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Old 11-14-2010, 01:55 AM   Top  -  End  -  #121
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Old 11-14-2010, 02:14 AM   Top  -  End  -  #122
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I got Electronic Communication.

Too easy. Link myself in to a cluster of supercomputers. Design Singularity being, spawned from and including my own mind. Solve world hunger. Tell the world to deal with its own darn problems from now on because I'm sick of them being selfish stupid shortsighted jerks and their last free pass has been used. Retreat to fortress of solitude with my new race of machine people. Wander the universe and do a bit of research while I'm at it. Profit.
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Old 11-14-2010, 02:29 AM   Top  -  End  -  #123
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Psychic Persuasion
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Literary Manipulation

Now this is interesting. I’d become some sort of editor so I can rewrite textbooks, bad vampire novels and all sorts of other crap that is horrible, wrong or slanted to one view. The cool thing, is that I can do this without anyone knowing until after the fact.

Now if I’m reading this wrong, and I get to actually animate the books and paper. Then I’d just become the most tyrannical librarian you’ll ever meet.

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Adamantium Skeleton

Again an easy one, but can you say fighter? Something like MMA or boxing. I mean adamantium fists are effectively brass knuckles. Not to mention having an impervious skull helps prevent serious head trauma (and can break my opponents hands).

This is entertaining, lets try again:

Cosmic Manipulation

phh too easy again, NEXT!

acid Generation

Powers that are also potentially a hindrance are interesting, as they can backfire on occasion. I would go around and remove all the graffiti around town. Granted I’d have to keep doing it over and over. So eventually I’d end up attacking the punks that are doing it and become a costumed vigilante, targeting people who deface public and private property.

Mendacity Detection

Ohh here’s an interesting one. I’d be either a professional interrogator for the government/police/etc. or I’d be a day time trash TV show host like Jerry Springer, and expose people’s infidelity to the world!

Ok I think I’m done for now.
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Old 11-14-2010, 03:35 AM   Top  -  End  -  #124
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Hyalokinesis

I would... start a glass-related business?
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Old 11-14-2010, 03:41 AM   Top  -  End  -  #125
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Deoxygenation wow i could just arm myself with a lighter and then i could shoot streams of fire from the lighters
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Old 11-14-2010, 03:45 AM   Top  -  End  -  #126
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http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_Breathing

Has a lot of utility. Not actually great in a fight, except as a scare tactic, but I don't get into any fights.
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Old 11-14-2010, 03:47 AM   Top  -  End  -  #127
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Has a lot of utility. Not actually great in a fight, except as a scare tactic, but I don't get into any fights.
Ooo someone i can beat in a fight
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Old 11-14-2010, 03:53 AM   Top  -  End  -  #128
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Situational Biomorphic Adaptation: according to the type of danger at the current situation they automatically obtain the powers necessary to save those lives, be they their own or others. Theses powers and forms they take are determined by the situation they are in and adapt accordingly to the situation at hand. The variety of the persons' power manifestations appear to be almost limitless.
This... was mine. And its pretty awesome. I feel it works with me and my personality. I also like the idea of using multiple powers, since I'd get bored with just one.

Obviously... I'd use it to save others.. since my power is limited to protecting human life in emergencies.
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Old 11-14-2010, 03:58 AM   Top  -  End  -  #129
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Hyalokinesis

I would... start a glass-related business?
you can encase your enemies in an airproof container in mid-air, fly if your suit is mainly glass, break and reform anything made of glass etc. it's actually a good power for a villain
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Old 11-14-2010, 04:01 AM   Top  -  End  -  #130
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Invulnerability.
"The power in which one is immune to all forms of external physical damage."

I would start doing stunts. Eventually, I would start doing stuff like orbital drops with no parachute.
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Old 11-14-2010, 04:09 AM   Top  -  End  -  #131
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Deoxygenation wow i could just arm myself with a lighter and then i could shoot streams of fire from the lighters
How? That doesn't make sense to me...
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Old 11-14-2010, 04:11 AM   Top  -  End  -  #132
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Dream Manipulation


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Old 11-14-2010, 05:42 AM   Top  -  End  -  #133
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Regenerate

The User can use this ability to heal themselves or regrow lost or badly wounded body parts.

edit: This is actually one of my favorite superpowers!
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Old 11-14-2010, 05:48 AM   Top  -  End  -  #134
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http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/E...Transportation

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One can even enter one’s consciousness unto the cyberspace plane of computers as data. The user's can project their consciousness into electronic devices; may also include free-course interaction with, and manipulation of programs, travel in "cyberspace" and transport between any two digitally-connected electrical conduits.

The user can enter by touching a computer system. Can manipulate data and info, overload files, and rearrange or create new data.

Techniques
* "cybernetic travel": to enter the cyber planes of the computer system.
...this is really, really, REALLY good. Instant computer manipulation and almost instant travel to anywhere civilized? Oh yeah . Keep your combat powers, I'll be here programming at the speed of light with my MIND .
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Old 11-14-2010, 05:59 AM   Top  -  End  -  #135
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I got:

Adoptive Muscle Memory

Which is actually very nice. I'd use it to learn martial arts, dancing and all manner of acrobatics just by looking at videos and practice sessions. It'd be great! I could learn to move and fight like a master with almost no practice.
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Old 11-14-2010, 06:28 AM   Top  -  End  -  #136
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...this is really, really, REALLY good. Instant computer manipulation and almost instant travel to anywhere civilized? Oh yeah
Sounds great right up until a computer BSODs while you're inside it.
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Old 11-14-2010, 06:49 AM   Top  -  End  -  #137
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I AM CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!

Booyah! It's not omnipotence, but I'll wager it's more fun.
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Old 11-14-2010, 06:53 AM   Top  -  End  -  #138
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Perspicuity.

...So, if the rest of the world stays the same, how do I notice?
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Old 11-14-2010, 07:00 AM   Top  -  End  -  #139
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I got Voodoo Dolls (rerolled from The Time/Space Event Horizion).
So yeah no Super Agility, no Poison Fumes or Monkey Powers. Instead I get to play with dollies.
Still I feel bad for you Marnath, we should team up or something.

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Old 11-14-2010, 07:04 AM   Top  -  End  -  #140
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Malleable Bio-Mercury Form

Oh ho ho! Now we're talking!
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Old 11-14-2010, 07:18 AM   Top  -  End  -  #141
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Nice, we get to roll for free superpowers and I get Dual Mind.
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Old 11-14-2010, 07:34 AM   Top  -  End  -  #142
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http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Self-Detonation

So I can blow myself up? Yeah... useful. I call reroll!

http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/E...d_Intelligence

But I already have that one!
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Old 11-14-2010, 07:40 AM   Top  -  End  -  #143
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Arachnidan_Mimicry

Great. I'm Spider Man. And not the good kind of Spider Man.
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Are you serious? Like, really, is that a power?
Oh, I can already do that, but I exert so much of my efforts on using human speech and walking on my hind legs that... y'know.
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Old 11-14-2010, 07:43 AM   Top  -  End  -  #144
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I've got the power to open and lock anything!

According to the page, with enough power I can even open eyelids and such.

But I will become a petty crook, a lesser villain all you supers can defeat in your early stages of herodom.
I will become... THE LOCK MOCKER!
I will train myself in the art of stealth, steal some money, valuable arts (provided I get not stopped by people with the power over darkness or glass or exploding arteries), eventually retire and live on some remote island.
I think I will fashion my suit to something like that of the Escapist.

EDIT: Wait a minute, if I can lock eyelids and lips, I can silence or blind people. That's an offensive ability!

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Old 11-14-2010, 07:48 AM   Top  -  End  -  #145
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How? That doesn't make sense to me...
The user can erase the oxygen around them causing respiring organism to choke and even go into cardiac arrest. The user can release a molecular wave causing oxygen molecules to dissipate.

Foreign oxygen will concentrate into the area due to diffusion when the user is not constantly using their power.

Can be concentrated onto certain areas, an example being a flame's or villain’s proximity.

May accidentally suffocate the user or their allies.

So all i have to do is to deprive a line of air of oxygen deactivate my power ad then switch on my lighter
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Old 11-14-2010, 07:56 AM   Top  -  End  -  #146
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I've got the power to open and lock anything!

According to the page, with enough power I can even open eyelids and such.

But I will become a petty crook, a lesser villain all you supers can defeat in your early stages of herodom.
I will become... THE LOCK MOCKER!
I will train myself in the art of stealth, steal some money, valuable arts (provided I get not stopped by people with the power over darkness or glass or exploding arteries), eventually retire and live on some remote island.
I think I will fashion my suit to something like that of the Escapist.

EDIT: Wait a minute, if I can lock eyelids and lips, I can silence or blind people. That's an offensive ability!
And in a fight, just open your enemy's heart valves.
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:01 AM   Top  -  End  -  #147
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Biological Manipulation

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First, I cure my CFS.

Then I do a happy dance - for like a week solid!

Then I travel the world curing other CFS patients, for free. I fund my work by doing celebrity cosmetic "surgery" for one month a year, at exorbitant prices. I keep my CFS doctor and my celebrity doctor identities separate so that celebrities don't bother me the rest of the year when they get a pimple or want a hair extension or whatever.
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:04 AM   Top  -  End  -  #148
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And in a fight, just open your enemy's heart valves.
I can open their harts and their minds!
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:04 AM   Top  -  End  -  #149
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I provide transportation via Mirror-mobile.
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Old 11-14-2010, 08:06 AM   Top  -  End  -  #150
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...

Then I travel the world curing other CFS patients, for free. ...
First dibs.

Any chance anyone with omnipotence want's to give me a reroll? Double jump seriously sucks.
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