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#65636 - 03/17/06 04:22 PM
Power: Connectivity
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Baseline
Registered: 03/13/06
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This seems such an obvious power to exist, especially considering cyberkinesis and everything, so if an equivalent is in one of the manuals I don't have, i apologize.
[size:+1]Connectivity[/color] <blockquote>Level: 2 Quantum Minimum: 2 Dice Pool: Wits + Connectivity Range: (Quantum + Power Rating) x5 meters. Area: N/A Duration: Concentration Effect: Control input into computers with thought. Multipile Action: Yes Description: This power, basically a weaker form of full-fledged cyberkinesis, allows a nova to connect at will to any computer, or other machine that accepts external input, by only being near it. However, this power only gives access to input, and only in the measure that a physical device would. The nova cannot alter data at will, or, in fact, receive any output from the machine, making him, normally, have to work with a monitor or other output device, it allows him only to replicate keyboard or mouse. However, if he connects to more than one machine at once, and no more than one per point in the power, he may connect the two machines as if they were in a network, but only if the machines have programmed that capability, and the nova still has to pass files from one to the other looking in the monitor. Apart from that, the only real advantage this power gives is that, because of the ease of controlling the machine with his mind, he may add a number of dice equal to his power rating in any Computers roll involving a machine to which he is connected. Example: Jack watched the secretary get up and go out the door to look for the appointment that the man in the elegant suit was sure he had arranged. Of course, he hadn't, but by the time she reached that conclusion he'd be long gone. The computer screen glowed temptingly on her desk, but he couldn't do this manually. Oh no, not with the security cameras watching. However, that wasn't really a problem, especially not when someone had decided to do the walls in extremely shiny marble. Normal eyes would have had difficulties, but he could interpret the blurry reflection up to the smallest font, so he only had to... concentrate. He was in, and the cursor moved seemingly of its own accord to explore various files on the computer's disk, and others on the network. Once he had all the files he want (and it was oh so much faster to get them, when he clicked at the speed of thought) he linked the desk machine with the tiny one in his pocket. As they established connection, he started the transfer, which completed soon enough. After all, they were just text files. When the secretary comes back empty-handed, she finds no trace of the man calling himself Edward Monte, and on her computer's screen there is simply an untitled text file open, with these words on it: "The truth wants to be free". </blockquote>
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#65637 - 03/17/06 05:22 PM
Re: Power: Connectivity
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Nova
Registered: 01/18/05
Loc: Undisclosed
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This looks good to me as written. I'll throw my two quatloos of support behind it.
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#65639 - 03/17/06 07:39 PM
Re: Power: Connectivity
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Nova
Registered: 12/09/02
Loc: John Hopkins Medical Center
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Can you give me an RPing example of how it works?
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#65640 - 03/17/06 08:12 PM
Re: Power: Connectivity
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Baseline
Registered: 03/13/06
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Example written (rather hastily, but what the hell). And thanks for the approval, everyone.
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#65642 - 03/17/06 09:54 PM
Re: Power: Connectivity
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Nova
Registered: 06/12/02
Loc: Nambia, Africa
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Considering it seems that they wont be able to read the computer itself, only duplicate the capability of a keyboard/Mouse/Webcam/ect/ect I woulden't be opposed if this was a lvl 1 power.
It has my vote though.
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#65644 - 03/22/06 10:36 PM
Re: Power: Connectivity
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Nova
Registered: 06/11/02
Loc: New York
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Doesn't this duplicate TK with fine manipulation? Can't you use skills at a distance with it?
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