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The write-up of Mass Alteration looks good. I accepted Flux into the game. Please complete the 'Power' section, the 'combat values', and pick a portrait for him.

Thank you!

I’ll get those sorted in the morning along with his background.

Really looking forward to this! :)

@Delirium
Good point about the Blast power source. I really like your idea of Shadowverse energy empowering the weaponry to explain the damage it can deal. Maybe it could be a situation where, when she uses Blast, she's really using her gun as a conduit to channel some of the Shadowverse's energy into the projectile, which helps separate it from just a normal shot. So, basically, the bullet itself ultimately doesn't end up being the only problem, but rather what's coming with it. Thanks for that suggestion!

I've also gone ahead and filled out the character sheet almost in full. I believe the only thing I have left is Key Relationships, which I'm hoping to have done today. Otherwise, the rest should be good to go unless I've made some errors or overlooked something, in which case please let me know.

Edit: I also added an avatar, admittedly a little rough as it was cobbled together in an old flash character builder lol, but I think it at least gets the idea across for now. Will see if I can find something better in the near future

Showstopper is approved!

Each of you should also pick one key relationship with another PC. Talk it over and decide how you met each other, and what the bond is, and what you already told the other person about your background (if anything).

We also need two other decisions:

• Team name
• Base of operations

You are Upstarts, so your starting base is small and a little improvised. The example from the book were: 'unused library wing, top floor of an arcade, tattoo parlor basement, forgotten university science lab'. You can come up with your own ideas, but it needs to be a place similar to the suggestions.

So my PC, Dr Annette Brody, is in her 30s and a Scientist currently researching a cure for the experimental virus in her body.

What's everyone's PCs?

I don't have any suggestions for Team Name or Base yet.

Yesterday was busy for me. Gonna try to work on stuff today.

Same, will be finishing up Flux and considering the other items. :)

Flux is Nicolas Adrian Reyes. To his mother, a scientist researching Crystal harmonics, he’s Nico, to everyone else he’s Adrian. He was diagnosed at 8 with Brittle Bone disease, so was homeschooled the last 10 years. His mother recently had a breakthrough which she felt would help her son, so brought him to the lab for a treatment that would improve his bone density.

The lab was attacked when he was taking the treatment and a powers surge caused and overload and collapse. Shortly after he woke up in the hospital he discovered he had indeed been cured, but it gave him the ability to alter his density.

Now, for the first time out and about he’s a student actually at college and working part time as a lab assistant.

@Knighthawke Oh wow! Perhaps that's how Anne-Tibody and Flux know each other? Either as colleagues, or through Flux's mother?

Anne-Tibody's powers are created by her immune system reacting to an experimental virus she created for a place called The Institute, but she didn't realise until too late that they were developing it to be an anti-superhuman weapon to destroy all superhumans, so she used the only copy on herself and fled.

Maybe she thought she was working on something that would help Flux.

She's currently working on a cure for herself, for the virus still in her body, and needs to take anti-viral boosters to help her immune system keep it back.

That is definitely an interesting power source. :)

I could see his mother being the connection, and Anne having helped him find an assistant position with "flexibility" to help him do his hero thing as much as possible. :)

For a Team Name, what about "The Power Posse"? And for a Base, an abandoned Riverboat Casino, or ooo... a hitherto unknown cavern under Lemp Mansion?

I think I got the images I want for this character and his names (Inkredible/Shawn Bright) figured out. Right now I just have him as like a factory worker. Nothing really special just pays the bills. Possibly a supplier for the Institute? Just thinking of connections. The actual sheet stuff I haven't gone into yet. Day had a lot of distractions in the form of a hyper six year old. I did wanna ask more about the shapeshift power. Is that like a full body thing or can I like use it as almost a morphing mullti-tool?

To summarize what I have so far, Showstopper's real identity is Carolina Blythe. She's a 25-year-old college dropout who found being an underling for a criminal organization to be more financially rewarding than the degree she was pursuing, but never really felt great about it. After an assignment went badly, led to a near-death experience, and left her changed (the Shadowverse stuff), she couldn't avoid the reality anymore that her current way of life wasn't working and is now trying her best to build something new and honest for once.

As for a PC connection, hmm... you know, a part of me immediately thought, "What if Carolina was part of the attacking force on the lab?" and it could also double as the mission gone wrong that changed the course of her life. But at the same time, I'm at a loss trying to explain how she could possibly go from that to being on the team lol.

@Knighthawke; Do you think it could make sense for Carolina to know Adrian from college? I know I just said earlier that she's a dropout, but I could see her taking a couple of classes again to try and work on herself (or maybe just sneak into lectures here and there to learn something new lol).

As for team name and base location, I'm kind of terrible with team names lol so I'm struggling with suggestions, but I think Power Posse could be fun! Of the base suggestions so far, I'm torn between the Lemp Mansion idea and the forgotten university science lab. I like the connection to an actual landmark with the mansion, but an abandoned lab also makes sense to me, with 2 heroes having some science themes to them.

Tentatively, so far we have:
- The Power Posse
- Based in a secret cavern below Lemp Mansion (which is currently in real-life a restaurant and overnight lodging).

With possible connections as:
- Nicolas has brittle bone disease and his mother developed a treatment but their lab was attacked.
- Carolina is a college dropout and knew Adrian in college. Carolina worked as an underling for a criminal organisation and was part of the attack on his mother's lab during treatment for his brittle bone disease.
- Annette was once a colleague of Nicolas' mother. Annette worked with the Institute to develop a virus she thought would help Nicolas' brittle bone disease, but she discovered it was really an anti-superhuman virus to kill all superhumans. She helped Nicolas get a job.
- Shawn is a factory worker who works for a supplier of the Institute.

@Gearspark ; Shapeshifting allows you, as a full action, to 'alter your shape to assume the form other creatures or objects, taking on their appearance and physical traits for a few hours or until you are broken. You can grow wings, allowing you to fly up to 2 zones in a single (quick or full) action. You can use this to impersonate another character, although people who know the original well get to make an INTUITION roll to notice that something is off. A character with ENHANCED SENSES automatically sees through your disguise.

Possible Boost: Potent Form. While shapeshifted, your STRENGTH or AGILITY increases by 2.
Possible Limit: Specific Form. You can only transform into one form that needs to be specified when you create your hero.'

I think it's less like a 'multi tool'. If you want a shape shifting that can grant you additional abilities/powers, we can reskin 'Sorcery' (Sorcery allows you, as a full action, to give yourself the ability to use any single Power at a 'Basic' Level).

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Everyone else; what we need is a Key Relationship with another PC, not (necessarily) a connection. This is someone you can open up to, come for advice, a friend or a companion that can support you through difficult times. You could have formed that relationship after you all came together as a team. so don’t feel like you need to invent a complicated Connection. Think instead about who your character trusts and relies on when things get tough.

Also, remember that interacting with your Key Relationship is the primary way to recover Resolve, so having these relationships gives you a reason to seek out personal scenes with each other. Social scenes are kind of 'baked' into the rules this way. All of this goes for your Key Relationship with an NPC from your background as well. Make sure those people are someone your character wants to engage with. Someone they trust, and is a major part of their lives.

@Knighthawke How old is Nicolas?

I'll put Nicolas down as someone Annette trusts and relies on when things get tough for her.

I decided to buy the pdf to make this easier. Gonna submit what I have so far, but still like many need to get relationships with a PC and an NPC. Probably gonna be a union rep on the NPC side.

19, but if didn’t know would pass as mid 20’s

Sounds good! I've got Nicolas down as Annette's Key PC Relationship, but of course Nicolas might have someone else for his.

Annette's 30, so maybe she didn't have a family and idolises Nicolas' mother as a mother figure and kind of sees him as a brother, someone she can talk to, whereas she's trying to impress Nic's mother. Probably why she worked on that virus with the evil Institute. She probably feels really dumb for that.

That could work. She might have been there when he was registering and they hit it off. He would have had kind of an awkwardness about him because it was going to be the first time since he was 9 that he was going to actually be in a classroom.

I think the Key Relationship for Adrian is going to be his mother. They have a lot of friction because she wants to keep him safe and protect him like she always had. Now though, when he's got a lot on his mind, she's the one that can always help.

@Gearspark; Inkredible is approved! Besides the Key Relationships, you also need a 'Drive', and a character 'Flaw'. The templates in the core book has some suggestions under each 'Archetype' (page 37+), and you can also make up your own if you don't find something suitable.


It looks like we're good to go, for the most part. I'm going to start us on our first scene in a day or two. Hang tight ;)

Updated my Key Relationships, and with that, I think Showstopper is pretty much done. Looking forward to seeing how the adventure starts out! :)