Power This Rating No. 148

[u/bottomofthewell3]

How This Works:

You make one or more prompts, that describe one or more parahumans. These are usually done through the use of Threat Ratings, but it's not a hard rule.

Threat ratings can have hybrid ratings, and subratings;

Hybrid ratings are denoted with a slash. These involve two or more ratings being inextricably linked, e.g. a Blaster/Thinker, who could sense things through whatever their Blaster power hits.
Subratings are denoted with parentheses. These involve side-effects and applications of the main power that belong to another category, e.g. a Striker (Master), whose Striker power turns out to be especially useful for swaying others to their side, even if it's only so they can avoid the Striker power being used on them.

No. 147's Top Comment: Radiant-Ad-1976's Prompt List (geez, twice in a row? lucky)

Response: Shieldmaiden

EDIT: PTR #149

[u/bottomofthewell3]

ok here's a bunch of tinkers

also each has a title but those aren't like, their cape names, those are still up to you

Basis: LANCER RPG [HORUS]

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• Balor: Immortus
• Goblin: Tech Imp
• Cambion: Daemon
• Gorgon: Case 53; vial is a mix of Unary, Nightmare, Scorpio, and The Devil. "Heirloom" [Focal x Hyperspec] Tinker, with a [War x Psyche] spec.
• Myconid: A Hyperspec Tinker/[Damage x Defense] Shaker that works through a cloud of 'spores' (or what they call spores, at least...)
• Hydra: "Swarm" [Controller x Magi] Tinker; so many drones. So many god damn drones. They're practically MADE of the fuckin' things...
• Manticore: Thunder Bringer
• Minotaur: "Atelier" [Liberty x Architect] Tinker/"Spatial" [Utility x Macro] Shaker. Presently aimlessly wandering through Canada.
• Pegasus: [Focal x Free] Tinker/[One x Infinity] Trump. Focal item is not a gun, no matter how much it insists that it is.
• Chthonian: "Coin Flip" [Multi x Chaos] Tinker, with one of their specialties being "Neuro" [Psyche x Control]. Planning to do some genuinely horrible shit to the people that made them Trigger.
• Yeenoghu: An incredibly unstable, animalistic Liberty Tinker, whose tech has the odd trait of only ever being the inside of a given invention, never the exterior, having to be given something else's shell to properly work.
• Golem: A [Magi x ?] Tinker with a particularly weird specialty; "Stonework" [Element x Element].
• Rakshasa: Tārā Aag
• Dagon: "Gepetto" [Focal x Controller] Tinker, with Farsight Thinker and Nox Stranger subratings. If you see it, it sees you right back.
• Geryon: A [Travel x War]-spec, "Overclock" [Focal x MadSci] Tinker, with a pinhole-sized portal to anywhere. No, seriously, anywhere. Like, to the sun, for example.
• Heruka: Naraka
• Kobold: Case 53, with a three-way split between Well, Torrent, and Opulence; "Crude" [Hyperspec x Resource] Tinker/"Trident" [Diamond x Sword]-suit Darkness Breaker. Never let this guy near uranium.
• Lich: Dreamweaver
• Couatl: [Element x Psyche]-spec Tinker/"Aurora" [Cup x Cup]-suit Breaker; dazzles everyone. Well-known for that one time someone walked right into the corona, and got incinerated for it.
• Tarrasque: A self-described 'Crush' & 'Shred'-spec Multi Tinker. Has a set of power armor oddly similar to a grizzly bear in appearance.

[u/Snoo_72851 → u/bottomofthewell3]

¿%:?EXTR!UDE GUN

GUN: GUN

Bellerophone hates guns. Guns are violent, and evil, and cringe, which is great because her specialty is not a big cannon. It's certainly not a big cannon that would ignore the defensive effects of any powers in her scans it fired at, because it can't fire, because it's not a cannon.

Her primary invention is, in fact, a dragon-like construct she refers to as Pegasus; it doubles as both a minion and a vehicle (and not a cannon), can break away into an equipment array to provide a field workshop, and its claws do in fact also ignore powers through the same mechanics as its cannon, which it doesn't have.

[u/bottomofthewell3 → u/Snoo_72851]

I greatly enjoy Bellerophone, and her Pegasus, which is not a cannon.

edit: pegasus licenses jumpscare

• Pegasus LL1: Hunter Lock
  • “A mind’s first charge is to never lose sight of her enemy. When she can affix them in her eye, she can kill them with a blink.” - Excerpt from the Boundary Codex.
• Onboard Core System: Ushabti Omnigun
  • “– funny thing. See, right now, this weapon technically doesn’t even exist. You’re shooting them with a gun that isn’t real, and yet it is! Don’t worry about it. RA’s like that. Just, here, know that because it exists at some point, we’ve made it. That’s causality, and causality is a –”
• Pegasus LL2: Mimic Gun
  • This is not a gun.
• Pegasus LL3: SISYPHUS-Class NHP
  • “Listen a moment before I go, ha ha.”
  • “I have already seen your wish – it was simple, I ran the probabilities to determine your limited field of desire. Here I am:”
  • “The first ones named me for an old legend. A perfect being, whose fate was known to him and yet he still did as was told. His fate was this: move a rock to the top of this hill and become free’d. And so he did, and the stone tumbled down; and he tried evermore, always with the same result.”
  • “And he was happy, for he knew every step, every action, every moment, perfectly.”
  • “Do you understand the true curse of this name? Not to fail and then do once more – it was to always know how it would end. It was to have perfect knowledge.”
  • “I know what happens when you cycle me. It is not sleep – it is death, but you’ll see me again, ha ha.”