POWER PERMISSIONS

Silco has some powers in Kenos, and in the interest of having open availability for plotting, please fill out the form enclosed.

First off, the powers:

Shimmer Touch
Similar to his Teamfight Tactics incarnation Silco will be able to pass along essentially the effects of a sizeable shimmer dose to others. This is dispensed with skin-to-skin touch – so Silco would have to touch people to achieve the effects.


The effects of these would be a temporary increase in many "base stats" to an individual, for about 10 minutes. Shimmer grats the following effects:

• Increased strength (Beyond human, but we aren't talking superman, able to throw a carriage about 10-15 ft)
  
• Increased speed (Again, no Flash speed, but beyond human)
  
• Increased durability - Able to take more hits and harder to break skin/bones, but you WILL feel it after the effects wear off.
  
• Decreased will and intelligence (Think like a berserk condition - you probably aren't hurting loved ones, but not exactly going to be making tactical decisions either)
  
• Temporary physical mutations (bulging purple veins, some folks get pustules, your body kind of gets a little bigger, like all the muscles in your body are suddenly RAMPED UP, but at least your eyes glow!) that disappear after the effects vanish.

Like normal shimmer, they would have addictive effects with repeated use -- if used on a PC, this would be more opt-in given a shard bearer’s extraordinary abilities, etc. I really only want this option for opt-in type plotting with players, or NPC plotting with mod approval.


In addition, since this is like drug powers and touch activated, Silco can control the “dosage” and effects, so that he can split the effects up if needed – great for manipulating those kiddos to coming for shimmer doses etc etc. Channeling shimmer does take up Silco’s own energy, so he cannot do more than 2 shimmer touches in quick succession, without suffering strong limitations to his own stamina – 3 in a single quick fight will cause him to weaken considerably (to the point of stumbling around) and 4 would cause him to entirely pass out. Once he recovers strength/gets away and has a lengthy breather (like… a few hours, get a snackie etc) he can go again – although with a higher danger of it completely sapping his stamina until he passes out.

Lastly! Silco's Shimmer abilities have a chance to transfer Discord from him into his victim. this has to be opt-in from the player, but the amount of discord transferred can vary!

Make Them Worse
When actively used, Silco will be able to see/know something about a character that can be utilized to influence toward making a character dip their toes toward the monstrous. This could be something like an insecurity, a crime from their past, or perhaps something that was done to them, that makes them angry, hurt, or weak, a feeling that they don't like, or even something they wanted to do that they never felt that they could. A facet of their personalities and/or complexes that if they indulge in the feelings of, would trend them toward making bad decisions.

And what makes this power a major power? Using this power, Silco will be able to push those facets of a character, whether it's an insecurity, bad feels, whatever, and influence the character to indulge in those traits/facets. It does not allow him to control a character, but consider it a low-level influence, that when he pushes against these insecurities in conversation, the character may feel the emotions stronger, or be willing to embrace the emotions more, or do the thing they don't think they should even if it feels good. These effects do not linger with any major permanency -- but I leave it up to the other player to determine how long the effects linger (Generally no more than a day). And of course, even when the influence, or the "push" is gone, Characters are allowed to continue to ruminate on it, on how it feels, or how they feel after. There's no memory loss or a feeling of possession or anything like that, the character is fully cognizant -- but it's not really an apparent influence either -- although it's weird that it happened after talking to Silco, huh? :|a

So! For example! Character A feels deep guilt about stealing something from a shop when they were hungry back home, and even worse that they felt good about it, and victorious. Silco, seeing that they feel guilt about enjoying stealing, pushes this in conversation through (naturally) a rant about how stealing from their betters is totally fine. The influence works its magic on the character. The character, having had an interesting talk with Silco, will make a bad decision on their way home, and will take something from a shop, because they wanted it. Of course, it feels good, it always had, but perhaps the guilt isn't there anymore, at least not in the moment. Obviously, our blorbos can feel bad about it later as much as we want -- which just makes it better, as they spiral into a string of poor decisions.

I'm will only use these powers only after discussing with players at the time the threads are happening. There will be no invisible "nothing personal kids" without your explicit permission! This is just as a prime the pump in terms of who is up for what, so that I'm not pushing any unwanted plotting on you! Permission from you is never a guarantee that we'll do it, but it lets me know if you're interested!!

Please fill out this form if you're interested!

<b>Shimmer Touch</b> <b>May Silco use Shimmer Touch on this character?:</b>: <b>Are there any restrictions you would like to place?</b>: <b>Can Silco transfer Discord to your character?</b>: <b>Are you interested in any addiction plotlines in the future with plotting/discussion?</b>: <b>Make Them Worse</b> <b>Are you interested in Silco using the Make Them Worse power on your character?</b>: <b>If yes, what are the things that would hold a character back from becoming worse?</b>: <b>Are you interested in plotting this over time?</b>: <b>Green Light! Any specific weaknesses you would like highlighted?</b>: <b>Yellow Light! Any that you're ok with using, but would prefer a heads up?</b> <b>Red Light! Alternatively, anything you would rather he didn't use?</b>: <b>Free Space</b>:

Shimmer Touch
May Silco use Shimmer Touch on this character?:: Can he make your character hulk out?
Are there any restrictions you would like to place?: Silco can split the effects, are there certain ones you would prefer?
Can Silco transfer Discord to your character?: Shimmer can now come with an extra bonus bad feature!
Are you interested in any addiction plotlines in the future with plotting/discussion?: ALWAYS with your explicit consent at the time that we're plotting it! This is just whether or not it is within the realm of possibility, but it is not a requirement for the shimmer touch to work!

Make Them Worse
Are you interested in Silco using the Make Them Worse power on your character?: What it says on the tin!
If yes, what are the things that would hold a character back from becoming worse?: Are there weaknesses? Guilts? Is there something that keeps your character from indulging in their dark side? What are the things that Silco could see and use to make them worse?
Green Light! Are you interested in plotting this over time?: Small choices have big impacts! Are you interested in a more long-term descent into being worse?
Any specific weaknesses you would like highlighted?: Of what you've provided, are there any in particular that you prefer being used?
Yellow Light! Any that you're ok with using, but would prefer a heads up?: Any specific things that I should probably talk about with you first? Just in case!
Red Light! Alternatively, anything you would rather he didn't use?: Are there weaknesses that you wouldn't want him to touch? Things that you're uncomfortable with?