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The Superpower Lottery

The Superpower Lottery

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In soviet Zeta Complex, superpower lottery plays YOU! A bunch of humans are kidnapped from their everyday lives and forced to participate in a bizarre superpowered tournament.

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Welcome to Zeta Complex, Humans! You have been chosen to participate in the Ultrathon, a flagship reality entertainment programme! Or was it an ancient spiritual ritual? Or perhaps scientific research? Either way, it is a great honour to be chosen! You are free to decline to participate, but you'll have to remain on the compound for the duration of the Ultrathon, during which time you may browse our array of shops and services! However, everything must be paid for in U-tokens, which can, you guessed it, only be obtained through participating in challenges. Since that includes food, some level of participation is highly recommended!

Challenges come in many forms! Some will be combat-based, some will be team exercises, and some will involve voting for or against your fellow selectees. Participation can have great rewards, but also great risks!

That brings us to the best part: to make things a little more interesting, you won't have to rely entirely on your pathetic human capabilities! While you were unconscious, your genome has been modified to include the O-Chromosome, which we can use to safely and conveniently transfer powers and attributes between your person and our central computer.

Good luck! But remember, luck isn't everything...

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This RP is inspired by this thread on the GitP forums, where people generate random superpowers and say what they'd do with them. This is a bit more advanced though, with a story and character interaction.

As a player, creativity is essential and a sense of humour is definitely a plus, although drama and strategy will hopefully play a part in the story too. Teamwork and Machiavellian scheming are both encouraged, and some players might want to make use of PMs to coordinate with other players.

To enter, just supply a character application with a realistic human character. They can be of any age, background or temperament, and anyone from a completely normal average Joe to some superstar athlete or hitman, as long as their abilities are plausibly within the range of natural human capability. Don't worry too much about making them balanced or optimized, as long as you think you can play them in an interesting way. They can even be disabled if you like. Often the rounds will be designed to turn the normal rules on their head, and you might find that a weakness can be an advantage!

When your character is accepted, I'll assign them a random power from superpowerlist.com. I might clarify these powers with certain limits or conditions, or modify them slightly to make them more consistent. If you're not sure if a use of a power is 'legal', ask me.
There will be opportunities to trade and acquire more powers later on, but it's recommended you get to know your starting power well. Even the most 'useless' powers can have surprising applications!

I'll be gradually introducing in-game 'rules' and elements of the story as we go. I'll keep a record of the important points here.

Tournament Information:

1) You are trapped in a complex of rooms and machinery that mostly resembles a high-tech shopping mall. There are no exits. There are no living beings except you and the other kidnapped humans, and a few plants.

2) There are a range of automated 'shops' that dispense all kinds of goods and services in exchange for U-tokens, the complex's currency. Most of the interfaces have a holographic display, but are operated with a psychic link established by touch.

3) The main rooms of the complex are connected by corridors and escalators. There's also a system of tubes through which high-speed single-person pods travel between locations, called hypertubes. It looks like a lot of the complex is currently inaccessible.

4) Each person has their own room in the complex, resembling a hotel room. This is only accessible by hypertube, and each room can only be accessed by its owner.

5) Each personal room has a 'biotron' unit, a shower-like appliance which, amongst other things, can be used to read information on current powers. As it happens, it can also be used as a shower.

7) A disembodied voice sometimes speaks. It sounds tinny as though it's coming over a PA system, but there are no apparent speakers. Sometimes it will answer questions or react to things you do, as though it's watching you. Other times it will ignore you completely.

8) One of the applicants is an 'agent' for the Voice. It might be a player character or an NPC.

Toggle Rules

1) Respect the other players. Don't write about their character doing or thinking things the player hasn't agreed to, undermine tension they're building, or try to hog the spotlight. Work with other players, not against them.

2) Power interpretation will be mostly up to you and creativity is encouraged. However, be sensible. Don't stretch the power beyond credibility just to boost your character's power level. Some limits might be explicitly placed on the power. If you go to far, retroactive limits might apply.

3) Use of the OOC thread to discuss strategy, ask questions, and coordinate actions is encouraged.

4) If you want your schemes to remain secret or between you and certain other players, you can use PMs, chatrooms, whatever works between you. I prefer to be kept apprised of this kind of thing but it's not essential.

5) If you want to learn more about the 'world' or interact with it, you can put a 'prompt' in your IC post, for instance, 'Bob cautiously pressed a button on the strange device' and I'll continue that in my next post by describing what happens.

6) You're allowed some degree of freedom to embellish the setting and frame the action, for instance you don't need my permission to land a blow on an npc, but generally I'll decide if that blow is fatal. I'll try to work the story with whatever you introduce. But I'll still be doing most of the 'game-mastering', and challenges and fights are essentially arbitrated by me.

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Zeta Complex

Zeta Complex by Kesteven

A mysterious complex of high-tech shops and arenas.

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Carson looked at the options, and the coins. "Well, for now, we'll have to see what we can get," he said, "but, I did manage to find the names of our powers, if anyone is interested. I don't know what they all do, but it can give us a better idea of what we're trading." He paused, remembering the list of powers, "Out of personal opinion, I think Roselyn should keep hers, no matter what."

Looking at his own tokens, he knew he wouldn't be able to do any bidding this round. He wasn't exactly sure how he'd ended up in the negative, but it didn't bode well if they didn't get something for the team soon.

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Picking her head up off the wall she asked, "Mind cluing me in on what mine was?" She hadn't seen the screen that informed Carson of what hers were and she was itching to know. The powers that could be won caught her eye. They all seemed to be physical powers, something she could definitely use given her weak physical state.

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"The first lot, chosen randomly! Lot A: 113ʉ! Not the most exciting of lots compared to the powers up for grabs, but remember, the winner will be awarded the lot as soon as all bids on it are in!"

The lot appeared on the screen, the bidding interface lighting up expectantly.

One of the consoles blinked.
We're only interested in Iceworks, read the screen. "We're willing not to bid on this lot as long as you promise not to bid on that."

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"Chosen at random - Lot A shall be the account balance! 113ʉ shall be instantly awarded to the winner! Do you wish to bid?"

A message arrived on one of the consoles.
"As we've told the other group, we have no interest in this lot. We're willing not to bid on it if you can do something for us in exchange."

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Carson was about to answer Roselyn when the voice came over the speakers again, and he looked at the screen's message. "That seems fine with me," He said, looking around at the rest of the group in the pod. "Any of you have a problem with leaving Iceworks behind? I don't want to try to fight for the gold..." He moved to the bidding table and moved through the screen. "I'm going to put 10 tokens on the bid; What should I send to them? Do we care if we give them Iceworks?"

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"Ten tokens is fine with me for the batch of tokens--we don't want to go all out bidding tokens for tokens. That would be silly." Roselyn pushed off from the wall and walked over so she could see what Carson was doing on the monitor over his shoulder. "I'm also fine with leaving Iceworks. I really only have an interest in Cannon Punch. I don't know about you guys, but I think the physical strength would benefit us the most." She looked at everyone in the room, "The only one who seems to be particularly physically gifted is Aaron." Pausing she realized that could be taken as an insult, "As far as I can tell."

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Lily got up and went to the console. She typed a message back. "Do something such as?"

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Misha saw the message and walked towards Lily. He could really use any amount to get out of negative. "We should listen to them. What they need we do together and we cut 113 in half." Misha said to Lily while trying to use his weak mathematics skill to calculate "You can have 63, I take 50." Even though Misha would end up with less in the bargain but whatever the favor was it would be easier to do it as a team and since Lily was getting the bigger share, Misha knew she would work even harder making the task easier for him.

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Carson typed a message to the nameless group: We promise not to bid on Iceworks or Shadow Extrasensory if you promise not to bid on the tokens or Cannon Punch. He looked around the group, "Seems fair to me. We'll see what they say. I agree with Roz that we should try for Cannon punch, and the Shadow thing doesn't exactly sound useful to me. Since the groups are anonymous, we could always go back on our word if we have to, but I'd prefer to stay honest with them."

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Lily listened to Misha. "Um, I don't know. Okay with me if you want it. Just, let's wait for the other team's answer."

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A mysterious complex of high-tech shops and arenas.

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"I'm sure something can be worked out..."

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A mysterious complex of high-tech shops and arenas.

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Re: The Superpower Lottery

Wha....~ We're just gonna end like that????
I know this is late, but I was kind of busy. I can't believe this... I hope we'll be able to revive this in the future.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

Ugh, sorry to be so unreliable, but I'm kind of busy these days and having real trouble thinking of ways to knit the few ideas I have into something interesting, so I'm officially calling this RP off.

I do regret that a lot of people never even got to use their powers, but that's how it goes. Many thanks for sticking with it as far as you have, and hopefully everyone had fun while it lasted. Maybe it's even given you a few ideas for the future, I know it has for me! I might do something like this again at some point in the future when I have more energy, and if I do you'll be the first to know.

So again, sorry, thanks, and I wish everyone happy RPing in the future.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

Thanks for the clarification.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

There's a third team that isn't controlled by any of the players; They're the ones that want Iceworks, but nothing else. Our team wants Cannon Punch and the tokens, but doesn't care about the other two. And you know your own team.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

I'm kinda confused as first the other team didn't have interest in the tokens but now they want the tokens. Care to verify whats happening?

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

Basically if your balance is negative you can't spend any tokens on anything, and that includes bidding. But the team leader can bid on the behalf of team members, essentially.

Think of it like this: anyone can 'open' a bid, but for that bid to be valid it has to be 'filled' with tokens, supplied either from personal balance or by the leader.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

So what happens to those who have negative balance? Can they, say, repay the balance with the read points or something?

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

By the way, even characters with a negative balance can make bids, as long as their bid is assigned credits by the team leader.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

Yeah. It's not a problem here.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

I vote we go on with the challenge. If they don't come back we could have two groups of 3

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

So, like, yeah, I just changed history a little, Lily is now the leader. However, I really need to know if Aphrodite and Azzix are still around, seems like they went AWOL here.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

Just so everyone knows, I will be out of the country until Sunday. I have my iPad and the hotel has wifi, so I should still be around, but it might be a while before I make a 'proper' post.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

Team 37 can retroactively decide who's leader, I just feel we need to move things along now.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

No problem, I doubt we'd get far in a week anyway. Good luck with your exams!

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

Hey all, I have to apologize to all of you. Due to my school exams, I won't be around for a week or so. I'll have to beg you to understand, these exams are really important to me. Most of you will probably not be taking any notice of Lily for the time being, but I suppose it's okay, she'll step in later, so I think you can continue, just don't start any challenges first, please? I'll still come back afterwards. Sunday I'll be here, so you can update me on anything. So sorry!

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

Just realised I might have written myself into a corner - I said electing leaders was by unanimous vote but I get the feeling we might have lost a few people. I think we might still have enough to continue, so we can fudge it for now I guess.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

I hope that I used my power as it was supposed to have functioned, Kesteven. If I need to make changes let me know.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

There's a personal balance and a team balance, as I'm elaborating in the IC. The points from the orbs contributed equally to both.

And short answer, no, at least not yet. If you like you can have your character keep a personal tally and buy whatever other characters ask for with their 'share'.

Re: [OOC] The Superpower Lottery

Can team members give points to eachother?

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