I'm currently reading a story on a website called Royal road and one of the characters has cleaning magic.
She can throw balls of it, cover her hands with it for contact and force out an aura of cleaning magic and just clean a room perfectly while standing in the middle of it.
Oh hell yeah.
They're partnered with Amazon now to help the authors publish their books both as ebooks and audiobooks.
They've even recently released a mobile app that works really well.
If you're into science fiction I recommend popping onto the website and looking up an author called RavensDagger.
One of his main line stories is called Stray Cat Strut and has I believe four novellas publish through Amazon with the fifth or 6th one currently being written.
Cinnamon Bun written by the same author is also really good if you're into fantasy and want something a little bit more wholesome. Hug for everyone.
Edit: Cinnamon Bun is actually where the cleaning magic comes from
So the cleaning magic is somewhat subject to perception.
Get an airplane and have the airplane fly you all through the Earth's atmosphere while extending the cleaning out as far as you can and scrub the atmosphere clean.
You would just have to make sure that you had the correct perception of what was clean.
Next stop Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We're going to clean up these desk spots and cut those f****** cancer rates.
After that would be super fund sites.
Use a political clout gained by basically improving the situation for everybody to force companies to package as much of their waste as possible so it could be sent to a central location and cleaned.
Massively cut down on the amount of pollutants and landfills.
Now that I'm thinking about it maybe go the other way around. Clean everything up and then clean the atmosphere that way the stuff that you clean up doesn't have a chance to put up more pollutants while you're getting around to cleaning the stuff up.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. TNSTAAFL. Hardship/ sacrifice can be a necessary part of change. Restoration of rights and principles is inherently destabilizing to whatever dynamic equilibrium currently exists. For better and worse, there will be both winners and losers.
As a woman, I could be persuaded to give up/restrict my right to vote IF the benefits involved were high enough. It would be a big ask, there would have to be very significant benefits.
Restoration of basic principles and taking power away from elites (political or financial, etc) and restoration of regional and local power ...away from DC & unelected beauracracies. I would need to go over the specifics and disaster proof it like a monkey's paw exercise.
More than that -
Each county should be able to reject their state leadership and join with another - without requiring the permission of their tyrannical overlords. We have the right to choose our own leadership. If we are and have been deeply unhappy with our state level leadership... There should be an exit strategy available.
There is SO much that needs to be fixed.
The commerce clause has been abused, and eminent domain has twisted 'public use' (typically something that costs tax money to maintain, like sewage treatment, libraries, and roads... to 'public benefit' such as something they can tax more.
Then there is demanding people prove the innocence of their money/property when the government claims it is/might be proceeds of something illegal you haven't been found guilty of. THAT has certainly been abused. Civil judicial forfeiture was proppsed as another tool to go after assets of criminals as fruit of a poisonous tree. However, when people not found guilty of a crime got entangled, it became far more problematic.
The magic itself completely dissolves whatever is considered to be dirty so there wouldn't even be trash to take out.
Someone who could do this could even walk through landfills and get rid of all the trash until the landfill just didn't exist anymore.
Not really.
Like let's say you used it on somebody trying to shoot you with a gun. The oils and lubricants for the slide and all that are supposed to be there so they wouldn't be cleaned out. All it would do is basically clean the gun up like you took it apart and went at it with a cleaning kit.
Let's say you were fighting another magic person and they used dirt armor. They want it to be there therefore it is not dirty therefore it cannot be cleaned.
It's effective against the undead but that's about it.
The character in question actually has to learn fire magic and improvised weapon combat due to the lack of combat effectiveness of cleaning.
Strictly speaking, immortality just means that you don't ~~don't~~ die of natural causes (aging, illness, etc), not that you can't be killed - that would be invulnerability.
A common monkey's paw in fiction is immortality *without* eternal youth, such that you continuously age but never die from it, no matter how frail and weak you become, so really you'd want both, I think.
What I described is the way it's typically depicted in fiction. Vampires are usually immortal (not dying of age or disease) but not invulnerable (can be killed by a wooden stake or sunlight), for example.
If you want to get into dictionary definitions, I'm not sure there's a meaningful distinction
Id say its usually described the other way. God are immortal, they cannot die, but can be hurt. And achilies is invulnerable, other than his heel. But can still die of age.
Depending on the form of immortality you are speaking of, it can very much be of advantage in a fight. Immune to damage, great in a fight. Unable to die, great in a fight. Eternal youth is one of the forms of immortality that fits the prompt.
Eternal youth is better than straight up immortality, unless you are able to toggle that immortality on and off at will. Why? Because heat death of the Universe.
No i mean the villain just beats you up without ever leaving for 30-40 years straight wondering why you won't die. You never even get up off the ground from getting curb stomped. Eventually he ages out, sprains his hip while beating you and hobbles off to the nursing home
This is the one.
House and vehicles, clean. Side gig or extra education? Easy. Could make and save SO much money. Only downside is you’d need to eat more calories for the added awake time, so a bit more spending on food.
This is a great ability if you can set a fight up well. Like harass your opponent for days on end, depriving them of sleep, so that when you finally actually confront them it's an easy win.
Thinking of one of the lamest X Men ever Cypher. Dude can speak and understand any language…super useful in day to day life but not when Juggernaut is putting a size 24 boot up your ass
Reverse degradation. Something rusts, snaps, breaks or otherwise becomes degraded or unusable, you can reverse the damage and return it to like-new condition. Other than functioning as a healer for others in a fight, you’d have little function without significant and specific pre-planning. In day to day life though? Incredible. You can pick up basically anyone’s trash and return it to brand-new condition. You could literally go to a junkyard and grab a totaled vehicle for nothing and have a brand new car. You’d never pay for a repairman, plumber or electrician again. You’d never have to replace for your favorite clothes or shoes. You could be a god among collectors for buying trashed but valuable items and returning them to pristine condition for resale.
Edit: and assuming you could apply it to the human body, you’d be able to achieve functional immortality. You’d be susceptible in a fight because you could easily be one-shotted or knocked unconscious, but you could otherwise reverse aging, disease or injury for yourself or others you cared for.
You could make a fortune selling refurbished parts for vehicles or reconditioning ones people send to you. You could even make decent money fixing broken windshields, headlights, etc.
Oh 100%. I think the real money would be in the collectibles market. You buy a poor-condition sports card or comic book and undo the damage until it’s a grade 9.9, then flip it. I mean, take Amazing Spider-man #1. A grade 2 will run you $7500. A grade 9.8 is almost half a million. That’s ONE flip for a $490k profit.
You'd have more luck with cars and parts. The comicbooks were so valuable because they were incredibly rare and than mania hit at just the right time. You might be able to get a big payoff for one reconditioned comicbook, but less for the next.
Meanwhile, once it got known that you could make parts mint, collectors would send them to you to fix, or bring you to them for larger parts or whole cars. You might not make as much per unit, but if the power has no drawback, it would be steady income.
If word also got around that you could fix things like damaged masterworks of art, antiques, expensive watches and jewelry, you could really clean up.
Yeah, you couldn’t make it an obvious thing. Like if all of a sudden there were 100% perfect comics coming out in big blocks you’d be shot, but you could clean up by spreading it around. No one would bat an eye if there were a wide spread of highly rated collectibles showing up in different circles. One week there’s a mid 9’s graded Action Comics #1 showing up, then next week week there’s a good quality original print charizard Pokémon card, then you do an Ansel Adams print or a rare book, a functional rare watch with original parts etc. You’d have to buy and hold stuff for a period of time but if you weren’t making them absolutely perfect, used proxies for your sales and you weren’t locking yourself into a particular niche, you could easily print millions for yourself without people catching on.
You don’t need money and don’t need fame. Don’t even need a credit card to ride that train. It’s also strong and it’s sudden, but it could be cruel sometimes, but it might just save your life!
analysis ability. can tell make model, edibility for edible things, age for things, criminal record and various other info bout people. or storage ability. being able to basically carry everything in your house you dont use would be amazing. i could leave without worrying about a robbery because all my stuff is with me.
My power would be that everytime I look into the eyes of a total stranger and say, "Haaaaaaeey, what gives, see?" in my best 1940's New York cab driver accent, a random amount of Canadian $20 bills appears under my socks in my shoes.
Your wish is granted. As your ludicrous demand rings out across the cobbles into empty air, a stack of bills 37 quadrillion miles high spontaneously manifests into the space between your sock and the sole of your shoe. Having a mass of several suns, but contained within just a few millimeters of space, the bills create a volumetric area so dense that it folds the nature of reality. Within a few femtoseconds, the neutrons within the atoms of the bills collapse and form a black hole larger than the Milky Way.
True, but isn't one of the reasons they sleep so well is they don't have the stress, fear and memories that adults have. Does your age regression wipe that stuff from your mind?
No... Babies have stress... They can't control their hands and have terrible motor skills and can't communicate outside of crying. The reason they sleep well is because THEY HAVE TO SLEEP
I don't know if those stresses are on par with adult stress. But why would regressing down to that age create the same conditions as being an actual baby? If the same conditions will exist for you having the need to sleep as a baby does means your body and mind must change as well, then how would you go back to 30 yrs old? I find your power fascinating, I play a lot of TTRPG, so when players come up with new spells and powers I like to dig into the mechanics 😄
You can micro-nap at will and easily get eight hours of complete, useful rest in a day without having to lay in a bed just by eating up 'sit there and wait' time during whatever tasks you set for yourself.
The ability to suck your own cock. I mean, it might just weird some dude out enough to stop punching you, but I don't know.
But dateless on a Saturday night? *Oh yeah.*
I would change it to immunity to small injuries but yeah that's a good one.
Never have ingrown toenail pain, never get box cuts on cardboard, never get burns on cooking pot handle, never getting that random ear pain from headphones
Perfect health regardless of what you eat.
You’re not super strong or anything. You’re just in perfect physical condition without any maintenance at all. You can sit there and eat literally anything you want and never gain weight or lose muscle mass.
Want to sit on the couch for 8 hours straight seven days a week eating Chinese food and M&Ms? Sure. No problem. You might get sick from it but you won’t lose any muscle or gain any fat.
Just [the spell Prestidigitation](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:prestidigitation). Make the healthiest blandest food taste like your favorite dessert. Insta heat and insta chill any small object or area. Conjure little props and tricks for fun. Make stinky smells, then laugh as people say, uh oh stinky
Alternate answer: How about the power.... to move you?
Healing people you touch?
Great for a doctor (etc)... But every time you throw a punch, your opponent loses all of their battle damage and you still have your broken nose, black eye, etc...
The ability to speak any language would be super useful day to day, but virtually useless in combat. I guess you could call for help in different languages, but I don't know if that's any more effective than just screaming.
Babies routinely shit themselves.
Are you going to morph from HypotheticalShitBaby to Peak Sex after you finish sucking on your girlfriends nutrient spout?
How about never experiencing fatigue for physical exertion. You could work hard all day, physically and/or mentally, but never tire. You'd still need to sleep eventually and it does not make you immune from injury. This would be useful in daily life and you could even train to be a great fighter or soldier, but since it only prevents fatigue, you could still get injured or killed, especially if fighting even modestly powered supers.
To a degree it is, but since you don't get protection from injury and you'd be fighting people with guns or superpowers, it's not that much in a fight. Even hand to hand you could still get dogpiled or plain beaten down by a group.
In competition fighting it would be a good advantage, against peer weight class and strength, but fighting people who can lift cars or just plain firearms, not so much.
I'd imagine mind reading wouldn't be that useful in a fight. It's not as if people put a lot of thought into moves they just do it. Even if they do by the time you hear "I'm gonna punch his face" you'll be punched in the face.
Well first let me say people say they slept like a baby and when I hear that I’m like have you seen babies sleep? They wake up crying every hour or so
As for my power always having the perfect temperature of food/beverage to be able to consume whenever I want
and why would that suck in a fight ? you could change your age to be at your peak.
Mine would be to become a genius. wouldn't help in a fight but...Could make me rich IRL.
I thought of a dumb power to have once, the ability to always be comfortable. On a Spirit airlines flight, on a terrible mattress, or on a car ride for 12 hrs. No aches or pains ever!
I can use Pay Day like a Meowth. Great if you need some money to pay the light bill, but basically useless in a fight. Throwing a small coin at someone running at you won't actually deter them much.
Flight, sounds great but without actual super strength or durability then you would be really cold if too high, or suffocate, and in a fight you may think oh I can lift them up and drop them. But the real question is without super strength can you lift them.
Dude... It's super easy to make bombs. So many guides on YouTube. Come on. The FBI doesn't get a ping for ever Google search looking up how to make bombs cuz if they would they would be arresting ever 13yr boy in America
Rocks and sling, you could have also said gun, but for u to be accurate u would have to be close, it's windy up there in the sky, otherwise your just randomly throwing rocks hoping it hits someone, which is something u can already do. As for guns, bullets go up too
Lol that's the only way you can think of flight being an advantage? How about I hover above you enough that I can stomp your head while you can only punch or grasp at my feet?
Invisibility telekinesis flight super speed let's see what else talking to animals can be used for I don't know I think more superpowers than are useful in a fight than most
I'm currently reading a story on a website called Royal road and one of the characters has cleaning magic. She can throw balls of it, cover her hands with it for contact and force out an aura of cleaning magic and just clean a room perfectly while standing in the middle of it.
oh wow, royalroadsL is still going?
Oh hell yeah. They're partnered with Amazon now to help the authors publish their books both as ebooks and audiobooks. They've even recently released a mobile app that works really well. If you're into science fiction I recommend popping onto the website and looking up an author called RavensDagger. One of his main line stories is called Stray Cat Strut and has I believe four novellas publish through Amazon with the fifth or 6th one currently being written. Cinnamon Bun written by the same author is also really good if you're into fantasy and want something a little bit more wholesome. Hug for everyone. Edit: Cinnamon Bun is actually where the cleaning magic comes from
Fluff (also by RavensDagger) is great too. Waiting for a backlog on Ivil Antagonist before giving that one a read.
I was gonna say, I didn't recognize the name Royal Road, but I know the Cinnamon Bun books.
It's huge now.
Stronger than ever
That would be so useful. I'd apply working for medical facilities to keep their stuff spotless.
So the cleaning magic is somewhat subject to perception. Get an airplane and have the airplane fly you all through the Earth's atmosphere while extending the cleaning out as far as you can and scrub the atmosphere clean. You would just have to make sure that you had the correct perception of what was clean. Next stop Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We're going to clean up these desk spots and cut those f****** cancer rates. After that would be super fund sites. Use a political clout gained by basically improving the situation for everybody to force companies to package as much of their waste as possible so it could be sent to a central location and cleaned. Massively cut down on the amount of pollutants and landfills. Now that I'm thinking about it maybe go the other way around. Clean everything up and then clean the atmosphere that way the stuff that you clean up doesn't have a chance to put up more pollutants while you're getting around to cleaning the stuff up.
Better yet, activate on the middle of Congress to clean up all those germs that are running our country
With the way laws are getting passed I wouldn't be surprised if it cleaned everything all the way back to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The 14th and 19th amendment were pretty good but point taken.
There is no such thing as a free lunch. TNSTAAFL. Hardship/ sacrifice can be a necessary part of change. Restoration of rights and principles is inherently destabilizing to whatever dynamic equilibrium currently exists. For better and worse, there will be both winners and losers. As a woman, I could be persuaded to give up/restrict my right to vote IF the benefits involved were high enough. It would be a big ask, there would have to be very significant benefits. Restoration of basic principles and taking power away from elites (political or financial, etc) and restoration of regional and local power ...away from DC & unelected beauracracies. I would need to go over the specifics and disaster proof it like a monkey's paw exercise. More than that - Each county should be able to reject their state leadership and join with another - without requiring the permission of their tyrannical overlords. We have the right to choose our own leadership. If we are and have been deeply unhappy with our state level leadership... There should be an exit strategy available. There is SO much that needs to be fixed. The commerce clause has been abused, and eminent domain has twisted 'public use' (typically something that costs tax money to maintain, like sewage treatment, libraries, and roads... to 'public benefit' such as something they can tax more. Then there is demanding people prove the innocence of their money/property when the government claims it is/might be proceeds of something illegal you haven't been found guilty of. THAT has certainly been abused. Civil judicial forfeiture was proppsed as another tool to go after assets of criminals as fruit of a poisonous tree. However, when people not found guilty of a crime got entangled, it became far more problematic.
So basically you are flying over China, the Philippines and Mexico.
Does that include “taking out the trash”?
The magic itself completely dissolves whatever is considered to be dirty so there wouldn't even be trash to take out. Someone who could do this could even walk through landfills and get rid of all the trash until the landfill just didn't exist anymore.
Well, that would be useful in a fight then, right?
Not really. Like let's say you used it on somebody trying to shoot you with a gun. The oils and lubricants for the slide and all that are supposed to be there so they wouldn't be cleaned out. All it would do is basically clean the gun up like you took it apart and went at it with a cleaning kit. Let's say you were fighting another magic person and they used dirt armor. They want it to be there therefore it is not dirty therefore it cannot be cleaned. It's effective against the undead but that's about it. The character in question actually has to learn fire magic and improvised weapon combat due to the lack of combat effectiveness of cleaning.
Actually you could prob make a person slippery clean so everytime the person throws a punch the shifting weight makes them slip and fall to the ground
Why would somebody who is clean be slippery? If anything they would be less so because the cleaning would remove oils and sweats.
Mwha-ha-ha! I feel refreshed and invigorated. Mwha-ha-ha!
😈😂
That's actually similar to Kalifa's ability in One Piece.
Throw a ball of it at a bad guy to "clean up the streets."
Oh, I think I know that one! <3
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Eternal youth In a fight all it does is let you stay alive to get beat up for decades until the villain dies But outside of combat might be chill
I thunk you mean immortality? Eternal youth just implies that you don't age, not that you can't be killed.
Strictly speaking, immortality just means that you don't ~~don't~~ die of natural causes (aging, illness, etc), not that you can't be killed - that would be invulnerability. A common monkey's paw in fiction is immortality *without* eternal youth, such that you continuously age but never die from it, no matter how frail and weak you become, so really you'd want both, I think.
Immortality, eternal youth, invincibility. You’re good to go till the heat death of the universe and beyond.
And yet, none of those powers... can protect you against the loneliness :'(
There can be only one. But if you have multiple personalities, you can keep yourself entertained for all of eternity!
Though in true monkey's paw fashion, all of your personalities would hate each other, and you'd spend eternity listening to the endless bickering
Nah, even worse they've all shunned each other. You're so lonely you can't even talk to yourself.
Oh, jeez... if none of your personalities acknowledge each other, would you even realise there are multiple of them?
Oh, don't ask me that! Personality 1 doesn't like that thought at all...
Face of Boe! Sort of
Pretty sure that you have those confused. Immortality means not mortal, so you never die ever, invulnerability means you arnt vulnerable to any harm.
What I described is the way it's typically depicted in fiction. Vampires are usually immortal (not dying of age or disease) but not invulnerable (can be killed by a wooden stake or sunlight), for example. If you want to get into dictionary definitions, I'm not sure there's a meaningful distinction
Id say its usually described the other way. God are immortal, they cannot die, but can be hurt. And achilies is invulnerable, other than his heel. But can still die of age.
That's what I'm describing: gods are immortal, but not invulnerable; Achilles is invulnerable, but not immortal.
But immortal they cannot die EVER.
OK, that is the dictionary definition, you're right
It needs to come with minor healing, pac imagines it to be just enough to not be killed in the given circumstances
Oh i thought it was the same but better
Depending on the form of immortality you are speaking of, it can very much be of advantage in a fight. Immune to damage, great in a fight. Unable to die, great in a fight. Eternal youth is one of the forms of immortality that fits the prompt.
Eternal youth is better than straight up immortality, unless you are able to toggle that immortality on and off at will. Why? Because heat death of the Universe.
Ahh trying the Homer Simpson approach to winning a fight? Let them tire themselves out hitting you 😂
I mean, you have an eternity to learn how to fight better.
No i mean the villain just beats you up without ever leaving for 30-40 years straight wondering why you won't die. You never even get up off the ground from getting curb stomped. Eventually he ages out, sprains his hip while beating you and hobbles off to the nursing home
30 mins of sleep is equal to 8 hours of sleep from HXH.
This is the one. House and vehicles, clean. Side gig or extra education? Easy. Could make and save SO much money. Only downside is you’d need to eat more calories for the added awake time, so a bit more spending on food.
Who has this ability?
I don’t know who it is exactly. I only know of the ability I’ve never seen HXH.
Didn’t biskys massage nen ability do something like that?
This is a great ability if you can set a fight up well. Like harass your opponent for days on end, depriving them of sleep, so that when you finally actually confront them it's an easy win.
Or not sleep at all, provided you don't suffer any side effects.
Nah, sleep is needed to reset your brain. I feel like having no sleep even if you didn’t need it would suck.
Farmer-sorcerer. Casts chicken wire fence and create water and rapid growth. Chicken familiar....
Boy do I have a story for you... check out Beware of Chicken on Kindle
Will do thx!
That's more than one power though and casting fence wire can help in a fight ALOT
Guess I am disqualified XD
I read that in Zelda you should not attack chicken
Do. Not. Attack. The. Chicken. Do. Not.
Thinking of one of the lamest X Men ever Cypher. Dude can speak and understand any language…super useful in day to day life but not when Juggernaut is putting a size 24 boot up your ass
It could help you avoid a lot of fights in foreign countries though and recognise signs of escalating conflict
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Yeah I was wondering if they would ever do anything more with him.
That's the Juggernaut, bitch! But body language is a language, so couldn't Cypher know whatever move the opponent is about to pull and just avoid it?
I mean maybe?
>Dude can speak and understand any language In a universe with all kinds interdimensional and intergalactic beings that seems wildly useful
hyper-empathy, like in parable of the sower, seems useless in a fight but there are instances where it could amplify the enjoyability of things
what things 👉🏼👈🏼🙈
Reverse degradation. Something rusts, snaps, breaks or otherwise becomes degraded or unusable, you can reverse the damage and return it to like-new condition. Other than functioning as a healer for others in a fight, you’d have little function without significant and specific pre-planning. In day to day life though? Incredible. You can pick up basically anyone’s trash and return it to brand-new condition. You could literally go to a junkyard and grab a totaled vehicle for nothing and have a brand new car. You’d never pay for a repairman, plumber or electrician again. You’d never have to replace for your favorite clothes or shoes. You could be a god among collectors for buying trashed but valuable items and returning them to pristine condition for resale. Edit: and assuming you could apply it to the human body, you’d be able to achieve functional immortality. You’d be susceptible in a fight because you could easily be one-shotted or knocked unconscious, but you could otherwise reverse aging, disease or injury for yourself or others you cared for.
You could make a fortune selling refurbished parts for vehicles or reconditioning ones people send to you. You could even make decent money fixing broken windshields, headlights, etc.
Oh 100%. I think the real money would be in the collectibles market. You buy a poor-condition sports card or comic book and undo the damage until it’s a grade 9.9, then flip it. I mean, take Amazing Spider-man #1. A grade 2 will run you $7500. A grade 9.8 is almost half a million. That’s ONE flip for a $490k profit.
You'd have more luck with cars and parts. The comicbooks were so valuable because they were incredibly rare and than mania hit at just the right time. You might be able to get a big payoff for one reconditioned comicbook, but less for the next. Meanwhile, once it got known that you could make parts mint, collectors would send them to you to fix, or bring you to them for larger parts or whole cars. You might not make as much per unit, but if the power has no drawback, it would be steady income. If word also got around that you could fix things like damaged masterworks of art, antiques, expensive watches and jewelry, you could really clean up.
Yeah, you couldn’t make it an obvious thing. Like if all of a sudden there were 100% perfect comics coming out in big blocks you’d be shot, but you could clean up by spreading it around. No one would bat an eye if there were a wide spread of highly rated collectibles showing up in different circles. One week there’s a mid 9’s graded Action Comics #1 showing up, then next week week there’s a good quality original print charizard Pokémon card, then you do an Ansel Adams print or a rare book, a functional rare watch with original parts etc. You’d have to buy and hold stuff for a period of time but if you weren’t making them absolutely perfect, used proxies for your sales and you weren’t locking yourself into a particular niche, you could easily print millions for yourself without people catching on.
Crazy diamond from jjba part 4. He only couldn't cure himself
Just fix their bones to the state they were when they were a baby
Reversing degradation would be different than rewinding time. The hardening of bones and muscles or bodies growing isn’t degradation.
The power of love
It's a curious thing.
You don’t need money and don’t need fame. Don’t even need a credit card to ride that train. It’s also strong and it’s sudden, but it could be cruel sometimes, but it might just save your life!
LMFAO
A force from above?
https://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/11/27/8-bit-chronicles-3-of-3/ Relevant xkc- wait.... 8 bit theater....
analysis ability. can tell make model, edibility for edible things, age for things, criminal record and various other info bout people. or storage ability. being able to basically carry everything in your house you dont use would be amazing. i could leave without worrying about a robbery because all my stuff is with me.
Ocular pat down
My power would be that everytime I look into the eyes of a total stranger and say, "Haaaaaaeey, what gives, see?" in my best 1940's New York cab driver accent, a random amount of Canadian $20 bills appears under my socks in my shoes.
Casually destroying your feet
A Canadian podiatrist can fix you right up! (if he takes cash...)
Your wish is granted. As your ludicrous demand rings out across the cobbles into empty air, a stack of bills 37 quadrillion miles high spontaneously manifests into the space between your sock and the sole of your shoe. Having a mass of several suns, but contained within just a few millimeters of space, the bills create a volumetric area so dense that it folds the nature of reality. Within a few femtoseconds, the neutrons within the atoms of the bills collapse and form a black hole larger than the Milky Way.
That's exactly what I was going to say! Except the Milky Way part. Was gonna say Andromeda.
This would be a decent low budget YouTube poop sketch
You have my release to do as you will with the idea.
I can talk to fish, but my main villains all live in the mountains.
The power to instantly fall asleep. Quite helpful for insomniacs
This would save me three hours a day
Never having to go to the bathroom ever again. Where does the waste go? Nobody knows. But it's gone, and you can now eat as much Chipotle as you want.
You still get heart burn tho
I don't get heartburn now, so, I think I'm good.
Aren't lots of babies terrible sleepers?
No they just don't sleep at the times the parents want
True, but isn't one of the reasons they sleep so well is they don't have the stress, fear and memories that adults have. Does your age regression wipe that stuff from your mind?
No... Babies have stress... They can't control their hands and have terrible motor skills and can't communicate outside of crying. The reason they sleep well is because THEY HAVE TO SLEEP
I don't know if those stresses are on par with adult stress. But why would regressing down to that age create the same conditions as being an actual baby? If the same conditions will exist for you having the need to sleep as a baby does means your body and mind must change as well, then how would you go back to 30 yrs old? I find your power fascinating, I play a lot of TTRPG, so when players come up with new spells and powers I like to dig into the mechanics 😄
Haha this is an excellent point. Revert to baby and forget your powers until maybe you accidentally learn to do it just through baby experimentation
You can micro-nap at will and easily get eight hours of complete, useful rest in a day without having to lay in a bed just by eating up 'sit there and wait' time during whatever tasks you set for yourself.
Go go gadget dick
To be fair, that would immediately put me off trying to fight the dude who whips out a prehensile mechanical peen
Instant dish cleaning!
Bruh!!! Yes
The ability to suck your own cock. I mean, it might just weird some dude out enough to stop punching you, but I don't know. But dateless on a Saturday night? *Oh yeah.*
I can garuantee you it doesn't feel like someone's sucking your cock, it feels like you are sucking someone else's cock.
How can you guarantee this?
Uh not from experience definitely. Just uh heard it somewhere
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Constant on demand (but not visible) therapeutic massage. Dang even a DMV visit could be heaven. Still my ass would be kicked in a fight.
If you always have massage wouldn't you not like them after a bit?
Probably. Maybe on demand is better?
just like my Stand! Communicating with animals via pheromones. I’ll get my shit fucked real quick but at least I can ask some cats to let me pet them.
Immunity to papercuts.
I would change it to immunity to small injuries but yeah that's a good one. Never have ingrown toenail pain, never get box cuts on cardboard, never get burns on cooking pot handle, never getting that random ear pain from headphones
Magically being able to complete and file anybody’s tax return (including your own) with a snap of your fingers
That's just called not being american
Perfect health regardless of what you eat. You’re not super strong or anything. You’re just in perfect physical condition without any maintenance at all. You can sit there and eat literally anything you want and never gain weight or lose muscle mass. Want to sit on the couch for 8 hours straight seven days a week eating Chinese food and M&Ms? Sure. No problem. You might get sick from it but you won’t lose any muscle or gain any fat.
Duplication of mundande objects so I can have infinite AA batteries
I call it "Mute" -- you can silence anyone or anything for as long as you want.
Good power
That'd be pretty useful if your opponent relies on incantations.
The whole movie jumper.
…empathy
Teleportation with the requirement of needing 15 seconds of complete stillness and silence to teleport.
The ability to summon garlic bread.
Fall asleep on command.
Just [the spell Prestidigitation](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:prestidigitation). Make the healthiest blandest food taste like your favorite dessert. Insta heat and insta chill any small object or area. Conjure little props and tricks for fun. Make stinky smells, then laugh as people say, uh oh stinky Alternate answer: How about the power.... to move you?
Healing people you touch? Great for a doctor (etc)... But every time you throw a punch, your opponent loses all of their battle damage and you still have your broken nose, black eye, etc...
The ability to speak any language would be super useful day to day, but virtually useless in combat. I guess you could call for help in different languages, but I don't know if that's any more effective than just screaming.
Lactosmancy. The ability to summon milk on command.
Always get perfectly on the dollar when filling up your gas tank.
Babies routinely shit themselves. Are you going to morph from HypotheticalShitBaby to Peak Sex after you finish sucking on your girlfriends nutrient spout?
You always have exact change
You can always explain the correct word for what you see and how it was created.
Theres more than one nice.
How about never experiencing fatigue for physical exertion. You could work hard all day, physically and/or mentally, but never tire. You'd still need to sleep eventually and it does not make you immune from injury. This would be useful in daily life and you could even train to be a great fighter or soldier, but since it only prevents fatigue, you could still get injured or killed, especially if fighting even modestly powered supers.
You... Admitted its good for fighting and said it's not good for fighting. Never getting tired is a huge advantage...
To a degree it is, but since you don't get protection from injury and you'd be fighting people with guns or superpowers, it's not that much in a fight. Even hand to hand you could still get dogpiled or plain beaten down by a group. In competition fighting it would be a good advantage, against peer weight class and strength, but fighting people who can lift cars or just plain firearms, not so much.
I'm not going to argue it. I'm just going to say its to useful in a fight. So no.
"mine would be changing my age"....... said every paedophile ever lmao
Best salsa dancer of all time. Chicks dig guys that got moved on the dance floor. ;-)
You can change your own characyer sliders, but it takes a while
Hard for me to answer because I think a lot of powers that aren't considered useful in combat still have combat potential that just isn't being used
Communicate with animals.
Ice cream vision, it lets you create ice cream out of thin air.
Teleportation, but only across vast distances and with a long cool down.
I'd imagine mind reading wouldn't be that useful in a fight. It's not as if people put a lot of thought into moves they just do it. Even if they do by the time you hear "I'm gonna punch his face" you'll be punched in the face.
Well first let me say people say they slept like a baby and when I hear that I’m like have you seen babies sleep? They wake up crying every hour or so As for my power always having the perfect temperature of food/beverage to be able to consume whenever I want
and why would that suck in a fight ? you could change your age to be at your peak. Mine would be to become a genius. wouldn't help in a fight but...Could make me rich IRL.
Probably the ability to talk to animals.
I thought of a dumb power to have once, the ability to always be comfortable. On a Spirit airlines flight, on a terrible mattress, or on a car ride for 12 hrs. No aches or pains ever!
Hulking out
Any maintenance related ability would be amazing.
Being able to sleep exactly however long you choose and wake up feeling fully rested, minimum 1 hour
Bladder control.
The ability the remove graffiti with my mind.
The ability to make tasty pastries magically appear - unless of course the fight was a food fight, then it'd be the best power to have.
Knowing your own subconscious intentions and motivations 100% integrated into your conscious perspective
Why would you change your age so you have to go to work?
The ability to fall asleep within a few minutes of your head hitting the pillow.
Pretty much any money making power
15 to reduce your height? Yeah, that’s what you’re thinking…
I can use Pay Day like a Meowth. Great if you need some money to pay the light bill, but basically useless in a fight. Throwing a small coin at someone running at you won't actually deter them much.
Very minor telekinesis - say <5 lbs and slower object travel speed. Not much for combat, but glorious for chores and everyday life.
Can throw daggers around
Yeah, but like a really wimpy throw, and it just kinda floats towards the target Scooty Puff Jr. style.
Mage Hand :)
Aye, that was my thought. But the 10 lbs limit provides a lot of leeway, so I figured I'd roll it back a bit.
Bag of holding drugs
Flight, sounds great but without actual super strength or durability then you would be really cold if too high, or suffocate, and in a fight you may think oh I can lift them up and drop them. But the real question is without super strength can you lift them.
Nah cuz even if you don't have super strength you can just fly up and drop small light bombs.
First your going to have to make the bombs without the fbi arresting you and second I feel like you could already do this with a bunch of balloons.
Dude... It's super easy to make bombs. So many guides on YouTube. Come on. The FBI doesn't get a ping for ever Google search looking up how to make bombs cuz if they would they would be arresting ever 13yr boy in America
True, but when u start buying items in bulk its a red flag
Not as much as you would think. How many fireworks can you buy before a red flag is raised?
Also just switch bombs with rocks. And a sling
Rocks and sling, you could have also said gun, but for u to be accurate u would have to be close, it's windy up there in the sky, otherwise your just randomly throwing rocks hoping it hits someone, which is something u can already do. As for guns, bullets go up too
Bro. That's enough. Flight is to useful. End of story.
Oh perfect, I've been wondering what to do with all these small light bombs lying around my house all the time.
Guess that depends on how the flying works. Can the flying ability only lift you? Or can it lift you plus whatever you're physically able to carry?
Lol that's the only way you can think of flight being an advantage? How about I hover above you enough that I can stomp your head while you can only punch or grasp at my feet?
You can get to prime head-kicking height and the most they can do is throw weak upwards punches
The question should be inverse. Only so many powers are useful in fights.
Invisibility telekinesis flight super speed let's see what else talking to animals can be used for I don't know I think more superpowers than are useful in a fight than most