ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)13:44 No. 509264 ID: 31e09c
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>"Suspicious strangers, oftentimes carrying obscure messuring devices and protective helmets begin scavenging the concerned communities. Could those peope be alien invaders, shady government agents trying to control the outbreak of a deadly space disease or the shapeshifting lizard peope that secretly live amongst us? - Nobody knows... but in absence of a better answer we can't really be wrong when we say: Probably all of the above.
>"All we know for sure is, that something big must be going on, that somebody knows that there's more to thos meteors, than your average news wants you to know. What else could those people be looking for otherwise? Our only hope to uncover this conspiracy lies with you, our viewers. Go to wherever those extraterrestrial events were announced to occur next! Search for proof of what's happening! We pay for every video and foto, capturing the mysterious events surrounding these meteor showers.
> "Don't forget to buy your magnetic anomaly meassurment units or anti-brainwash helmets in our online-shop before you go!"

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)13:44 No. 509265 ID: 31e09c
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>"This was Logan Kensley with 'What they don't want you to know' telling you all: Good night - and keep watching the skies."

"There see! I told you. Another independent source, telling the exact same story. Still think it's a coincidence?"

"Hrmm..." - I am starting to lose my patience. Chris has been talking about little else but his conspiracy theories over the last few days - mainly to me, since he hangs around my house all the time anyway. Normally I'd be able to put up with it, but since we'll be having a little 'meteorological phenomenon' coming to our town, he's way more excited than usual and the city's been crowded with a lot of weirdos. All I want is spending a quiet evening at home and not out in the woods, hunting for FBI-spies and aliens.

"Come on - I've got a good feeling for today. We'll get behind it all today."

"Urgh..." - I can't imagine anything worse than another night crawling through hedges - going upright might give away our position - only to end up empty-handed again.

"What's up with you today - you don't seem to be very motivated. Think about the money! Or more importantly: Think about all the glory! We'll be on TV, maybe we'll get an interview with Logan, like that guy last week."

"Unff..." - Well there is actually one thing worse than crawling uselessly through mud. And that's actually finding something and getting on that stupid embarrasing show. Last week somebody allegedly had found a piece of a meteor and developed the power of seeing into the future, granting him an amazing 55 percent chance of correctly guessing a coin-toss. If I ever thought, that my live should be even worse, being shown as the guy with the amazing superpower of being ignored when standing on a street corner on national television would surely do the trick.
I don't really want to insult Chris - in the end he's the only close friend I have around here - but I really need to find an excuse for why I need a day off of our alien-hunt.

you gotta take a shower. So much dirt crawling has made you feeel the dreaded 'ick.'

Hey it works for women!

>we can't really be wrong when we say: Probably all of the above.
Of course you can! The more speculation you include in your guess, the better odds some of it will be incorrect. Choosing all of the above in wild mass guessing practically guarantees you will get it wrong.

>Excuse
...are we even prepared if we discover the truth? I mean, if it really is a big government coverup, or aliens or monsters, aren't we basically signing our death warrant if we find anything?

That should buy you time while the conspiracy nut goes and sets up contingencies and backup plans and safe houses.

tell him these alien hunts haven't been working out but as to not hurt his feelings or anything like that tell him you should try a new strategy. You stay here and keep an eye on the tv, forms, whatever people are using to stay in contact with each other about this crap and he can continue to search the field. Tell him this way you will have minute by minute information on alien hotspots and can give him a call or text telling him where to look and he can do the same if he finds or hears anything. then when you stay here tonight just pull up maybe one or two forms in a separate window while you just dick off on the internet just checking the forms every now and then just to text your buddy so it looks like you're actually helping him. He gets to hunt aliens and you can stay home and actually enjoy yourself for a night, win win right?

remember earthbound. if a bee comes out a meteor you find be ready to break shit. a lot of shit.

anyway, just get some space rock and he will shut up when it dos nothing.

Man fuck going to the woods, the place will probably be swarmed with other alien-hunters.
What you need to do is go search somewhere where no one else will think about searching. Like the movie theater or your favorite hang out spot.

>>509270
there is indeed absolutely no reason for it to fall in the woods instead of on a house.

>excuse
What if the meteors are full of face-huggers or brain slugs?

maybe you'll accidentally shoot him in the knee?

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)15:38 No. 509287 ID: 31e09c
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I sit up, trying to think of something that might convince him.
"I don't know... Maybe running through the woods isn't that great of an idea..."
"What?" - he stares at me, his mouth hanging open - "But... you said you wanted to help me to find out the truth..."
"No I mean... uhm... Everybody is looking in the woods - Maybe something is going to crash in the middle of the city or into a house. We could just go around town - maybe see a movie as a cover. Then, if something happens, there'll nobody to get to the meteor before we do."
Chris starts wandering in a circle, considering my argument.
"I don't know... We can't go to the cinema, they keep taking away my camera."
"Well yeah, you always kept using it..."
"Of course I did, I'd miss something paranormal happening otherwise. Also it has to happen in the woods - why else would everybody be there? I mean half of those people have to be government agents. Who else carries around magnetic anomaly meassurment units. I mean I have one, sure, but you know that I'm not a government agent,... probably... You believe me, right?"
He looks at me, holding his breath and waiting for a reply, as if he's not sure himself whether he's been secretly reprogrammed to be some kind of undercover spy.
"Euhm... sure, I believe you." - He sits back down and loudly exhales. "...but, you know that's something else that worries me. Isn't this all a bit dangerous, I mean aliens, FBI, CIA or whatever - what if we find something they don't want us to find..."
"Well... I don't... I mean... the guy from TV was fine, so maybe... or..." - He starts getting a bit pale as he turns around wildly typing something - "Oh god - Oh god - they good him - they got the psychic who found the meteor." He points to something on the monitor I can't see - "Somebody was camping in front of the guys house, after he was on the news. He wrote he knew they were up to something. Then after some days - bang - ambulance - the psychic tried to commit suicide - except that doesn't make sense...."
Chris turns towards me, fingering on his camera "Why would you commit suicide after you just got that famous - I mean everybody knew that guys adress and phone number and wanted to talk to him - You don't swallow poison if you just got what everybody in the world wants.... unless..." He turns on the camera, pointing it at himself " ...unless somebody forced him to do it...."
He stares at the camera for a moment, the begins stammering: "I... uhm I... I am Christian Hoskins and... euhm... this is the... this is August 2015 and... euh... I have no intention of commiting suicide so... if I do you should know... they did it!" -He turns the camera off and hands me the tape - "If something happens tonight... send that to everybody, they'll need to to know. I'll go out there, have to, you stay here, watch the news, I'll call you..."

I take the tape out of his shaking hands "You should'nt worry too much... You don't have to go, you know. You could stay here. Maybe a meteor hits my house or something..."
"That'll never happen. It's going down in the woods and I have to be there." - I guess I got my quiet evening at home, although I feel a bit bad having fed hif paranoia. I hope if he comes home without having found anything tonight, he'll know, that nobody's out to get him.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)16:21 No. 509302 ID: 31e09c
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I stay on the bed a bit longer after Chris has left, watching it slowly getting darker outside. At least half of the town must be somewhere in the inner city now, watching the nightsky with a bunch of tourists and other sightseers. I hear my mom and my sister leaving - they probably don't know I'm still here, which suits me fine. Otherwise my mom would force me to go out and do something.

This way I can just stay here have a quiet evening - although I don't really know what I am supposed to do tonight.

Read a book! Or write one.

procrasturbate.

>what do?
Visit tgchan.org

Wait for a meteor to hit your house, of course!

Or I duuno, laze around. Take a long shower, read a good book in bed (seem to have a lot of those) maybe get on the computer and play a game, or browse the net or make some art? Whatever it is you do with it. Not up on your interests and hobbies, yet.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)17:46 No. 509330 ID: 31e09c
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I decide to read some books and randomly grab two from the shelf. The first one turns out to be a math book - I guess using my free time to learn a bit isn't that wrong.
After a while I put it aside and take a look at the second one. It's "Making Friends By Being Yourself" - I've read that several times, although it didn't really work yet - Maybe I haven't really understood the advice in there the last time. I start reading, but after a few chapters my eyes begin to burn and I decide to rest a bit.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)17:47 No. 509331 ID: 31e09c
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"zzz..."

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)17:48 No. 509335 ID: 31e09c
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Something wakes me up at in the middle of the night. The light's out - I guess a fuse blew - that happens from time to time in this old house.

there is a soft purple glow coming from outside the window. investigate.

Hey, look out the window! There's a dim, purple light coming from down in the yard.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)18:07 No. 509340 ID: 31e09c
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I lean forward over my desk to look out of the window. Something is weakly glowing outside in one of the hedges in our backyard.

Still drowsy I try to find some kind of explanation. Maybe Chris figured out that I tricked him into going out alone and is now trying to prank me. I guess that could be it...

>>509340
Or it could be a freakin' meteor and you better get out there before anyone else!

>>509340
JUST GO, PUNK! NOW!

It's either a prank or something real.

Either way, go check it out. I mean, what's the worst that happens if it's fake? You feel a little silly for coming to look? You'd feel a lot worse if it were real and you ignored it.

go check it out, I mean if there are as many crazies in this town as you say there are all it would take is one guy to see the glow and next thing you know your house well be swarmed by those guys, better to deal with this now before things get out of hand.

Get bundled up and get outside.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)19:06 No. 509351 ID: 31e09c
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I guess it's better to take care of this immediately, before somebody else notices anything. I sneak down the stairs to the backdoor.

The lights outside won't work either.

It's pitch-black and I don't have the feeling that I'm all alone out here. Maybe it's just some small animals or the wind, but I'm pretty sure something moves through the gras and the leaves. Maybe coming down wasn't such a great idea.

hold on to WEPON reveal THING.

Oh just walk up and see what it is.

got any flash lights or anything, that could help, if not just stay alert and just see what the glowing thing is because you made it this far and it's right there. After we see what it is then dart back to your home and see if you can't find some candles or something, maybe a baseball bat or something just to make you feel a bit safer. Oh and if you don't think you're alone out here call out into the darkness... after you are heading back to your house of course.

>>509351
Shaddap and touch it kid. We're gonna have a marvelous magical high adventure filled with wonder and amazement, OR ELSE.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)19:33 No. 509357 ID: 31e09c
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I shake my head and take a deep breath. There's nothing out here - It's just really dark - Nothing to be scared about. I take some more steps toward the thing. Close enough to at least take a peek.

It doesn't look like a meteor at all.

you're wearing more then one shirt right? use your outer shirt to pick it up and bring it back to the house, maybe throw it in a drawer or something back in your room. if this thing is legit it might be cool to show your friend.

oh shit, purple box of power. take off shirt so you can pick it up without touching it.

Reach out and put your hand on it. I'm sure there won't be any consequences at all.

>>509357
Touch that bitch! Not like you're NOT gonna get MIB'd either way. Might as well do it the fun way!

Eat the radioactive thingy.
You know you want to.

>>509357
We're supposed to be taking pictures and video of this stuff. Do that!

>>509364
No, don't eat it, LICK IT.

Poke it with a stick

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)20:56 No. 509372 ID: c199a9
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I slowly get closer and stretch my finger to poke the object - only to stop at the last second. Is that what everybody is looking for? Some kind of meteor capsule? Is Chris right, is this all some kind of conspiracy? If so taking that thing inside would be dangerous, but leaving it out here would be too. Maybe touching it wouldn't be that good. I instead wrap it into my shirt - slowly and carefully to not break anything. Well, slowly and carefully until I hear a cracking stick at which point i just stuff it into the shirt and run blindly back to the house, certain, that I now hear footsteps behind me.

I slam the door shut, lock it twice and hurry back to my room. I didn't actually see anybody, but by now Chris' paranoia got to me. Is somebody climbing up the trees outside to spy on me and possibly assasinate me with a sniper rifle? Am I already infected with the alien virus?

I stuff the thing into the drawer, hoping that nobody will see it shining outside, then try blocking my window with my blanket.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)20:57 No. 509373 ID: c199a9
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I sit in the darkness for what feels like hours, until I calm down. There was nobody down there - nobody is going to kill me - I could take the blanket from the window now, although I choose not to do that. Finally I fall asleep, only to dream from that stupid cube.

>"Choose"

"Huh?" I drift in a black void towards the pulsating thing.

>"Choose a power"

"What?"

>"Any power you desire"

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)20:57 No. 509374 ID: c199a9
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>But beware, the stronger the power, the longer it will take to master it -
>Choose to be almighty and you might die before you're able to lift a single grain of sand -

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)20:57 No. 509375 ID: c199a9
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>Choose to be able to control a single grain of sand and you wil have reached the limits of your power within minutes

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)20:58 No. 509376 ID: c199a9
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>Choose to be able to control sand and it might take months or years to completly master even a single aspect of your power

> Choose a power

ok so the more power we put into this the longer it takes before we can use it right but if we don't put any power into it the hole thing becomes kind of a waste, sounds simple enough.

So what is one thing that is practically everywhere so we can have something to use all or if not most of the time... I say we go with the ability to control air, as in wind

absolute power over your own body. bones break, you can will them back together. get shot and seal the holes shut. poison can be ejected because it isn't part of you. year head is destroyed and it grows back. you are not 100% immortal, you can still die one day if you ever truly decide to.

So... trade off between learning curve and power. Aim too low and you're basically powerless (like they guy with the 55% coin thing) aim too high and your powers are inaccessible, again leaving you basically powerless.

Transformation / transmutation? The power to make / shape things into other things! (Of the non-living variety. Including fleshsculpting and biomancy seems like potentially crippling broadness of power). That's a good general use power with a lot of applications.

Or if we want to assume there are going to be multiple people with powers, we could take power manipulation as a power. The ability to detect other powers, selectively enhance them at will, or selectively suppress or disable. Somewhat more of a support role, but potentially gamebreaking and great for finding and working with allies and shutting down opponents. Bad in that it really can't do anything by itself.

>>509378
I like this power. It has a nice focus, can be useful at low levels of training, and will be very powerful at high levels.

Can we get an estimate on how long before we can do stuff, before we decide?

I'm also interested in being able to project force fields. Like Green Lantern. Very versatile power, and we can focus on a particular shape at first to get some use out of it quickly.

How about telepathy? Or the ability to bring inanimate objects to life?

>>509378

Space manipulation! It's the coolest of powers* and no one ever picks it!

*Coolness of powers may vary with use.

>>509378
>>509381
>>509383
How about "mastery over thyself"?

>>509389
they are two very different powers. a master takes things to the maximum. so we would max out stats, for a human. mine can take us much much further then that.

>>509391
But mastery means absolute control of something.

>>509378
Also supporting this one. The lower-end powers I can think of like basic healing and appearance changing will be useful for surviving the short term, and in the long run... Lets just say there are lots of things we can potentially do in the long run.

>Choose to be able to control a single grain of sand and you wil have reached the limits of your power within minutes
Don't underestimate what you can do with a grain of sand. It lacks versatility, but pumping enormous amounts of kinetic energy into a small object is a very viable method of attacking most things.

>55% coin man
We should investigate what we can about this guy. Small but noticeable effects are apparently exactly how the bigger powers are supposed to start out, and reliable non-binding prediction (if that is what he went for) can become one of the biggest.

>How about "mastery over thyself"?
Wording it like that is kind of ambiguous though, and for important supernatural decisions you need to be clear.

One is Daredevil, the other is wolverine with control over his healing powers.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)22:37 No. 509395 ID: c199a9
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While I won't tell you how long different powers take to develop, I will warn you if a power will take a very long time.

Absolute power over your own body for example would entail a lot of other powers, such as:

Regeneration / Imortalitiy (unless you choose to die) / eternal youth

Super strength

Super Intelligence

Growth / Shrinking

Shapeshifting / Transformation

Invisibility

The production of any object or even living creature you want (since the power over your body is absolute, you could just grow an additional arm, then transform that arm into a sword and split it off from your body - don't need a sword / transform that arm into a cat, a loyal wife or even an exact copy of yourself - it becomes a bit silly if you take absolute power over your body to its logical extreme)
etc.

Considering that - this power would take really long to learn.

If you still want to try it, that's ok - just a warning about the learning time.

sounds like anything except EXTREMELY weak or hyper focused powers will take a long time.

what about concentrating on a single aspect to learn first and then get the others later?

by that i mean, a LOT of things can become ridiculous when taken to a logical extreme.

if we could focus on just one power at a time how long would that take (don't have to give an exact time just say if we could pull it off in our life time) cause if that's the case I say start with the regeneration/immortality thing and go form there.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/08(Wed)23:22 No. 509404 ID: c199a9
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Yes, concentrating on one aspect of your power would work, although absolute control over your body would still be very long to learn (it's not just about what you could accomplish in your lifetime, but also in the time, this quest will take place).

If we take for example control over the air:

If you, at first, concentrate on creating a storm, you go from creating a small puff of air to a strong breeze until you finally have a full grown hurricane.
After that you might try learning how to create vacuums or how to manipulate the airs temperature.

Yes, taken to it's logical extreme controlling the air would also be extremely silly, the difference to absolute control over your body is the amount of powers, that would come as a subset (just like being allpowerfull would have every single power as a subset).

If you want the immortallity part (bones healing, poison doesn't work, forever young) you could pick regeneration instead (since i'd consider immortallity the logical extreme of regeneration) - that would also be faster to learn (would limit your later options though).

Of course, if you find a creative and simple way to use a power, you might get more out of it, than it seems: Mastery of the air could easily be used to stop all sounds and create fields of absolute silence without having to waste much time learning it.

what about dropping some things? invisibility is rather meh. so is grow/shrink.

>>509405
If you could formulate that as one power, then I'll see how faster that makes you.
You'll always be significantly slower in learning anything, than any person who just had picked a singe power though.

mostly want controllable regeneration/immortality. such as, we get handcuffed. can break hand to slip it out then let regen heal it. if it is uncontrolled and always heals as fast as it can it we would not be able to slip it out before our hand healed.

Vitality Infusion?

Alternately, what about the power to speed or slow the relative passage of time for ourselves or objects we come into contact with? Effectively like super speed with some additional abilities (such as the ability to slow things), but it would have the bonus of helping to pay for itself in terms of learning time. (On the downside, that wouldn't be able to cover the aging problem, but being able to super speed in controlled bursts rather than as a passive effect should keep it from getting too bad.)

>>509411
As I have mentioned, regeneration (controlled as well as uncontrolled) is no problem in terms of learning time (as well as every other power mentioned thus far besides absolute control over your body as far as I see).

>>509412
that sounds interesting. but you mean like, self vitality infused, or something?

>>509395
What about a more limited power- the ability to supercharge your body to make its natural abilities surpass biological limits? Regeneration would be included in that, as well as strength, speed, and intelligence maybe, but shapeshifting, invisibility, and growth/shrinking would not.

The power to control powers: give a power, change a power, steal a power, take a power away, boost someone's power.

Surely you are not the only one who just got a power. And hey, you could then give yourself the second power of regeneration.

>>509418
I'm thinking along the lines of "shoving the essense of life into things," our own body included.
Vitality is the capacity to live, the power to endure, and the spark of autonomous will.

Enthalpy control!

The power to change the states of matter at will, and because enthalpy is proportional to the size of the system we could start small and through time learn to affect bigger things.

Like vaporizing or freezing a glass of water might be quick to learn, but doing it on a bigger scale like freezing a lake would take a long time.

>>509426
That is rather mystical sounding. To clarify, our power might be magic (or maybe not) but thus far we have discussed manipulating reality. Can we actually get a power that manipulates a false representation of reality? Like the power to manipulate the "four elements" or "be a champion of <a specific god that does not actually exist in this setting>"?

>Regenerative immortality
Remember in X-Men when wolverine got shot in the head and lost all his memories? Regenerating as a new blank slate is not ideal. It is more important to keep the mind intact then the body. Of course, with full body control we could distribute our mind throughout our body or create backups or make it so anything that enters past the skin is immediately neutralized.

>>509439
pretty sure the lvl of regeneration that lets a head grow all the way back from nothing would maintain memories.

absolute control means we eventually get to stop and revert the effects of aging. so that probably gives us enough time for whatever.

Aw c'mon, do we really want to do regeneration? That's so... boring! We got half a dozen quests where the character has regeneration powers. Can't we pick something more active?

>>509461
I suggested the meta power of controlling powers.
Surely we aren't the only one with a power, plus lots of social potential here.

>>509440
What makes you say that? Do you have any information about how this works that I don't?



From what I understand Power Over Ourself doesn't work because it essentially means the same as "Allmighty god in the domain <Our Body>".

If immortality is our goal I suggest going the bodily route only as a secondary power. As MrTT mentioned retaining our memories and surviving severe bodily harm are both issues that exist when we exclusively take the body route. If we do decide to do that I think "Improvement to natural limits" would work best because not only includes healing but lets us fight more easily as well.

I say we try to get a power that lets us exist independantly of our body. Repairing it and using it would still be useful powers but I'm sure we could find some way to repair our body if we have enough time. Relevant powers for this route would be:
-possession of things that had been alive within the previous [year/decade/month]
-astral projection / astral body
-self-healing
-improvement of the currently possessed body to its natural limits

I'm not sure how this power should be phrased to include all of this but even only going the astral body route would increase our chances of survival far more than regeneration would.

Looking at 'survivability' feels a bit overdone when we could be thinking in terms of 'creativity' or 'novelty' or even 'unpredictability' if we're feeling daring for once.

i want survivability because the predicting guy APPARENTLY tried to commit suicide. which was probably a gov coverup. dunno about you but when the feds show up and shoot us i want to not worry about the bullets.

>Power controlling
Yeah its great in super fights, but we also want to be able to do something if some nut with a gun (or even a large stick for that matter) comes after us. My proposal of touch-range time manipulation would presumably include people as well, people who might, say, have a power that it takes a lot of time go gain mastery of.

>Survivability
Survivability itself isn't all that useful if you can't do much else.

>>509473
The funny thing is this is part of the reason I said "thyself" rather than "my body" since it includes both the body and mind.

>>509480
also from X-men. jean goes THE PHOENIX and starts making everything around her disintegrate. wolverine walks up to her both melting and healing at the same time and shanks her. no one else could do anything to her at all.

>>509483

to be fair, that movie was a great huge piece of shit among some seriously large pieces of shit.

>>509480
>Power controlling
>Yeah its great in super fights
We can steal someone else's powers, we could boost an ally's powers, we could grant muggles powers... we would have so many allies that we won't ever need to directly fight anyone.

>>509490
what about when the FBI breaks in the door tomorrow or something? until we meet someone with a power we are helpless.

>>509490
In retrospect this might count as omnipotence, the idea is that we don't actually HAVE omnipotence power, we can just grant ourselves omnipotence one day if we want to.
But if we are not allowed that then limiting it to other people's powers.

>>509492
>Can grant powers to muggles
>Have a best friend who would love powers

>Need to fight FBI tomorrow
Ok that is nuts, any power that can give us a chance of doing that will have us too weak to do so tomorrow.
Maybe they killed that guy not because he had powers but because he refused to be drafted to the new US Super branch of the army? In that case being highly recruit-able would work in our favor.

Some other ideas:
-Infinitely growing intellect: Super-science ascension
-Mind control & telepathy: Other supers work for us... or be charles xavier.
-Teleportation: At high level can open a tiny portal to the sun for an instant nuke

Control over air could imply that you can drain the oxigen from the lungs of your enemies aswell so my vote goes for that.

>Absolute power over your own body for example would entail a lot of other powers, such as:
>The production of any object or even living creature you want (since the power over your body is absolute, you could just grow an additional arm, then transform that arm into a sword and split it off from your body - don't need a sword / transform that arm into a cat, a loyal wife or even an exact copy of yourself - it becomes a bit silly if you take absolute power over your body to its logical extreme)
Why wouldn't this apply to "control x" scheme? If you can spawn swords and clones of you from your body, why can't you do the same from wind control, earth control, etc?

I'll try choosing the most popular power later this evening, seems to be either some kind of regeneration or "power"-manipulation, although if you're not ok with either of those, there's still some time to think of something else.

>>509574
I understand controlling the wind not as being able to transform the wind into anything you want or performing any action you can imagine but as manipulating the wind into doing what it naturally could do (more or less).

I'd see the same difference between "absolut control over your body" and "absolute mastery of your body". The latter being the counterpart to controlling the wind, bringing your body to the maximum of its natural potential, thus being able to make yourself stronger, smarter, faster, enhancing your natural healing factor and immune system and so on - without obtaining powers your body wouldn't naturally have. You couldn't transform into somebody or something else, you couldn't change size or become invisible and you couldn't instantly regenerate fro a single cell or regrow a missing arm (although you might be able to reattach it).

Maybe this is all just semantics or up for interpretation, but I'll just interpret it this way to give you more options.

Similar the absolute "power over all powers" would, as you been mentioned, mean that you'd become allpowerfull (and would thus take much too long to learn). The ability to manipulate other powers would be fine, learning-time wise, allowing you to detect, enhance, block or even steal powers of other people, but not to freely create them.

>manipulate other powers
>detect, enhance, block or even steal powers of other people
I vote for that. Perfect for finding and recruiting allies, finding other powered people before the aliens or the feds do, boosting allies in fights, and crippling our enemies. Lots of interesting applications.

...and way better than just making another regenerator.

I assume these are temporary alterations? That we have to maintain the effect?

Would that apply to mundane powers as well? Could we make normal people better or worse at the things they do?

I'd prefer Power Manipulation to a regenerative power, yeah

>>509594

This would only work on the special powers.

You of course have the option to instead choose either the manipulation of normal abilities, enhancing or crippeling everyday skills, or of course the manipulation of all abilities special and normal (though that would be would significantly constrain your learning ability, since it contains both powers).

I'd be willing to constrain the manipulation to special powers only to avoid the learning curve. It's not worth the penalty to squeeze a little more utility out around non-powered individuals.

Biggest disadvantage is we will be vulnerable until we find allies (or make allies? I wonder if the box can empower more than one person).

Huh. I wonder, if detection and suppression are both aspects of power manipulation, could we apply those towards ourself? Suppress the aura or whatever- make ourselves undetectable to who or whatever will be looking for powered people?

look if we are going to go with the manipulation of other powers, that's nice and all but we would kinda be helpless against a 'normal' foe and even against 'powered' foes, while yes we could stop them from using whatever it is they have to try and kill us they could still just pull a gun or something on us and still finish us off that way (and our guy here doesn't look like the most physically fit guy around). so if we do go with some kind of manipulation power I'd have to say something more along the lines of mind control as that would let us effect both powered and normal enemies alike.

Still would like a body power truth be told, preferably the transformation one if we could give ourselves claws and armor at higher levels so we could go prototype on people's asses.

I choose fuck you cube get out of my head and bring on the purple martian dream babes!

>>509616

Actually, can we do that? Not the babes part, but the 'fuck you cube get out of my head' part.

Choose immunity to special powers as our power?

Then like, get our hands on a gun or something and just win if when we inevitably get into a fight with other superpowered people.

Or maybe like, the ability to suppress powers? And just actively enforce normalcy in your town, the rest of the world be damned?

>>509590
>Similar the absolute "power over all powers" would, as you been mentioned, mean that you'd become allpowerfull (and would thus take much too long to learn). The ability to manipulate other powers would be fine, learning-time wise, allowing you to detect, enhance, block or even steal powers of other people, but not to freely create them.
The ability to manipulate other powers sounds perfect.

>>509615
Name a power we can come up with that will allow us to overpower a swat team without years of training.
Any power awesome enough to do the trick takes too long to learn, anything weak enough to learn fast is too weak to do the job.
Also as I said earlier, the guy was most likely "suicided" because he refused the draft rather then just for having powers. Heck, maybe he really did commit suicide because he chose a crappy power.

Also, if the gubberment is hunting empowered we can just go on the run. If they find us they most likely have an empowered person with the ability to track others and will be willing to hire us... or we could just block their own empowered.

>Choose immunity to special powers as our power?
Sure we can, immunity to powers is a power

>Then like, get our hands on a gun or something and just win if when we inevitably get into a fight with other superpowered people.
Immunity to other's powers will not make us in any way less squishy, we will not be all powerful with a gun, we will die in our first real firefight. Besides which, they could use non directed attacks (TK empowered finds s/he can't move us, so they lift up a car and toss it at us instead).

"the ability to manipulate other powers" will be better because we could actually shut down their powers. So the TK user above would be unable to toss a car at us.

We might do well to remember that our protagonist is a young boy. I don't really think he's mentally up for tearing people to bits. So far my vote's for the manipulate-powers power.

Although, I dunno; if air control is still on the table I might go with that over the others....

Do not waste this chance:

* Fly, mother fucker, fly. Fly until you DIE!
* Clones! Make clones of yourself! Mastery means more clones! Soon (Or later), infinoclones, immortoclones!
* Psychic, be psychic! Or focus your psychic-ness into telepathy or telekinesis!
* Teleportation! You won't need to outrun the feds if you can just bamf! Never wait in line for concerts, free vacations, no traffic! And if you see a girl's boobs, you can just teleport away!

My vote is for flight.

Guys! Guys! Guys! Guys!

Two words for you:

Sex. Powers.

>>509680
Okay, okay. What about 'em?

>>509680
No thanks

Tactile Psychokinesis. Psychic at a touch range! With that limitation, mastery should be easier and it will grant us nearly all the powers of super man!

Wait. The single grain of sand idea.
If we can control it completely, we can accelerate it with our single-sand telekinesis until it pierces men like paper and tanks like cardboard!

True immortality (including immunity to insanity from sensory deprivation, perhaps by being able to sleep indefinitely when necessary or through some sort of astral form capable of intergalactic travel we could use to escape any such confinement, as well as the mental capacity for an ever-growing volume of memory) is obviously a must here, since given an infinite amount of time we can sort out anything else we need by way of science.

In fact, I vote for exclusively that; there's not much to "master," since it's primarily a passive power (perhaps dealing with large volumes of memory, or learning to leave our body and/or sleep for indefinite periods, might take time, but by definition we'll have time if those become necessary), and it will save us from any possible attack by FBI or other hostile organizations. Even if they capture us, we could just depart our body and/or nap until our prison inevitably fails.

Ooh, and the perfect icing on the cake: the ability to confer the same power to others. Sure, it might take lifetimes to master, but that's okay. It only matters that we manage it at some point before the rest of the human race dies out.

Note to the author: A lot of this power might sound boring and irrelevant to a quest-scale timeline, but it would position us to do what quest does best: diplomacy, no matter how overwhelming or hostile the opposing forces. Timescale can be trivially addressed with timeskips of any sizes at all

>>509688
To elaborate on the science angle: Given an infinite amount of time, plus a supply of immortality-granted researchers, it's quite plausible that we could plumb the depths of even the mechanism which grants these powers in the first place, and thereby attain anything else—that in addition to all the usual benefits far-future science can confer. This is why immortality is the only reasonable answer here. A thousand years from now, the other recipients from power will be distant history of interest only to academics, but we will still be there, continuing on, living and making a difference.

>>509688
There are those who would consider that less of a superpower, and more of creating a literal hell for oneself.

...also, I'm not sure how much diplomacy or friend-making matters if the principle strategy is to invinci-hibernate until our enemies die.

>>509688
Prisons for holding people usually fail eventually, but that isn't the only thing someone could to to us. If someone encased us in a solid block of concrete a few meters underground, we would be prettymuch done with for any human timescale.

Also, far-future tech isn't all that big of a perk when we would only get it in the far future when everyone else has it as well. And actually, there are plenty of people who died thousands of years ago who played non-trivial roles in the state of the world today.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/10(Fri)14:20 No. 509703 ID: 18db19
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I start going through all the choices I could make, should I become an immortal, or get the ability to transform into something or somebody else. I could get stronger, faster, more intelligent, or I could fly around.

"I think I... I think I'll want the power to manipulate other people's powers..."

The cube starts glowing brighter.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/10(Fri)14:21 No. 509704 ID: 18db19
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Of course nobody has tried assassinating me in my sleep. I feel a bit stupid about last night. I'm not even sure what really happened and what was part of that silly dream. All I know is that I fell out of my bed, that my neck hurts and that my mom is shouting something about breakfeast downstairs.

well first see if the cube is still where you left it, then see if there is anything worth while outside your window, then get some grub as food is never a bad thing.

go downstairs, then.

>>509710
Sound like a plan.

In the meantime, start trying to test your supposed powers. Part of manipulation should be detection, right? Can you sense any other powers elsewhere?

Get a quick shower, get dressed,then go down

Grab some food and ask Mom if she saw anything in the yard this morning.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/10(Fri)19:48 No. 509793 ID: 18db19
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I pull the blanket from my window and take a look outside. Nothing's out of the ordinary - no suspicious black vans parked across the road, no cameras installed in the trees and no sunglass wearing men standing around in front of our door, reading perforated newspapers.

I rummage through my drawer, searching for the meteor. All I find is what appears to be a regular stone though - neither glowing nor speaking to me - probably a perfectly normal brick.
Have I just been dreaming everything? Maybe sleepwalking and grabbing stones in our yard? I read people do that. This actually sounds much more reasonable.

My grumbeling stomach interrupts my train of thought. Maybe a shower and breakfeast are the best course of action right now.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/10(Fri)19:49 No. 509794 ID: 18db19
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I'm still pretty tired as I sit down in the kitchen. Silently I chew on a piece of bread, while listening to our local radio station. At the moment the newsreader talks a lot about last nights meteor shower, which must have been especially intensive. He also speculates, that it might have caused the blackouts, that happened all over town. Then he starts talking about other local news, some small political donations scandal, the first drug-related death in the area since years, speculation about an imminent drought, and so on.
I quickly loose interest.

"Hey mom..." - my mother looks up from the dishes -"uhm... did you notice anything in our yard?"

>"No, I didn't. Why?"

"I just thought I heared something last night." - Well if she didn't see anything, I probably just dreamt the whole thing. If a meteor really landed in front of my window, I think it'd leave behind a crater, that would have been noticed by now.

"I HEARED SOMETHING LAST NIGHT!" - my sister storms into the kitchen, "It was you - You came back home really late."

"What? No I didn't."

"Yes you did. I heared you running up to your room. Mom he came home really late."

"No I didn't."

>"It's ok."
My mother looks at us with a faint smile.
>"As long as you have vacations, you can stay out a bit longer. I'm glad that you finally go out with friends... although I'd really wish you'd tell me where you go and how long you stay out."

"Uhm, yeah sure." - No reason to tell her that I really stayed home all night.

"But that's not fair. Why is he allowed to stay up that long and go alien hunting? He would'nt even tell me if they found an alien. He probably found one yesterday. That's why he was so late. Did you find one? Did you?"

SISTER ACQUIRED, SET PROTECTION PRIORITY TO 1

anyway, tease her a little "yeah i found a nest of brain slugs, they crawled in my ears and laid eggs. tomorrow my head will explode and they will take over the town."

>Did you find an alien? Did you?
Well, you can answer her honestly. You didn't.

...then default to older brother sister teasing protocols.

However, what we need to think about is you might have found an alien artifact or something. But you're a little short on proof. Kind of a problem with the choice you made- it's harder to test. You kind of need other powers to manipulate.

I guess just go about your day, and keep trying to reach out? See if you feel anything unusual anywhere? If it worked, you should have some kind of Power-dar that will kick in eventually. If there's any powers out there to ping it.

>>509794
My god, son, your sister is UNIMAGINABLY ANNOYING. Bet you're glad YOU found the magic box instead of her, eh? Give a quick prayer to the Dreadlords for their mercy, and then goooooo! To a park! Parks are fun.

first tease sister, then finish breakfast, take a shower if you're still tried, and then see if you can't hook back up with his friend and see what he found last night.

Well that's weird. Not only were you dreaming about purple cubes because your friend got you so worked up over aliens, but you were also sleepwalking around picking up rocks? Then your sister sees you come in and thinks you just came back from a long journey? Something isn't adding up here...

Tell her about all the awesome aliens you found last night.

Congratulations, you made the wrong choice and now you're going to die.

>>509854
Well you're a bit of a negative nancy. Which elder god crawled up your arse and died?

>>509794
No. Just a rock.

Does your overly credulous but well equipped friend happen to own a Geiger counter or a scintillator? A glowing rock that stop glowing after only a few hours sounds to me like a short half-life radioisotope (as the rock didn't burn though your shirt, the light would be Cherenkov radiation, not just incandescence).

I can't believe it didn't occur to me sooner...
The guy who committed "suicide"? He went on TV before hand and revealed his identity to the world! So we might be a lot safer then we originally thought

>>509859

He is technically correct. Everyone who is not immortal is going to die.

a logical extension of manipulating powers is TAKING powers from others. All we have to do is find someone with regeneration\body control if we still want to aim for immortality.

>>509883
Not really. We asked for the ability to MANIPULATE OTHER PEOPLE'S powers. If we try and make them our powers, they stop being other people's. Also, one can alter something without taking it away.

>>509884
...considering the author explicitly listed stealing powers as a possible subset of power manipulation, it seems pretty safe to assume we'll be able to learn to do that eventually.

would say we at least are able to move them. like take a power out of one guy and put it in someone else.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/11(Sat)15:33 No. 509898 ID: 68be4d
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"Yeah - I found a nest of brain slugs. They crawled into my ears and laid eggs. Tomorrow my head will explode and they will take over the town."

"Ihh - Mom Mom! He has slugs in his head!"

>"Yes, that's nice."

"But he has SLUGS living in his head."

>"I know - I suspected something like that for quite a while."

"But he'll EXPLODE tomorrow!"

>"Don't worry - Just bring me the vacuum and I'll get them out later , ok?"

I finish my breakfeast and quickly leave the kitchen, before anybody tries vacuuming my ears. I actually hoped I could do my daily routine of just hanging around in my room, maybe reading or doing some work for school. But with my sister this hyperactive, I'd rather go outside for a bit. I try calling Chris, since I maybe could just come to his place. He doesn't like it to have people in his secret lair aka his room, but since I could offer him a 'real' space rock /alien artefact / regular brick to experiment on, I think he'd make an exception.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/11(Sat)15:33 No. 509899 ID: 68be4d
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Sadly only his father answers the phone, telling me, that Chris is gone since the early morning. Normally he'd probably just have come directly to me, to report about yesterdays findings. Considering, somebody put the bug into his ear, that he's hunted by Secret agents who are out for his head, though, he's probably out looking for some kind of safe-house to hide all his crucial findings.

I'll just try contacting him later. Until then I'll dally away the time somewhere in town.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/11(Sat)15:34 No. 509900 ID: 68be4d
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Everything turns out to be perfectly normal around the city, although looking for a quiet place without too many people around turns out to be complicated. The weather is too good today. If it were cloudy or a bit colder, I'd have more luck. I end up in front of the big park near the town center. Maybe I'll find a bench at some remote corner here to pass a few hours.

FUCK! ON YOUR LEFT AND BEHIND YOU

>Considering, somebody put the bug into his ear, that he's hunted by Secret agents who are out for his head, though, he's probably out looking for some kind of safe-house to hide all his crucial findings.
Alas, our plan worked too well.

>>509899
>>509900
Um, you're being followed. There's someone in the woods with a hood obscuring their face, following you and recording with a camera. I think she's female- you know anyone who would be up to something like that?

I propose an ambush around a blind corner, dart out and grab the leading camera arm, trapping them.

>Also
Keep mentally reaching out! Keep testing your mental radar! If you've really got power manipulation, you should ping someone with powers eventually. Granted, you don't know the range or sensitivity for now. Or even what the on button is. Or if it even exists...

But hey, it's just a mental exercise. Can't hurt, right? You don't even look silly for trying and failing!

>>509905
I agree with testing your potential power, and trying to train it. Do this constantly. If it's real, we need all the training we can get.

Hey, some jerkface is filming you. It's probably your weirdly paranoid friend who is not at home right now.

>>509900
>The weather is good today
>Person following is wearing a hood
>And have a camera
Is she trying to attract attention to herself or is she just stupid?

PUNCH THAT FUCKING CAMERA
FUCKING PERVERTS

>>509918
what camera?
Also, rather then punching run somewhere public.

>>509905
>Keep mentally reaching out! Keep testing your mental radar
Can't hurt to try. It couldn't have been a dream, you have the space brick to prove it.

if you can't ever seem to find this chick that is following you no matter what you do you could always just start posing randomly when no one or not many people are around you just to mess with her.

Now we have to wait for other people to have powers before we can use our powers. Are we even sure other people have powers at all? This is a fairly big assumption! We could have wasted our one power!

moon that stalker.

Manipulate our own power until we have a different power.

One way to manipulate our own power would be to make it easier to use. That sorta thing can get exponential. Then once we've mastered it we can start adding aspects to it.

>>510027
What part of manipulate other powers do you not understand?

Well that was kinda stupid of us. Means we won't get a leg up on learning our own power by making it easier to manipulate.

>>510029
Except for the fact it would have exponentially harder to learn.

>>510030
Focusing on a single aspect of a power can speed things up. Make that focus manipulating our own power so its easier to learn. Tada! We now have mastery over our power years before someone else who has a comparable scope would have.

>>510031
Except that aspect would have taken years to learn.

>>509404
Not according to this.

>>510029
We have been explicitly told that the ability to manipulate our own power would result in access to all powers which will result in our power being considered omnipotence for the sake of learning time.

We were explicitly told choosing omnipotence as a power would mean that it takes longer then a human lifetime of practice to unlock the most minor of powers, and we will essentially die completely powerless.

Our power is to manipulate OTHER POWERS not our own power.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/12(Sun)15:48 No. 510074 ID: 778f19
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I start spotting somebody following me. They are not exactly good at hiding or even dressing inconspicuous, so I guess they are not part of a proffesional spy society. I don't know anybody besides Chris or my sister, who'd follow me around or even notice me, unless they want me to give them my lunch-money or to dunk me into a pond or something.

At first I just try to get somewhere public, but considering my problem was until now that there were too many people around anyway, this doesn't make any difference. I even catch myself trying out whether I can use my new mysterious dream-power on my pursuer or the people around me - without it having any effect of course. After a while I loose my patience and decide to set up an ambush.
I speed up and suddenly turn around a narrow corner, where I stop, waiting and listening silently for the sound of hurried footsteps.

Just as planned, I jump from my hiding place, snatching the camera out of the hand of my follower in a fluid motion. Except for the part where I totally miss grabbing the camera, instead just slamming into an arm.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/12(Sun)15:48 No. 510075 ID: 778f19
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Or the part where I stumble out onto the street. Or the part where I crash into the pursuer, sending us both tumbling towards the ground. Some people might have said, that my plan failed on all levels. Since I read somewhere, that one should judge one's life always as positive and optimistic as possible, I decide to see it as, at least, a partial success .

"OW! WHAT THE HELL! What's wrong with you?"

"Urgh... I... - What?" - Despite my momentary total desorientation and painfully hurting head, I try standing up and answering both at the same time, none of which seem to work for some reason.

"You hit me! Just... Out of the blue... And you probably ruined my camera! Are you crazy? You stupid..."

"Ahrh... - I... I'm sorry... I just.... NO! Wait! YOU... euhm - you were stalking me. The whole time. I just tried to..."

"What? Did you take something? I didn't do anything like that. I'm just walking around - minding my own business. And then - BAM!"

"I saw you. You're following me the whole time. Creeping through bushes and making fotos and stuff. You're not very good at it. Are you really stupid enough to think I wouldn't notice somebody wearing a hood on a warm summer day, constantly aiming their camera at me. You could at least have dressed ordinary!"

"That's not my fault! I didn't have time to change. I mean I was sitting in a tree all night. Trying to get a clear view through your wind..."

ChooseMyName 2013/05/12(Sun)15:49 No. 510077 ID: 778f19
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"...dwaoow - euhm - I mean..."

...look, how about we call it even between the running into and maybe camera breaking against the attempted spying and voyeurism. How about you just let me get up and tell me what's going on?

[Sarcastic / Teasing] You know, as nice as it is having a girl who apparently can't keep her eyes off of me on top of me.

"oh, so you really were a stalker, i don't mind actually, i mean, just ask me out if you liked me instead of this crazy thing"

"This isn't going to turn into a slasher flick now is it?"

Anyway ask if she can at least get off you

>>510094
Well, she has kept a hand behind her back this whole time. It's conceivable she grabbed a weapon from a rear pocket or her waistband and is keeping it hidden.

Not that I would acknowledge or say anything about this, just something to be aware of.

Oh God. You're about to be loved tenderly by a lady who's spent the night and better part of the morning stalking you. Hope you brought your rape whistle! Or, you know. At least a healthy pair of lungs.

Yeeeeeah you have a stalker. Do you even recognize this girl? Take the film out of the camera or delete the pics if its digital because seriously what the hell. Creeper!

pffft, wimps, stalkers are usually super devoted to their target so we can totally score.

>>510077
Ask her if she has the hots for you or something. Maybe she should stop being creepy about it.

Make it clear that your feelings are NOT mutual and you find this stalking behavior to be an exceedingly creepy and not at all romantic. And if she doesn't get off of you right now you're gonna scream.

>positive and optimistic
Hey, you got her to admit she was spying, and got a girl on top off you. :V I count that as a smashing success.

>>510118
>>510121
>>510123
Knowing this town, and what happened last night, it's probably more likely to be an alien thing than having the hots (or creepy stalker murder stabs) for you.

That said, we should totally tease her about the voyeurism and being on top of us.

>>510120
Stalkers are obsessive and dangerous. You don't want to reciprocate or encourage them because THEY MIGHT KILL YOU OUT OF 'love'

realize she is on your lap and get a boner.

"So are you going to murder me and bury me in your back yard if the romance doesn't work out?"

Remember last night when you found the artifact? We heard a branch snapping as if someone was NEAR US... then we had the conversation with the purple brick with our window blinds open, she was sitting in the tree with a camera; she is dressed like that because it was cold outside last night. Remember there are cash prizes offered for such images. She is just after some cash. In all seriousness we need to get her on our side, she probably will keep quiet if realizes how dangerous this is (what with the last person to go public with it being "suicided"). Although it might be too early to press, as we can't prove to have any powers and she might not believe there is any conspiracy.

"I am just teasing you, I think I heard you outside last night and it makes sense for you to spy on me. You are after the cash rewards, right? How about we talk?"

>>510120
Don't be a sleaze. A stalker is the most devoted lover you can have, don't ruin something so beautiful by just thinking with your D.

>>510128

This.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/12(Sun)19:23 No. 510147 ID: 778f19
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"I... uhm... you know..." - I don't think I really know this girl or why she's did any of this. To be honest it's a bit hard to keep concentrating at the moment. - "Uhm... that's all very flattering and all, and it's nice that you apparently can't keep your eyes off me, but could you let me get up now..."

"I don't... SHUT UP!" She jumps up instantly and grabs her camera before i can even think about getting my hands on it.

"I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of slasher fick. You know - Instead of burying me in your backyard after this romantic and kinda creepy plan of yours has failed, you could just ask me out the next time."

"WHAT?" "WHAT?" She still has her back turned to me and fiddles with her camera. "I didn't... YOU'RE THE CREEP! I have just... JUST SHUT UP!"

"Don't worry I'm just teasing." - I think I might have figured out what's going on now - "I guess you saw what happened last night and now want some more fotos... for the cash reward, right?"

She seems to calm down a bit - "So what? I thought I might get some more. But the ones I have should be enough - even if they don't want them, because you beat me to it with your meteor, I could just post them online." - Eugh - that sounds bad. If she has fotos, I guess all of this wasn't just a dream. I really don't want anything of this getting out.

"Wait! We should talk about this."

"NO! I'm not splitting my reward and I won't start dating you." - She starts walking away.

"no i mean, can yo not turn them in? i.. heard about the other guy that found one, supposedly tried to commit suicide. i think it was a government coverup. i don't want black vans pulling up to my house and taking me away"

>CREEP
>dating
Pff. You were spying on me in my bedroom as I slept all night, I think I was entitled to get a little teasing of my own back.

>Post them
Post what? You got pictures of a rock and a purple glow. If you do, I'll just post how I faked that with a light and colored plastic. And if you make those pictures public, I'll file charges for illegally surveilling me in my home, and being a peeping tom, 'creep'.

Maybe you'd be willing to split the reward for finding a space rock if she got rid of those photos~

oh yes, trade rock form camera

>>510155
>>510156

Pay her off to cover up the flimsy evidence by agreeing to make the more solid evidence public? That doesn't sound like a good plan to me.

>>510158
the rock is a rock now, all it's power is ours. they will scan it and say "it's just a rock" and we get off scot free.

The problem is that we're associated with the meteor. It's fine if she wants the reward money I guess, but right now we don't want people knowing we picked it up. It could make us a target.

Tell her we'll show her the rock itself so she can take more photos if she agrees to edit the photos she has so that we're not in them anymore.

Let her know that by even taking a picture of the very obviously square glowing purple doom rock she is going to get swept off into a black van with you.

Could you at least blur my face before posting anything?

>>510147
>"So what? I thought I might get some more. But the ones I have should be enough - even if they don't want them, because you beat me to it with your meteor, I could just post them online."

To be honest we were planning on looking for more people who found meteors like the one we found anyway.

say "I don't care about the reward money I just don't want my face plastered all over the web. If you can find some way of blurring me in the photos so you can't tell it's me in them or even Photoshop me out completely then go ahead and post the hell out of them and get your reward money, if you do show me in those photos however the only date we're going to be having and down in a courtroom where you can tell the judge why you were invading my privacy. and before you freak out no that is not a threat, I just don't want to picked up by any black vans and if your not the paranoid type then I don't want to be that one guy every knows as 'that meteor kid' especially with all of these conspiracy nuts around town."

>>510198
Excellent dialog, follow the stick with some carrot. Append to this an offer to tell her more about what we saw and show her the rock, let her take more pictures of it, etc.

you can easily overpower a girl. take hold of that camera.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/13(Mon)19:55 No. 510474 ID: 7cba36
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I get to my feet and start following her.

"Wait- you don't understand - I don't care about the money. I just don't want my picture plastered all over the internet. Can't you just blurr me or cut me out completly?"

"What? Why? And why should I help somebody who calls me a creepy stalker?"

"Come on. You were sitting in a tree trying to stare into my room all night. I think I was kinda entitled to tease you about it. I mean you invaded my privacy - I could just drag you in front of a court."

"Pfff - sure... why don't you try that then?"

"I didn't mean that as a threat. I just don't want to be picked by some kind of black van to never be seen or heared of again. Or be called 'that crazy meteor kid for the next few weeks whike being followed by crazy conspiracy theorists everywhere."

"Pffhahahah... You mean like the crazy conspiracy theorists, who fantasize about black vans following them everywhere whenever they think to have stumbled upon anything even slightly interesting." She turns towards me holding the camera behind her back, now sporting a big grin "Come on. I know why you really want those pictures. I mean I didn't get a good look into your room, but I did get a few pictures from when you started undressing in the garden. "

Great - I totally forgot about that. "No it's not that! I just really don't want the attention. Just don't keep any fotos with me and the meteor." I try halfheartedly try to somwhow grab the camera, but the girl just jumps away holding the camera above her head.

"Hahaha - So it woud be OK if I just edited out the meteor and kept the foto of you in your undershirt? I could add a lifesized copy to the others on my wall."

"WHAT?"

"Hahaha - kidding, just kidding. So what do I get for deleting the fotos?"

"I... euhm... I could show you the meteor, then you could shoot some better pictures."

"OK, that's only worth one foto though. What else do I get?"

"I don't know. What do you want? A kiss on the mouth?"

"Eugh!" she sticks out her tongue "In your dreams. - I don't know. I'll have to think about this."

Grinning she spins around and starts to run off...

ChooseMyName 2013/05/13(Mon)19:56 No. 510475 ID: 7cba36
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... only to be grabbed by a big guy and lifted off the ground.

>"Well, well, well. What's this? This is Cobra territory. Haven't we told you that we don't want to see you here again? With here we meant the town in general if you didn't get that. Oh - what's that? A present?"

One of them snatches to camera out of the girl's hand. - "GIVE THAT BACK! LET ME DOWN!"

>"Shut the fuck up. If you stumble into the Nest of the Vipers, you'll get to feel their deadly claws. Boulder tell her what we do with people who invade our territory."

"..."

>"Or... euhm... just do your thing.... Toad - tell her what we do with people who invade our territory."

"I... euhm... What? Wait. We're the Cobras? I thought we're the scorpions or something."

>"What? NO! Dude. Get it together. Just answer my question."

"I ... wait... You asked me a question?"

"GIVE ME BACK MY CAMERA."

>"SHUT UP! I'll give you back your camera in little pieces a the bottom of a lake. Maybe we should take you to the city pond too - just to see how long you can hold your breath. That'll teach you not to mess with the Pythons"

I know those guys. It's best to just completly stay out of their way. Luckily they seem not to notice me at the moment. And it also sounds, as if they might get rid of those fotos as well as the whole camera, if I just calmly leave now.

no kid, you got chosen by a purple space rock to become special. bailing now will haunt you forever. tell them to leave her alone.

She's an ass anyways, and sounds like she's mixed up in gang business.
Ditch this popsicle stand.

>>510475
they are more likely to steal the camera then break it, and also check the photos just because and then you will be in real trouble.

you feel anyone with powers around you

I wouldn't count on the gang to dispose of the photos. I mean, they seem the type who would be willing to try and cash in the reward, or shake you down with the embarrassing ones. I'd much rather deal with the girl- she's halfway reasonable, and has a sense of humor.

And robbery is a worse crime than peeping!

Besides, if you help her, she's less likely to hang you out to dry. (Besides, longer term, a snoop with a camera on a powered indavidual's side is a good thing).

The question is, how do we help? Your power (if you have one) doesn't apply here (not that you've figured out how to use it yet).

>kept the foto of you in your undershirt? I could add a lifesized copy to the others on my wall.
File that away for future teasing and banter. Go ahead- hang me up on your wall. (Or if we never recover the camera- want me to pose for a replacement? :V)

>>510475
Or they could find out what's on them, and turn them in themselves. Besides, are you really gonna let a cute girl like that see you walk calmly away while she gets assaulted?

Reach out, see if you can find any powers to steal. If you can, you might be able to go for a direct confrontation. If not, just uh... interrupt them. We just gotta distract them long enough for her to get away. Maybe you can start bringing up new gang names since they can't seem to decide on one. Tunnel Snakes? Black Widows? Centipedes can be pretty poisonous if they're going with that. Oh or how about something like Toxic Shock?

>>510492
I don't think we are going to steal any powers here and even if we are we wont have time to learn to use them.

I see 3 options here.
1. Grab a pair of rocks (in per hand), run and kick the big guy in the nuts as hard as you can from behind, as he falls smash the two little thugs with a rock in the face each. (girl has some combat skill too, remember how easily she took you down). If it goes bad you might die.
2. Use cell phone to call police saying a 3 gang thungs are assaulting a teen girl at so and so street. (don't let them hear you make the call, might need to get further away).
3. Try to snatch the camera and run. Chasing you will help her get away.
4. Try to bribe them with something. Distracting them from hurting her and getting the photos, potentially you could paint her as your adversary saying she has stalked you and taken nude photos of you that you would like destroyed, offer to buy camera. Can backfire horribly if she speaks up out of spite or if they decide to actually check the photos.

Time to be a hero.

"Let her go."

Reach out with your powers. Feel anyone else with powers around here?

>>510481
>>510474
Looks to me more like cute friendly teasing with a good dose of flirting, she went as far as joking about putting a nude poster of you above her bed.

Kick them in the shins.
Do it.

We REALLY should have gone with a simpler power. Long-term we'll be awesome, but we'll be stuck at a low level of actual ability for a long time. Plus, dealing with mooks like this gang, we're only as good as a normal human...

Reach out with your powers. Steal his hairdo.

>>510611
So we'll be a badass normal. Nothing wrong with that.

"snakes don't have claws, douchebubble."

>>510618
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake
The last sentence of the first paragraph.

Right, sorry ah, idea, what if we were to grant the girl a power?
It'd give her a reason to be wary of revealing us, as we could claim to be normal while she's the one with the flashy ability, or even make hers flare up at an bad time, like right in front of the black suits if they come.

>>510623
This is an interesting idea. Perhaps try enhancing her strength, so she can wrestle with the frankenstein monster there?

>>510623
>>510624
I don't think we can do that. Author warned us that manipulating mundane powers in addition to supernatural would be one of the things that would make us take too long.

Now, if there was a power around, temporary transference of who was controlling it might be feasible (it's only a step past stealing- lending. Creating a new power is probably beyond what we can do, or if we can do it, probably one of the hardest and longest to master facets of our power).

>>510614
Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

>>510626
>>510614
Our protag got overpowered by the girl these dudes are now overpowering. He's far from badass normal right now.

If anything, he should call the cops and hope they give him the camera.

Use your magical meteor power to grow a pair and get your ass kicked!

>>510726
How do you suppose one becomes a badass normal, hm?

>>510774
Money and training.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/14(Tue)18:54 No. 510814 ID: 1b6883
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It would probably be safest to just call the police, but I'm not sure that'd really work. Just ignoring this will probably be ok. Just let the situation defuse itself. The girl seemed like she could handle those guys a lot better that me. So if leave I'll probably even help her by not being a burden and holding her back. Yeah, just turn around and walk away...

"HEY! LET HER GO!"

Damnit.

I tackle the big guy with enough force to at least startle him, though without doing any damage whatsoever. At least I irritated him enough, for the girl to struggle free somehow. Now all I have to do is to snatch the camera and then manage to at least outrun them long enough to delete the pictures on there.

"RUN! I'LL.... urgrhhrh"

Again my plan doesn't make it past step one. Something slams into my stomch, squeezing the air out of my lungs and sending me flying backwards.

>"What the fuck do you think you're doing? Is tody some kind of special looser carnival in town or what? Boulder - you get the girl, we'll take care of this little faggot."

[color=#006600][/color] "Wait... so like... Cobras like the animal - the snake animal thing?... euhm ...things"

ChooseMyName 2013/05/14(Tue)18:55 No. 510815 ID: 1b6883
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I'm lying on the ground, unable to catch my breath or to stand up at the moment. I can't even really make out what's happening around me through the tears filling my eyes. I just feel somebodys legs in my back and the stench of cigarettes, sweat and a lot of other things filing my nose.

>"What the fuck are you talking about? Grab that worm and help me get him to the park or to the next dumbster."

ChooseMyName 2013/05/14(Tue)18:56 No. 510816 ID: 1b6883
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"The name you know, I was just wondering what... euhm... where'd Boulder go? And wasn't there like a girl, like some seconds ago... or minutes?"

ChooseMyName 2013/05/14(Tue)18:57 No. 510817 ID: 1b6883
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>"Seriously. Concentrate dude. Now we got a new task- just ... shut up and grab him... You can't just attack the Venomsnakes and think you'll get away unpunished. That's something this little shithole is going to learn now."

Eugh... I'm staring to feel really sick

The guy behind you has power enhance it. make it rage out of control. Escape in the confusion.

the guy you are near, he's... special. he's.. high all the time. that's his power. give it to the other guy.

>>510817
Oh man, your spidey sense is flipping out. That stoned looking dude on the left is totally setting off your power-dar, hard. Totally wasn't a dream. (That or you cracked your head on the pavement and are seeing things).

Well, we don't know what his power does, and even if we neutralize it, the two of them can beat you up normally.

Which means you should overcharge his power. Crank it up to 11. Make him lose control- make it more than he can control. Make something go wrong. Give yourself a big confusing distraction to escape in.

>>510820
This.

>>510817
I think he has a mind control power, or something. Turn it against him. Make it perform the opposite way he expects.

>>510820
Rather then enhancing HOPING he lose control, simply focus JUST on making him lose control.

>>510817
Lets see if we can cause some form of backlash on him or something.

I think he's trying to help you. Why would you use a confusion(?)-based power against a downed, weak opponent?

What if we talk to them?
We could at least beg for mercy and ask to make it up to them... say you were acting stupid because of the girl. Even if they don't forgive you it might reduce the beating you will receive and also distract them while you practice making someone's power haywire

Or maybe you could say you weren't trying to get them but the camera because she has been stalking you and said she has nude pictures of you... ok lets not go with that excuse they will probably spread it around and she will get pissed and post the pictures to spite you.

>>510857
These guys don't seem too bright.

guys, seriously, his power is being stoned all the time. rock said "what do you want" and he said "to be high" and so he is now high all the time. spread the power so the other guy gets some and they will both be too busy being high as kites to chase us.

well we don't really know what we can do yet so I say try and just mess with the guy's powers to see what we can do... oh and if you see a chance to escape take it and try and call the police.

>>510819

goddammit, I knew there was an awesome power I didn't think of.

make it spread to the leader.

I wonder if it's easier to affect specific powers than general ones. Or if it depends on the skill level of the power.

Hey, that feeling of his power .. does it feel like you're becoming increasingly aware of it, or like he's deliberately turning it up?

ChooseMyName 2013/05/15(Wed)12:39 No. 510961 ID: 4d45a6
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Is this... one of those powers? Is this real or did I just hit my head a little to hard just now? I try doing the only thing I can think of at the moment: I try using my power to somehow cause confusion - maybe I could just enhance his power beyond control or just switch it to his friend who'd be unable to control it, although I don't know what exactly I'm messing with and can only guess what kind of power a guy like him might have chosen.

I concentrate on... well... I actually don't know how to do any of this. I just discovered that this power even works. Maybe if i just think about what I want it to do really hard...

Bang - Another kick breaks my concentration.

>"What are you creep staring at?"

"Wait! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to..." - Bam -

>"If you think you're sorry now, just wait until we're done with you..."

ChooseMyName 2013/05/15(Wed)12:39 No. 510962 ID: 4d45a6
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* Intermission *

Those were some good ideas how you could have used your power to get out of this situation - but sadly all you can do at the moment is detecting powers at touch range and learning anything new or improving what you have already learned will take time.

So let's take this tastefull fade to clarify how improvement would work, taking your new ability to detect powers as an example. You learned it by running around the city all day trying to find other people with powers, and since it's a pretty basic and simple aspect of your power you learned it pretty fast.

Of course just being able to notice, that somebody has a power when you touch him and not even knowing what that power might be, isn't that great. Luckily you can just spend some days improving this ability (well - of course you might need a lot longer than just some days, depending on how far you want to improve it).
If you work on your range, you'll be able to detect powers from further away until you're able to detect a power user on sight, or to know their locations in the whole city or even all over the world (Those last two being examples of improvements, that take much longer). If you want to know more about a detected, you can work on that trait, just learning what the power is at first, up to a detailed analysis of all it could do and what part of this potential the power user has already unlocked as well as how long all of it it would take to learn the rest.
Those are just some examples of how detection could be improved, maybe you can think of something else (like the ability to detect locations where a power has been used or a power user has been). That's all up to your imagination.

Of course you might want to learn some other abilities first. Something that isn't just about seeing stuff, but using that stuff to fry your opponents head by cranking it up to eleven. If so, you can just concentrate on learning that instead, but it might be good to know, that some aspects of your potential are dependant on others. If you want to learn how to boost other powers, you can start directly, but since you have to perceive a power to manipulate it, you could only use it on somebody you touch. In order to improve the range of this ability you'd have to improve the range your detection ability first.
Similarly - to just momentarily boost the power, you'd just need to know it's there, but to make this boost permanent or to unlock completely different yet unlearned aspects of that power (like helping somebody who has chosen absolute control over his body to learn at least some of his skills), you'd have to be able to analyse the power in detail first.

So just choose what you want to be able to do and what you think is important to learn first. I don't think that I know all possible options you have now myself. Remember though that you can only manipulate powers to doing what they could do on their own - you can't create new powers and you cannot change a power to a completely different power.

* Intermission end *

ChooseMyName 2013/05/15(Wed)12:40 No. 510963 ID: 4d45a6
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Ow - I should have just gone home... I should have just ignored this all and turned my back on the whole thing, but I somehow could'nt do it.
Luckily the two get bored with me pretty quickly - well one of them does, the other doesn't even begin to really notice me - and so I end up in a dumpster.
That stupid power didn't help me one bit. I'm still entirely sure it really worked. But the more I think about it, the more I'm sure something happened. The moment I touched the stoned looking guy, I noticed more and more that there was something around him - some strange aura. So either that dream last night was real or I am losing my mind.

Maybe both?

Oh well. Dig yourself out of the dumpster and head home.

Lets go stalk the one guy we know to have powers. Try and improve our range and try to detect what his powers do exactly. (Its totally being stoned all the time.)

Dig self from trash, go home and take a shower, you will feel better. Can't check on the girl but she knows where you live so hopefully she doesn't publish photos and instead comes to visit you.

Focus on detecting powers at range. Without that you would have to touch people to manipulate/locate powers and will come off as a creep.

>>510969
Likely to result in more beating.

OP your art style makes some really adorable looking characters

>>510976
I'd doubt he'd notice if hes typically like that.

(focus on detedtion for now, at least to the point where we can detect people without having to touch them or be breathing down there neck for us to sense them, then we can learn how to manipulate other's powers)

Oh well, at least no one can acuse you of not trying. I think the best thing we can do right now is head home and take a shower then regroup and go from there.

C'mon, get out of there. At least the girl got away with her camera. And she's less likely to try and ruin your life for money than those jerks would have been.

>what practice?
I would start with detection range. Touch range is useless, we need some degree of line of sight in order to do anything useful. (Although I'm assuming power sense range is based on distance, not sight. Possibly modified by stronger powers being easier to pick up, or 'visible' from further away, or by rare or special materials that have properties to block our scanning).

Once we have some range, the next thing to work on would be 'volume'. The ability to crank a power up or down- enhance or suppress it. (Probably not good enough to completely shut down a power, initially).

Then, in order to allow more precise control over how we alter powers (selectively choosing what to effect, changing or enhancing only one aspect of a time, allowing some logical extension of the power, messing with costs and consequences, etc), we need to be able to understand what we're working with. That means refining detection so it gives us information about what we're working with. That way we're messing with circuits or a control board we can 'see' instead of just trying increase or decrease the flow of energy into the system.

>>510978
Not from him, he didn't hit us even once... his buddy and gang member did. Remember he hangs out with 2 psychos?

I got a great idea. Call the police. Get hired by them. Use your power to expose powered people doing sneaky shit, for profit!

OK maybe this idea was about 10 years too early.

>>510962
>to make this boost permanent or to unlock completely different yet unlearned aspects of that power (like helping somebody who has chosen absolute control over his body to learn at least some of his skills), you'd have to be able to analyse the power in detail first.
>can't give them new powers
I didn't even consider this option... someone who has chosen an awesome power would take too long to actually gain the powers... except we can make them unlock it in a reasonable time-frame.

Need a questdis

>>510987
Impractical until the general public believes in the existence of powers.
Also we are currently avoiding FBI black vans

>>510989
Also being tied to law enforcement tends to have certain drawbacks for powered individuals. I mean, really, what's the odds everything we end up doing is going to be strictly legal?

And we can aim higher than being a police psychic, I think.

continue going Chrisways.

>>510988
Discussion thread up

well powers work on time and what you are trying to do. you just managed to unlock SEEING part of the power. can probably get better if you keep trying. and you now have someone you can sneak up and observe to see if you are getting better.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/16(Thu)20:58 No. 511265 ID: 4d45a6
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I crawl out of the heap of garbage and stumble home. I hear my mom in the living room and quickly try to sneak past her. It's better if I don't have to explain how I look right now. I'm not sure if I want to involve her in any of this.

At least not until I'm sure what exactly happened. Maybe I should try to train my power - maybe trying to use it from further away. That stoned guy might make a good test subject as long as I could avoid the other two. Those three can't be together all the time.

But before I do any of this I need a bath. As I reach the top of the stairs I hear my mother downstairs.

>"Hey! What's this! Don't I even get a 'Hi, I'm home anymore."

"Euhm - Sorry mom, I didn't notice you." - I try to turn my face, so she doesn't see the bruises from down there.

>"Well I let your friend in earlier - he's probably still waiting in your room for you."
I guess Chris has found a safe hiding place for all his important documents and is now using my internet, so that the government can't trace his visits to various conspiracy forums directly back to him or something.

"Oh - Ok, I have to take a bath first."

>"... everything OK?"

"Yes... - euhm yes... just... the meteor hunt got a bit messy today..."

I slip out of her line of sight and into the bathroom before she can ask any more questions. Throwing my dirty clothes into a corner, I start letting in hot water and examine my swollen eye in the mirror. I don't think Chris'll mind waiting a bit longer and this little pause also gives me some time to think of what has happened since yesterday or whether i want to let some parts out for now.
Knowing him he'd probably be the only one who'd believe me and I could be pretty sure that he'd not run to the police or even to a news station, if I'd ask him. On the other hand he would probably post it anonymously on one of his forums and that might attract some unwanted attention.

when you do start to talk to your friend ask him how his night went first and then show him the rock you found in your backyard, then go from there.

While you bathe, reach out with your awareness. It may not be entirely effective, but it's practice.

Yeah don't tell Chris about the powers, he'd leak it.

Telling him you found a space brick should be fine though, right?

you could probably ask him to steal wireless from someone ELSE'S house so the black vans bug them or something when he leaks it.

Hmm. We could share finding the space rock with him. You could even let him see it! We sort of have to, if we want to explain how you ended up following the girl who photographed you and getting beaten up. (That might get the point across that you really don't want him giving you away).

I mean, he can even brag anonymously about the space rock online, so long as there's nothing tying it back to us. (I mean, it's hardly as if you're the only one who found one. Everyone with a power will have).

I'd keep quiet about the power bit for now, as you aren't completely sure it works, and you don't want that posted anywhere online. You've got an edge in no one knowing you have a power, or what it does, yet.

and yeah should be basically CONSTANTLY concentrating on whatever part of your brain let you feel power from the guy.

Even if you don't tell him about the powers right away, tell him to try to keep the rock secret in case he is right about the black vans and such.

tell him. he's your bro.

Tell him everything. it will really hurt your friendship otherwise when he finds out you lied to him about something so important to him.
Anonymous postings shouldn't hurt and you could actually ask him to not do so.
Would be pretty funny if he found one too.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/17(Fri)18:27 No. 511374 ID: 4d45a6
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I guess I should tell Chris most of what happened, maybe leave out the part about the superpowers for now. Since he has all kind of weird apparatuses, he might even be able to analyse the meteor somehow.

"HEY! What happened? Did you find something? There's somebody in your room. What's with your eye? "

I try ignoring my sister jumping around me as I leave the bathroom. But as she tries to squeeze into my room I have to acknowledge her existence.

"Nothing happened! Get out!"

She just grins at me as I push her out into the hallway. "I know what you're going to do now."

"Yeah sure - I'm going examine the alien I'm, hiding under my bed and then plan how to smuggle some of those brain slug eggs under your pillow tonight, right?"

She stares at me a bit, pondering that option for some seconds "No, you're not. You.'re going to.." - I quickly close the door before she canannoy me any further and hurry to my drawer, trying to ignore everything besides getting some new clean clothes.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/17(Fri)18:28 No. 511375 ID: 4d45a6
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"Hey Chris, sorry I took a bit longer - you won't believe what happened to me since yesterday, but this'll totally make up for your long waiting time..."

towel on TOWEL ON TOWEL ON!!! THAT ISN'T CHRIS

Also try not to scream like a little girl and for the love of god don't turn your body around until you have at least put that towel on.

As for what to do, as calmly as you can ask why she is in your room? If an awkward silence happens just say "well I'm glad to see you got away"

>Hey Chris
Dude, not Chris. You're giving paparazzi girl another free show. :V

ABORT, TOWEL ON. REALIZE MOM CAN'T TELL BOYS AND GIRLS APART WHEN THEY HAVE HOODIES!

"HOLY CRAP YOU'RE NOT CHRIS!"

How to cover up and be totally smooth. Without turning around, drape the towel over your shoulders and say this:
'I suppose you're here to see the thing I mentioned earlier? Or is it to repay me for my earlier attempt at heroism?'

Okay. So after covering up, and the awkwardness, we should probably get introductions out of the way (neither of you knows the others name) and uh, see why she came back, I guess.

>>511397
Uh. Could we try and avoid saying anything skeezy at this point? Dunno if that's how you meant it, but it can sure be read that way, and we're in poor circumstances for it. She came back after we helped her out, I'd rather not scare her off again by pushing too hard.

Don't turn around, don't get embarrassed, don't flip out and scream like an idiot.

Just sigh in defeat, put your towel back on, and calmly ask her to get out of your room. You can talk to your mother about her eyesight later.

>>511265
>"Well I let your friend in earlier - he's probably still waiting in your room for you."
>he
I like mom's sense of humor.

>>511397
no, this is sleazy.

quick grab her camera

>>511375
that view is totally worth another picture

Cover up, grab some clothes, change in the bathroom and THEN come back in and do the awkward apology thing.

>>511549
apology? she should be apologizing to you!

>>511553
For us stripping in front of her?
>>511516
>>511525
Don't say that

>>511591
Supporting the don't-be-a-jerk initiative. Teasing her was appropriate before, now it's tasteless, inappropriate, insensitive, and counterproductive.

>>511600
+1 Don't Be A Jerk

Warning: She may tease us after this. Be a good sport about it!

ChooseMyName 2013/05/18(Sat)20:57 No. 511625 ID: 3147bf
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"I was just at home reading, and then...." - Something isn't right, although I can't quite put my finger on it. Chris hasn't said anything yet, so I turn around to check whether everything is alright.

"AHHH." - "AhHH."

"GAH." I nearly drop my towel, but am able to yank it up at the last moment - "I just... SORRY! I... WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"AH I saw... uh.... I DID'NT SEE ANYTHING... I mean... I just came by to say thanks and... and your sister let me in and... I... uhm.... just...."

"Ok... Could you... just... leave the room for a minute or so..."

"... Sure..."

ChooseMyName 2013/05/18(Sat)20:57 No. 511626 ID: 3147bf
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She quickly slips out.
Great - Thanks mom.
Don't even know whether she made a mistake or just wanted to play a joke on me, but that was just what my day needed. Well it can hardly get any worse now.

ChooseMyName 2013/05/18(Sat)20:58 No. 511627 ID: 3147bf
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- CRASH -

ChooseMyName 2013/05/18(Sat)20:58 No. 511629 ID: 3147bf
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> "Argh, Dude, you just gave away my position. Now... oh... wait... Is the enemy agent gone?"

"Urgrh"

"Is everything okay in there?"

Bwahaha

Alright Call out that everything is fine. Get the great paranoid lummox offa ya and get dreseed then lets talk to both of them at the same time. Might as well.

oh i see. mom let him in first, then sister let her in and he hid in the closet...(no homo)

anyway, roll him off of you and tell him to sit down, shut up, and wait for you to get dressed. and say yes you are fine.

and then get dressed. then introduce them to eachother and explain she is not an enemy agent. then get out... THE ROCK.