Powers.
Rion was given psychic abilities with the help of drugs and the sciences that were available by the year 2522, after being experimented on prior to his coming conscious. Because of the nature of Rion, he is one of the few people that can take such drugs and not die right after taking them. In fact, after awhile the kid became highly addicted to the deadly drugs, also known as PPECs.
BEEJECT: Essential for the use of most PPECs. Beejects are gun-shaped injectors for injecting liquid PPECs into the body. Load drug cylinders into the device, press the muzzle against the neck, and then pull the trigger.
Offensive psychic abilities include:
- NALCON: The ability to focus mental energy into a powerful shock wave, something akin to telekinesis and capable of throwing even a mammoth of a person with great force. Works very well on robots as well.
- RED: If causing enough heat for a short period of time, Rion is able to set living objects aflame. Naturally, this does not work so well on machines, but very handy when wanting your enemies well done.
- D-FELON: Another drug which allows an anti-gravity field to be set around him, raising anything within the field into the air, entrapped within the invisible wall. While trapped within the wall, it is quite agonizing, before being smashed to the ground with a bone-shattering force.
- TELEPATHY: Rion can hear the thoughts of others, as well as bounce off his own voice into their minds. This power is strongest when linked with Lilia. He can, on occasion, enter the minds of other people as well, although this is typically a “white space” inside of their subconscious. Rion does not need any PPECs for this, but it takes a lot out of his mental energy.
- SCAN: Another ability Rion has without the need for any PPECs. Scanning allows him to experience brief visions by checking inanimate objects and, sometimes, people. This ability helped him in the process of catching short-lived memories of his previous life. Sometimes the visions will hit him in a disquieting way that will render him unable to respond to anyone, if he is experiencing them.
- SHORT CIRCUITING: With the exception of Scanning and telepathy, overuse of his psychic abilities and overall exertion can put Rion in a state of shorting out. This is a side effect of the PPECs. Short circuiting will not only deprive the user of any of their other abilities, they become uncontrollably dangerous to be around.
- DELMETOR: Unless treated with this, allowing Rion to short circuit will quickly lead to death to himself as well as others around him. It temporarily blocks blood vessels from absorbing drugs and quickly breaks down or neutralizes any drugs remaining in the system. This drug must be taken quickly after a patient has shorted from overuse of ability enhancement drugs, easily making it the most vital drug of all. This comes in a blue pill form, and also has a cruel counterpart...
- APPOLINAR: Somebody’s idea of a bad joke. This red pill, a dangerous little bugger, stimulates blood circulation and, as a side effect, increases absorption. It is very dangerous when taken with other drugs as it quickly raises blood concentration and the rate of drug absorption and might even cause a short circuit. Some unfortunate subjects have mistaken this with another pill when not paying attention to what they were grabbing for in their bags and pockets. Now remember children, always carefully examine your mind-altering drugs before ingesting!
- SKIP: A green tablet for stabilizing and increasing mental energy. It lightens the tremendous mental load required to employ an ability and enables a temporary increase in the mental limiter level. Reportedly, this capsule dramatically increases abilities. Up to two SKIP may be taken at a time before the body can no longer absorb any more of it.
Lastly, Rion is a drug addict. Being deprived of those drugs, he suffers lapses of withdrawals. Among these symptoms include the agonizing migraines, far more painful than they ever were before. At times they can be so bad that he can barely walk or see, in a blind haze as he stumbles about.
POWERS REGAINED
Phase I: No powers. PPECs are useless.
- Short Circuiting: Causes more internal damage than external. If not treated with Delmetor, it won’t be as fatal before, but it will slowly kill him and the pain would be unbearable. To others, the most it would do is create static electricity, if even that.
Phase II: Some powers. PPECs are useless.
- Telepathy: Weak and his “voice” is faint, but Rion will be able to speak with his mind. However, his telepathy cannot reach very long distances, as he’s not very good at it.
- Scan: Very unreliable and the images are unclear. He is only able to catch “still frames” rather than having actual visions.
- Short Circuiting: Still causes very minimal to no damage. Hurts more internal if not treated.
Phase III: Some powers. PPECs have some effect, but supplies will easily run out, as it takes more supplies to be used.
- Telepathy: His voice is stronger now, and he is able to reach longer distances. However, in order to link with a specific person, he needs a crutch-particularly something that belongs to that person.
- Scan: Images still don’t last very long, but they’re definitely clearer than before.
- Short Circuiting: Causes more internal pain than external, but able to cause some pain to those around him if they come in contact, so it’s recommended to just keep your distance.
- Red: If injected, Rion will be able to excite an object’s molecules, causing it to heat up. Continued long enough, the object in question will burst into flames.
- Nalcon: If injected, this will enable Rion to focus his energy to produce a shock wave. Packs more of a mental punch than anything.
Phase IV: Abilities have enhanced. PPECs have a greater effect. Use of powers cause extreme pain and exhaustion.
- Telepathy: Much stronger now... and probably even more powerful than it had been back home. While Rion does need a crutch for it to work, he is becoming much better at being able to read and speak through minds due to having done nothing but focus purely on Bending.
- Scan: Far more reliable than it ever has been. Rion is able to experience figments and almost entire memories by Scanning an object or person.
- Short Circuiting: Still causes more internal pain than external, and can cause extreme pain to probable death for anyone who gets within close proximity of him. Stay a few feet away from him and you should be safe.
- Red and Nalcon: Both have a greater effect when injected, but the use of them drains Rion a great deal.
Phase V: Most abilities have returned at this point, but Rion is not yet at full power. PPECs are more reliable. While use of powers still cause extreme pain and exhaustion, tolerance to both have increased.
- Telepathy: Telepathy is able to expand through the network, as well as larger fields of distance. Crutches are not so much a requirement anymore.
- Scan: Full power.
- Short Circuiting: Not enough to cause death, but dangerous enough to cause head injury that could leave the victim with brain damage and trauma.
- Red and Nalcon: Both are at full LEVEL 1 capacity. They can be temporarily increased with the use of a pill that is also located in Babylon Hotel, SKIP. Rion also has a new ability now...
- D-Felon: Able to harness a power that is something akin to telekinesis. In that Rion can lift an object or person and cause it extreme pain before slamming it to the ground with great force. Objects or people have to be within close distance (at least five feet of Rion) for this to work, and currently he can't lift anything heavier than two hundred pounds.
Phase VI: Rion is close to full power with current abilities. Red and Nalcon can be given a temporary boost via SKIP.
- Short Circuiting: Contact within a five-foot radius of Rion while he is shorting out is now fatal. More on Short Circuiting here.
- D-Felon: More powerful, and can reach a higher effectiveness of damage by use of SKIP.
- SKIP: Comes in either the form of an injection, or a pill for portability. This drug is rare and accessible only in the second floor of Babylon Hotel, room 204 (the drug dealer’s room).
- PPECs: Reproduction of these drugs via Bending is impossible, and any attempts will only create false replicas of the drug that have no effect in enhancing Galerian powers. PPECs can only be generated in the only structure from Michelangelo City’s Babylon Hotel, located in the Western District.
Phase VII: Stuff.
- Short Circuiting: Whatever comes within ten feet of Rion while he’s in this state will cause instant death. Anything and anyone that goes near him, love or hated, will be destroyed. Exceptions, however, include other Galerians (Nobodies, while not immune, do take longer to kill). Can be stopped by use of Delmetor.
- Telepathy/Scanning: Through Bending, Rion has been able to utilize this ability so that he can harness it over the network. He can sense those who are currently in the same district that he’s in, where he can also extend his telepathy if he ever deems it necessary.
- Red, Nalcon, and D-Felon: Full power. Effectiveness can be doubled by use of SKIP.
Phase VIII: Full power. Further advancements to Rion and his current abilities are expanded by means of Bending.
- Bending: As an Angelii, with the help of the resident Ashura, Rion has begun training to focus on seeing time as an aspect of space, and speeding up and slowing down along it. Typically people will be able to visualize whatever they associate with time, then lay that over the world itself. (Rion has difficulty with this given with what he associates time with.)
Teleportation: Winding up in 2D on an enormous piece of paper, which then folds and transports Rion to the other side. Rion... also has a slight problem with teleportation, given that it was an ability exclusive to Birdman back in his home world. Because nothing gets you in game for concentration quite like remembering the guy who laughed in your face about your parents’ murder.
Phase IX: Since his trip back home, Rion has developed a new ability: Shield. It allows him to use his mind in order to create a nearly impenetrable barrier around himself and anyone standing behind him. Additionally, it turns out that this happens to be an Angelii ability as well.
BEEJECT: Essential for the use of most PPECs. Beejects are gun-shaped injectors for injecting liquid PPECs into the body. Load drug cylinders into the device, press the muzzle against the neck, and then pull the trigger.
Offensive psychic abilities include:
- NALCON: The ability to focus mental energy into a powerful shock wave, something akin to telekinesis and capable of throwing even a mammoth of a person with great force. Works very well on robots as well.
- RED: If causing enough heat for a short period of time, Rion is able to set living objects aflame. Naturally, this does not work so well on machines, but very handy when wanting your enemies well done.
- D-FELON: Another drug which allows an anti-gravity field to be set around him, raising anything within the field into the air, entrapped within the invisible wall. While trapped within the wall, it is quite agonizing, before being smashed to the ground with a bone-shattering force.
- TELEPATHY: Rion can hear the thoughts of others, as well as bounce off his own voice into their minds. This power is strongest when linked with Lilia. He can, on occasion, enter the minds of other people as well, although this is typically a “white space” inside of their subconscious. Rion does not need any PPECs for this, but it takes a lot out of his mental energy.
- SCAN: Another ability Rion has without the need for any PPECs. Scanning allows him to experience brief visions by checking inanimate objects and, sometimes, people. This ability helped him in the process of catching short-lived memories of his previous life. Sometimes the visions will hit him in a disquieting way that will render him unable to respond to anyone, if he is experiencing them.
- SHORT CIRCUITING: With the exception of Scanning and telepathy, overuse of his psychic abilities and overall exertion can put Rion in a state of shorting out. This is a side effect of the PPECs. Short circuiting will not only deprive the user of any of their other abilities, they become uncontrollably dangerous to be around.
- DELMETOR: Unless treated with this, allowing Rion to short circuit will quickly lead to death to himself as well as others around him. It temporarily blocks blood vessels from absorbing drugs and quickly breaks down or neutralizes any drugs remaining in the system. This drug must be taken quickly after a patient has shorted from overuse of ability enhancement drugs, easily making it the most vital drug of all. This comes in a blue pill form, and also has a cruel counterpart...
- APPOLINAR: Somebody’s idea of a bad joke. This red pill, a dangerous little bugger, stimulates blood circulation and, as a side effect, increases absorption. It is very dangerous when taken with other drugs as it quickly raises blood concentration and the rate of drug absorption and might even cause a short circuit. Some unfortunate subjects have mistaken this with another pill when not paying attention to what they were grabbing for in their bags and pockets. Now remember children, always carefully examine your mind-altering drugs before ingesting!
- SKIP: A green tablet for stabilizing and increasing mental energy. It lightens the tremendous mental load required to employ an ability and enables a temporary increase in the mental limiter level. Reportedly, this capsule dramatically increases abilities. Up to two SKIP may be taken at a time before the body can no longer absorb any more of it.
Lastly, Rion is a drug addict. Being deprived of those drugs, he suffers lapses of withdrawals. Among these symptoms include the agonizing migraines, far more painful than they ever were before. At times they can be so bad that he can barely walk or see, in a blind haze as he stumbles about.
POWERS REGAINED
Phase I: No powers. PPECs are useless.
- Short Circuiting: Causes more internal damage than external. If not treated with Delmetor, it won’t be as fatal before, but it will slowly kill him and the pain would be unbearable. To others, the most it would do is create static electricity, if even that.
Phase II: Some powers. PPECs are useless.
- Telepathy: Weak and his “voice” is faint, but Rion will be able to speak with his mind. However, his telepathy cannot reach very long distances, as he’s not very good at it.
- Scan: Very unreliable and the images are unclear. He is only able to catch “still frames” rather than having actual visions.
- Short Circuiting: Still causes very minimal to no damage. Hurts more internal if not treated.
Phase III: Some powers. PPECs have some effect, but supplies will easily run out, as it takes more supplies to be used.
- Telepathy: His voice is stronger now, and he is able to reach longer distances. However, in order to link with a specific person, he needs a crutch-particularly something that belongs to that person.
- Scan: Images still don’t last very long, but they’re definitely clearer than before.
- Short Circuiting: Causes more internal pain than external, but able to cause some pain to those around him if they come in contact, so it’s recommended to just keep your distance.
- Red: If injected, Rion will be able to excite an object’s molecules, causing it to heat up. Continued long enough, the object in question will burst into flames.
- Nalcon: If injected, this will enable Rion to focus his energy to produce a shock wave. Packs more of a mental punch than anything.
Phase IV: Abilities have enhanced. PPECs have a greater effect. Use of powers cause extreme pain and exhaustion.
- Telepathy: Much stronger now... and probably even more powerful than it had been back home. While Rion does need a crutch for it to work, he is becoming much better at being able to read and speak through minds due to having done nothing but focus purely on Bending.
- Scan: Far more reliable than it ever has been. Rion is able to experience figments and almost entire memories by Scanning an object or person.
- Short Circuiting: Still causes more internal pain than external, and can cause extreme pain to probable death for anyone who gets within close proximity of him. Stay a few feet away from him and you should be safe.
- Red and Nalcon: Both have a greater effect when injected, but the use of them drains Rion a great deal.
Phase V: Most abilities have returned at this point, but Rion is not yet at full power. PPECs are more reliable. While use of powers still cause extreme pain and exhaustion, tolerance to both have increased.
- Telepathy: Telepathy is able to expand through the network, as well as larger fields of distance. Crutches are not so much a requirement anymore.
- Scan: Full power.
- Short Circuiting: Not enough to cause death, but dangerous enough to cause head injury that could leave the victim with brain damage and trauma.
- Red and Nalcon: Both are at full LEVEL 1 capacity. They can be temporarily increased with the use of a pill that is also located in Babylon Hotel, SKIP. Rion also has a new ability now...
- D-Felon: Able to harness a power that is something akin to telekinesis. In that Rion can lift an object or person and cause it extreme pain before slamming it to the ground with great force. Objects or people have to be within close distance (at least five feet of Rion) for this to work, and currently he can't lift anything heavier than two hundred pounds.
Phase VI: Rion is close to full power with current abilities. Red and Nalcon can be given a temporary boost via SKIP.
- Short Circuiting: Contact within a five-foot radius of Rion while he is shorting out is now fatal. More on Short Circuiting here.
- D-Felon: More powerful, and can reach a higher effectiveness of damage by use of SKIP.
- SKIP: Comes in either the form of an injection, or a pill for portability. This drug is rare and accessible only in the second floor of Babylon Hotel, room 204 (the drug dealer’s room).
- PPECs: Reproduction of these drugs via Bending is impossible, and any attempts will only create false replicas of the drug that have no effect in enhancing Galerian powers. PPECs can only be generated in the only structure from Michelangelo City’s Babylon Hotel, located in the Western District.
Phase VII: Stuff.
- Short Circuiting: Whatever comes within ten feet of Rion while he’s in this state will cause instant death. Anything and anyone that goes near him, love or hated, will be destroyed. Exceptions, however, include other Galerians (Nobodies, while not immune, do take longer to kill). Can be stopped by use of Delmetor.
- Telepathy/Scanning: Through Bending, Rion has been able to utilize this ability so that he can harness it over the network. He can sense those who are currently in the same district that he’s in, where he can also extend his telepathy if he ever deems it necessary.
- Red, Nalcon, and D-Felon: Full power. Effectiveness can be doubled by use of SKIP.
Phase VIII: Full power. Further advancements to Rion and his current abilities are expanded by means of Bending.
- Bending: As an Angelii, with the help of the resident Ashura, Rion has begun training to focus on seeing time as an aspect of space, and speeding up and slowing down along it. Typically people will be able to visualize whatever they associate with time, then lay that over the world itself. (Rion has difficulty with this given with what he associates time with.)
Teleportation: Winding up in 2D on an enormous piece of paper, which then folds and transports Rion to the other side. Rion... also has a slight problem with teleportation, given that it was an ability exclusive to Birdman back in his home world. Because nothing gets you in game for concentration quite like remembering the guy who laughed in your face about your parents’ murder.
Phase IX: Since his trip back home, Rion has developed a new ability: Shield. It allows him to use his mind in order to create a nearly impenetrable barrier around himself and anyone standing behind him. Additionally, it turns out that this happens to be an Angelii ability as well.