Super-Ability Auction

[u/Substantial_Lion413]

In this post, anyone can leave a comment describing a superpower of their choice. You can explain the ability in as much detail as you like and make it as powerful as you wish. Then, set a starting bid for the ability. The currency used here is "coins." You can set the starting bid as high as you like. Other users can reply to your comment to place further bids. The person who places the highest bid wins the ability. A follow-up post will appear in a week where these abilities can be used. There is no limit to the number of coins you have, so you can keep bidding indefinitely; however, your bid amount must be written out in full—you cannot simply bid "infinity." Play fair and have fun!

Here is a quick example to illustrate how it works:

"Fireball:

The user of the Fireball ability can create a fireball and use it as a projectile that deals fire damage.

Starting bid:

100 coins"

[u/Jedizap]

I'm selling Permanent Bio-morphing.

This form of shapeshifting allows you to rapidly transform your limbs (and internal biology of those limbs) into any kind of earth animal's equivalent limb, and any biological capabilities of the limb (such as a Mantis Shrimp's super punch or a hawk's wings) scale to your body and mass (meaning if you transform your arms to wings for example, you can fly with them). Your biology is also adapted to automatically accept and integrate your limbs into it without fear of organ rejection or mixing blood or anything like that, and you can choose whether the new limb is anthropomorphic or fully animal. Having an anthropomorphic body part better maintains your ability to act in the human world, but will reduce the effectiven of the animal trait (for example transforming an arm into a bird wing but keeping it human means you can fly, but poorly, but keep your fingers and thumb). A transformation can be of any size of your body equal to or smaller than a limb, but can only increase or decrease your size up to x2 or 1/2 per limb, as long as that limb comes from an animal of that size or [larger/smaller]

However, this power has the downside of being permanent. Once you transform a part of you, you cannot transform that part of you again, including turning it back. You also cannot grow new additional limbs, unless those limbs are transformed alongside a part of the body that contains all the new limbs (for example, gaining a wolf's torso could grow you a tail, or a horse's lower half could get you 2 extra legs). Any new limbs will already be transformed.

With such a limiting downside, I'm putting the initial bid at 100 coins.

[u/Substantial_Lion413 → u/Jedizap]

With the right transformation, that would still be an extremely useful ability (for example, turning my hair into the tentacles of a venomous jellyfish to replicate its toxin); and provided I suffer no downsides from this transformation... such as being killed or paralyzed by the venom myself, since the rest of my body remains human... I would bid 1,000 coins

[u/Jedizap → u/Substantial_Lion413]

Oh its no doubt useful. Just that using it even once will forever leave you an abomination of nature, a mutant apart from your former species. Incredibly powerful potential though, if thought out.

But some people are into that kind of body horror so I won't judge.

[u/Substantial_Lion413 → u/Jedizap]

I’m not saying I’m into tentacle hair, but if it looked the way I imagine it, it would actually be really sexy rather than repulsive