okok, I apologize, but I'm going to add to the very long, canon-specific inquiries. Though it isn't actually a power at issue? Please bear with me!
Specifically, four questions: one regarding canon weirdness and technical handicap, one regarding clearing a granted magic power, a silly one about telepathy, and a sillier one about housing.
1) ugh god gundam ibo, ok, here we go. CONTEXT.
Trying to make a very long, complicated story short. In the ibo world, mecha (like tanky war machines and gundam and crap) can be best piloted if folks get this horrific spinal surgery to implant stuff into their necks/spines to allow a neural type hook-up to the machine. Only kids get it because of their malleability/growing with them or w/e, and even then, it tends to cripple or kill most of them. So much more tl;dr, whatever.
Uh, except a couple of adults got it because plot reasons, and somehow didn't die/be horrifically injured because plot reasons, but, and here comes the real intro to the question/where it gets complicated...
One such adult (hi this guy spoiler alert???) survived an attempted murder, but not without scarring and other injuries. While the series never actually deigned to specify exactly the weird thing I'm about to get into to ON SCREEN, in the future epilogue he's wheelchair confined, suggestive of below the waist paralysis. According to multiple creator interviews after, he in fact had been paralyzed as a result of that attack. However, he was on his feet all second season because of the implants. Specifically because he got weird implants that somehow connected him wirelessly to the AI in his gundam that was comprised in large part of the remnant brain bits of his season 1 subordinate. Importantly, it's because of that connection rather than the implants alone that he can somehow walk????
yeah. ibo...
So, uh, the question is, if he has a physical handicap that the series temporarily "healed" (such that his epilogue paralysis is a result of having the implants removed and letting the brain AI "rest"), in a way reliant on technology and connection to a machine and system that could not be possibly transported here, would it be possible to retain that ability to walk despite the separation from the machine/system?
Or maybe look to Brie and Genette, etc.? (lol I laughed a little at the signet paralysis stuff -- the freaking ibo implants are almost in the same place just back of neck.)
Sorry if that was super confusing, the rest aren't too bad...
2) OK, it says player discretion largely rules the day regarding granted magic powers, but I want to be extra-careful, because the one I'm kicking around has god-mode potential (less in the SUPERMAN KILLS THE CITY way).
Because his chief character flaw was/is ignorance/obliviousness, I thought some spin on tampering with the perceptions of others, or creating illusions -- sort of forcing someone else to see what he wants them to see. Only, better phrased (Reality-Shifting? don't let me name new x-men powers, wow) and with some sort of time limit.
Of course, my concern is that it reads god-modey and might be too contingent on player permission. Is that sort of thing too much?
3) I read in an earlier answer that once a character masters the telepathy, no more accidental posts. Two-part question to be totally clear: a) I assume this telepathy involves comprehension only of sent communications (rather than any access to one's inner thoughts or mind)? b) After mastery, given that how one thinks determines the font of text posts, if someone was flustered, extremely agitated, in danger, etc. etc., I also assume it would still be possible for erroneous usage?
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Specifically, four questions: one regarding canon weirdness and technical handicap, one regarding clearing a granted magic power, a silly one about telepathy, and a sillier one about housing.
1) ugh god gundam ibo, ok, here we go. CONTEXT.
Trying to make a very long, complicated story short. In the ibo world, mecha (like tanky war machines and gundam and crap) can be best piloted if folks get this horrific spinal surgery to implant stuff into their necks/spines to allow a neural type hook-up to the machine. Only kids get it because of their malleability/growing with them or w/e, and even then, it tends to cripple or kill most of them. So much more tl;dr, whatever.
Uh, except a couple of adults got it because plot reasons, and somehow didn't die/be horrifically injured because plot reasons, but, and here comes the real intro to the question/where it gets complicated...
One such adult (hi this guy spoiler alert???) survived an attempted murder, but not without scarring and other injuries. While the series never actually deigned to specify exactly the weird thing I'm about to get into to ON SCREEN, in the future epilogue he's wheelchair confined, suggestive of below the waist paralysis. According to multiple creator interviews after, he in fact had been paralyzed as a result of that attack. However, he was on his feet all second season because of the implants. Specifically because he got weird implants that somehow connected him wirelessly to the AI in his gundam that was comprised in large part of the remnant brain bits of his season 1 subordinate. Importantly, it's because of that connection rather than the implants alone that he can somehow walk????
yeah. ibo...
So, uh, the question is, if he has a physical handicap that the series temporarily "healed" (such that his epilogue paralysis is a result of having the implants removed and letting the brain AI "rest"), in a way reliant on technology and connection to a machine and system that could not be possibly transported here, would it be possible to retain that ability to walk despite the separation from the machine/system?
Or maybe look to Brie and Genette, etc.? (lol I laughed a little at the signet paralysis stuff -- the freaking ibo implants are almost in the same place just back of neck.)
Sorry if that was super confusing, the rest aren't too bad...
2) OK, it says player discretion largely rules the day regarding granted magic powers, but I want to be extra-careful, because the one I'm kicking around has god-mode potential (less in the SUPERMAN KILLS THE CITY way).
Because his chief character flaw was/is ignorance/obliviousness, I thought some spin on tampering with the perceptions of others, or creating illusions -- sort of forcing someone else to see what he wants them to see. Only, better phrased (Reality-Shifting? don't let me name new x-men powers, wow) and with some sort of time limit.
Of course, my concern is that it reads god-modey and might be too contingent on player permission. Is that sort of thing too much?
3) I read in an earlier answer that once a character masters the telepathy, no more accidental posts. Two-part question to be totally clear:
a) I assume this telepathy involves comprehension only of sent communications (rather than any access to one's inner thoughts or mind)?
b) After mastery, given that how one thinks determines the font of text posts, if someone was flustered, extremely agitated, in danger, etc. etc., I also assume it would still be possible for erroneous usage?
4) ok so the housing is 8'x8'
this dude's just shy of 6'7
...how big is that cot, seriously