Powers and How They Develop

So, Super powers. They are what make up our special groups of humans on this planet Earth. Non-super humans wouldn't understand the importance behind diversity, but below I will go into detail on how developing powers works, rules around repeat powers, and diversity. This is very important and considered a massive problem for some people, as having hundreds of fire wielding super heroes can cause light problems.

So, let us get started with powers that are similar or a repeat of a previous character's power. This is perfectly acceptable, but we have some qualms and recommendations for anyone wishing to make a super power that another Civ or Freak might already have. I go through what we here call the Power Diversity/Development Scale (PDS Scale). It goes like so:

1. Heat Powers: The power to produce excess amounts of heat and cause burns or light things on fire.
2. Ignition Powers: The power to specifically ignite things around them on fire by instantly increasing their heat to their burning or melting point.
3. Fire Powers: The power to produce non-sourced fire from anywhere within a small area around them, or light themselves on fire and not be effected by it.
4. Lava Powers: The power to produce non-sourced lava from anywhere within a small area around them, or use said lava as a weapon through hardening the lava into weapon shaped objects.

As you can see, the Diversity scale starts with the utmost basic version of that skill tree, and goes down to even more specific powers that still fall into that category. This is so that if someone makes a similar power, you can think of something further up or down the scale that still uses the same mechanics, but ultimately is different and diverse from the other person's character. Example being a person named Flame who has Ingition Powers, well you could decide that Fire or Heat Powers fit you more than Lava or anything lower. This is a good example of also coming to terms with the fact that people will flock towards popular powers. Super Strength is one of the most popular powers in the real world, and sure enough everyone and their mother wants to play a character like it. This gives people who want a popular power, but don't want to be just another copy to be original and fun at the same time. However, if you want, you can always just play as that original power and share it with another character on site. That is not a problem either!

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Now, onto Developing powers. As you might have seen on the character sheet, genetics plays a hefty hand in developing your powers in the future. With this, on the plotter sheet, we let you be original with it, but there is always a single sheet you are REQUIRED to have if you want to develop the power further on. This sheet is a personalized PDS Scale directly for your character which goes off of your character's born/given power, but the powers of their father or mother (or both). I will start with a non-complicated example, and then go into a more advanced version.

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Familia Powers:
Father - Water manipulation
Mother - Human

Super Power
Wind Manipulation: The ability to process and control the effects of wind and air through force. Moving around air using the power of wind in variant ways

Tornadic Trouble: Through basic wind manipulation, he can force wind to spin rapidly around him specifically making a tornado that is fast enough to divert attacks or projectiles.

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This has multiple ways it could develop as a character and power, but the basic one I will be showing for this is turning from a Wind Manipulation power, into a Hurricane Production through the development of his genetic Water Manipulation power from his father. This, on his plotter sheet, would look like this.

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Now, you may be wondering what that "Second Trigger Development Name" and "Special Trigger Development Name" is. Well, when you want to get a development on your power through genetics, you have the chance of two developments with family being involved. Your first parent's power can merge with yours after a trigger (explained further down), and then your second parent's power can merge with yours after a second trigger. The final one, "Special Trigger", is a special event the moderators and admins have agreed upon that could cause one super human to gain a third advancement if they interact with the event and cause them to grow into an exceptionally diverse character. Below, we will show an example of this... But right after I explain Triggers.

After you have reached a certain Rank level, you can go into a CIP Thread, or a PS Thread, and something can occur to force your character into an emotional state that causes great mental stress on the character. This in turn forces their body to sudden go into Fight or Flight mode, activating adrenaline and secretly starting up the genetic code hidden within you from your parent's generations. This suddenly forces a growth in your super powers to allow the use of both your character's, and your character's parent's powers. This in turn allows you to combine these powers to make a completely different power. This is not a permanent change, and you can still use the powers you have gained, but you also have the availability to use the new power through tandem use. However, your character only passes on the genetics of the brand new power to his/her children (and any newly developed powers if he achieves those before conception). The exact ranks you are allowed to Trigger a change are on the Rank Power Sheet. Please look to that for an exact on it.

Now, onto a complicated trigger change.

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Familia Powers:
Father - Electrical Production
Mother - Life-Power Manipulation

Super Power
Weapon Body: By having the ability to turn his body into any weapon without having to worry about the effects of the weapon, he can form himself into any explosive, firearm, etc without having to fear the damage it could do to his body.

Explosive Potential: By having the ability to turn his body into any weapon without having to worry about the effects of the weapon, he can form himself into any explosive, firearm, etc without having to fear the damage it could do to his body. Through this, he can form bombs and explosives that are equal to his size physically or less.

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