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Since the Impervious Toughness here will wear down eventually, I recommend throwing the non-Impervious version of Knockback on the sheet as well, so that you don't have to recalculate on the fly during a fight. Please specify how the Immunity is being limited; I'm guessing it's limited to half effect, but that should be explicit since one can get very inventive with limits. The gauntlets & boots are a 15pp Container (and indeed contain 15pp of effects!), but are listed as a 20pp container in the Device line. You cannot buy Alternate Power on a device (as you cannot have an array of devices!). The railpistol is over-budget, I'm afraid; Damage with two extras would be 3pp/rank; 8 ranks is 24pp, plus a feat is 25pp, plus a separate 2pp power in the slot makes 27pp total. We have House Rules limiting the acquisition of skills via variable powers; I'm afraid the Little Helper entry in the Gadgets example would be illegal, as a rank 2 variable power can't buy that much Disable Device or Search.
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APPROVED, though you may want to note at the top of the sheet that this is a 142pp sheet, not a 150pp sheet. Also, for future submissions (but more important on PCs than NPCs), the tally line in the Combat section should count power points, not ranks (so in this case, it'd be Combat: 10 + 10 = 20PP).
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With +5 base defense, Ghost would have a +3 flat-footed defense. The 'Ghost With The Most' array would cost 33pp, but you have it listed as 35 in the power itself, though I believe the final Powers tally is correct, as is the overall cost of the sheet.
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Alice: Initiative Check: 1d20+14 22
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"This would be pretty great if it weren't for the guns," said Alice; there was a grin somewhere under that scarf, but her voice held less delight and more nervous energy with no outlet. Cars were too small; Alice had never been one for claustrophobia, but with fixed guns on a moving vehicle she could track trajectories in her head, map out where the bullets would go as the machine moved, and how very little space she had to dodge when stuck in a small metal box. She'd never liked guns much. "We should get a car," she added, apparently to Lou, though her eyes never stopped tracking the whole scene at once. "A good one. A stealth car. With rockets, and you should let me drive it all the time. We should also probably take out a tire on the heavyweight there? I bet it turns like a cow in a grocery cart even when it has all its rubber. What're the odds someone can do that without us losing the wolf I'm not supposed to touch?"
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"Aesthetic is vital," agreed Natalia, setting the last of her ingredients on the scale. "If you aren't willing to commit, why do you even bother? Why would they even venture outside and inflict themselves on the rest of us if they lack the necessary flair." Finally satisfied with her portions, she leaned back and stretched, tiny black and gold particles whisking the measuring cup off the scales and toward their bowls. "Not everything needs to be a weapon, Cricket, but everything can be. How am I to crush my enemies if I'm not properly armed? Do you think I have such poor enemies? That's an insult, Cricket, and I won't stand by it." That was possibly too friendly for the table. She tried to gracefully dial that back. "I believe I'm done here, if there's anything else that needs doing to hurry this along."
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"Of course you aren't weak," Natalia agreed, all too easily. "You are literally a robot. Physically, you're very strong - your cr--" She cut off, Davyd's transformation finally enough to draw her attention away from her work. She clearly wasn't sure what to make of the eyeless bat-thing, eyebrows raised, nonplussed, but after a moment she put two and two together. "I'm not sure what that is, Davyd," she mused, glancing down at the onions, "but I hope it likes onion pancakes." She shook her head and turned back to her measuring. "You could probably lift a car," she continued, neither complimentary nor disdainful, "or whatever your body was built for." She finally looked Eira's way, flashing her such an uncharacteristically saccharine smile that, however convincing, it couldn't have possibly been genuine. "And my opinion of you is so important, the idea that someone might think you're weak hurt you so much, that you've been worried about it for days and had to bring it back up as soon as you could." She let that one - and the smile - hang in the air for a moment before turning back to her work. "Ryder is very useful in a fight and worryingly disarming. I think I'll find a way to weaponize him some day."
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"Gross!" chimed Alice, brightly, dropping down to ground-level near the rest; she'd wrapped her forearms and shins, pulling the otherwise nondescript civilian clothes into an approximation of her work outfit. A nice red scarf buried her lower face and did distressingly little to suppress or muffle her sass. "Useful, but super gross. I want some." Under no circumstances would anyone who knew Alice allow her anything called 'cadaverine'. "So we need the wolfman back so that he can tell wolf truths in court, seems fun. Seems like-" she paused, leaning comically sideways to peer at the cops past Lou. She, too, was very carefully keeping someone durable between herself and the guns. "....you guys are super embarrassing. Shouldn't you be, like, filing things in triplicate and shaking kids down for their candy, or whatever? Seems like the rest of us should maybe go follow the wolfman before he makes it out of the city or gets caught by the car people."
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Gremlin "Company incoming," a young voice warned Lou over their earbuds, watching Lady Horus go flying in through the building's new side-door. Alice Ishikawa was sitting up on the corner of a nearby building, watching the police, watching other watchers - she'd have waved at the latter, but it would have betrayed her hiding spot and her pride wouldn't have taken it. She'd also been watching a werewolf tear its way out of the building and go running off to points unknown. That had been interesting, at least. Watching got boring if there was nothing fun to watch. "So, Lou," she added, conversationally, "Lou. Lou-lou, Lou. How come a wolfman came running out of your building, Lou?" She brought herself upright, stretching from side to side and shaking the stakeout stiffness out of her hands. "That wasn't you, was it Lou? Did you touch a wolf? That sound pretty great," she admitted, hopping onto a fire escape and making her way down to street level. She'd pulled some long, thin cloth out of somewhere and was busy wrapping her hands and arms. "Pretty great," she repeated, "except you didn't let me pet it and also a wolfman's loose on the city. Where did you even find a wolf to touch, Lou?"
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Nocturne Body Art and Lots of Heart (5) Third Floor's the Charm (2) Weird Flex (2) Ref point to Eclipse, please.
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I'll throw Gremlin in for Bedlam; haven't had a chance to play her in a while, and it looks like we're still a little thin there.
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Natalia arched an eyebrow, but she didn't look away from the dry scale she was using to measure assorted ingredients by mass. The correct way. She'd claimed the job at the first discussion of measuring powders by volume. "You're going to have to be more specific," she said - not quite quietly, certainly not a whisper, but not loud enough to attract attention over the rest of their work. She held out a hand and one of their bags 'fell' sideways across the table and into her hand. "Our floor contains a great many hers," she pointed out, still not looking up from the careful measurement of what the package said was some manner of crushed nuts, "and you aptly demonstrated yourself to be very much like several thats. If you have some specific defense to make, make it."
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Doktor'd! A few quick edits for Nocturne, here: Please raise her Strength ability score to 10 (+0); this will cost 2pp, and will also improve her base Grapple to +4. Please improve her Will save to +10 (+2 Wis, +8); this will cost 1pp. In the Gravitics Array, please update the Move Object power like so (this makes the damage of the power explicitly capped, and uses the freed-up points to buy another rank of the power): Move Object 11 (crush/throw; 24 ton heavy load; Extras: Damaging 8; Feats: Accurate 2, Indirect 2, Precise, Variable Descriptor 1 (any physical)) [36/36] This will also modify her Move Object grapple bonus, which I believe is currently incorrect; it should be +19 now (+8 attack, +11 power ranks). In the Gravitics Array's Trip power, please replace 'Improved Trip' with 'Improved Throw'. Ultimate Power has a misprint that I did not catch when building the original sheet. Please append one more alternate power to the Gravitics Array, as follows: Nullify Flight 8 (drag, nullify all Flight effects; Extras: Alternate Save +0 [Reflex], Area (general, burst), Effortless, Selective Attack) [24/36] This will cost 1pp. The DC Block will also have a new entry: Nullify Ranged (45' radius) DC18 Reflex Area Check |> Contested Check (Ref/Rank) Flight Nullified This should be 4pp spent, all told.
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"No, Davyd," Nocturne confirmed in a tone that threatened to frost over the desk, "I think I speak for the other girls here when I say that we are not going to be plates, whether or not the teacher would allow it. If you boys want to, you can work that out yourselves." She'd pulled out her phone and had started paging through, presumably, recipes - though she wasn't given any sign of finding anything interesting. "Someone more invested in bee cruelty than I am may have to give input on cooking without honey - or eggs, if our veganism is excluding even the cruelty-free sort." She dropped an eyebrow at her phone, thumbing through a series of pictures. "So far it looks like vegan potato pancakes aren't so much pancakes as they are...croquettes? Cake could be an option, but a single cake has to be...cohesive. You can mix and match pancakes separately, with their own toppings. You cannot mix and match a cake so easily."
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Natalia was looking bored - and in fact was bored, if not as bored as she looked - with half-lidded golden eyes watching their teacher move through the classroom. She didn't mind home economics, not really, but she'd never done much cooking for anyone but herself and had found that she wasn't much for performative gastronomy. She was looking forward to the section on sewing. She would destroy that section and glory in it. Bury her enemies in perfect stitching and entomb them in flawless repair. "I'd actually thought she was asking us to dig into our family backgrounds, for a moment, and dreaded to think what we might combine with borscht or sour shchi without turning someone's nose...or stomach." She'd lapsed into a thick Russian accent toward the end of the sentence. She waved a hand to dismiss it, and the idea that it had carried in. "I don't suppose anyone has any thrilling ideas on how to present a person as food without resorting to cannibalism? ....or recycling."
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You're short-changing yourself a little on the Knockback: On the low end, a +3 minimum Toughness means a -1 minimum Knockback. Only slightly better than -0, but it's still better! On the high end, half the non-Impervious Toughness will contribute to the maximum Knockback modifier - in this case, that's an extra -1 (12 - 10 = 2; 1/2 * 2 = 1) for a -11 total. The Blast and Snare both break their combat caps; they're rank 10 powers (+10 damage), and between base attack, Attack Specialization, and Accurate, they'd have an attack bonus of +12. I'd recommend dropping Accurate and picking up another power feat on each. You're 2PP under budget, as well (at a guess, you might have double-counted equipment?); 10+18+14+15+15+76= 148PP total. A good chance to buy 2PP worth of stuff you wanted but didn't think you could afford!
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pl10 Holger Danske & Ratatoskr (PL10/12) - RocketLord
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pl10 Holger Danske & Ratatoskr (PL10/12) - RocketLord
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Holger Danske Looks like you're overpaying for the sword; a rank-6 hard-to-lose device with one feat would be 25pp, not 26. While still within the array's budget, I read that Trip attack at 25pp, not 21. A couple of the shield powers have escaped the Device's indentation. Incidentally, I really like what you did with that shield's array. Very clean, but very effective. The final powers tally looks to be correct (with the note on the sword's cost, above), but the math annotation on it is missing the Immunity power. Ratatoskr The combat section has two different base attack bonuses; I'm guessing the +4 is the real one, given the pp cost listed, but that would mean you're robbing the squirrel of some ranged attack bonus. I suspect you're over-paying for Comprehend; Speak & Understand Animals would be 2 ranks, and for 3 ranks you can speak and understand all intelligent languages at once. That's 5 ranks total, leaving you over-paying by 1 rank unless you wanted to include reading. -
Foxes in a dorm sounded like a disaster waiting to happen; they were adorable enough, but she'd bet they were more trouble than they were worth. She watched Tori handle the animal with, admittedly, impressive deftness, wondering what poor soul would have to dorm with Doctor Dolittle. She slid her eyes off the crowd and scene and did some quick math on the door numbering. Oh. Oh no. "....hello," she said, terse and resigned and showing too many teeth. "Your fox is very cute but I hope you can keep it on your side of the room. Or at least keep it from shedding all over everything I own."
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"I do not require 'help' with my look," said Natalia, with carefully-raised eyebrows and a tone that threatened to ice over her side of the room. "Besides, a costume should make a statement. Hiding special eyes in costume and not out of costume would be very backwards. But of course I wear sunglasses normally, they're useful accessories and my eyes are lum-" But Ryder rand Tori were already distracted, turning their rooms into some kind of tree house compound that was sure to not cause any trouble whatsoever. She trailed off, gesturing helplessly toward the window pair with the hand that wasn't busy petting Black. "....nothing nutritionally balanced has that much sugar in it," she muttered, before turning Utsuwa's way. "I don't know how either of them sustain that level of cheer. Between the two of them, how much trouble do you think they'll get themselves into? Honest answers only, I may start taking bets."
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"You should feel bad," Natalia agreed, though her tone was strictly conversational; at Black's bumping she scratched the little robot's back. How did one pet a beetle? "I suppose it was inevitable if we're going to the same school. Still, it made for a very undignified introduction. We'll just say that's two you owe me, now - I am keeping track." "I don't think the school would find a vine ladder between two windows to be especially subtle," she added, arching an eyebrow. She was still trying to figure out how to pet a beetle. It would be so much easier if it had fur. She turned the arched eyebrow the boys' way, deciding that she couldn't do much worse petting Black if she wasn't looking at him. "Immediately trying to find a way to sneak into a girls' room is very bold of you both, though, so points for effort?"
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Masque Rally Me This (3) Nocturne Field Test (21) Third Floor's the Charm (3) GM Field Test (6*2 = 12) 1 GM post to Nocturne to bring her up to 25. 7 GM posts to Masque to bring her up to 10. 1 GM post each to Eclipse, Grim, and Gremlin to bring them up to 1 each. That leaves 1 GM post floating in case I fouled up the math anywhere. Ref point to Nocturne, please.
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Natalia was reasonably sure Ryder was trying to get a rise out of her. She deigned instead to tap a nail against Black's shell, idly inspecting him more closely than she'd been able to last time. Did Ryder have some special ability to recall his bugs, or could she actually hold the little robot hostage? "A nickname isn't a right, Cricket, it's a privilege, and it's one I will bestow - or not - as I choose." She had been considering 'Red'. She might have to consider something else now; if Ryder got much more smug she'd have to put on sunglasses. "Unless Ryder is here to introduce his friends to his other friends - which I wouldn't put past him," the teenager said, looking none too excited by the prospect, "I assume you're here to compare tattoos? Or perhaps a mere ink-driven curiosity. It would be a very...narrow coincidence, otherwise."