[video] Show Me Your Moves

[whyarewehere]

[The camera bobs and judders as someone sets it up, catching flashes of a scruffy, unkempt face and pale arms and the sky for a moment.]

Okay so I've been thinking, we've got super powers here, right?

[The picture steadies pointing out at what appears to be a beach, but is more likely to just be a simulated section of beach on the Legion World. It falls over, and Grif swears as he rights it again.]

...Anyway. By super powers I mean amazing things you couldn't do before, because otherwise you're just from some world where you can do cool stuff most of us can't and that's not superpowers, that's just life being unfair to the rest of us.

[Satisfied that the comm is stable, Grif steps out in front of it as he continues.]

So, I want to see what you guys can do. And because I am all about being fair, I'm going first.

[He swings his arms a little, takes a couple breaths, then bolts to the waterline. He's nothing but a speed blur followed by a trail of thrashed sand. He stops at the surf and charges back just as quickly. At the end he's doubled over in front of the camera, hands on his knees, huffing and wheezing.]

Whoo!

[He laughs as he catches his breath, which makes it somewhat harder, and is grinning despite how much that tiny display of super speed seems to have taken out of him. In good shape, this guy is not.]

It's like... it feels like everything's normal speed to me when I do it and everything's all slowed down. It's crazy shit, man.

[Grif plunks down heavily in the sand and picks up the comm again, still visibly panting.]

So. That's me. Show me what you got.

((OOC: Feel free to threadhop each other and talk about powers if you like! Grif is encouraging sharing.))

Comments

[iamresponding]

You too? Mine changed.

Well, it's more like I lost some but it seems like some of us that had 'em didn't come through with the same ones.

[nomoresparkle]

Well, yea, I sort of lost some. But I think I got some new ones. And one of them is just sort of an... improvement of something that was kinda something I could do already.

[iamresponding]

It really is weird how some of us are being altered. We've got people with no powers getting powers, people with lots of power like me losing powers, and people like you that seem to be just getting them tweaked and changed around.

[nomoresparkle]

You still have some powers though, right?

[iamresponding]

Yeah. Still got the energy based powers I had. Dialed down some but still there.

[He switches hands to hold his omnicom with his prosthetic arm and cups his flesh and blood hand, creating a small ball of yellow energy that he holds up. Spiraling shapes run through it, from the gravimetrics twisting it, that make it clear it's not entirely thermal-based. His eyes briefly glow blue.]

I lost the superstrength, invulnerability, and other perks I had, though.

[He snuffs the Nova Force in his hand out and his eyes go back to normal.]

[nomoresparkle]

I used to be able to do something like that. But my eyes didn't glow unless I wanted them to. But that's one of the things I can't do anymore.

But yea, losing that other stuff would kind of suck. I lost my ability to fly, but at least they have those neat rings here.

[iamresponding]

Same. I'm glad for the flight rings 'cause I use flight to get around more than walking anymore.

It seems like it's all a pattern. If it was random, we'd all get new powers, or all lose powers, or something.

It's like something is picking and choosing.

[nomoresparkle]

The rings are good, but they're ever so slightly different. I just know I'm going to end up running into something or someone one of these days.

I'm sure there's science-y sorts doing all the data crunching. Though it makes me wish Uncertainty was here, even if he is really odd. I'm sure he'd be able to figure it out.

[iamresponding]

I've had to fly an obstacle course in the Sim Room just to get to where I can avoid flying into walls. The rings definitely handle different from innate flight.

But I used to have way more maneuverability and body awareness with my powers in general. I'm even tripping over my own feet with having my powers dialed down this much.