Powers That Suit

[Bluelantern]

Kers's Gift has very little to do with the time sync. Kers can help with the time sync because she is a cyborg, which is unrelated to her Gift

I will need to re-read, but I thought that she was using her gift on the kersibles or something?

It's actually really hard to think of interesting aura features, so I don't have anything down for anybody of mine except the Bells.

"not" overload someone's mind unless she wants to, allowing Elspeth to share arbitrary amounts of information with humans; [...] allow her to attempt the "truth prophecy thing" [...] on purpose

these things she can already do.

so that leaves: being able to lie, being better at the truth prophecy thing, and 2 way communication.

I thought that Elspeth still couldnt send brute-pure-huge ammounts of informations to humans without causing problems and she is only better at creating gentle summaries? My mistake on the other parts :p

[Kappa]

I think she used her gift on some Bells... maybe all of them, I reread it recently but I wasn't paying close attention and forget the details.

[Bluelantern]

I think she used her gift on some Bells... maybe all of them, I reread it recently but I wasn't paying close attention and forget the details.

I was probably near-asleep when I read that part, I will try to find later.

I am not entirely sure about the logic of Edward lacking an aura. I understand why you guys wouldnt care to give one to him, but in-story logic... well, Auras and enchanting are generally useful to have, and Golden would want to protect Edward with extra-powers, Edward might not be that interested in them himself, and I am not sure if "can't stand the other bells" is enough of a excuse for Edward to drop on the enchanted forest for a couple of hours without interacting with anyone.

I guess that Edward and most-vampires-with-powers would get the vampire-ness aura + better witchcraft aura?

[Alicorn]

Jane can't enchant (no mindscape; becoming a device didn't affect this) or mint (extreme pain asymbolia; becoming a device allowed this to be discovered at all).

Note that the fastest way to get an aura involves Corona, and Edward (among other people) would not be thrilled about taking that route. Eights is also usable but that means it takes longer.

[Shoal]

*looks up pain asymbolia* *discovers it means that you experience pain without it being unpleasant*. confusion, since jokers also experience pain without it being unpleasant. i think i am missing something.

[Bluelantern]

Note that the fastest way to get an aura involves Corona, and Edward (among other people) would not be thrilled about taking that route. Eights is also usable but that means it takes longer.

Why Corona?

You guys could mention without detail that Edward-among-other-people acquired auras without going in much detail maybe in passing Golden says "After Elsie, Edward got over his distate for the situation and got his own aura, the rest of the family followed suit" and maybe say how Edward aura allows him to tone down his telepathy or focus only in specific minds, etc.

After that if it is relevant you can get a libby show her aura or something.

[Kappa]

Corona because Corona's Gift is to amplify things, so he can put out more power in a shorter time while hurting less than any other available channel. And he's a Joker with average Joker pain tolerance, so all together he is faster than the rest of the Jokers.

[Alicorn]

Jokers don't have pain asymbolia (or, while we're on the subject, CIP); both are distinct from masochism. Pain isn't completely divorced from aversiveness to them: they still don't like it when it's from sources they don't like, they manage to get through their childhoods without biting their tongues off, etc. When Jane's device-body is damaged she literally has this information stored in her native code format in a server in another universe and that's it and it doesn't mean anything more than that to her. (I mean, all her thoughts and feelings are stored like that, but in general physical sensations don't interface that well with her; it's just that pain is more relevant to minting than the ability to give a shit about eating a slice of pizza.) She doesn't connect to the experience enough to turn it into a coin.

[Bluelantern]

Jokers don't have pain asymbolia (or, while we're on the subject, CIP); both are distinct from masochism. Pain isn't completely divorced from aversiveness to them: they still don't like it when it's from sources they don't like, they manage to get through their childhoods without biting their tongues off, etc. When Jane's device-body is damaged she literally has this information stored in her native code format in a server in another universe and that's it and it doesn't mean anything more than that to her. (I mean, all her thoughts and feelings are stored like that, but in general physical sensations don't interface that well with her; it's just that pain is more relevant to minting than the ability to give a shit about eating a slice of pizza.) She doesn't connect to the experience enough to turn it into a coin.

So... it is like... the pain is not happening to her? Like, the pain is a thing is happening to something she owns, but not herself?

[Alicorn]

That sounds reasonably close, yeah.