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Greg Masters has returned from his black op mission for the government.
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"At least someone with some TEACHING SKILLS will be returning. He seemed to understand the idea of NOT killing students," Page.

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So in the spirit of the discussion of updating and revising character, and based on an earlier conversation in Discord, where do each of you personally draw the line between a secondary power, and a technique/special move?
 
A secondary power is an actual power, something aside from their normal power.

A technique/special move just uses a power in a unique way.
 
Maybe we should come up with a specific list of powers that have been confirmed to correlate with certain stats

Like, telekinesis. Is that Willpower or Energy?
Teleportation, same question.
Telepathy, same question.
basically, 'Tele-___ = WILL or ENG?'
 
To me, a secondary power is more of a "sub power" or "lesser power" not something of equal strength or flashiness. For example if the main power was wind manipulation the sub power could be flight. A special move might be a flying punch using their powers to enhance something they normally wouldn't be that great in. The problem lies in the characters strength, defense and health as to how it would play out when punching someone at an incredible speed. Most people know that it would shatter bones to hit something going that fast. In short, a technique is something you can do using your powers but just because you can do it, doesn't mean its going to be successful or not going to hurt you. People really need to consider the "other" stats when they list their "moves" or techniques.

Just a few of my own thoughts....
 
Bag o Fruit said:
Maybe we should come up with a specific list of powers that have been confirmed to correlate with certain stats
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That'd be super helpful. I consider telepathy and telekinesis to be willpower based, but teleportation is more energy.
 
Bag o Fruit said:
Maybe we should come up with a specific list of powers that have been confirmed to correlate with certain stats

Like, telekinesis. Is that Willpower or Energy?
Teleportation, same question.
Telepathy, same question.
basically, 'Tele-___ = WILL or ENG?'
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I remember weli had a thing for this?
We actually did select which stats were related to what power, of our own characters

That's what made me realize Cecilia's were weird and we discussed that
 
Telekinesis isn't energy based? I think of it as a blast of force, energy based in the same way a pyrokinetic creates a blast of heat

Kinetic is the key word, as in kinetic energy. :)
 
I swear to god if we have to redo all these profile approvals...
 
My ideas are the WORST ideas!!! Who the fuck let me be in charge?!

Okay, screw this. Everyone meet me in the voice server for a.... creative discussion.
 
I was watching a movie with my sweetie during the stats discussion last night.

Here is a thing I started noodling with back around April and then sort of forgot to finish it:

Stats are rough guidelines. That is rule number 1. What you can do is what you can write plausibly, given your vision of the character and the consent of other players impacted by your actions. No more, no less. That said, having guidelines for what is plausible is probably helpful. But never forget: these are guidelines, not inflexible rules. The flexibility of interpretation is a feature, not a bug. If you think your couch potato character has a good reason to have a high agility, make the case for that. Be open to suggestions also. Agility (as with all the other stats) can mean different things to different characters. Everything in this RP is a negotiation. Be reasonable, be flexible, and commit to good storytelling and characterization over all else, and you’ll be fine.




Health measures the physical integrity of the body, covering resistance to disease and poison as well as giving a rough measure of how quickly you can recover from injury. Think of it as counting for both ‘hit points’ and the rate of recovery of hit points. In some gaming systems this could be called constitution, if you are coming from tabletop gaming. A low health could mean a lot of things. Maybe you have a lot of allergies. Maybe you have a weak heart. Maybe you are the picture of health but have a severe bleeding disorder, and could die from a punch to the nose. High health could pair well with regeneration, secondary organ systems (or both if you are from Galifrey) Or maybe you have nigh immortal cells that can be incapacitated by damage but will live on. At the very highest levels of health, maybe you are a simple fact of the universe, required to exist by basic physics, unkillable by any means. (Note that this is not actually allowed in AEGISverse.) Some examples follow:

1

Julie (shrunken state) As an ordinary girl shrunk to a height of half an inch, this is an easy one to understand. Though not unhealthy, she is easily injured at that size. She could be stepped on, poisoned by a spritz of bug spray, or simply swatted out of the air by a passing windshield. Luckily she is also very agile when small.

Lars is an ordinary human, but because of his obsessive personality frequently forgets to take proper care of himself.

Kingsley is dependent on living inside of more sturdy beings to protect her fragile amoeba like form. In open air she is vulnerable to infection due to having semi permeable skin, and mere sunlight burns her quite badly

Viola, in spite of the healthy, shall we say buxom face claim, suffers from muscular atrophy due to her nervous system being burnt out by her power. Without her supporting ‘tech skeleton’ she couldn’t even move a muscle.

2

Aid is an ordinary teen who can swim through solids, he can still catch cold or be cut or break bones like anyone else.

Julie, fully grown is an ordinary young woman subject to all the usual frailties flesh is heir to.

Aaron may be a living black hole, and invulnerable to any conceivable force or energy, but he is still just a normal middle aged man. If anything, he is a little overweight and will probably die someday of a heart attack, assuming he is not infected with a deadly disease, poisoned, or suffocated first. Also it is an open question whether he could be starved to death or not. He has gone over a month without eating before, and the need for food may have been due to Kingsley’s parasitism.

3

Hadrian has been the source of some confusion, as a character who can regrow lost limbs but has health achievable by normal humans. However, this just makes Hadrian an excellent example of how powers are distinct from stats. His main power is adapting to injuries rather than rapid healing. But he also heals more rapidly than most humans. While even the fastest healing humans can’t regrow lost limbs, that is only because their genetic code doesn’t allow for that. Hadrian’s does. It would take weeks or months, but eventually he can heal from anything that doesn’t kill him. (And he’s very hard to kill. But that is Defense--see below.)

Ophelia is pretty tough, rubbery, or chewy, depending on who you ask. Her athlete level health reflects three things: She is actually athletic, as an enthusiastic martial artist. She has four times the usually number of limbs, effectively allowing her to take five times more peripheral damage than a typical human could before needing a wheelbarrow for locomotion, and lastly she has, like Hadrian, slow regenerative abilities allowing arms to grow back if lost.

Teddy has some qualities of a werewolf, including furry ears, enhanced senses and robust health of the wild stock that infuses her genes. Among other things, this allows her to maintain peak performance longer than a hard living rock star typically can. Show me a hard living rocker who can out pace olympians, and I’ll show you Teddy.

Lucas is made of electrons, which makes him resistant to disease and poison due to his radically altered body chemistry, and also gives him limited regeneration in that he can regrow missing tissues by plugging himself into a power outlet and using the electron flow to rebuild. It also obviates his need for food and drink.

4

Eden can transfer injuries from himself to others and vice versa. This obviously makes him difficult to hurt permanently, but he has also developed his physiology to beyond mere human levels by repeated use of his power.

Dante is a nigh unstoppable demon in human form. In addition to being tough and strong, he’s pretty cut. One might argue that it is cheating to have good health from good genes rather than hard work and exercise, but then again, whaddayagonnado?

5
Desmond can grow his bones right out of his skin, which is pretty painful, and results in some blood loss every time. Luckily, growing bones means a rapid replenishment of blood, and he can also patch the holes in his skin over the course of a few minutes, whether he made them himself or got shot. He can still be killed if he sustains massive organ damage, but if he is only wounded, he’ll be back.

Avoyelles, when she has grown a giant flipping crawdad husk around herself is covered, not just in armored shell, but lots and lots of sweet succulent crawdad meat. While high in cholesterol, it does increase her overall hp to be padded with meat.

Hunter Ward is a ridiculously tough son of a bitch. He is a big believer in being able to kill the enemy under any circumstances, regardless of whiney excuses like having lost your ‘powers’ As such he stays fit to the point that he’s even more cut than the demon kid.

6

Currently there are no AEGIS characters with a health of 6. In the marvel universe, I would put The Thing in this slot. He his main stats are obviously defense and strength, but on the rare occasions when he has encountered attacks capable of actually hurting him, he took positively enormous damage without dropping, and recovered quickly. Another possible candidate for this would be Captain America; unable to get drunk because he metabolizes alcohol too quickly, borderline regeneration, abs to die for, able to take direct hits from ironman’s repulsor beams and get back up, Cap is crazy healthy.

7
Allen: Special case. Technically Allen is dead. Normally that is paired with a VERY low score in health. An experimental nanite swarm keeps him active despite being deceased by directly stimulating his brain and other organs. Very easily injured, but can repair very rapidly. Theoretically could eventually repair any injury that didn’t eradicate the nanites themselves


8
Imogen: Main power is regeneration. Possible to kill her, but only theoretically. She doesn’t even know what it would take. Can recover from almost any wound. Leery of decapitation and traumatic brain injury. Recovers from minor injuries almost instantly. Regrow digits in minutes, limbs in hours.

9

No examples at this level exist in AEGIS. In Marvel, deadpool might reach this level, but is probably only an 8. Nine is off the charts, anything goes territory. The only nine that leaps to mind from fiction is Captain Jack Harkness from Dr. Who. And even then it is arguable whether what he can do is reflected in health or in energy, since he is described as a ‘living fixed point in time’ meaning that his physical form is part of the very fabric of reality.


Strength

This measures how much force you can exert with your muscles, it governs lifting, punching power, jumping ability, and general feats of athleticism.

1

Aid basically has rabbit themed powers. He’s a bit runty, which makes him skittish. It’s a whole (we got rid of the hole thing) thing.

Lars barely eats. He certainly doesn’t work out. He is positively gaunt most of the time. He fights with the power of his mind. Brute force is for the weak.

2

Swan, in his youth, was more formidable. Now well into late middle age, he is still not to be underestimated, but his joints are not as strong as they once were and neither are his muscles.

3

Teddy: Wolf genes are good for more than just stamina it turns out. Who knew? They are also good for leaping, running, beating senseless and tearing shit up. Maybe not to the same degree as a super whose main focus is strength, but more than one fan boy who got past her bouncers has regretted it.

Manami in her docile form still has considerable muscle mass, which is optimized for swimming, but would still allow a deadlift in the range of about half a ton. She is capable of even greater strength underwater due to increased oxygenation in her natural environment. Her muscles are also unusually dense, suggestive of extreme untapped potential under stress

Chris is actually not as muscular as this stat would suggest, and provides an excellent example of how stats can be interpreted creatively. Chris is athletic, but not much more so than a typical high school gymnast. What he has that they lack is a deep intuitive understanding of how to get the maximum effectiveness out of what muscle he has. He may not be able to lift as much as Manami, but could probably beat her arm wrestling by simply applying his strength better. Some might call this trickery. Others just see it as super strength.

Lucas used to be a scrawny kid until he ‘died.’ When he grew back his liver, he found he was also able to pack on muscle mass. He needs to ‘eat’ a lot more electricity now to maintain it.

McNabb was old when he died, and his muscles have not gotten stronger after death, nor have his bones. Nonetheless, the Lazarus swarm has nearly total control over the body they inhabit down to the cellular level. They can call up reserves that a living human would never tap for fear of injury. Then they repair the inevitable injury.


4

Hunter: technically beyond human, this probably has something to do with his ability to use his powers to move his own metal infused flesh with greater force that mere muscle would allow. That said, he’s got muscles on muscles, and even when ungalvanized, he hits pretty hard.

Ophelia has tentacles. Pound for pound they are much stronger than limbs with bones, except for overhead lifts. Her grip strength is, quite literally, inhuman. But while she could maybe stop a helicopter from taking off, picking up a car is a no go. Also, her legs and back are not as strong as her limbs.

Axel, in his dragon form, exhibits superhuman strength, able to pick up cars, if not necessarily toss them across the street.

Hadrian’s muscles are a function of his ability to optimize his body’s response to damage, including the microscopic tears in muscle tissue that result from working out. In essence, exercise is hundreds of times more efficacious for him. At the same time, this limits his ‘super strength’ to a level which unaltered humans could theoretically, if never practically, achieve.

5
Avoyelles is an interesting case. Normally she has strength on a similar scale to other humans, until she grows her shell. When she gets crabby, she can easily break through walls, pick up cars or even bust open bank vaults, though that takes serious effort. Partly this is from the extra muscle mass, but largely from the extra leverage afforded by having an external skeleton actuated by internal musculature. This allows for tremendous lifting, striking power, and pinching, but limits speed and jumping

Evangeline is an excellent contrasting example to her sister. Her strength is entirely in her legs, allowing tremendous leaping and powerful kicks, but is almost useless for lifting or wrestling.

Naran’s strength is tied less to her muscles as to her mastery over kinetic energy. She is amazingly strong, but physiological tests indicate that her muscles cannot actually exert forces to the degree that she apparently can. So either the tests are wrong, or the mere act of exerting herself taps into hidden power reserves to move the object she is pushing as if she was pushing it much harder. The second hypothesis seems supported by the fact that she can definitely crank her striking force to ridiculous levels when she deliberately engages her power.

6
No current AEGIS characters seem to have strength at this level. This is considered the upper bound of ‘normal’ super strength. Classic examples that might go here would be Spider-Man from marvel comics or maybe Hawkwoman from DC.

7

Katherine, in her daytime aspect, enhances her strength with the power of the sun. Some form of psychic energy flows through her body in place of blood along modified nervous tissue. Direct sunlight aggravates and supercharges this energy, allowing her to exert forces that are terrifying to mere mortals, and worrisome even to lesser supers.

Manami, when provoked to extremes, increases in strength by many orders of magnitude. If Kate is terrifying, at least she is in control. Manami cannot access her full strength without temporarily losing her mind, and nobody is more worried about what she might do in that state than she is.

8

No AEGIS characters have eight strength currently. Classic heroes in this range would be The Thing, and Hulk when only moderately angry. (When truly raging, Hulk goes off the charts)


9 Aaron is hypothetically capable of moving whole planets, except for the lithosphere not being able to stand up to such high pressures. Weirdly, he can rarely find the means to exploit his full strength except in squeezing things. He can’t throw things because his arms are too massive to move fast (even for him). He can’t jump high or run fast because again, he is far too heavy for his own good. He can’t even punch particularly hard, because his fist velocity is too low. The fist may be unstoppable, but that only helps against that are fixed in place; anything else he’ll just shove back. And even for a fixed wall, if he doesn’t have good traction, he may just shove himself backwards. What Cassandra did for prophesy, Aaron does for super strength.

Tabitha’s strength scales with her size. Theoretically she has no upper bound, though so far her maximum height achieved is 150 feet which put her strength somewhere in the 7-8 range, capable of knocking over whole buildings with ease or causing minor earthquakes by walking around, but not quite capable of reaching up into the sky and pulling down the moon. Yet.

Defense

1
Lars has never actually been in a physical altercation, which is a point of pride for him. So technically his ability to take a punch is purely theoretical. Given his build and proclivities however, it is a safe bet to rate it at poor.

Jordan takes damage from being alive. Punching him is not recommended, except by his brother.

Chris is the classic 'avoid taking any solid hits' archetype. If plan A fails, his back up plan is basically to spend time in the hospital. Somebody get that kid some body armor!

Salem subsists entirely on cheetos and mountain dew. He has not been in a fight since fourth grade, and he did not fare well in that one.

Julie (shrunken) Swatting a wasp is bad for the wasp. And at least a wasp has an exoskeleton.

2

Teddy resents the word ‘normal’ being applied to anything about her, but the label fits her defense. She is strong and fast, and most normal humans would be ill advised to pick a fight with her, but if sucker punched, she’d go down about as easily as the next person.

3

Max is basically a regular middle aged man, but he has lived an extraordinary life, and picked up a phenomenally broad base of skills. Among those skills is the ability to take a punch well, knowing how to yield to it to avoid being knocked out, how to read a fighter to block better, and most of all, recognizing when to dive for cover. (Defense can be a state of mind, as much or more than having tough skin and bones)

Manami

Imogen

Luke

Naran

Denzil

Lucas

4

Cecilia

McNabb

5

Ioanna

Hadrian

6

Katherine (Daytime)

7

No characters in AEGIS have 7 defense. In Marvel, I’d rate Thor at a 7, In DC perhaps Wonder Woman?

8

No characters in AEGIS have 8 defenses. Post Crisis Superman is probably about here. Also The Thing and Hulk


9 Aaron could withstand a multimegaton nuclear blast if not for the toxicity of the fallout. A ‘clean’ blast, such as a meteor strike would barely be noticeable. A whole planet’s impact could hurt him, of course. Unfortunately for Aaron, all he has to do is trip and faceplant for that to happen to him. And he’s clumsy.

Agility

1

Jordan

Aaron

Hadrian

2

McNabb?


3

Denzil

Chris

Oliver

Teddy: Wolves are fast runners, and quick adaptive hunters. Teddy mostly only hunts pizza, but you should see what she can do when you balance a slice on her nose.

Lars: For some, like Teddy, agility is more of a full body, breakdancing onstage kind of talent. For Lars, the closest he gets to that sort of thing is a stunningly fast quickchange. Where he mainly thrives though is in legerdemain. His close up trickery has to be seen to be disbelieved.

4

Urial

Asher

Lara

5

Max gives an excellent example of how much of agility is down to timing. It is not that he is super fast so much (though he IS pretty quick for an old guy) It is more that he has an instinctive feel for what is going to happen next, and a knack for already being in a good position to deal with it.

Biannca

Viola

6

Lucas

Riley

7

Katherine (night time)

Kingsley

Julie

Sam

8

Ioanna

9

There are no AEGIS characters at this level of agility. This is off the charts, move near the speed of light, infinite mass punch territory. The Flash is the obvious comparison. Hiro from the show Heroes could qualify from his ability to freeze time, teleport and time travel. None of those powers are allowed in AEGIS (Except teleporting)

Intelligence

1

Teddy

Manami

Hadrian

2

3

Luke

Ioanna

Chris

Lara

4

Lars

Anthony

Urial

5

Max

Salem

Asher

Petrovich

Viola

6

No AEGIS characters have this level of inteligence. Marvel Benchmark: Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.

7

McNabb

Kyle

8

Marvel Benchmark: Mr. Fantastic

9

Tomoko

Jordan

Mainframe

Will

1

Viola

Sam

Lara

2

Teddy

3

Hadrian

Tomoko

Luke

Salem

McNabb

4

Max

Juliana

Oliver

Naran

Urial

5

Imogen

Luke

Chris

6

Marvel Benchmark: Daredevil

7

Marvel Benchmark: Magneto

8

Kingsley

Asher

Cecilia

9

Kyle

Energy

1

Pmuch everyone who don’t shoot lasers out their eyes or black lightning out their butthole.

2

Lucas

Denzil

Cecilia?!

3 Katherine (night and day both)


4

Luci

5 Juliana

Klaus

6

Julie

Viola

7

Jeremiah

8

Bianca

9

Victoria




Naran
 
Gus said:
I was watching a movie with my sweetie during the stats discussion last night.

Here is a thing I started noodling with back around April and then sort of forgot to finish it:

Stats are rough guidelines. That is rule number 1. What you can do is what you can write plausibly, given your vision of the character and the consent of other players impacted by your actions. No more, no less. That said, having guidelines for what is plausible is probably helpful. But never forget: these are guidelines, not inflexible rules. The flexibility of interpretation is a feature, not a bug. If you think your couch potato character has a good reason to have a high agility, make the case for that. Be open to suggestions also. Agility (as with all the other stats) can mean different things to different characters. Everything in this RP is a negotiation. Be reasonable, be flexible, and commit to good storytelling and characterization over all else, and you’ll be fine.




Health measures the physical integrity of the body, covering resistance to disease and poison as well as giving a rough measure of how quickly you can recover from injury. Think of it as counting for both ‘hit points’ and the rate of recovery of hit points. In some gaming systems this could be called constitution, if you are coming from tabletop gaming. A low health could mean a lot of things. Maybe you have a lot of allergies. Maybe you have a weak heart. Maybe you are the picture of health but have a severe bleeding disorder, and could die from a punch to the nose. High health could pair well with regeneration, secondary organ systems (or both if you are from Galifrey) Or maybe you have nigh immortal cells that can be incapacitated by damage but will live on. At the very highest levels of health, maybe you are a simple fact of the universe, required to exist by basic physics, unkillable by any means. (Note that this is not actually allowed in AEGISverse.) Some examples follow:

1

Julie (shrunken state) As an ordinary girl shrunk to a height of half an inch, this is an easy one to understand. Though not unhealthy, she is easily injured at that size. She could be stepped on, poisoned by a spritz of bug spray, or simply swatted out of the air by a passing windshield. Luckily she is also very agile when small.

Lars is an ordinary human, but because of his obsessive personality frequently forgets to take proper care of himself.

Kingsley is dependent on living inside of more sturdy beings to protect her fragile amoeba like form. In open air she is vulnerable to infection due to having semi permeable skin, and mere sunlight burns her quite badly

Viola, in spite of the healthy, shall we say buxom face claim, suffers from muscular atrophy due to her nervous system being burnt out by her power. Without her supporting ‘tech skeleton’ she couldn’t even move a muscle.

2

Aid is an ordinary teen who can swim through solids, he can still catch cold or be cut or break bones like anyone else.

Julie, fully grown is an ordinary young woman subject to all the usual frailties flesh is heir to.

Aaron may be a living black hole, and invulnerable to any conceivable force or energy, but he is still just a normal middle aged man. If anything, he is a little overweight and will probably die someday of a heart attack, assuming he is not infected with a deadly disease, poisoned, or suffocated first. Also it is an open question whether he could be starved to death or not. He has gone over a month without eating before, and the need for food may have been due to Kingsley’s parasitism.

3

Hadrian has been the source of some confusion, as a character who can regrow lost limbs but has health achievable by normal humans. However, this just makes Hadrian an excellent example of how powers are distinct from stats. His main power is adapting to injuries rather than rapid healing. But he also heals more rapidly than most humans. While even the fastest healing humans can’t regrow lost limbs, that is only because their genetic code doesn’t allow for that. Hadrian’s does. It would take weeks or months, but eventually he can heal from anything that doesn’t kill him. (And he’s very hard to kill. But that is Defense--see below.)

Ophelia is pretty tough, rubbery, or chewy, depending on who you ask. Her athlete level health reflects three things: She is actually athletic, as an enthusiastic martial artist. She has four times the usually number of limbs, effectively allowing her to take five times more peripheral damage than a typical human could before needing a wheelbarrow for locomotion, and lastly she has, like Hadrian, slow regenerative abilities allowing arms to grow back if lost.

Teddy has some qualities of a werewolf, including furry ears, enhanced senses and robust health of the wild stock that infuses her genes. Among other things, this allows her to maintain peak performance longer than a hard living rock star typically can. Show me a hard living rocker who can out pace olympians, and I’ll show you Teddy.

Lucas is made of electrons, which makes him resistant to disease and poison due to his radically altered body chemistry, and also gives him limited regeneration in that he can regrow missing tissues by plugging himself into a power outlet and using the electron flow to rebuild. It also obviates his need for food and drink.

4

Eden can transfer injuries from himself to others and vice versa. This obviously makes him difficult to hurt permanently, but he has also developed his physiology to beyond mere human levels by repeated use of his power.

Dante is a nigh unstoppable demon in human form. In addition to being tough and strong, he’s pretty cut. One might argue that it is cheating to have good health from good genes rather than hard work and exercise, but then again, whaddayagonnado?

5
Desmond can grow his bones right out of his skin, which is pretty painful, and results in some blood loss every time. Luckily, growing bones means a rapid replenishment of blood, and he can also patch the holes in his skin over the course of a few minutes, whether he made them himself or got shot. He can still be killed if he sustains massive organ damage, but if he is only wounded, he’ll be back.

Avoyelles, when she has grown a giant flipping crawdad husk around herself is covered, not just in armored shell, but lots and lots of sweet succulent crawdad meat. While high in cholesterol, it does increase her overall hp to be padded with meat.

Hunter Ward is a ridiculously tough son of a bitch. He is a big believer in being able to kill the enemy under any circumstances, regardless of whiney excuses like having lost your ‘powers’ As such he stays fit to the point that he’s even more cut than the demon kid.

6

Currently there are no AEGIS characters with a health of 6. In the marvel universe, I would put The Thing in this slot. He his main stats are obviously defense and strength, but on the rare occasions when he has encountered attacks capable of actually hurting him, he took positively enormous damage without dropping, and recovered quickly. Another possible candidate for this would be Captain America; unable to get drunk because he metabolizes alcohol too quickly, borderline regeneration, abs to die for, able to take direct hits from ironman’s repulsor beams and get back up, Cap is crazy healthy.

7
Allen: Special case. Technically Allen is dead. Normally that is paired with a VERY low score in health. An experimental nanite swarm keeps him active despite being deceased by directly stimulating his brain and other organs. Very easily injured, but can repair very rapidly. Theoretically could eventually repair any injury that didn’t eradicate the nanites themselves


8
Imogen: Main power is regeneration. Possible to kill her, but only theoretically. She doesn’t even know what it would take. Can recover from almost any wound. Leery of decapitation and traumatic brain injury. Recovers from minor injuries almost instantly. Regrow digits in minutes, limbs in hours.

9

No examples at this level exist in AEGIS. In Marvel, deadpool might reach this level, but is probably only an 8. Nine is off the charts, anything goes territory. The only nine that leaps to mind from fiction is Captain Jack Harkness from Dr. Who. And even then it is arguable whether what he can do is reflected in health or in energy, since he is described as a ‘living fixed point in time’ meaning that his physical form is part of the very fabric of reality.


Strength

This measures how much force you can exert with your muscles, it governs lifting, punching power, jumping ability, and general feats of athleticism.

1

Aid basically has rabbit themed powers. He’s a bit runty, which makes him skittish. It’s a whole (we got rid of the hole thing) thing.

Lars barely eats. He certainly doesn’t work out. He is positively gaunt most of the time. He fights with the power of his mind. Brute force is for the weak.

2

Swan, in his youth, was more formidable. Now well into late middle age, he is still not to be underestimated, but his joints are not as strong as they once were and neither are his muscles.

3

Teddy: Wolf genes are good for more than just stamina it turns out. Who knew? They are also good for leaping, running, beating senseless and tearing shit up. Maybe not to the same degree as a super whose main focus is strength, but more than one fan boy who got past her bouncers has regretted it.

Manami in her docile form still has considerable muscle mass, which is optimized for swimming, but would still allow a deadlift in the range of about half a ton. She is capable of even greater strength underwater due to increased oxygenation in her natural environment. Her muscles are also unusually dense, suggestive of extreme untapped potential under stress

Chris is actually not as muscular as this stat would suggest, and provides an excellent example of how stats can be interpreted creatively. Chris is athletic, but not much more so than a typical high school gymnast. What he has that they lack is a deep intuitive understanding of how to get the maximum effectiveness out of what muscle he has. He may not be able to lift as much as Manami, but could probably beat her arm wrestling by simply applying his strength better. Some might call this trickery. Others just see it as super strength.

Lucas used to be a scrawny kid until he ‘died.’ When he grew back his liver, he found he was also able to pack on muscle mass. He needs to ‘eat’ a lot more electricity now to maintain it.

McNabb was old when he died, and his muscles have not gotten stronger after death, nor have his bones. Nonetheless, the Lazarus swarm has nearly total control over the body they inhabit down to the cellular level. They can call up reserves that a living human would never tap for fear of injury. Then they repair the inevitable injury.


4

Hunter: technically beyond human, this probably has something to do with his ability to use his powers to move his own metal infused flesh with greater force that mere muscle would allow. That said, he’s got muscles on muscles, and even when ungalvanized, he hits pretty hard.

Ophelia has tentacles. Pound for pound they are much stronger than limbs with bones, except for overhead lifts. Her grip strength is, quite literally, inhuman. But while she could maybe stop a helicopter from taking off, picking up a car is a no go. Also, her legs and back are not as strong as her limbs.

Axel, in his dragon form, exhibits superhuman strength, able to pick up cars, if not necessarily toss them across the street.

Hadrian’s muscles are a function of his ability to optimize his body’s response to damage, including the microscopic tears in muscle tissue that result from working out. In essence, exercise is hundreds of times more efficacious for him. At the same time, this limits his ‘super strength’ to a level which unaltered humans could theoretically, if never practically, achieve.

5
Avoyelles is an interesting case. Normally she has strength on a similar scale to other humans, until she grows her shell. When she gets crabby, she can easily break through walls, pick up cars or even bust open bank vaults, though that takes serious effort. Partly this is from the extra muscle mass, but largely from the extra leverage afforded by having an external skeleton actuated by internal musculature. This allows for tremendous lifting, striking power, and pinching, but limits speed and jumping

Evangeline is an excellent contrasting example to her sister. Her strength is entirely in her legs, allowing tremendous leaping and powerful kicks, but is almost useless for lifting or wrestling.

Naran’s strength is tied less to her muscles as to her mastery over kinetic energy. She is amazingly strong, but physiological tests indicate that her muscles cannot actually exert forces to the degree that she apparently can. So either the tests are wrong, or the mere act of exerting herself taps into hidden power reserves to move the object she is pushing as if she was pushing it much harder. The second hypothesis seems supported by the fact that she can definitely crank her striking force to ridiculous levels when she deliberately engages her power.

6
No current AEGIS characters seem to have strength at this level. This is considered the upper bound of ‘normal’ super strength. Classic examples that might go here would be Spider-Man from marvel comics or maybe Hawkwoman from DC.

7

Katherine, in her daytime aspect, enhances her strength with the power of the sun. Some form of psychic energy flows through her body in place of blood along modified nervous tissue. Direct sunlight aggravates and supercharges this energy, allowing her to exert forces that are terrifying to mere mortals, and worrisome even to lesser supers.

Manami, when provoked to extremes, increases in strength by many orders of magnitude. If Kate is terrifying, at least she is in control. Manami cannot access her full strength without temporarily losing her mind, and nobody is more worried about what she might do in that state than she is.

8

No AEGIS characters have eight strength currently. Classic heroes in this range would be The Thing, and Hulk when only moderately angry. (When truly raging, Hulk goes off the charts)


9 Aaron is hypothetically capable of moving whole planets, except for the lithosphere not being able to stand up to such high pressures. Weirdly, he can rarely find the means to exploit his full strength except in squeezing things. He can’t throw things because his arms are too massive to move fast (even for him). He can’t jump high or run fast because again, he is far too heavy for his own good. He can’t even punch particularly hard, because his fist velocity is too low. The fist may be unstoppable, but that only helps against that are fixed in place; anything else he’ll just shove back. And even for a fixed wall, if he doesn’t have good traction, he may just shove himself backwards. What Cassandra did for prophesy, Aaron does for super strength.

Tabitha’s strength scales with her size. Theoretically she has no upper bound, though so far her maximum height achieved is 150 feet which put her strength somewhere in the 7-8 range, capable of knocking over whole buildings with ease or causing minor earthquakes by walking around, but not quite capable of reaching up into the sky and pulling down the moon. Yet.

Defense

1
Lars has never actually been in a physical altercation, which is a point of pride for him. So technically his ability to take a punch is purely theoretical. Given his build and proclivities however, it is a safe bet to rate it at poor.

Jordan takes damage from being alive. Punching him is not recommended, except by his brother.

Chris is the classic 'avoid taking any solid hits' archetype. If plan A fails, his back up plan is basically to spend time in the hospital. Somebody get that kid some body armor!

Salem subsists entirely on cheetos and mountain dew. He has not been in a fight since fourth grade, and he did not fare well in that one.

Julie (shrunken) Swatting a wasp is bad for the wasp. And at least a wasp has an exoskeleton.

2

Teddy resents the word ‘normal’ being applied to anything about her, but the label fits her defense. She is strong and fast, and most normal humans would be ill advised to pick a fight with her, but if sucker punched, she’d go down about as easily as the next person.

3

Max is basically a regular middle aged man, but he has lived an extraordinary life, and picked up a phenomenally broad base of skills. Among those skills is the ability to take a punch well, knowing how to yield to it to avoid being knocked out, how to read a fighter to block better, and most of all, recognizing when to dive for cover. (Defense can be a state of mind, as much or more than having tough skin and bones)

Manami

Imogen

Luke

Naran

Denzil

Lucas

4

Cecilia

McNabb

5

Ioanna

Hadrian

6

Katherine (Daytime)

7

No characters in AEGIS have 7 defense. In Marvel, I’d rate Thor at a 7, In DC perhaps Wonder Woman?

8

No characters in AEGIS have 8 defenses. Post Crisis Superman is probably about here. Also The Thing and Hulk


9 Aaron could withstand a multimegaton nuclear blast if not for the toxicity of the fallout. A ‘clean’ blast, such as a meteor strike would barely be noticeable. A whole planet’s impact could hurt him, of course. Unfortunately for Aaron, all he has to do is trip and faceplant for that to happen to him. And he’s clumsy.

Agility

1

Jordan

Aaron

Hadrian

2

McNabb?


3

Denzil

Chris

Oliver

Teddy: Wolves are fast runners, and quick adaptive hunters. Teddy mostly only hunts pizza, but you should see what she can do when you balance a slice on her nose.

Lars: For some, like Teddy, agility is more of a full body, breakdancing onstage kind of talent. For Lars, the closest he gets to that sort of thing is a stunningly fast quickchange. Where he mainly thrives though is in legerdemain. His close up trickery has to be seen to be disbelieved.

4

Urial

Asher

Lara

5

Max gives an excellent example of how much of agility is down to timing. It is not that he is super fast so much (though he IS pretty quick for an old guy) It is more that he has an instinctive feel for what is going to happen next, and a knack for already being in a good position to deal with it.

Biannca

Viola

6

Lucas

Riley

7

Katherine (night time)

Kingsley

Julie

Sam

8

Ioanna

9

There are no AEGIS characters at this level of agility. This is off the charts, move near the speed of light, infinite mass punch territory. The Flash is the obvious comparison. Hiro from the show Heroes could qualify from his ability to freeze time, teleport and time travel. None of those powers are allowed in AEGIS (Except teleporting)

Intelligence

1

Teddy

Manami

Hadrian

2

3

Luke

Ioanna

Chris

Lara

4

Lars

Anthony

Urial

5

Max

Salem

Asher

Petrovich

Viola

6

No AEGIS characters have this level of inteligence. Marvel Benchmark: Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.

7

McNabb

Kyle

8

Marvel Benchmark: Mr. Fantastic

9

Tomoko

Jordan

Mainframe

Will

1

Viola

Sam

Lara

2

Teddy

3

Hadrian

Tomoko

Luke

Salem

McNabb

4

Max

Juliana

Oliver

Naran

Urial

5

Imogen

Luke

Chris

6

Marvel Benchmark: Daredevil

7

Marvel Benchmark: Magneto

8

Kingsley

Asher

Cecilia

9

Kyle

Energy

1

Pmuch everyone who don’t shoot lasers out their eyes or black lightning out their butthole.

2

Lucas

Denzil

Cecilia?!

3 Katherine (night and day both)


4

Luci

5 Juliana

Klaus

6

Julie

Viola

7

Jeremiah

8

Bianca

9

Victoria




Naran
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Hahaha, Cecilia's stats were wonky since the start. She's been around since episode 1, my understanding of the system wasn't the best and I was coming back from a RP hiatus of about 3 years.
Syrenrei gave her the usual treatment and we fixed stuff XD So if you're using her list, Cecil's stats aren't these anymore : P

Raised her energy to 6, Willpower moved to 5 and she suggested I put defense 3 because of the air-Immunity. I did that, but last night's stats discussion made me feel this is a different interpretation of what the defense stats stands for.
 
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