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#65636 - 03/17/06 04:22 PM Power: Connectivity
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Registered: 03/13/06
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".
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#65637 - 03/17/06 05:22 PM Re: Power: Connectivity
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Registered: 01/18/05
Loc: Undisclosed
This looks good to me as written. I'll throw my two quatloos of support behind it.
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#65638 - 03/17/06 05:50 PM Re: Power: Connectivity
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Registered: 05/25/02
Loc: Tokyo
Hmm. Pretty much Minor Cyberkenisis. Very limited compared to Normal CK...

You know sir, I like it. ^_^

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#65639 - 03/17/06 07:39 PM Re: Power: Connectivity
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Registered: 12/09/02
Loc: John Hopkins Medical Center
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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Registered: 03/13/06
Example written (rather hastily, but what the hell). And thanks for the approval, everyone.
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#65641 - 03/17/06 08:29 PM Re: Power: Connectivity
Wakinyan Offline
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Registered: 01/24/04
Hmmm not bad, I back it.. I like her finger becoming a USB port or what not anyway. Just dont let us see all the holes in her noggin.. wink

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#65642 - 03/17/06 09:54 PM Re: Power: Connectivity
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Registered: 06/12/02
Loc: Nambia, Africa
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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#65643 - 03/21/06 09:35 AM Re: Power: Connectivity
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Registered: 04/12/04
Loc: Chicago
I thought about this for a little while, just to let it sink in, try to see how the power could be abused, or if it should be used as an enhancement.

I was leaning towards enhancement when I realized that there is no single attribute that fits this ability cleanly (Int doesn't have this kind of active ability or ranged perception, Per doesn't allow the manipulation of what's perceived, Manip is the closest but doesn't feel right, since you're manipulating a machine, not a person).

I think it looks good. The only change I'd make is the addition of a dice pool, 'cause sometimes the GM just wants you to roll something. I'd say Wits based.

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#65644 - 03/22/06 10:36 PM Re: Power: Connectivity
David 'Dr. Troll' Smith Offline
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Registered: 06/11/02
Loc: New York
Doesn't this duplicate TK with fine manipulation? Can't you use skills at a distance with it?
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