silent. He said he was overwhelmed. I asked by what, and he said... everything. It seems my theories were correct. I - I had told the board that I thought he could precognate, or some sort of temporal perception, and it seems like... it worked. It... looks like I bought him life, but... he's going to be used. For the rest of his life. I... honestly, don't know which is better.
*Sigh* Anyway...
I've convinced the Board to stay on as the scientist for more tests and stuff. They... really want to know more about subject #T0, understandably. I think they're intimidated. He hasn't been very active, but there have been... shifts that suggest an omega level threat. They had me study the radiation that comes from the telekinetic barrier, and I read CMBR, which is normally residual radiation from the Big Bang. They really want to know more, and a potential agent that can counter that, especially on a popularized, and televised super-team? Invaluable. They want to know, and they want the public to know, that no threat is really out of their control.
The thing is? They're probably wrong.
Anyway, maybe I can help him... and the others that come. And I'm gonna talk to him, tomorrow.
Initiating Incident: Unknown. We know he didn't have a very good home life, and the address listed for his home - the house turned into a stomping grounds for Entity #T0 - The Man In The Mirror. We haven't gotten to research this place because of a powerful telekinetic barrier that surrounds the place, but this suggests that he wasn't born with these powers as we assumed, but rather as a result of Entity #T0's... meddling. The nature of his powers seems to reflect this, as his brain can't cope with the amount of information he's getting, and his body's initial rejection of the Ink and it's having to assimilate parts of his body to accept the Ink - but it doesn't seem to completely cover his body like the Lost Ones and it's possible, in Dr. Requirem's words, that he was a product of an 'incomplete assimilation'.
So, keep in mind if a guy is comatose and dangerous, the BIA would be /way/ more likely to just shoot him in his unconscious face than wait and see what he'll be like when he wakes up, especially if he's already ripped an arm off someone. Also, the military is trying to put together a team of Inhumans that can help in crisis situations. Coma guy probably isn't making the short list.
I don't mean to be harsh and Chesh might feel differently, but group games live or die by players working within the constraints of the scenario. Not to say we can't stretch and mold the scenario, but it's tricky.
Inky could be made to work if you just move his timeline along/get away from the comatose idea.
First Name: Yāomò
Middle Name: Ragnarök
Last Name: Uzumaki
Date of birth: September 13, 2007
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan (officially) Kinryūmura [village hidden deep within the Aokigahara Forest]
Why is Japan sending a SuperNinja to the US to deal with?
Why would the US accept inhumans from other nations?
How do you imagine your SuperNinja dealing with the big themes of the story, namely people who've had their lives destroyed by Inhuman bias deaing with a world that hates them based on fear?
I would imagine that the BIA are extremely interested in the information that he's getting - and the power of the Ink.
Also, he subconsciously ripped the arm off of someone. He didn't mean to, and he wasn't controlling it at all.
(Also, it probably wouldn't work to shoot him, because the ink can live without a host, and they would have no idea what would happen then... For now he seems more valuable alive.)
I would just like to say, on record, in case there was any doubt, that I agree entirely with every post Baxter has made, and fully support those in the future. I may even have prodded him into making a few of them, for which I am eternally grateful.
So, I think I've nailed down what my cognitive dissonance is with Henry Victoria/Blindfold.
He's not a character.
Bear with me. I'm not trying to insult the idea. It's just, that's a plot element/mystery, not a character.
What can he/it do? Dunno.
What's the deal with his coma/brain activity? Dunno.
What's he like as a person? What motivates him? What does he care about? Dunno.
The concept can be a character, but right now it's just a giant question mark. Something to be investigated by scientists, not integrated into a team of Inhumans brought together like the Suicide Squad version of the Avengers.
What do you call a powered individual that was never human in the first place...? He didn't get his powers from Dec. 15th, I'll say that much - but he did arrive afterwards. Something to do with Blindfold's home life... Yeah, I need to, like Baxter said, create more of a background for the character. I'll try to do that today.
MISQUOTE!
"It's good to see you all here, mingling around with your ... various secrets ..."
