Question The Bad Ideas thread

It's worse than you think. Imp is Morpheus' characters, while Vamp is Bek's. Having two people with hyperactive muses working in a single story could cause a multiverse-generating singularity (whatever that bunch of buzzwords mean). Plus, snark overload.

Sir Lee wrote: It's worse than you think. Imp is Morpheus' characters, while Vamp is Bek's. Having two people with hyperactive muses working in a single story could cause a multiverse-generating singularity (whatever that bunch of buzzwords mean). Plus, snark overload.

Oh SpaceBalls.

Sir Lee wrote: It's worse than you think. Imp is Morpheus' characters, while Vamp is Bek's. Having two people with hyperactive muses working in a single story could cause a multiverse-generating singularity (whatever that bunch of buzzwords mean). Plus, snark overload.

"Captain, we can't keep this up for much longer! We exceeded over 20,000 meaningless buzzwords in the past five minutes! The Suspension of Disbelief can't stand the strain!"

Bek D Corbin wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: It's worse than you think. Imp is Morpheus' characters, while Vamp is Bek's. Having two people with hyperactive muses working in a single story could cause a multiverse-generating singularity (whatever that bunch of buzzwords mean). Plus, snark overload.

"Captain, we can't keep this up for much longer! We exceeded over 20,000 meaningless buzzwords in the past five minutes! The Suspension of Disbelief can't stand the strain!"

"Keptin! There's a signpost up ahead nixt to the overpass. Purhips we kin pick up another map leading to Sci-fi and Fantasy Ave. Dang! who put that stupid manikin. And why does it feel as if we're being watched."

Bek D Corbin wrote:

Sir Lee wrote: It's worse than you think. Imp is Morpheus' characters, while Vamp is Bek's. Having two people with hyperactive muses working in a single story could cause a multiverse-generating singularity (whatever that bunch of buzzwords mean). Plus, snark overload.

"Captain, we can't keep this up for much longer! We exceeded over 20,000 meaningless buzzwords in the past five minutes! The Suspension of Disbelief can't stand the strain!"

It's worse than that. If Imp and Vamp get involved in something, there's no doubt that 'Shine would somehow get shoehorned into the story, then it'll get really, really fun!

The Mighty Cricket!
Basically Whateley's version of Leap Frog.

Based on discussion in I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore thread:


An AI whose avatar (computer generated image, not mutant) is a Siamese Cat.

Worse idea: a mutant AI who is the avatar of a Siamese cat

Would that cat be Si or Am?

Sir Lee wrote: Would that cat be Si or Am?

how about Ese

You heretic! There was no Ese in the movie!

Sir Lee wrote: Would that cat be Si or Am?

Si would be less radioactive...

Sir Lee wrote: You heretic! There was no Ese in the movie!

Well the movie didn't come to mind still doesn't, probably have seen it but have forgotten it.


Eve worse idea, and AI with a robotic body that mimics a Siamese cat purrfectly

I normally completely ignore this topic, as it seems like, well, a bad idea. But I had an idea while writing Abby's power testing scene (bet no one guessed that given my other recent posts).

Some gadgeteers use precognition to create replicable futuristic technology. The mechanics of exactly how don't matter. What I thought was what about going in the other direction.

Why not have a gadgeteer who uses psychometry or postcognition to fix broken machinery. I realize this is a fairly limited power but I think you could do something with it.

That's similar to Rose's power from my micro stories thread. She expands it, but fixing things and improving them in the process is one of her tricks.

Writing a rather cute Underdog Avatar who's spirit gave her red skin and a four foot long tongue, and I'm stuck on a code name for her. I want the code name to be something an A-hole MCO agent stuck her with but the best I could come up with was "The Lick".

Any suggestions?

Lickity split

Makriaglossa

Astrodragon wrote: Makriaglossa

Za?

Licker?
Licorice?
Lickitung?
Deep Throat?

Cryptic wrote: Writing a rather cute Underdog Avatar who's spirit gave her red skin and a four foot long tongue, and I'm stuck on a code name for her. I want the code name to be something an A-hole MCO agent stuck her with but the best I could come up with was "The Lick".

Any suggestions?

She'll be popular in Poe.

For a name: Tootsie.

A rather horrifying idea more than a bad one.

Doubt
An esper/manifestor with a very unique power.
He can place a companion on a persons shoulder, visible only to that person. It talks to them telling them about their self doubts, their failures, their stupidity. If it's challenged with understanding it vanishes. But until then it just keeps talking and talking, never shutting up, never leaving, until the person is breathing their last breath. Then it will laughingly tell them how it would have been so easy to save themselves if they had had a backbone.

*pointedly ignores Domoviye's idea because it's disturbing and horrible*

A psychic with a knack for sending out a compulsion to everyone nearby to make them twirl around in place whenever she shouts "Now!"

A warper with the ability to teleport to a random location, horizontal, facedown in skydiving position, 6 feet above the ground or whatever surface there is.

Quorry wrote: A warper with the ability to teleport to a random location, horizontal, facedown in skydiving position, 6 feet above the ground or whatever surface there is.

Codenamed Faceplant.

An extremely powerful TK brick, with the awkward side effect that turning on her forcefield causes all non-living matter within a few meters of her to become invisible.

Dreamer wrote:

Quorry wrote: A warper with the ability to teleport to a random location, horizontal, facedown in skydiving position, 6 feet above the ground or whatever surface there is.

Codenamed Faceplant.

I was thinking Bellyflop.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: An extremely powerful TK brick, with the awkward side effect that turning on her forcefield causes all non-living matter within a few meters of her to become invisible.

Organic based dyes and paints are her friend.

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: An extremely powerful TK brick, with the awkward side effect that turning on her forcefield causes all non-living matter within a few meters of her to become invisible.

Organic based dyes and paints are her friend.

Unless those dyes and paints are alive, they're not much help.

Valentine wrote:

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: An extremely powerful TK brick, with the awkward side effect that turning on her forcefield causes all non-living matter within a few meters of her to become invisible.

Organic based dyes and paints are her friend.

Unless those dyes and paints are alive, they're not much help.

Biotech bodysuit then. Worse comes to worst, have Jobe come up with something she can where...

Note that the range of the effect is a few METRES. Meaning that not only would she appear to be naked (and possibly bald), barring a biotech suit, but whoever is near her would also appear to be naked. Also, any object in the range other than, say, plants. Meaning anybody near her would have to operate their weapons/gadgets by touch, and everybody would keep tripping over stuff. Oh, and unless their on a grassy field, everybody would seem to be floating on the air.

Not to mention naked. Unless she's fighting some weird nudist cult, that ought to be a nice distraction.

NeoMagus wrote:

Valentine wrote:

Domoviye wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: An extremely powerful TK brick, with the awkward side effect that turning on her forcefield causes all non-living matter within a few meters of her to become invisible.

Organic based dyes and paints are her friend.

Unless those dyes and paints are alive, they're not much help.

Biotech bodysuit then. Worse comes to worst, have Jobe come up with something she can where...

With built in Mr. Pickle.

I suspect that Jobe would be the only person who could get her a permanently living suit on short notice. Now, I suspect that most people would find wearing a Jobe bio-suit disturbing, but you take what you can get.


She might also be able to sew together large freshly cut leaves into a suit that would last for a little while before it dies. She'd have to make a new one ever time, but it might be preferable to wearing a Jobe suit. It would also be pretty entertaining if she wears it too long, and bits and pieces of it start vanishing as they die.

Sir Lee wrote: Note that the range of the effect is a few METRES. Meaning that not only would she appear to be naked (and possibly bald), barring a biotech suit, but whoever is near her would also appear to be naked. Also, any object in the range other than, say, plants. Meaning anybody near her would have to operate their weapons/gadgets by touch, and everybody would keep tripping over stuff. Oh, and unless their on a grassy field, everybody would seem to be floating on the air.

Jobe and Oak's room would also be visible.

I have a bad idea.... (as in a very implausible one).
codename Powers Guy
Powers Guy at some point in the distant past made a deal with an extremely powerful alien race in which he exchanged the entire planet to obtain great power...s. He thought he was being given many powers, and the aliens thought he owned the planet. In reality, he just happened to be living at an old ley line crossing that was surrounded by massive monoliths, and the aliens just gave him the ability to 'reroll' his current power at any time, based on his needs.
Unfortunately for him, he cannot use more than one power at a time, making most applications very difficult, and his powers are often warped. For instance, his 'shape shifting' will usually turn him into an exact duplicate of his target, including identity. This is how most of his time is spent. However, if he dies as someone else, his massive regeneration kicks in and he returns to normal. As normal as a ditz with godlike powers can be, anyways. He also has issues with power control. Several natural disasters can be tracked to him trying to open a pickle jar in a volcano or something equally stupid.
As for the aliens, they decided to use their newly acquired planet as a cage for their pet human.

That is either the greatest idea ever or the worst. I'm not sure which.

Domoviye wrote: That is either the greatest idea ever or the worst. I'm not sure which.

It's both and neither depending on how you look at it

Hotdog Man

A warper who can create a perfect hotdog to anyones preference. He can be in the best kitchen in the world or in a filthy garbage dump, he'll discover some way to create heat even if its just a piece of clean glass and the sun and make the greatest hotdog in the world.
And if he doesn't have a pack of hotdogs he can pull one out of his pocket. Don't ask where he pulls it out if he doesn't have any pockets, sleeves or convenient bag.

The Sometimes Invisible Woman

She's invisible as long as she's wearing clothes, which must be at least as large as bikini cut panties. However if she is naked or wearing less than that, she is completely visible.
Makeup and body paint turns invisible or visible along with with her.

That actually reminds me of a story I read once that included a disguise spell that was attached to the wearer's clothing. Once someone had seen them with all their clothing removed then the viewer could see the the wearer's true form, even after the clothing was replaced, but other people would continue to see the illusion if they personally hadn't viewed the user naked.

Which seems overly complicated, but was actually fairly logical in context.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: That actually reminds me of a story I read once that included a disguise spell that was attached to the wearer's clothing. Once someone had seen them with all their clothing removed then the viewer could see the the wearer's true form, even after the clothing was replaced, but other people would continue to see the illusion if they personally hadn't viewed the user naked.

Which seems overly complicated, but was actually fairly logical in context.

When you explain it like that, yeah, but tying that into memory magic and mental stuff makes explaining that easier, as the clothing forcing an association between illusion and wearer, as long as its the only association, but is overruled by actual memory or something. ... 'Illusion' could also be broken by more memory magic, assuming that there are two connections, real and fake, formed at each viewing, magic forcing fake to be dominant/only, and magic forcing it onto real. Perhaps if correcting magic removed, then fake dominantes again, so only true cure is actual viewing...

Domoviye wrote: Hotdog Man

A warper who can create a perfect hotdog to anyones preference. He can be in the best kitchen in the world or in a filthy garbage dump, he'll discover some way to create heat even if its just a piece of clean glass and the sun and make the greatest hotdog in the world.
And if he doesn't have a pack of hotdogs he can pull one out of his pocket. Don't ask where he pulls it out if he doesn't have any pockets, sleeves or convenient bag.

End world hunger? If the food generation breaks conservation, could seed nutrients in places by serving as alternate food source and letting other sources replenish... Get Mimeo to help? Get other power mimics to help? ... Goodkinds can't find fault as its anti-world hunger, and proven safe and stuff, ... Me=So Optimist... *sigh*

Domoviye wrote: Hotdog Man

A warper who can create a perfect hotdog to anyones preference. He can be in the best kitchen in the world or in a filthy garbage dump, he'll discover some way to create heat even if its just a piece of clean glass and the sun and make the greatest hotdog in the world.
And if he doesn't have a pack of hotdogs he can pull one out of his pocket. Don't ask where he pulls it out if he doesn't have any pockets, sleeves or convenient bag.

I don't want to know where the buns come from, or the condiments. Ewwwww.

The meat is the important part, buns and condiments not included. Although if he gets them he can make the hotdog taste even better.

Malady wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Hotdog Man

A warper who can create a perfect hotdog to anyones preference. He can be in the best kitchen in the world or in a filthy garbage dump, he'll discover some way to create heat even if its just a piece of clean glass and the sun and make the greatest hotdog in the world.
And if he doesn't have a pack of hotdogs he can pull one out of his pocket. Don't ask where he pulls it out if he doesn't have any pockets, sleeves or convenient bag.

End world hunger? If the food generation breaks conservation, could seed nutrients in places by serving as alternate food source and letting other sources replenish... Get Mimeo to help? Get other power mimics to help? ... Goodkinds can't find fault as its anti-world hunger, and proven safe and stuff, ... Me=So Optimist... *sigh*

Well, let's say he can produce one cold but nutritionally balanced hotdog per second. Working 16 hours a day, seven days a week, that's 57,600 hotdogs per day. Unfortunately, there are around 900 million people who are under- or malnourished. You'd need about 15,000 hotdog manifestors or power mimics producing one dog per second working 16 hour days with no days off just to provide one hotdog a day to each of those hungry people. There might not even be that many mutants in the world (barring, perhaps, the undetected Ex-1s), let alone of the sorts needed for this job. And for it to be a sustainable operation, where people work more sane hours and get some days off, you'd need closer to 45,000.

Kettlekorn wrote:

Malady wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Hotdog Man

A warper who can create a perfect hotdog to anyones preference. He can be in the best kitchen in the world or in a filthy garbage dump, he'll discover some way to create heat even if its just a piece of clean glass and the sun and make the greatest hotdog in the world.
And if he doesn't have a pack of hotdogs he can pull one out of his pocket. Don't ask where he pulls it out if he doesn't have any pockets, sleeves or convenient bag.

End world hunger? If the food generation breaks conservation, could seed nutrients in places by serving as alternate food source and letting other sources replenish... Get Mimeo to help? Get other power mimics to help? ... Goodkinds can't find fault as its anti-world hunger, and proven safe and stuff, ... Me=So Optimist... *sigh*

Well, let's say he can produce one cold but nutritionally balanced hotdog per second. Working 16 hours a day, seven days a week, that's 57,600 hotdogs per day. Unfortunately, there are around 900 million people who are under- or malnourished. You'd need about 15,000 hotdog manifestors or power mimics producing one dog per second working 16 hour days with no days off just to provide one hotdog a day to each of those hungry people. There might not even be that many mutants in the world (barring, perhaps, the undetected Ex-1s), let alone of the sorts needed for this job. And for it to be a sustainable operation, where people work more sane hours and get some days off, you'd need closer to 45,000.

Hmm... If the speed increases with more materials already on-hand at manufacture time, then initially, he'd generate all the supplies himself, and then the people whose time he saves, work on supplying him with buns and sausage links, which speeds up the process a bit.

57600 people... What can you do with 57600 newly healthy people, presumably chosen to be the most useful of the malnourished? And then supplement them with mutant support...

Have we seen anyone with the power to speed up other people?

Find the rare mutant with power amplification and get them into this project??

... Power Gems... Are they also conservation breakers?

For an idea I put all of 2 minutes into while cooking hotdogs over a fire yesterday people are putting a lot of thought into it.

Boredom?

RL Applicabilty? Some other reason? ... Conservation Breaking... With food...

Map Guy
He makes treasure maps with traps and things and when people see it they become obsessed with following it to the end. Only strong psychic protection will stop it.
And it has a bit of reality warping in it as any place he lists as a trap becomes a danger. It won't be anything outlandish, but a road will be much harder to cross safely, tripping hazards arise, a gang of thugs may be waiting for someone to come by, etc.
At the end of the trail if they've followed the map closely, they will find something they want. It could be minor or major, its totally random.

I so want to beat my Muse for something I'm writing right now;
Aliens who "Look like Dr. DNA made up a batch of his horse type Ani-men while high. As a result they have pastel colored latex like skin. The higher ranking ones have two ram/bull like horns, and the over all leader has feathers on her arms. Oh Lord... one of them just brought out bright pink and green... dragons like creatures."

I am SOOO glad I don't plan on having any of Wondercute meet them.

Might as well post Faraday

Use-name: Faraday
Hard classification: ESP-3 (Omniglot)
Soft classification: Can speak, read,write and understand all languages (except buildings and body-language). Receives all radio frequencies
Cottage: Hawthorne (Room is a massive faraday cage with "airlock" style area near his door )
Notes: His radio reception abilities are tied to a metal mesh near the small bones of his ear. There was an attempt to remove said mesh. It just regrew. SOMETHING wants him to keep it. Used to be one of the 'thornies who could leave his room thanks to a Faraday suit. Bullying happened, leading to him clutching his head and babblescreamed for the noise to just STOP. He's secluded to his room for his own sanity and to forestall any potential babbling events where he unintentionally invokes something that should not be invoked.

Creators notes: He was originally created so as to show how the Omniglot power could go horribly wrong. Also partially inspired by another fan created 'thornie called Medusa. Medusa has an incredibly powerful glamor, where anyone who sees her falls madly in love with her and wants to fuck her, consent be damned. She communicates through text messages and was so alone that she would discard her sexual orientation if she found someone immune to her glamor. Faraday just wants to be able to talk to someone in languages that never were. (Think "Robot language from the 1950's where America developed AI and bipedal robots during WW2" and "Any Neanderthal-variant of modern languages" or even "Khuzdul")

Nocte wrote: Might as well post Faraday

That name sounds familiar... Were you the creator of the other Faraday... Or was that someone else??

No, that was you. This was just the expanded version.

Logic Legion: basically the exact opposite of Wondercute. Formed as a way to counter the insanity. Joining is the bad idea, they are frequently the targets of pranks involving the Hello Kitty logo...

Is their patron saint Leonard Nimoy?

Sir Lee wrote: Is their patron saint Leonard Nimoy?

Might as well be. Their HQ has a full blown decon unit for bio and electronics for defense against the pink threat.

OK, this is not so much a bad idea but rather, an idea that's by far too big for me (I mean, I can't even finish the Mezzo origin tale!). I'm offering it for adoption.

Many of you may be aware that Diane has just finished, over at Twisting the Hellmouth, a retelling of the entire Harry Potter saga, recasting it in terms of a "young James Bond school" universe. Furthermore, she focused on Hermione instead of on Harry, so instead of Hermione and Ron being the apparent sidekicks, Ron and Harry were.

That brought forth the idea... what about rewriting HP focusing on Ron? Furthermore, to complete the trio, it should be in a different genre than either Magic School or Spy Academy. So... Superhero School:
* Hermione could be a devisor/gadgeteer, always able to provide data and tools but not always focused on the overall plan.
* Harry could be a brick, with the tendency to take things head-on but not think long-term;
* And Ron could be the Batman-style strategist/tactician of the trio, leveraging the talents of the other two.

Now, of course if this is done as a Whateley fanfic, it would HAVE to be an Alternate Universe, since canonically there are no superhero schools in the UK...
Alternatively, one could borrow an idea from Phil Foglio (of "Girl Genius" fame) and tell the story as if it was a sort of Whateley school play, using canon Whateley characters as actors in the story. Like in the " Cinderella " adaptation they did...

Sir Lee wrote: OK, this is not so much a bad idea but rather, an idea that's by far too big for me (I mean, I can't even finish the Mezzo origin tale!). I'm offering it for adoption.

Many of you may be aware that Diane has just finished, over at Twisting the Hellmouth, a retelling of the entire Harry Potter saga, recasting it in terms of a "young James Bond school" universe. Furthermore, she focused on Hermione instead of on Harry, so instead of Hermione and Ron being the apparent sidekicks, Ron and Harry were.

That brought forth the idea... what about rewriting HP focusing on Ron? Furthermore, to complete the trio, it should be in a different genre than either Magic School or Spy Academy. So... Superhero School:
* Hermione could be a devisor/gadgeteer, always able to provide data and tools but not always focused on the overall plan.
* Harry could be a brick, with the tendency to take things head-on but not think long-term;
* And Ron could be the Batman-style strategist/tactician of the trio, leveraging the talents of the other two.

Now, of course if this is done as a Whateley fanfic, it would HAVE to be an Alternate Universe, since canonically there are no superhero schools in the UK...
Alternatively, one could borrow an idea from Phil Foglio (of "Girl Genius" fame) and tell the story as if it was a sort of Whateley school play, using canon Whateley characters as actors in the story. Like in the " Cinderella " adaptation they did...

You are an evil, evil man dangling this in front of my Muse.

Bad enough HatBWL has influenced my DeVille stuff...

I had this idea at work last week, when I got called in for a whole lot of 12 hour night shifts.

Hotel Man
A reality warper who can never get a hotel room. Whenever he tries it's always booked solid, even if he tries to make a reservation a year in advance.
He's made the most of his ability by getting hotels to pay him into trying to check in during down periods, so that the hotel will suddenly get a convention, a broken down tour bus, or something similar to fill up their empty rooms.
However this can backfire, as when a struggling hotel in the middle of nowhere hired his services. As he was making the phone call to reserve a room for the next week, a gas leak blew up the restaurant and burned down the hotel.

Sir Lee; had a thought regarding the Potter in the WU setting; What if they're part of a British version of OlymPYC? Also means the kids don't have to be mutants, even if I really think one of the Golden Trio needs to end up TGed even if it is only temporary.

Cryptic wrote: Sir Lee; had a thought regarding the Potter in the WU setting; What if they're part of a British version of OlymPYC? Also means the kids don't have to be mutants, even if I really think one of the Golden Trio needs to end up TGed even if it is only temporary.

A WU version of Hermione's polyjuice potion incident, perhaps?

NeoMagus wrote:

Cryptic wrote: Sir Lee; had a thought regarding the Potter in the WU setting; What if they're part of a British version of OlymPYC? Also means the kids don't have to be mutants, even if I really think one of the Golden Trio needs to end up TGed even if it is only temporary.

A WU version of Hermione's polyjuice potion incident, perhaps?

Who would be the new morph donor? ... If Morph donor is Exemplar, what happens? Well, BIT isn't genetic, so just run the base genetics. MGC-possessing Donor and having the Morphed person's 'temporary' MGC activate, now that'd be interesting.

Malady wrote: Who would be the new morph donor? ... If Morph donor is Exemplar, what happens? Well, BIT isn't genetic, so just run the base genetics. MGC-possessing Donor and having the Morphed person's 'temporary' MGC activate, now that'd be interesting.

Especially if the donated MGC gave the temporary morphee (interesting word) a BIT...

Rodeo clown themed super.
I forget where I read it, but there was a hilarious fan fic that had clown themed secret agent hit squads and there was a conversation of what type beat who and the subgroups of clowns. I'll try and find the story and post a link later.

EDIT: Found the link www.tthfanfic.org/Story-29943-66/dogbert...+Twirling+embers.htm

Cryptic, if you feel up to it, go for broke. I don't own the idea, I just sowed the seed. Whoever picks it, owns it.
With that said... the reason I'm not really a fan of the "British OlymPYC" idea is that it seems too similar to Diane's "Young James Bond" idea, drawing the inevitable comparisons. But, as I said, if you think you can make it work, go for it.

Actually, if you can think of an entirely different setting (not magic, not "spy kids", not superhero school) that would work better, that would be nice too. I thought about a "space academy" setting, but it seemed to me that it would require too many changes -- the story would have to be moved to the XXII Century at least, for starters...

But, there are other options. Regular high school? Boy scouts? Surfer school? Cooking school? Dog training school? Military academy? Whatever you think works best. But in most of those cases, the Voldemort-analogue would be problematic.

Nope, got enough on my plate at the moment Sir Lee... though HP in something like the Firefly setting could be fun.

Mmmm, so wanna do a snippet with Falcon's mentor and his partner, but the partner is resisting me...

Inspired by Kettlekorn's most recent Microscene, and an old children's story


A student with an extreme case of GSD that makes them look like a living blue train engine.

Actually, while we're on the theme of children's book themed GSD:

A training team:
Thomas the Tank Engine
The Whingdingdilly
A Wild Thing
Professor H.M. Wogglebug, T.E
My Father's Dragon
The Watchdog

A warper (Size and space?) that looks a bit like Ringo and has a train fetish...

Yes I am old enough to remember when Ringo played Mr Conductor.

A bad idea that is going into my Magpie story if anyone wants to borrow it: Full body/sensory illusion that makes the person it is cast on think they are a frog/toad person. Depending on the caster it can range from Kermit the Frog person, or "real" frog person.

Thinking my/John's version the spell "invokes" Chub Toad and a scene that I may wanna reconsider. Or you could use some other fictional amphibian and tailor the illusion to suit.

Granny Weatherwax always recommended this option, as making someone think that they've been turned into a toad uses less energy than actually turning someone into a toad.

Making someone think they are a toad, rather than changing them into one also stops the problem of them randomly changing into a toad and back again. It's one of the Laws of Magic that once something has been changed once, it will gain an affinity for changing into that thing and make it easier to change into that thing.

Nanny Ogg's cat got changed into a Dashing Rogue man for one adventure and later books show Greebo repeatedly doing it again and again. Considering that Greebo is probably the father to most of the cats and cat-descended creatures in Lancre, I'd hate to think if Greebo decided to include humans.to the list of things he is willing to fight/fornicate with

Nocte wrote: Making someone think they are a toad, rather than changing them into one also stops the problem of them randomly changing into a toad and back again. It's one of the Laws of Magic that once something has been changed once, it will gain an affinity for changing into that thing and make it easier to change into that thing.

Nanny Ogg's cat got changed into a Dashing Rogue man for one adventure and later books show Greebo repeatedly doing it again and again. Considering that Greebo is probably the father to most of the cats and cat-descended creatures in Lancre, I'd hate to think if Greebo decided to include humans.to the list of things he is willing to fight/fornicate with

It wouldn't be hard for him to make a brood as big as the Oggs. Lets see if I remember the quote properly.

"He had a look that would get him charged with sexual harassment if he was sitting quietly in a dark room two doors away."

An organization develops a line of androids and gynoids with SPH (strategically placed holes) and other related features. A nanite sensitive mutant (similar to Whisper) ends up with his mind transferred to the entire network of android/gynoids. He somehow ends up as a student at Whateley. (Nobody can figure out whether he pays one tuition or one for each body.) While there, he wins the first thirty prizes in a dance competition as well as the synchronized swimming competition. Each morning, the entire group marches off to their on-campus jobs singing the "Heigh Ho, It's Off To Work We Go" song from Disney's Snow White. They also come with a full set of accessories that can satisfy the desires of any of the residents at Poe.

Look, it is the "Bad Ideas" thread.

Had a few rough character ideas while writing, at times I couldn't use them:

Living Proton Pack/PKE (?) Reader: Kind can see/sense ghosts and can create blasts of energy that can hurt them.

"Pol": Underdog Mimic: Had a ton of slots, but any power they copy is stuck at level 1. Named for Herald Pol from Burning Brightly.

Cryptic wrote: Had a few rough character ideas while writing, at times I couldn't use them:

Living Proton Pack/PKE (?) Reader: Kind can see/sense ghosts and can create blasts of energy that can hurt them.

"Pol": Underdog Mimic: Had a ton of slots, but any power they copy is stuck at level 1. Named for Herald Pol from Burning Brightly.

Like many Underdogs, Pol is only such because they fail to understand the power magnification that you can get from having a broad spectrum power and a little creativity.

Bad Idea for in universe: Cyber Tribe VS Kayda.

Pitiful werewolf.
A shifter who can only turn into a werewolf that's the size, strength, and general appearance of a anthropomorphic teacup poodle.

Heres a sadistic one.
Once a month person wakes up his clone wakes up beside him. They have all the same memories, physical abilities etc, and they both want to live.
The problem is that at the end of the month, one of them will die, its completely random which one does so.
THe only way to ensure continued existence is by having the other clone die first.
This person has become very good at trap making, spotting traps, fighting, first aid, assassination, poisons, antidotes, and partying without caring about the next day.

Merge their souls or something into one of the two bodies, with magitech so they keep their memories, while one body dies? Or does that not work? Hmm...

Domoviye wrote: Heres a sadistic one.
Once a month person wakes up his clone wakes up beside him. They have all the same memories, physical abilities etc, and they both want to live.
The problem is that at the end of the month, one of them will die, its completely random which one does so.
THe only way to ensure continued existence is by having the other clone die first.
This person has become very good at trap making, spotting traps, fighting, first aid, assassination, poisons, antidotes, and partying without caring about the next day.

Have you been watching The Prestige by any chance?

A mutant who's mutation has given them the general appearance of a pigeon... With Exemplar durability. At Whateley he has to avoid getting confused with Real pigeons and drone pigeons, (as well as clay golem pigeons (Whateley version of pigeon shooting)) for those have drastically lower life expectancy on campus for various reasons, he has enough trouble with feline familiars and a few feline mutants as it is...

A rather innocent mutant whose skin glows brightly. They chose their codename... poorly.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: A rather innocent mutant whose skin glows brightly. They chose their codename... poorly.

I guess they chose... "Afterglow" ?

Malady wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: A rather innocent mutant whose skin glows brightly. They chose their codename... poorly.

I guess they chose... "Afterglow" ?

Worse.

At the time, they thought it was a clever pun. Unfortunately, the clever pun had already been taken.

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Malady wrote:

Arcanist Lupus wrote: A rather innocent mutant whose skin glows brightly. They chose their codename... poorly.

I guess they chose... "Afterglow" ?

Worse.

At the time, they thought it was a clever pun. Unfortunately, the clever pun had already been taken.

glow stick?

Pretty sure the codename in question is Fleshlight (a type of sex toy).

Well, that makes sense. Hmm... Is it worse if they're a boy or a girl??

Kettlekorn wrote: Pretty sure the codename in question is Fleshlight (a type of sex toy).

Ding ding ding! We have a winner (or in the case of the poor kid, a loser).

Well, that makes sense. Hmm... Is it worse if they're a boy or a girl??

Probably worse for a girl, because girls are already more likely to be sexually harassed. But either way it sucks.

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote: Pretty sure the codename in question is Fleshlight (a type of sex toy).

Ding ding ding! We have a winner (or in the case of the poor kid, a loser).

Well, that makes sense. Hmm... Is it worse if they're a boy or a girl??

Probably worse for a girl, because girls are already more likely to be sexually harassed. But either way it sucks.

That's OK she can hang with Quickie, or Boobjob, I mean BJ.

Inspired by this Writing Excuses episode : Ladybro Heist - excellent story idea, terrible code name.

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Code name: Rubberland.
Warper

Causes things in the aria around her to become malleable and cartoon like over time. (Like in a loony toons cartoon/ Who framed roger rabbit.)
Intimate objects are effected first. Ranged and speed of the effect are variable. Based on size of enclosed/simi enclosed space. Takes a little over 12 hours for the effect to where off.

She is issued 2 rooms that she alternates between as a secondary effect was discovered. That prolonged exposure to the effect caused intimate objects to become animated though non sentient.
This was discovered after her bed wandered off in the middle of the night and her panties went off on a people raid.

How effected something is can be judged by a black border that seems to surround the object. With the deeper thicker the border indicating more pronounced effect.

She "seems" to be personally immune to this effect as is anything in close proximity to her body.

Later it is discovered that by implanting mithril into a object stabilizes the effect at that level.
Grate pains, effort, including some discussion of bribes gathered from the majority of the faculty, are given to keep this facet of her power under raps.

Jade finds out anyway.

3 days later the bastard surrenders itself to her custody. Asking only for a quick death.

Jade: Wondertoon power activate. (Draws her sacred toon hammer of pounding) Unleash the hello kitty swarm.


Technically it's only the final part of this post that makes it worthy of being in the bad ideas thread but dang if it I can thing of anything worse.

Domoviye wrote: So here is Skeleton Boy.
Somehow when Albert manifested he also died. However his soul remained stuck in the body of his skeleton, and the flesh melted off leaving his bones perfectly clean, mobile and functional. He doesn't need to eat, breathe, drink or much of anything, so long as he's around people and can eat some of their emotions everyday. If he focuses he can suck all the emotions from a person leaving them basically comatose for weeks until their soul recovers enough, but even then they're emotionally distant and odd.
The main problem for him is that his skull seems to be partly out of his souls influence, he can move it and make it look like he's talking from it, but it's a lot like a hat and he'll sometimes forget it, which makes his already freakish appearance even worse, and freaks out people in class and Crystal Hall when they see a living skull opening and closing it's mouth randomly, or worse rolling down a hill clicking as it goes.

Thats kinda a thing ya know. Look up dullahan. Or reread sleepy hollow.
Though they usually have flesh on there bodies.


There are several anime's and mangas with such species. One of note is called Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou or EVERYDAY LIFE WITH MONSTER GIRLS.
The dullahan in it's personality differs between it's head and body.

Why can't I keep the image of thedancing skeletons from "Monkey Island 2 - LeChuck's Revenge" out of my mind?


And searching for that revealed this one too:

Something I've had bouncing around in my head for a while:

A PDP with dissacoiatvie personality disorder, heres the catch each power is assigned to a different personality.

My version was inspired by this post by malady

Malady wrote:

Quorry wrote: Next song: Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap

Based off this:

Ransom notes keep falling out your mouth.
Mid-sweet talk, newspaper word cut-outs.

Some girl that has Through The Eyes Of Madness and is with a hostage taker, and the auditory hallucinations are fake, while the visual hallucinations are expressing the real intentions of the speaker.

Next song. GUMI - ECHO:

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Nevermind, that's most likely a Time Stop or an Invisibility without Blindness Prevention, with a bit of hallucination. Based off the Fanfic about that girl that is an involuntary Superspeed Warper and/or Wallflower.

Next Song. Karma - Kagamine Rin:

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Maybe next time I'll find something non-Vocaloid...

I took it as a challenge to come up with something other than a time stop.

Her first personality is normal (first personality she had), the second one is an aspiring psychotic murder (personality formed to protect her), the third was created after she got powers (they were fighting for control of the third power) and is a pyromaniac. They are associated with telepathy, esper, and pk respectively.

I think I have seen a character with that premise. Maybe in DC Comics' Doom Patrol. But I'm not really sure.

You have - Crazy Jane, in the New Doom Patrol (with Rebis etc.). Tho she had (at least) 64 personalities, each differently powered.

--Dave, at least one was a gibbering mass of melting rain, so not all useful or anything

On the shores of Lake Huron, a heron-themed heroine struggles with a heroin addiction.

When did she move from Korea?
www.spinnyverse.com/comic/white-heron-issue-1

Kettlekorn wrote: On the shores of Lake Huron, a heron-themed heroine struggles with a heroin addiction.

Does she struggle heroically?

The Avatar with the spirit of a lemming meets the student who looks like one .

(And Laura thinks looking like a Smurf is bad! )

Many years after Nikki graduates from Whateley, her Sidhe community starts to get noticed by humanity. They find themselves opposed by a number of racist groups who organize and spread their venom through social media sites, #IDontBelieveInFairies.

Recognizing the familiar sting of bigotry, the LGBT community quickly rises to the defense of the Sidhe. Together they form Fairies United. The positive social media presence of FU quickly drowns out the bigots.

This mutant has a very powerful psychic aura, and rather specific GSD .

When you're born with a hunch back, and get Devior/Gadgeteer powers, you may as well embrace it and take the code name Igor.

I'm kind of seeing this kid as a good tech in his own right, but where he shines is looking at another person's project and knowing how to improve or fix it. And maybe an Esper talent that suppresses Drick outs.

Animaker- Devisor, Shifter (uncontrolled)

He's a devisor who can only make gear that appears in anime, or related genres, and sometimes when he is using the gear he finds himself stuck looking like the character that uses said gear clothes included, when he shifts back, his clothes often only change size.... Lots of "Combat Skirts" have formed as a result....

Of course the first thing Animaker would have to do, is devise a way of accessing "Hammer Space"

Mister D wrote: Of course the first thing Animaker would have to do, is devise a way of accessing "Hammer Space"

Common anime and comic object- the "magic satchel" he wears a devise simulating one all the time, it doesn't get ruined by the shifts... also not as confined in referencing as hammer space...

This is what happens when you let biodevisors near fish...

Astrodragon wrote: This is what happens when you let biodevisors near fish...

I see your weatherfish and raise you the Sashimi Tabernacle Choir .

During the 1980's I often visited a rural pub with my friends. This pub was situated near a river well known as a good fishing area. Indeed the entire pub was decorated in a fisherman's theme. Throughout the whole pub there were displays of mounted fish on the walls including in the toilets. For a short spell one of the display fish in the gents toilets was replaced with something similar to this radio fish which played a song and danced when approached.

You can imagine the startled reactions of some unsuspecting patrons, when well in their cups, on encountering this fish for the first time!

The pub's name was... The Angler's Rest, hence the fishing theme.

John.

A mutant with the power to animate furniture. Codename: The Chairman.

I'm sorry, I can't help it!

Arcanist Lupus wrote: A mutant with the power to animate furniture. Codename: The Chairman.

"But ... you're a girl!"

Phoenix Spiritus wrote: I'm sorry, I can't help it!

Arcanist Lupus wrote: A mutant with the power to animate furniture. Codename: The Chairman.

"But ... you're a girl!"

"That, my dear, is the point."



Actually, I wonder what the Whateley and/or the MCO would do if non-indicative codenames ever became trendy. The WU is trans-phobic enough that man/woman switches probably wouldn't catch on, but I could see bricks naming themselves like speedsters, or avatars naming themselves like devisors. Nothing like starting a fight with Glass Cannon and Nightmare only to discover that they are a defense oriented brick and an energizer respectively.

Arcanist Lupus wrote: Actually, I wonder what the Whateley and/or the MCO would do if non-indicative codenames ever became trendy. The WU is trans-phobic enough that man/woman switches probably wouldn't catch on, but I could see bricks naming themselves like speedsters, or avatars naming themselves like devisors. Nothing like starting a fight with Glass Cannon and Nightmare only to discover that they are a defense oriented brick and an energizer respectively.

That would require that the teenagers making those codenames, think that far ahead. But I do like the idea...

Generic Hero 1, Generic Hero 2...

Especially if you're a villain...

Well, you don't have to go the "codename that makes no sense" route to avoid giving info to your opponents (with the side-effect of making you look stupid when you become known widely enough for that to stop working). You just have to go the "generic superhero name" route. I mean, really, what does "Wonder Woman" tells you about the character's abilities, other than she's has the power of hosting a fetus? What about "Batman?" It only refers to his appearance, giving you nothing about abilities. And even that might be wrong -- there's an infamous Batman parody in Marvel's "What The...?" comic (drawn by Todd McFarlane, no less) in which Batman was a baseball-themed hero, who hit his opponents with... a bat!

Case in point... DC did an interesting thing a while ago: they created a new universe with new characters, using the same famous codenames from the mainstream DC universe -- but that was the only thing carried over. They called it " Tangent Comics ." In this universe, "Superman" had mental powers, "The Atom" was the major superhero, with atomic-derived powers, "The Flash" was a girl who could turn herself into light, The "Joker" was three women anti-heros aiming to topple corrupt government... show how much actually those names tell about the powers.

Sir Lee wrote: "The Flash" was a girl who could turn herself into light

So so so close...

Were there any "highbeam" jokes?

No, she was fairly young, like thirteen or so, and not... well... let's just say that Power Girl, Catwoman and Wonder Woman wouldn't feel threatened by her.

From: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/TangentComics



Other links: dc.wikia.com/wiki/Lia_Nelson_(Earth-9) ; dc.wikia.com/wiki/Tangent_Comics:_The_Tr...of_the_Flash_Vol_1_1

Going into Whateley itself... consider how much you can tell of the character's powers ONLY from the following codenames: Chaka, Lancer, Shroud, Razorback, Jericho, Cerulea, White Lady, Bugs, Cornflower, Verdant, Antenna, Ash, Attributes, Baron Z, Beach Bunny, Black Lion, Blue Diamond, Cheese... and consider also how likely you are to get it WRONG, if all you have is the codename.

On the other hand, miss-calculating your foe because of their code-name only works once, and for any career super-hero or villain, let's face it, nobody's going to know their code name the first time they are seen anyway, so it's not exactly helping if it's "undescriptive", so it's not exactly hurtful to have a descriptive one, after all, that's the one they are going to have to live with thier whole careeer.

Sir Lee wrote: Going into Whateley itself... consider how much you can tell of the character's powers ONLY from the following codenames: Chaka, Lancer, Shroud, Razorback, Jericho, Cerulea, White Lady, Bugs, Cornflower, Verdant, Antenna, Ash, Attributes, Baron Z, Beach Bunny, Black Lion, Blue Diamond, Cheese... and consider also how likely you are to get it WRONG, if all you have is the codename.

I would add Knockoff and 'Shine to that list (although if you know slang, 'Shine might be a little more self-evident). Nordlys might be only a partial giveaway (if that's indeed what I code name a certain upcoming character).

I like names that fit the characters personality more than their powers, although if the two match it's great.
If any of the characters from A Good Man had codenames they'd be something like this.
Rob -Punk
Victor - Burned
Sonny - Streak
Ben - Ice Cream
Tara - Cursed

Why make it easy for enemies to know what you can do?

Now bad idea I've been thinking about for a while.

Horrorify

A person who looks like a very young teenager puts out a field that makes anything and anyone within fifteen feet look like it's possessed. The lights dim, things become discoloured and slightly out of focus, perspective changes randomly, a person speaking might suddenly blur as if convulsing at high speed, there eyes could disappear, blood erupts at random, think of the most realistic horror special effects you've ever seen and it's happening. But if you touch it it's just an illusion
The mutant us the star attraction of a haunted house following the small group of visitors along a secret passageway as they get more and more terrified. Anyone who reaches the end gets a prize.

A guy with a wish to be the manliest guy around generates a subconscious warping field in a 10' radius around himself that makes any other guy become less and less manly the longer they are exposed to him, eventually becoming female and then more and more attractive.

Domoviye wrote: I like names that fit the characters personality more than their powers, although if the two match it's great.
If any of the characters from A Good Man had codenames they'd be something like this.
Rob -Punk
Victor - Burned
Sonny - Streak
Ben - Ice Cream
Tara - Cursed

I'm not getting the ones for Sonny and Ben, unless Ben's a pun on Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.

Domoviye wrote: Horrorify

A person who looks like a very young teenager puts out a field that makes anything and anyone within fifteen feet look like it's possessed. The lights dim, things become discoloured and slightly out of focus, perspective changes randomly, a person speaking might suddenly blur as if convulsing at high speed, there eyes could disappear, blood erupts at random, think of the most realistic horror special effects you've ever seen and it's happening. But if you touch it it's just an illusion
The mutant us the star attraction of a haunted house following the small group of visitors along a secret passageway as they get more and more terrified. Anyone who reaches the end gets a prize.

Hmm... Relationships are gonna be tricky, they need to find PSI Nulls or something.

Dreamer wrote: A guy with a wish to be the manliest guy around generates a subconscious warping field in a 10' radius around himself that makes any other guy become less and less manly the longer they are exposed to him, eventually becoming female and then more and more attractive.

If it takes too long to take effect, the affected might move away from the field before substantial effect takes place, but in a male-cottage, the people around him are in his radius for ~8 hours, and classes and stuff have them close to him too. And if the effect can't be reversed, then he just needs to figure out MA ways to stay close to his opponents, but not too close. ... And try to avoid fighting women? Or do the women also get bimbo-y??

Malady wrote:

Domoviye wrote: I like names that fit the characters personality more than their powers, although if the two match it's great.
If any of the characters from A Good Man had codenames they'd be something like this.
Rob -Punk
Victor - Burned
Sonny - Streak
Ben - Ice Cream
Tara - Cursed

I'm not getting the ones for Sonny and Ben, unless Ben's a pun on Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.

Sonny is a speedster, so he moves like a streak of light. And its funny, because he could be a streaker.
Ben is melted in appearance, what happens when you leave ice cream in a warm place?

Dreamer wrote: A guy with a wish to be the manliest guy around generates a subconscious warping field in a 10' radius around himself that makes any other guy become less and less manly the longer they are exposed to him, eventually becoming female and then more and more attractive.

If the field affects women who are originally female , is permanent, and doesn't include a mental change, he'll be rather popular with the ladies.

Arcanist Lupus wrote:

Dreamer wrote: A guy with a wish to be the manliest guy around generates a subconscious warping field in a 10' radius around himself that makes any other guy become less and less manly the longer they are exposed to him, eventually becoming female and then more and more attractive.

If the field affects women who are originally female , is permanent, and doesn't include a mental change, he'll be rather popular with the ladies.

Whitman may actually request/demand he stay in their cottage, purely to help protect the male students of Whateley.
I wonder how it affects GSD and BITS?

(Name undecided, would be a fun acronym)
An AI or VI who's entire purpose for existing is to create lectures based on the personality of characters in popular culture...

Name decided for above AI/VI

Reference based Intelligent Projected Lecture Experimental System or RIPLES

Built by devisors and gadgeteers who wanted to get ahead on class lectures but is more often used with pop culture references....

iNERD for short (iNteligent Electronic Reference Device)

mhalpern wrote: Name decided for above AI/VI

Reference based Intelligent Projected Lecture Experimental System or RIPLES

Built by devisors and gadgeteers who wanted to get ahead on class lectures but is more often used with pop culture references....

Close, but how about:

Reference based Intelligence For Future Lecture Experimental System or RIFFLES

You guys are better at acronyms

Without your inspiration, I wouldn't have come up with RIFFLES.

RIFFLES it is.

Ben is melted in appearance, what happens when you leave ice cream in a warm place?

I would call him " Soft Serve"

Thinking about that character/familiar by Domoviye, that's basically just a summonable 5-year-old or something. Ah. Found it:

Domoviye wrote: This is directly related to my daughter.

Little Helper
A big guy, manifests a tiny five year old little girl 'helper', who is always ready to help.
This little girl will defend the big guy from all dangers, using all the skill and strength of a five year old. Generally getting in the way, tugging at someone, and telling them to stop being bad. This danger could be teasing from a friend, an angry boss yelling at him, or a crazy raging mutant.

...

If she does get in over her head, she'll reappear ten minutes later as good as new.

It would be entertaining, and then sort of useless except for the entertainment/happiness value, which is pretty useful, actually, and would be more useful if she grew older as her summoner aged.

Get her into power armor or something! An extra person is always useful! And smaller people can get into tight spaces, although, theft wouldn't be a big use? ... OMG! Merge with Cutesy !



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Power Stone Girl, based off of Womb Stone ideas.

Some girl made/used as a source of power stones. She grows them off her body or as her period or something. Possibly a rooted living stone statue, sort of like Caitlin. Tree of Stones instead?

For some terrible terrible-ness, the harvester is the mother of the statue. Also could Rule 63 anything, of course. And possibly the statue isn't even supposed to be living, but is hosting a spirit for some really really strange reasons. ... Stone generation could be 'Birth' of some kind, with possible attendant prerequisites...

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Domoviye wrote: Never heard of that story, I'll have to look it up.
I just came up with the idea of a darkly humourous character who wants to destroy the world because it seems like the best option, after hearing my daughter tell her toy "Let's destroy the world." and then telling me not to tell anyone in a very serious voice.
She definitely gets her strange ideas from me.

... Today's XKCD seems so relevant:

Grrr, I have this idea for a Gen 2 Halloween scene where before hand a student has Petshop make them a real live Snarf and then convincing the various cat girls/boys on campus to go as Thundercats.

A guy who can teleport, he dresses in a Starfleet uniform, and before teleporting always says, "Beam me up, Scotty."
He talks like James T. Kirk and thinks he's a ladies man.
He was almost put into a coma when he 'accidentally' teleported into the girls change room.

Domoviye wrote: ...Starfleet uniform...

How about a warper/probability manipulator that randomly turns the shirt/top of a random person around them red? :3

Warper who changes clothes to equivalent clothes of the opposite gender.

GrimGrendel wrote:

Domoviye wrote: ...Starfleet uniform...

How about a warper/probability manipulator that randomly turns the shirt/top of a random person around them red? :3

Or a Manifester that manifests constructs wearing red starfleet uniforms to fight for them?
they would only last a few minutes, sometimes longer, never a full hour though.

You mean "a full 45 minutes," don't you? That's the approximate duration of a Star Trek episode, not counting commercial breaks.

True, i was being generous, but there was that archeologist that insisted on staying with Khan

Domoviye wrote:

Malady wrote:

Domoviye wrote: I like names that fit the characters personality more than their powers, although if the two match it's great.
If any of the characters from A Good Man had codenames they'd be something like this.
Rob -Punk
Victor - Burned
Sonny - Streak
Ben - Ice Cream
Tara - Cursed

I'm not getting the ones for Sonny and Ben, unless Ben's a pun on Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.

Sonny is a speedster, so he moves like a streak of light. And its funny, because he could be a streaker.
Ben is melted in appearance, what happens when you leave ice cream in a warm place?

Another funny one. You could call him the flash...

Very Bad Idea: Brainwashing Television Broadcast made by some Devisor. Perhaps broadcasted by taking over Emergency Broadcast Systems.

Inspiration: Colorbars + Broadcast Illusion [Dark.]

Using TVs to brainwash people is theoretically a real thing! Read about it here: www.google.com/patents/US6506148

If sufficiently stable, could turn a large number of people into zombies, and then get others to watch it... Ala Cell or something.

I'd think there's measures against this in the Whateley-verse...

Malady wrote: Very Bad Idea: Brainwashing Television Broadcast made by some Devisor. Perhaps broadcasted by taking over Emergency Broadcast Systems.

That made me think about an episode of Doctor Who, "The Idiot's Lantern", where a girl in a television wants to take over the world by doing a broadcast of her image and steal everyone's face and life energy.

A happy Avatar with a Moose Spirit named Chris.

Because every story needs a Merry Chris Moose.

A devisor who specializes in obsolete forms of transportation making them do the impossible.

A tiny mutant gadgeteer/speedster who likes to build toys and machines that make toys.

A fat short range teleportor.

A warper who can create a bubble that speeds up time inside of it and moves with the person or devise inside of it allowing him to move at seemingly super sonic speeds.

Doll
A boy or girl whose skin has hardened and taken on a plastic sheen, their hair is wiglike, and they can only slowly change their facial expression. Their voice sounds tinny and electronic. They never age, always looking like a small and frail 12 year old. Otherwise normal in all ways.

Domoviye wrote: Doll
A boy or girl whose skin has hardened and taken on a plastic sheen, their hair is wiglike, and they can only slowly change their facial expression. Their voice sounds tinny and electronic. They never age, always looking like a small and frail 12 year old. Otherwise normal in all ways.

Lives in mortal fear that someone will mistake her as a character from Chucky. Or a sex toy.

Edit: Just learned there is a new Chucky movie coming out. "The cult of Chucky."

A teleporting Australian Martial Artist.

NJM1564 wrote:

Domoviye wrote: Doll
A boy or girl whose skin has hardened and taken on a plastic sheen, their hair is wiglike, and they can only slowly change their facial expression. Their voice sounds tinny and electronic. They never age, always looking like a small and frail 12 year old. Otherwise normal in all ways.

Lives in mortal fear that someone will mistake her as a character from Chucky. Or a sex toy.

Well, he/she can run and stuff, I think, "Otherwise normal in all ways"... If not a EX. could get Nanites or something... Power Armor... Do they have Regen, or regen like normal...

Like, she/he could take lessons from <3 in Akido or whatever... Magic, and PSI are still options... ... I just realized how much more powerful a kid can be in Whateley-verse... Although, other than power armor, everything else needs long training times and all that, that a kid wouldn't be expected to have...

Domoviye wrote: A devisor who specializes in obsolete forms of transportation making them do the impossible.

A tiny mutant gadgeteer/speedster who likes to build toys and machines that make toys.

A fat short range teleportor.

A warper who can create a bubble that speeds up time inside of it and moves with the person or devise inside of it allowing him to move at seemingly super sonic speeds.

Does the DMC 12 count as an obsolete form of transportation?

I just had a terrible idea of giving Lanie a certain CD as a gift... unfortunately, Garfunkel and Oates only started performing together in 2008 (though they'd been collaborating for about a year by then), and the album Secretions wasn't until 2012, meaning that it would be too early in the Gen1 stories and by the Gen2 stories she would almost certainly have heard the song "The Loophole" some while back.

I am sure that once the person who gave it to her had recovered, she would agree with them that it's a pretty funny song...

Uh-oh, I know Cody is at Whateley as a counselor in 2016, is Lanie at Whateley too in that time period, as a teacher perhaps? If so, she could expect it to be an annual joke among her students for at least a few years.

^ Well, it's not like Whateley doesn't have any bands that could make that song...

Could make it a funny Micro and have it be someone else who wrote it or something? Ayla's shaken up the entertainment industry a little, already?

The only thing is that Lainie never liked the "Loophole" codename (which was imposed on her by Carson), so she's really unlikely to have registered it as her definitive, adult codename. I think E.E. has even explicitly said so. I don't remember if he said she's using the "Wicked" codename or something else, however.
So by Gen2 the joke is about seven years out of date.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: I just had a terrible idea of giving Lanie a certain CD as a gift... unfortunately, Garfunkel and Oates only started performing together in 2008 (though they'd been collaborating for about a year by then), and the album Secretions wasn't until 2012, meaning that it would be too early in the Gen1 stories and by the Gen2 stories she would almost certainly have heard the song "The Loophole" some while back.

I am sure that once the person who gave it to her had recovered, she would agree with them that it's a pretty funny song...

Uh-oh, I know Cody is at Whateley as a counselor in 2016, is Lanie at Whateley too in that time period, as a teacher perhaps? If so, she could expect it to be an annual joke among her students for at least a few years.

It's not like the Whateley timeline needs to fallow our own precisely. If some events can com earlier or later than they did in out timeline then it would open up many many possibilities. And make it easier for the authors to wright as they don't have to be so careful about not including things that haven't happened yet.

A pair of twins with a pair of... unfortunate GSD mutations

Arcanist Lupus wrote: A pair of twins with a pair of... unfortunate GSD mutations

Applying Rule 63 to Ricou and his heretofore-unseen twin?

A person with "Flawless Skin".
It obviously cannot be penetrated, except for things like medication that have to be injected. It can absorb the impact from bullets and the like, and if the body is bent in such a way that the bones would break or be dislocated, the skin stiffens into an exoskeleton to prevent that.
Also, it is odorless and hairless. The person could possibly still grow hair on top of their head, but they like being bald, so the Flawless Skin adapts to that wish.
In a danger situation, the skin can change colors and textures to blend in with the surroundings, like one of those camouflage fish or an octopus.
The skin is sentient, so if they write a question on it, it will display the answer, unless they are taking a test, in which case it recognizes that it would be cheating and instead offers helpful tips.
Limitations: The skin will not allow the person to do anything illegal or clearly immoral. In addition, it cannot affect the bones, so shape shifting is limited to slight alterations to appearance. On the same note, while the person is immune to punctures, stabs, being impaled, bullets, etc. the skin cannot prevent internal damage caused by inertia, i.e. full body impacts like falling or being hit by a bus, or the effects of whiplash.

This might not qualify as a bad idea, it's debatable, Glyph or Erica reading the subtitles in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in English

Thinking about a "Dark Gateway" scenario, as mentioned elsewhere:

Step 1: Have a high-yield, low-focus wizard or channeler spend the night at Hawthorne. Someone like Murphy, or anyone "good" at making hobgoblins.

Sure, you could provide the magic yourself, but where's the fun, and plausible deniability in that?

Step 2: Show them and Spoof a "midnight movie" featuring mutant goblin energizers with enough energy absorption and/or Regen to reproduce by budding or having pieces cut off.

You may need to lull them into a sense of security by using a 5-10 minutes of "My Little Bronie" or LoTR before breaking out the duct tape.

Step 3: Gate the resulting mix of semi-sentient knots of magic and semi-autonomous ordinary matter to some place where they can happily reproduce, through fire-bombing each other ... or whatever goblins do in their spare time.

On bad days, when you're feeling down, invite your little buddies over to visit all the people who used to bully you.

An EX-2 [4] with Regen-4 [6] and Rager-2. You would think only idiots would pick on someone like this, even at Whateley. But he has severe GSD and looks like Donald Duck. When raging he even acts like Donald does when flying into a rage. Imagine the kind of trouble this causes around campus.

It's not a bad idea per se but ... Well, you will see.

Basicly it is a concept for my MC's roommate (or rather one of them)'s crush's roommate (so yeah mostly a background character). Here is how it would go :

A little boy and his big sister (one year older than him probably and who has already manifested, she would not have much power, I am thinking something like external energizer 1. So enough for the family to know that she is a mutant but that's all) are injured in an accident. The little boy dies in a rather gruesome way, the big sister is badly injured. She wakes up, to the relief of her family, except that she says that she is the little boy. The medical staff and her family mostly think that it's her way of dealing with the grief. The little boy begins to doubt himself because he can remember some of his sister's memories that he shouldn't be able to. Except that those doubts are more or less shattered when he starts to hear his sister's voice in his head, she is as confused as him with the situation and is a little resentful at the fact that in her mind he has stolen her body.

So they are all taking this more seriously, and after more tests they begin to formulate the idea that this is not a possession but that there is a physical explanation : The body should have been more damaged and its organs are definitely not normal, they are not at the right place and they don't make sense (what they assumed to be at first just a result of her mutation). It is her body, but inside of her (literally) lives her brother who is now mostly some kind of brain-like organism linked to her in order to survive (but it's a two way street, he can't live without support but her body wouldn't have been able to survive without him lodging himself inside of her and slowly healing her). Wanting to confront the truth, and in a fit of panic, he opens his abdomen to look inside. He can't cope with what his real body looks like, what he really is and blacks out.

Thankfully they are in an hospital so while it was reckless, they live. The sister is back in control and is rather glad about this. Except that she can't hear her brother anymore. For the moment they can't extract him from her body because her life would still be in danger without him. From time to time, mostly when she is asleep, the little boy is conscious but simply wander in their cottage aimlessly. (definitely depressive and suicidal, he just won't endanger his sister). They have a lot of hours of therapy ahead of them (Thankfully Whateley is the perfect place to both treat his self-ideation dissonance and their physical problems).

So yeah, a GSD case unable to live without a host for more than a few minutes with regen 2 most likely and a some shifter abilities (just enough to link himself to his host without fear of the host rejecting the "transplant").

So why do I mention this here ? Because since I have begun to think about their story, I have remembered this :
And I think it has affected my ability to take this concept seriously ...