I've got some good news and bad news. The good news is you have some great powers, they will help keep you safe, make money, and even keep you entertained. The bad news is once you hear the downside, you are going to wish you didn't have powers, that is how they work in the City. If anyone tells you that their power has no cost they are lying or they haven't figured it out.
You can touch someone and create full sensory visions for them. You can control them or let them go wild. Sometimes letting go has benefits, if someone has trouble figuring something out or a partial memory an uncontrolled vision can sometimes work it out for them. Time is warped in the vision where one second in the real world stretches to one minute of time in the vision. This estimate of the time warping effect is a rough guess and it can very from vision to vision, but the time spent in the vision will always feel longer than the time that passes in the real world.
You can create illusions that can lift and move things. It's like imagining a hand tossing a rock, you will actually see the hand appear to toss the rock. It is a little odd to get used to. Don't plan on lifting anything heavy but you have pinpoint accuracy, and you can move small objects like nails very quickly.
Here are the drawbacks.
The touch is always on and if multiple people touch you at once you kind of short out. Doesn't seem too bad right? Wrong, you are the perfect drug . . . I'll talk about the past in a different post.
Wraith is some thing that uses the illusion and telekinetic powers without your permission. She is harmless most of the time, terrifying some of the time, and she is not afraid to hurt you if you piss her off. She is not all bad though, if your life is in danger, she will help you out.
Before I was Haunt I was Victor. Don't get too exited, it's not your real name. I just liked the sound of it, but if you want to use it go ahead.
I discovered the touch power first, for a while I thought it was pretty fun. I had a short client list that would pay me for visions, I typically asked for favors and gems in return. Gems were a smart choice they tend to go up in value as they become more scarce over time. It didn't take long to figure out this could not only be my living, but be a damn comfortable one. They seemed like happy years. Word spread about my power and people found out what happened to me when multiple people touch me at once. It didn't take long for them to take advantage of it.
I was caught, drugged, tied to a table, force fed with a tube and used as a drug. People would walk in and just touch me for a high. I have no idea how long I was out I just knew it was a damn long time. The day I woke up was an interesting one the ties were cut, and everyone around me was dead or dieing. The air pressure was odd and constantly shifting. That was my first run in with Wraith. It was shortly after this that I learned my own methods of moving things with my mind and projecting images.
I lived on the streets for a while telling no one about my power. I became pretty street wise and started picking up and delivering packages for people, this became RPS Runner's Package Service. It was through this service I started to form an information network. . . it is nowhere near as sophisticated as Gideon's or Madame Nacht's, but it was still good enough to learn that there were survivors of the gang I killed and they were after me.
Using this information I teamed up with Gideon and became an enforcer for him, it was an unpleasant way of getting things done, but Gideon paid well. The other thing is I could give someone the full sensory vision of breaking legs without doing anything. Knowing that people were going to experience it virtually or in reality helped me sleep at night.
Word spread a bit about the power and I picked up a few contracts for entertaining. It seemed like a bad idea even at the time, but I preferred it to breaking legs and it was a spectacular way to get information.
RPS started doing well and things were going well for me. I had more wealth then I knew what to do with. A few modest houses to call my own, and a deadly game of cat and mouse with the people who were trying to capture me.
I had some interesting events that were typically linked to people I met. I'll get into this under people.
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hauntedone) wrote2012-03-03 01:51 pm
Powers
You can touch someone and create full sensory visions for them. You can control them or let them go wild. Sometimes letting go has benefits, if someone has trouble figuring something out or a partial memory an uncontrolled vision can sometimes work it out for them. Time is warped in the vision where one second in the real world stretches to one minute of time in the vision. This estimate of the time warping effect is a rough guess and it can very from vision to vision, but the time spent in the vision will always feel longer than the time that passes in the real world.
You can create illusions that can lift and move things. It's like imagining a hand tossing a rock, you will actually see the hand appear to toss the rock. It is a little odd to get used to. Don't plan on lifting anything heavy but you have pinpoint accuracy, and you can move small objects like nails very quickly.
Here are the drawbacks.
The touch is always on and if multiple people touch you at once you kind of short out. Doesn't seem too bad right? Wrong, you are the perfect drug . . . I'll talk about the past in a different post.
Wraith is some thing that uses the illusion and telekinetic powers without your permission. She is harmless most of the time, terrifying some of the time, and she is not afraid to hurt you if you piss her off. She is not all bad though, if your life is in danger, she will help you out.
Re: Powers . . . and your past
I discovered the touch power first, for a while I thought it was pretty fun. I had a short client list that would pay me for visions, I typically asked for favors and gems in return. Gems were a smart choice they tend to go up in value as they become more scarce over time. It didn't take long to figure out this could not only be my living, but be a damn comfortable one. They seemed like happy years. Word spread about my power and people found out what happened to me when multiple people touch me at once. It didn't take long for them to take advantage of it.
I was caught, drugged, tied to a table, force fed with a tube and used as a drug. People would walk in and just touch me for a high. I have no idea how long I was out I just knew it was a damn long time. The day I woke up was an interesting one the ties were cut, and everyone around me was dead or dieing. The air pressure was odd and constantly shifting. That was my first run in with Wraith. It was shortly after this that I learned my own methods of moving things with my mind and projecting images.
I lived on the streets for a while telling no one about my power. I became pretty street wise and started picking up and delivering packages for people, this became RPS Runner's Package Service. It was through this service I started to form an information network. . . it is nowhere near as sophisticated as Gideon's or Madame Nacht's, but it was still good enough to learn that there were survivors of the gang I killed and they were after me.
Using this information I teamed up with Gideon and became an enforcer for him, it was an unpleasant way of getting things done, but Gideon paid well. The other thing is I could give someone the full sensory vision of breaking legs without doing anything. Knowing that people were going to experience it virtually or in reality helped me sleep at night.
Word spread a bit about the power and I picked up a few contracts for entertaining. It seemed like a bad idea even at the time, but I preferred it to breaking legs and it was a spectacular way to get information.
RPS started doing well and things were going well for me. I had more wealth then I knew what to do with. A few modest houses to call my own, and a deadly game of cat and mouse with the people who were trying to capture me.
I had some interesting events that were typically linked to people I met. I'll get into this under people.