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  1. Dr Archeville
    Anthropomorphic Dire Pigeon Form Comprehend 2 (animals; Flaw: Limited [avians]) [2pp] Flight 4 (100 mph; Flaw: Gliding) [4pp] Lowered Strength 2 [-2pp] Shrinking 4 (small; -4 STR, -1 Toughness, +1 Attack/Defense, -4 Grapple, -2 Intimidation, +4 Stealth) [4pp] Super-Senses 1 (low-light vision) [1pp] Total: 2 + 4 + (-2) + 4 + 1 = 9/10pp
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    "<Star-Flock? Wait! No! We are not part of any->" And then all the things happened. Davyd's first thought was to stretch over to his classmates, and form some manner of shelter for them. He was somewhat certain that these birds wouldn't be that much tougher or stronger than the pigeons back home, so he should be able to turn into something they couldn't peck or scratch through. But then Benny was flying towards him! He let himself be scooped up and carried back to the others, landing just as Nick let out a bone-shaking scream of immense power. "<They think we're->" he began, looking to Mr. Jorgensen and Danica, though it all came out of coos and screeches. His body shuddered and warped, and now was a three-foot-tall pigeon-man. "They think we're part of so-o-ome Star-Flock, and said they'd warned us befo-o-ore!"
  3. Dr Archeville
    He created this, yet does not know how it operates? Cannot tell the difference between transmutation and conjuration? Heroditus was being very careful in keeping his thoughts to himself as he worked on the optical communicator/translator, both out of general politeness and deference to Leroy's princely station. Perhaps the Atlantis of Earth-2 is not as advanced as he touts it to be, if he is not sufficiently educated to recognize the difference. Ah, but wait - if he does not know how it operates, how could he have created it? Did he just recreate it by rote, feeding his energy into a pattern which had been drilled into him by instructors? If so, then his device may well operate on a similar principal. He glanced over at Benicio to check his progress, then focused back on his task. On the other hand, if it is something he conjured -- if all the matter and items are something he conjures -- then the device may operate in a like manner. Perhaps I can get some scans in while I work on connecting these. He looked down at what he'd made, using pieces from the hologram-casting circlet and other components from his pouches. It was a palm-sized dodecahdron, brass frame around crystal panes of various colors, some more transparent than others. He waved a hand between Benicio's face and his laptop's monitor, and pointed to his device with the other. "I think I am ready for a test. Just direct your device's lights onto this pane, a beam of transmogrified energies shall come from this one, which I shall shine onto my memory crystal, which will then connect to Prince Leroy's cube."
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    Olivia could not help but smile at the scene change about them, and had to stifle a laugh at absurdity of it. "You've been practicing," she whispered, "I didn't think you could cover an area this large! But, yeah," her voice raised back to a normal conversational level, "I can see how that would present some technical problems. Although... it could also provide some opportunities. Consider," she raised an index finger, "a live show that can't be broadcast, can't be recorded, can only be experienced live and in-person," now both hands were up, "something that exclusive could be a big draw!" Olivia's smile faded as her hands went back down to her sides, then clasped in front of her, "well, maybe that's not suitable for a school play. Could be something to think about for a community theatre, though."
  5. Dr Archeville
    "Challenge, yes," Olivia nodded, handing over more tops, "but not impossible. Golds will bring out brown in eyes, and also go well with red in hair. But you don't want to go too ostentatious -- well, not usually -- so maybe keep the gold to accents, and use something else for a base. Like... oh, maybe this?" She handed Lulu a top with a gold and white stripe pattern, similar to the one seen on a dress that went viral back in late 2015. "I've never really thought about that," Olivia replied after a brief pause. "I'd always been content to work behind the scenes, never imagined I'd be on the stage. Now, with these abilities, I can certainly look suitable for any part, but to actually perform, to embody a role, to act," she shook her head, "that's something else altogether. And I do want to learn those skills," she quickly added, "since they'd help me use my abilities better. But... I'm not there yet." "Speaking of," she handed Lulu another top, plain white with a sparkly golden phoenix on the chest, "I hear Mr. Kuzkin's planning on putting on Into the Woods. I've already signed up to help with makeup and costumes. Were you going to try out for any roles?"
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    Yeah, I know, but shouldn't I, Olivia thought back, to get the whole experience? Olivia nodded, "makeup, costumes, even some set construction and lighting. That last one helped me get over any fear of heights I might have had!," she said with a laugh. "But, yeah, pretty much any behind-the-scenes stuff. Some of my classmates -- oh, that looks darling! But your hair's so bright already -- how about something to accentuate your eyes? I mean, yeah, your hair already does that, but maybe something a bit more... golden?" She looked around to see if the store offered any jewelry, "oh, right, my classmates. So, some of them had a lot of trouble memorizing their lines, so me doing tech stuff helped Mister Jefferies to focus on helping them."
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    "Sooo," Davyd began, struggling to remain his composure, "I'm going to try turning into one of these fellows, and see if I can communicate with them. But before I do -- and in case this goes bad and they start attacking me -- I think I should come clean about something with you all." He looked around to everyone, slowly moving his head so as not to startle the growing crowd of pigeons. "You all know I'm a shapeshifter, you've seen me turn into all sorts of things. But if I was just a physical shapeshifter, then me turning into an animal shouldn't let me communicate with it, right? I man, if I mimic a French person, I don't suddenly know how to speak French, right? Well, the thing is," his gaze lingered on Ashley and Judy, "I'm part Grue. The lab accident I was in that granted me these abilities sort of... infused some Grue DNA into me. So far all I've shown is the physical stuff, the shapeshifting, but I've been working with Miss Grue, and she says I could have some of their psychic stuff, too. I've never tried, I've been focusing on the shapeshifting, but maybe..." He shifted his focus to the birds around him, and concentrated. His body shifted, warped and shrank, sprouted scales and then feathers from under the scales. In moments he was something akin to the pigeons around them, but bigger and more feral looking, with a nasty beak and claws. He cooed/screeched at them. "<How do you do, fellow birds?>"
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    Cleared this with AA in Discord, Davyd's using his Shapeshift 2 (10 points) to get Dire Pigeon Form Comprehend 2 (animals; Flaw: Limited [avians]) [2pp] Flight 4 (100 mph; Drawback: Power Loss 1 [if wings bound]) [7pp] Lowered Strength 8 [-8pp] Shrinking 8 (tiny; -8 STR [to STR 10/4], -2 Toughness, +2 Attack/Defense, -8 Grapple, -4 Intimidation, +8 Stealth, Space 2.5 ft., Reach 0 ft.) [8pp] Super-Senses 1 (low-light vision) [1pp] Total: 2 + 7 + (-8) + 8 + 1 = 10/10pp Used in conjunction with the "Chitinous Horror" form. (And, if it matters: Attack +14 melee, Strike +2 [DC 17], Defense +12, +4 flat-footed, Toughness +10 [Imp 10], Knockback -8, Intimidate +1, Stealth +13.)
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    Olivia smiled back, and squeezed Lulu's hand. "Thanks, but I think I will stick with the accent -- am needing the practice, yes?" Wait - am I gonna be in a girl's dressing room?! "I, ah, I can make simple clothing, yes, nothing too fancy. Not yet, anyway. Leather's easiest for me to do, cotton and linen and silk are almost as easy." Olivia entered alongside Lulu, but then instinctively went to the discount aisles, which currently featured a variety of summer items. "Oh!" she exclaimed, then lowered her voice so only Lulu would hear, "I can actually make silk, or at least something like it. Haven't figured out the 'turning it into fabric' part yet, though. But, uh, I do try things on, yes -- I do still prefer to wear actual clothes, and just shift things over those." Olivia was looking over some short sleeved tees, "and that way, in case something ever happens to my abilities, I won't be, y'know... naked."
  10. Dr Archeville
    Notice, eh? 1d20+5: 12 [1d20=7] Gonna use my 1 HP to re-roll that. 1d20+5: 23 [1d20=18] That's better.
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    "Olivia" looked down, "I... I appreciate the honesty. And I... I do get what you were going for. Yeah," 'Olivia' sighed, but kept her eyes on the parking lot, "I have... I have had feelings for you. Pretty much from the day I first saw you." She shrugged, "you're pretty, and kind, and funny, and you've got cool powers, and-" She stopped abruptly, was quiet a moment, then looked up at Lulu, "and I know you're with Adam. And I'm...," another pause, "so for most of late July and early August, you didn't hear anything from me. No one at Claremont did, because I was busy with family stuff. They were still adjusting to me having these powers, and wanted to make sure I didn't lose myself, that I kept a strong connection to who I am." She cracked a smile, "dad went through the family photo albums with me, I spent a few days in the garage with mom, several days with babusya in the kitchen and with Uncle Sasha around town. But in that time, I also thought a lot about Claremont, and what I'd do with these abilities, my purpose... and my feelings. And I realized that what I felt for you was..." She trailed off, but snapped back to focus, "okay, yes, I do like you, but I think the 'puppy love' part has worked out of my system. I do think you're cool and awesome and am very happy to be your friend. And I wish all the best for you and Adam." What Davyd said was largely true, though he wasn't quite as over his infatuation with her as he believed.
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    "Eh?," "Mr. Brownstein" replied, raising his free hand and cupping it behind his ear, "sorry, sonny, my hearing's not what it used to be. Though, uh," he turned to leer in Merge's direction, and brought his hand down to pat hers, "I promise you, that's the only part of me that's not, ah, up to snuff!" He smiled and winked at her, then turned back to the tattooed fellow, "we're just, ah, looking for a quiet place, y'know, away from prying eyes. Especially my wife's," he stage-whispered, then pointed to him with his free hand, "so if you let us on by, and make sure no one... interrupts us, I could see my way to giving you," he reached into his coat pocket, "oh, say... five bucks?"
  13. Dr Archeville
    Artificer Punching Up (3) Reptile Brain (1) Tech Compliance (1) 3+1+1 = 5 posts + 9 rollover from Dead Head = 14 posts = 2pp Dead Head [Titanium!] Bedlam Burning: Beauty and the Beasts (2) Everyone Is From Somewhere (3) Red Death Redemption (4) 2+3+4 = 9 posts; added to Artificer Doktor Archeville [Titanium!] --- Horrorshow Amygdala (1) Dead Men Tell No Tales (1) Extradimensional Birdwatching Club (3) Freaky Fraternity (1) Halloween Mall Trip (6) 1+1+2+1+6 = 11 posts = 2pp
  14. Dr Archeville
    Alrighty 1d20+10: 12 [1d20=2] Oof Using an HP (I believe he's at 3 now) to reroll that 1d20+10: 27 [1d20=17] Much better. He's fatigued from using Extra Effort (to stunt the Nullify effect), with 2 HP.
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    Davyd had burrowed about a foot under the tent he'd shared with Benny & Mr. Jorgensen, and slept under there for the evening. I'm sure the tent would hold if they chose to attack... but I'd rather not risk it! Come morning, a red ooze bubbled up from the earth, which piled upon itself into a column, six feet high! The bottom split in two, two more tentacles emerged from the sides, and the top expanded a bit like a bubble. The whole mass quickly resolved itself into the form of Davyd, who crouched a bit when he saw just how thoroughly surrounded they were. He was still shaken from the night before, and less wary about hiding his true form from the others. "So, uh," he slowly approached the breakfast fire, careful not to make any sudden moves, "if the birds are here early... and were flying in at a time when they don't normally fly in... could it be that something scared them? Drove them off from where they were?" He looked to Mr. Jorgensen and Judy, then the others. At Danica's question, he drew the two beer can and Twinkie wrapper from his 'pocket', "yeah, found a few more things," he replied warily, keeping one eye on the birds, "but nothing that really helps."
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    Thinking of something like this as a stunt off Dead Head's Necromancy Array Nullify 11 (“curse eating”; all magic effects simultaneously; Extra: Duration [Concentration]; Flaws: Limited [to necromantic magic effects], Range [Touch]; PF: Selective) {12/17} (with his +9 on melee attacks, that's works out to PL 10.)
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    Dead Head nodded, then headed off towards the dungeons. He could have teleported, but he was working as he walked on how to do what he'd said he could do. He had drawn out possessing spirits before, even dragged ghosts from the ethereal plane into this one, forcing them to manifest in a solid -- and punch-able -- form. He'd been able to remove a few curses in similar manner, too -- accelerated aging, never-healing wounds, mystically-enhanced diseases -- but they were all minor things compared to this "Red Death." The principle was the same, though: use his own near-endless necromantic energies to set up an attracting effect that will draw out the curse/spirit, and hold it there outside of the victim until it dissipates. For curses, this usually didn't take long, since they needed a host to effect, but with distinct spirits, it was trickier. And this "Red Death" had elements of both, starting as an infection that became an entity. In time he reached the detention cells. He looked at the fully-turned Hernandez, then at the nurse & orderly who'd been covered in Maria Delgado's infected blood. "Should start with those two first, the curse'll have the weakest hold in 'em," he said, assuming Strix was there and listening to him. He waved the zombie guard aside and approached the door to one of their cells, "hello? Hey, you feelin' alright in there?"
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    Ah, good, he seems a down-to-earth sort. Well, compared to some others I've dealt with. "I got lotsa things livin' in me," he replied merrily to the sewer king, "mostly bugs an' such -- but, yeah, I'm new, an' wanna help. Which is why I- oh!" He was suddenly aware of Little Emily's move towards him. He knelt down to be more eye-to-eye with her, "my, ain't you th' curious one! That's a good quality! Yes, I really am dead -- in fact, folks call me Dead Head!" He extended an open hand to her, "pleased t'meetcha! Now, let me see -- I died about... why, almost twenty years ago! It didn't hurt none, though, on account'a it happened so fast. The second time, though, hoo-whee," he shook his hands, as if he'd grabbed something very hot, "did that sting! Sometimes the deaths hurt, sometimes they don't, it all depends. An', uh, no, I didn't kill the ones what killed me th' first time, but some... friends helped lock 'em away." He slapped his knee, "but enough about me -- how's you? They been treatin' you okay down-" And then Strix was roaring, and Dead Head was on his feet, shovel in hand. "Whoa, hey, let's all settle down now!" he announced to the room.
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    "Why cain't it be both?," he was about to reply as he shifted back to his true form, but then Strix was just gone. Gone from mortal senses, at least. The vampire vigilante still 'pinged' on Burt's necropsychic senses, though even that was quickly fading as he sped away. He turned from the empty spot where Strix had been standing to face the Merges Troi, and raised a hand to the side of his mouth. "I know he seems all gruff an' mean," he stage-whispered, "an', wel, he is. But I'm hopin' it's jus' a temporary thing. Most undead tend t'go through a phase like that, an' I'm hopin' t'help him get through it." He lowered the hand and crossed his arms, shut his eyes and shook his head, "might take a few decades, though. Probably be easier if'n I could get him outta Bedlam," he shrugged, opened his eyes, "but, well, I wanna help Bedlam, too. An his idea is a good one, sooo," a flash of violet light outlined his form, and he was again the late Mr. Brownstein, "shall we?" He extended an arm to Merge.
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    "Olivia" thought about accents as she exited the vehicle, debated which ones were known well enough to pull off, and settled on a vaguely Eastern European one passingly similar to babusya's. "Ah, yes, see, I am cousin from far away! My mother, who is your father's sister, went to Ukraine for, ah... reasons. And now I am here, to connect with long-lost family!" And then Lulu's arm was linked around hers. "Uh, yes," she laughed a bit nervously, suddenly extremely glad she'd gone with sneakers and not pumps, "you are knowing what is best! So, which store do we got to first, hrm?"
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    Lil' Davyd began stretching some pseudopods towards the blocks. But when Ms. Johansen threatened to tell his mother, the 'pods drooped, some sad farting putty noises escaped him, and he slowly oozed towards The Circle. Don't wanna make mama mad. Gotta be a good boy. He settled in next to Leroy and Dio, sliding a bit closer to the dragon. He liked the way Dio's scales felt, dry and sharp, but not too sharp. Not like the smooth skin everyone else had! He slowly shifted from a crimson blob to a copy of Lil' Dio, though the talk of pumpkins distracted him, so he wound up becoming an orange and black Dio. He rolled on his back and wallowed on the carpet a bit, then looked to their teacher. "Msss. Johansssen, isss there dragonsss in the ssstory?"
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    "Thanks!" He shifted back to Davyd, "ooh, that is interesting! Maybe some of the old stories about Fae were really encounters with Grue?" He shifted again, now looking like Jareth the Goblin King, "taking wayward children off to some far-away realm, never to be seen again. Hunh - come to think of it, stories about faerie abductions and alien abductions do have a lot in common." He pondered a moment, rolling a large glass orb in his hand, which on closer inspection Lulu saw was tethered to him via a thin ribbon of flesh. He was a bit shocked at the mention of a challenge, but also very intrigued. "Oh, that sounds like fun! Any girl in particular?" He shifted again, now looking exactly like her! "Your twin sister, maybe? No, no, I- hold on." He leaned back & closed his eyes again, and his form slowly went through a dozen different changes. Finally it settled on a white woman in her early- to mid-twenties, slightly tanned, with shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair, dark green eyes, wearing blue jeans and a grey tank top, and blue sneakers. Lulu recognized elements from some of the actresses he'd shifted to earlier, with Jemie Lee Curtis being the most prominent. A smile was flashed at Lulu, "so... Cousin Olivia? Olivia Dobrhora?"
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    "Hey, one person's junk is is another person's treasures, right?" He was suddenly both happy and sad that Benicio wasn't there with them. Also a bit on-edge, though he initially chalked that up to Ashley harshing Mia's mellow. "Lots of archaeology is based on digging up old junk and figuring out what the people who'd left it were like." He shifted into an archetypal college professor, with a gray receding hairline, nasal New England-ish voice, tweed jacket with leather elbow patches, slacks. "Judging by these food wrappers, we can surmise that whomever left them did not care much for nutrition, nor for...," he glanced behind him, sensing something, but shook it off, "... for the state in which they left their environment. Carelessness like that could be attributed to teenagers... or to poachers. If any further diggings turn up some bullet casings, then-" He turned suddenly, and pointed towards a patch of black in the sky, a patch moving directly towards them, "incoming!"
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    "I've not intentionally tried that with people, no," he replied, reverting back to his Davyd form, "just with animals. Chimeras, griffins, pegasuses -- things from mythology that are said to be made of two or more animals. And some from more modern stories... like the dreaded Sharktopus!" Davyd suddenly remembered Lulu in her various beach outfits while they'd been at the Virgin Islands, and shook the thought away before it distracted him further. "I've talked with Miss Grue some about it, she said something about Grue shapeshifting being partially psychic, so it's easier to mimic creatures that the local populace already knows about, has some firm image of in their minds," he tapped his forehead, "in their collective unconscious, like creatures from their mythologies and stories. That, and most Grue -- even the ones that break from their hive mind -- aren't that creative, not very imaginative. They're imitative, not innovative." He looked down at his hands, then back up to Lulu, "but I am not a Grue. Not completely. I am human, too. With a human mind, and human imagination. I can be much more, experience so much more. So... let's see what I can do." He leaned back a bit, as much as he could, and closed his eyes. First, his skin and general bone & muscle structure shifted to match Leroy's, then he erased the scars and tattoos. Then his hair darkened & curled in upon itself, forming a copy of Benicio's afro. When he opened his eyes, they'd gone from gray to green, the same shade as Pan's. "How's that?," asked a voice that was still settling between that of the four. "Oh, still need to work on... hold on... oh, I think I've got it!"
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    Poseidon smiles upon Artificer!
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