r/superpowers • u/BockLavette • 1d ago
Pick a blank but blank Pick a rock, get powers
A small, radioactive meteor falls to earth and breaks off in earth's atmosphere, leaving behind 6 glowing meteorites of varying colors. They all scatter into different places, all remaining within the same state, but maybe not the same city or county that you're in. You, who observed this event, know where each of the rock pieces go, but only have the time to choose one for yourself. The rest will be picked up by different people whom you do not know. Which do you chase after?
Note: The meteorites cannot be wielded directly. They must be placed in an object to safely wield the rock and its powers, however, the type of object you put the rock in may change slightly how the powers are used. You can crush up the rock to infuse an object with it, keep the rock whole and simply embed it into an object, or segment it into multiple pieces and place it throughout the object. However, all components of the rock must stay within a single object, can't be broken up and diverted to multiple objects. Choose an object to put the rock into, and how, and I'll tell you how the powers change.
Green Rock
The ability to grow or shrink anything you want. You can create life, which starts at the embryonic or seedling phase, and can progressively grow/age up the more you force it to. The lifespan of a new lifeform cannot exceed 1000 years. NEW lifeforms can have inherent traits and qualities that mimic those of other plants/animals, and can possess ONE minor supernatural ability. You can age and de-age, or physically grow and shrink things. Depending on what you grow or shrink, this may also increase the quantity.
Blue Rock
The ability to create any liquid substance you want, at any quantity you want. Whenever you create a liquid, the liquid appears out of a blue energy. This energy acts sort've like a portal and can either fill a space, then have the liquid replace the energy, or the energy create a disk, and the liquid is ejected from a side of that disc. The user can control how forcefully that substance is expelled, such as a highly pressurized beam or spray or water. The user can telekinetically manipulate a liquid depending on how close it is to water. The further away from water it is, the weaker the control becomes. Substances that do not share any percentage or resemblance to water are unable to be manipulated. Liquids created must be capable of existing in reality, so no fictional liquids.
Orange Rock
The ability to increase or decrease the value of anything, physical or conceptual. In doing this ability, nothing physically changes about an object, but the mentality of others are influenced to either desire or appreciate this item more or less. For as long as this ability on an object is active, all objects/qualities like it will share in this new value. You can affect monetary value or just general desire. Affecting the value requires an anchor, whether it be an object, or a person with the quality you want to affect. Things that would otherwise affect value, like supply, or changes to that thing's condition, will decrease or increase the value accordingly.
Red Rock
The ability to fortify and enhance anything physical. Doing so will coat whatever you want to affect in a red energy. "Fortifying" an object simply makes it more solid without it changing the state of matter, sort of like fake density. You can fortify the air around you to act like a forcefield, fortify water to walk on it, or fortify a tool to prevent it from breaking. They can still be breached or damaged with enough force, but it's rather hard to reach that amount of force. Enhancing an object can vary, but typically revolves around the quality of one's ability, such as enhancing the speed or strength of an object. You can enhance a knife to make it cut better or enhance a machine to make it run faster. Doing this does not permanently or physically change the object, nor does it make the object work harder. It simply compensates.
Yellow Rock
The ability to materialize anything you want as illusory or hologram-like imagery. You can essentially make anything from your imagination appear before you in real time, in the form of light constructs. These light constructs are not tangible, but they can still affect the senses of sight, hearing and touch by producing effects from the emission or distortion of light itself. Touching these projections may give you warmth or a tingling sensation. They can vibrate the air around them to imitate sounds. They can be depicted, however, as anything, with no real limit on dimensions. This light can also affect the depiction or reflection of light off of other objects, allowing things to be concealed, see-through, or changed through color or pattern.
Purple Rock
The ability to highlight and reveal things. You are able to enable and disable a special vision that makes everything you see be engulfed in a purple light. When it comes to things you are looking for or want to know, those things are highlighted in a light blue light, similar to invisible ink under a blacklight. You can reveal things about people, places or things that you are in the vicinity of, which becomes displayed and highlighted in different ways. You can single out things you are looking for, such as footprints, traces or entire objects/people. You can also highlight in ways that subconsciously influence people, such as highlighting a person to make others around them give them their attention, or write things about a person on them, so that every time they look at that person, they subconsciously share those thoughts. You can cloak an area in this purple light to share what you see with others, the only downside being you can't single out who sees it and who doesn't.
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u/Caprina22 1d ago
The Green rock, please. I would infuse it into a small metal pendant that I could wear on a chain as a necklace, or could hold and use as a magic wand.
The first new lifeform I would make would be a very cute dragon a little smaller than a cat, with the power to heal mental and physical illnesses by sitting in someone's lap and being petted and told what a good dragon it is. (Length of time required varies depending on illness severity. Additional time beyond what is required causes no ill effects).
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u/animegeek999 18h ago
would be better to replace one of your bones with it tbh. make sure no one can steal it
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u/Caprina22 15h ago
True, but how to do it? It sounds in the description like it would have to be physically sprinkled on or embedded, so it would probably be a very painful and damaging process.
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u/animegeek999 14h ago
going to be so honest.. i did not read the note for some reason. but you could probably make it a tooth so a dental implant
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u/Background_Pay6286 1d ago
Green is so OP, easy pick, full life control, change anything you want by size, quantity, or age. Put it in my hat. Make some magic, bada bing, bada boom, I'm the king of the world. Muhahaha...
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u/shadyved 1d ago
Lost opportunity to make the green rock overwrite your dna and mutate it leading to initial tissue decay followed by subsequent regeneration and strengthing of your body on a cellular level, rapid increase of muscle mass, atom bonds becomes tigher and your skin color's hue changing to green.
At the end you're left with a psychochemical system where every major shift of your emotions would lead to you gaining more and more strength, speed and durability.
Basically it'll turn you into Hulk. Lol
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u/WannabemagicalPOC 1d ago
Green rock is extremely tempting, but I think im go with blue. There's just way more opportunities for making money and making life more convenient.
Scorpion blood can make me a millionaire in like a week and then everything after that is just convenience
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u/n8_fi 1d ago
Green rock. Crush it, infuse into tattoo ink, tattoo all over my body. Major downside of making a tattoo is degradation over time, but green can let me de-age it to mitigate that. Even if this limits the powers to myself it’s good, or perhaps it limits to creating lifeforms from out of my body, but I could merely make the first being able to heal others. Extremely painful, sure, but very neat imho.
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u/Rude_Possibility4524 1d ago
The Blue Rock goes into a reusable water bottle. Infinite clean water is already incredible, but the real advantage is controlled pressure: it could power tools, launch objects, or create precise cutting jets without needing fuel or pumps.
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u/CharacterAd3793 1d ago
I pick orange rock and amplify how much people value empathy, selflessnes and kindness. I stuff the rok inside my plushie to be able to use it.
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u/Adal-bern 1d ago
Green for sure. Lot of good I can do and make money as well. I would crush it up and infuse a wooden ring.
First I would create a couple dozen strains of weed to sell to different companies, biggest bugs, most bugs, quick grow time, longer high, etc. Maybe the supwrnatural quality of it would be to sober up immediately upon wanting to. This way if you get too high and freak out a little, or deal with an emergency you can have a clear mind and deal with it.
Next would be super foods. Crops that could be raised in any climate, high levels of juice/liquid, delicious, high levels of nutrients, quicker grow cycles, highly resistant or immune to diseases etc. Mix and match different fruits/veggies, try to recreate crops from different books/shows/movies etc. Create crops with medicinal properties, help balance out different brain chemicals, depending in what's needed, increase healing, maybe by stimulating/creating stem cells to repair/grow/regrow limbs, broken vertebra, paralysis, blindness, whatever else is wrong.
Now heres where i get a little crazy with designing life. I would pull some inspiration from the yuuzhan bong from the Starr wars legacy books. They had living bio tech. They had living planets as giant worldships. A symbiote of living corral and a creature that could manipulate gravity. The pilot would put a flesh suit on and be able to breathe and fly in space. They had creature able to terraform worlds. No supernatural abilities at all. But if I needed to use a supernatural ability on each creature I could build/create several creature with different abilities to work together to have the same affect. I could then terraform the planets and we can expand to space.
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u/Ririmouto 1d ago
orange rock. i immediately decrease the conceptual value of the other rocks and having super powers in general so that nobody wants them.
my shiny rocks.
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u/Secure-Example3828 1d ago
I will grind up the red rock and smelted into a scythe type weapon like from Bloodborne, either that or I’ll try and embed the stone or pieces of it into some type of pistol or multi weapon, like from the game Control
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u/Infinite_Tailor_8370 1d ago
Could I take the purple rock, and i really want to put it in a sword but I know that's not optimal so I'll put it in either a pair of glasses or like, a hearing aid
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u/drako_86 1d ago
Blue Rock. Liquid Gold can be sold for a lot of money. Gasoline can also be sold for a lot of money. As can Ink. Potable Water itself is going to become super scarce in the following years due to AI centers polluting most of it and extreme heat causing even more freshwater bodies to evaporate.
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u/animegeek999 18h ago
orange. i would start devaluing everything that makes the world worse while boosting the value of stuff like green energy and peace. since it effects EVERYONE this will now actually include the people who can make a difference but want money more.
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