Powers That Suit

[Bluelantern]

It is still weird, mind you, that Lazarus can see arbitrary magic. From arbitrary worlds. It does seem somewhat odd that "magic" is a natural category that he can see all of.

Yeah, I think Addy is weirder. One thing is to observe/sense, but Addy does that and replicates.

[PlainDealingVillain]

I would probably get somewhere between Pattern's enchantress ability and Kolya; being able to push or pull people's attention toward or away from me.

Off-topic: What were the books that Eos was inspired by?

[Alicorn]

Eos's wishcoin system is loosely based on items from Laini Taylor's "Daughter of Smoke and Bone".

[Bluelantern]

Eos's wishcoin system is loosely based on items from Laini Taylor's "Daughter of Smoke and Bone".

Any other element from that novel is used in effulgence?

Also, no comment on the power thing or too personal?

[Alicorn]

We aren't using anything else from DoS&B, only the pain-generated wish tokens. No characters, no angels or chimaera, no world-portals of that canon's nature, no focus on Prague.

[Shoal]

i think i would have the same superpowers i have in real life.

[Tamien]

well that's enticingly vague

[Shoal]

anything i type now will seem like bragging. :/

i am a hyperpolyglot lightning calculator with a near-eidetic memory and what i experience as minor shapeshifting but is probably just "i have that disability where you cant recognise faces, and that extends to not being able to recognise myself in a mirror, but i experience it as my facing looking different every time i catch a glimpse of it, and the superpowers version would be that other people would also be able to see that it is a different face"

the super powers version of the other things would be:
* being able to choose which language to learn next instead of spontaneous language acquisition
* larger working memory to be able to do more impressive mental calculations. my lightning calculations are impressive-when-compared-to-muggles, not impressive when compared to other lightning calculators. naturally if they were real super powers i would be better than the best lightning calculators. and i'm not. :(
* losing the "near"' part of "near-eidetic memory"

[Tamien]

Your brain sounds like a very interesting place to live! I wonder what sort of superhero name someone with your powerset would get in a world like Wormverse... If I heard about a fictional character with that powerset, I'd expect them to be some sort of traveling gambler or con artist, but I'm blanking on thematically appropriate names and I don't know if that appeals to you as an alternate persona :P

[Shoal]

I enjoy living in my brain! I do not experience boredom. If something even approaching boredom were to occur I could stave it off by "rereading" pleasing things I have memorised or trying to find patterns in 5-6 digit perfect squares.

Alas, I completely mapped out the patterns in the 3-4 digit perfect squares almost a decade ago and those were easier. there's no more patterns to be found there because I have them all already. The patterns in the 5-6 digit range are much larger, and i don't really have the working memory to hold onto the entireity of the pattern to notice when the pattern loops back as i know it must. i could save the results to longterm memory after each step, but that's more tedious, and i'd have to check each step against longterm memory, but i might have to.) to give you a trivial example in base 7, 2^2 = 4, and 4^2 = 22 and 22^2 = 514, and the final digits loop between 2 and 4, which is a simple loop pattern that i had hypothesized didn't occur in prime bases (but it does, obviously), and if you pay attention to the last two digits, there will also be a loop, but a larger one. i'm looking for a pattern of loops in the last three digits of 5-6 perfect squares, but there are many digits in the loop, sometimes more than 20, such that by the time it loops and i'm squaring numbers i've seen before, i won't notice that i'm doing so because there were too many steps in between. i could solve the problem trivially with a computer program but that would ruin it. it's the sort of game you can't play anymore after you win it once because there you know the answer already. like, try to work out the prime factors of the number 10. is that a fun game? no, because you already know the answer and the answer won't change, so there's no point in playing it anymore.

and i can't do it all the time. last summer it was hot and muggy and everyone was covered in welts from the mosquitos and my friend tried to show me off to someone new by asking me what 14 times 17 was, but it was too hot to think and the numbers abandoned me and i stood there for about a minute trying to make my brain work before giving the wrong answer. it's rare that the numbers leave me like that - they are an almost constant companion - but it was almost 40°C and humid and there were too many mosquitos.

my girlfriend calls me "memory girl". I suppose if I lived in Wormverse I would have a more interesting name.

I could be good at some parts of gambling if I were interested in gambling. i'd be good at the counting cards part and lousy and that reading the faces part. but i can't remember things well if i'm not interested in them. memorising the positions of a shuffled deck of cards so that i can play solitaire when I find myself with nothing to do is interesting. gambling doesn't interest me, so i wouldnt keep track of the cards. i might find it interesting to throw games the way Sherlock did on the train with Tony and Shell Bell, either so that everybody wins an equal number of times or that everyone wins a pleasing number of times.

i guess maybe i'd be something like numbers man. or i'd end up working at the UN as a translator. i'm good at simultaneous translation sometimes. (other times, language abandons me and even my native language gives me trouble) but if it was a superpower it would work all the time.

but even on the rare occasions when math and language have both taken a break and left me alone, boredom doesn't happen. i usually have some yarn with me for crochet, but if i didn't, i could still find something to please me: the texture of a wall or i could marvel at how three dimensional a tree is or i could put my hair in front of my eyes and watch the light through the strands of hair. all of these things are very satisfying and pleasing.

i think i could survive a very long time on the joker's asteroid.