Sorry if this has been covered, but has anyone posted what Super Scientific Tachyon's incap powers are? Either way would someone that knows mind replying to this thread with them or a link to them? Thanks.
Thanks Pydro! Those are some excellent images.
I could be wrong, but the way I can think of that would make the most sense is "Win X games with Hero Y". So something like:
Team Leader Tachyon: Unlock by winning 3 games playing any Tachyon character.
Super Scientific Tachyon: Unlock by winning 5 games playing any Tachyon character.
Maybe adjust the numbers based on how long the games take and whether you can be playing multiple at once (if it's along the lines of Play By Forum here).
It won't be that easy.
Excellent.
Interesting that it's "one player plays a card", rather than "one player MAY play a card". "Hey, you, you let me die - no holding onto stuff for later dad-rastit! NOWNOWDOITNOW!"
Speaking of which, though, the "now" in the last ability looks out of place to me. The ability is fine, it's just the language that seems weird and unnecessary.
OMG! Could this be a story where she loses her powers and has to learn to rely on her brains and not her super speed? (wild speculation!)
She's got plenty of super speed (since she still plays cards just like ever), she's just a little too distracted inventing things to have the time for Rapid Recon.
And Grandpa Legacy can still "Flying Smash" despite not being able to fly, working smarter to get things done fast is not the same as working fast to get things done at super speed but can still have the same effect.
He can fly, the current Legacy gained bulletproof skin and Young Legacy gained laser vision, flight was before either of them.
Thanks @MigrantP for the estimate now I know around how much to leave asside for the game ^_^.
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I've been thinking lately about the back brace and armband Sentinels Tachyon is wearing, and this might be related.
Perhaps this is an effort to replicate the accident that gave her her powers, but it goes wrong, and she ends up with a loss of speed, or control. Or maybe too MUCH speed, more than her metabolism can handle.
We know that the Friction Suit was an attempt to replicate her powers, and the shock absorbers were a necessary component. Maybe The Super Scientific Tachyon needs them now in order to maintain control and keep from sharing Friction's fate (she certainly looked like she was aging to death, or maybe her body was just eating itself).
this could explain why Tactics Tachyon leaves lightning trails. It's the shock dampeners bleeding off excess energy.
That almost makes it sound like "If you're gonna be a superhero, make sure your powers are an innate part of you or learned from somewhere rather than beign the result of some kind of laboratory accident, otherwise they'll end up eating you up" ;).
So does any one else shorten her name to SS Tachyon, and then think she's morphed into a boat?
Or maybe she's just falling apart from all the abuse being a hero requires. Like Bruce Wayne in Kingdom Come.
This is not an unreasonable lesson for a comics universe to teach. It's pretty ridiculous to think that you can have a freak accident, with no influence from sentient mystical powers or anything, scramble your DNA and somehow have all the effects be totally beneficial, given how absurdly statistically improbable our very existence is. The human body is an incredibly fragile balancing act; breaking it irreparable would be far easier than making it better even in small ones, let alone superhuman ones, and that applies even if you're intentionally trying to mold it into something new - having it happen by accident would be like driving a truck into a grocery store and managing to knock over just the right combination of ingredients that they assemble themselves into a no-bake Key Lime Pie, instead of just a mass of broken glass and pooling fluids.
The "radiation accident" has always been one of the stupider tropes in comic book fiction, and many of the greatest stories have come out of efforts to retcon it (such as the J.Michael Stracynski arc on Spider-Man which claimed that Spidey's powers were a totemic gift from the animal fathers - though it later turned out that was only half-true, the radiation DID have some effect as well, which enabled Spidey to defeat a villain who would have been unstoppable against him if he'd been purely animal-totem-powered). Really, though, the best way to do it is the "Watchmen" route - all of the superheroes in that setting are just martial-artist vigilantes with a few gadgets and such, with the exception of Dr. Manhattan, who is the one freak instance of a person achieving godlike power through a fluke of experimental science - and as a result he's this absurd godlike figure who the entire world practically revolves around, because if you can beat the odds enough to rebuild yourself atom-by-atom after you've been disintegrated, there's no reason that there should be any sort of cap on what you can accomplish after that. Things like that shouldn't be able to happen too often without there being some realistic sort of consequences attached, or else you're just throwing all logic out the window and creating a world of cartoonish absurdity, where anything can happen for nothing resembling a sane reason. (Much like Stan Lee.)
The trope exists because when the FF and Spider-Man were created, there wasn't a lot of knowledge about it in the mainstream.
Superheroes and superpowers are ridiculous. This is not news. ;)