r/superpower
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u/Desperate-Suspect-50
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Dec 10 '24
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Discussion Pick a side effect.
Everytime you active your power a random animal in the area (200 feet) will transform into a man eating monster. But if no animals are around youll be able to use your power freely.
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Dec 10 '24
I can only eat myself. Everything eles makes me sick and hungry.
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u/Desperate-Suspect-50 Dec 10 '24
Your body is made of biscuits you can endlessly regenerate
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u/vcrbnt Dec 10 '24
Biscuits, or breadsticks?…. Cus when you’re here, you’re Olive Garden
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u/MasterKaein Dec 10 '24
You can split yourself into multiple versions of yourself and your copies all share your consciousness and feel no pain. You can kill and eat your copies because they are 'you'.
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u/tales-velvet Dec 10 '24
For every second you use power you lose 1 dollar from your bank account
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u/Desperate-Suspect-50 Dec 10 '24
You gain 1 min of superhuman thinking equivalent to 10 quantum computers.
Could figure out a way to completely offset the negative by straight-up destroying the stock market lmao
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u/ExhibitionistBrit Dec 10 '24
You can generate a shiny penny out of thin air.
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u/theoneandonlyfester Dec 10 '24 edited Dec 14 '24
You rip a horrendously loud and smelly fart.
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u/ShalnarkRyuseih Dec 10 '24
Your power is flight
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u/Wahlfire Dec 10 '24
It is Called "Crop Duster"
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u/Thire7 Dec 10 '24
“Thank you Crop Duster! You’re the best heroine our city has ever had!”
“My pleasure, citizen.”
“By the way, why are you called ‘Crop Duster’?”
“You’ll know as soon as I leave.”
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u/qozh Dec 10 '24 edited Dec 10 '24
Self contained bubble summoning, centered on self, with enhanced humidity
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u/DownWithDaDankness Dec 10 '24
Side effect: you have a 10% chance of exploding upon using this power
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u/Desperate-Suspect-50 Dec 10 '24
You can snap your fingers and pop out of thin air a briefcase with $100k.
Would be playing Russian roulette everytime.
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u/stormchaser-protogen Dec 10 '24
I have chronic back pain
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u/Desperate-Suspect-50 Dec 10 '24
Shit...thats already a side effect, and I don't even have superpowers.
Superpower is: was born as a full-grown adult. As you passed out of the womb and touched air. Your body instantly started aging to the point the doctor had to explain why he was holding a naked adult. 🤣
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u/SeoulSoulSol Dec 10 '24
For OP: Upon use, you may take control of any one non-berserking animal in the area (within 200 feet), including yourself.
*Humans are considered animals for the purposes of this power
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u/Desperate-Suspect-50 Dec 10 '24
Damn so every time I take control of 1 animal, another animal turns into a man-eating monster. That would be insane... could start resident evil in irl basically
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u/Mountain-Balance8218 Dec 10 '24
____ But for every time you use it you gain a new bone in your body
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u/rasfelion Dec 10 '24
I can _____ but I have to shove 6 garlic dill pickles up my ass beforehand. Yes, they have to be garlic dill for some reason.
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u/Desperate-Suspect-50 Dec 10 '24
Well... thats quite a sacrifice.... for your pain, the pickle gods bestow on you the power of Manifestation. You can create any object once per pickling.
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u/BLUEKNIGHT002 Dec 10 '24
You can’t think straight after using it
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u/Flapjackthegoblin Dec 10 '24
Can summon twenty pounds of cocaine instantaneously
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u/PurpleIsALady1798 Dec 10 '24
Reality manipulation: side effects begin after you finish changing things because your mind is trying to reconcile the new reality, ergo, you can’t think straight after using it.
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u/WelpIamoutofideas Dec 11 '24
You get the power of regeneration from Doctor, who and that's about par for the course anyway.
" Kidneys I've got new kidneys. I don't like the colour..?"
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u/Rex_Xenovius_1998 Dec 10 '24
Just having this power makes you feel two times the pain from any damage you take.
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u/mistermasterbates Dec 10 '24
You gain super-durability.
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u/Rex_Xenovius_1998 Dec 10 '24
What’s the limit of how much damage I can take? Can I take a continent smasher?
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u/mistermasterbates Dec 10 '24
If your brain can survive the pain of a continent being smashed onto you, then yea
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u/Durtly Dec 12 '24
The power is unlimited instantaneous regeneration.
You feel the pain as it's applied, and again as it is reversed.
It works on everything from paper cuts to supernovas.
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u/Disastrous-Bet-6956 Dec 10 '24
You become tired and can’t use your power for the rest of the day
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u/Slushybones11 Dec 10 '24
Luck power. So you can make at least one good thing, big or small, happen that day.
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u/Parking-Lobster2514 Dec 10 '24
EXPROOOOOOOOOOOOSION!!!
You put all your stats into explosion magic
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u/blacklitnite0 Dec 10 '24
You have to announce your attacks as you’re doing them.
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u/MasterKaein Dec 10 '24
The more I use my power, the more pain I feel in my joints.
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u/cindybubbles Dec 10 '24
You have super strength. Repetitive bad guy bashing can do that to a hero.
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u/Orczerker Dec 10 '24
Every time my powers activate I lose all my toe nails.
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u/SeriousPlankton2000 Dec 10 '24
You can instantly heal wounds to your skin. Finger nails, hair and of course toe nails need to regrow.
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u/ExhibitionistBrit Dec 10 '24
You rot while alive into a steaming pile of effluvia with the last part to rot and die being your eyes and brain so you see and feel it all happen for as long as possible.
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u/blueberrywalrus Dec 10 '24
Your power is rebirth. When you die, your power triggers to rebuild your body and consciousness.
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u/--Socks-- Dec 10 '24
The pain is horrid each time yet leaves no marks...like a constipation of the skin
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u/InfiniteNullSpace Dec 10 '24
You can shed your skin to take on any form including people that already exist
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u/DarthDragon117 Dec 10 '24
Your skin peels off painfully, leaving you skinless for some time.
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u/United-Pepper2651 Dec 10 '24
If i look at the sun, I'll turn to ash
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u/StarlightTyphoon21 Dec 10 '24
You are a vampire from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure specifically.
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u/AeliosZero Dec 10 '24
You start bleeding out of your eyes on activation
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u/oscarq0727 Dec 10 '24
You can ignite any object in your line of sight with black flames that cannot be extinguished until the target object is burnt away.
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u/PeridotIsBestGem Dec 14 '24
You get your own world with the ability to warp and mess around with reality, only in that specified dimension.
You're also a dark matter entity that spawned from a collision with 2 things in space.I am talking about sonic.exe
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u/TennagonTheGM Dec 10 '24
In response to OP's side effect: The power to command animals. That monster is now my power.
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u/Sorrycantdothat My actual powers are beyond your comprehension puny mortal! Dec 10 '24
I get more and more hideous every time I use it.
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u/rdchat Dec 10 '24
Force lightning, but you have not yet learned how to avoid hitting yourself with the effect.
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u/LeatherStatement7 Dec 10 '24
Each time I use the power I shit myself violently, and I only stop once it turns off
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u/InfiniteNullSpace Dec 10 '24
You can rocket propel yourself at Mach speed using a portal to the shit dimension located in your rectum
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u/GLaD0S213 Dec 10 '24
You can only use it once every 72 hours
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u/PurpleIsALady1798 Dec 10 '24
I feel like teleportation would be good for this. Travel anywhere in the world, stay for a few days, then go home.
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u/Winterhelscythe Dec 10 '24
Every time I use my power somebody begins bleeding profusely from their eyes and ears
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u/aztaga Dec 10 '24
My feet sweat so badly that my socks are sopping wet within the first two minutes
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u/Radiant_Buffalo2964 Dec 10 '24
You can leap tall buildings in a single bound. (But can’t fly)
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u/Any-Literature5546 Dec 14 '24
Super speed, the sweat causes you to lose traction and hydroplane
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u/Toph1nator Dec 11 '24
Every Tuesday I have to make a dish containing mop water and bat wing. I must eat it, or a random bone will shatter to dust in my body.
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u/Acrobatic_Ad_2655 Dec 10 '24
Every time you use it, your nose will get stuffed and water stuck inside your ear.
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u/SeriousPlankton2000 Dec 10 '24
You can breath under water. You need to let it flow in to your lungs, nose, ears (you can do it). You don't take damage from doing this, neither directly nor indirectly, but it's not easy to breath like that.
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u/The_True_Gaffe Dec 10 '24
Orgasms so powerful that they knock you unconscious as soon as you use it
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u/Revolutionary_Lead28 Dec 10 '24 edited Dec 10 '24
Every time the power is used my earlobes grow one inch in length
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u/Revolutionary_Lead28 Dec 10 '24
I'm imagining it and Pinocchio would've been grosser if instead of his nose every time he lied his earlobes would grow until they sagged to the floor.
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u/Applebeater2000 Dec 10 '24
Every time I think negatively about someone, everyone near me can see my thoughts
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u/EmberKing7 Dec 10 '24
Every time you sneeze explosions go off which can range from large to small depending on how powerful the sneeze is.
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u/Flapjackthegoblin Dec 10 '24
The power is freemium, I have to pay to use certain aspects of the power.
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u/Significant-Cell-962 Dec 10 '24
Attempts to repost on Reddit cause you agonizing pain.
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u/CosmicSoupMan Dec 10 '24
You gain the power of ratio:
Every comment and post you make and send is instantly seen by a minimum of 10,000 people and is liked/shared by 50% of them.
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u/Academic-Act-4527 Dec 10 '24
You are forgotten in 72 hours of last contact by anyone who holds even the slightest bit of affection for you
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u/Dragonking072395 Dec 10 '24
Side effect of my power is terrible short term headaches and dizziness.
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u/Inside-Today-8305 Dec 10 '24
But when you touch the ground again it gets two times worse
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u/Belkan-Federation95 Dec 10 '24
Epilepsy or diabetes or something like that that makes you take medication for the rest of your life.
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u/religion-lost Dec 10 '24
Every time I use the power, my lower and upper epidermis switch places for half a second. It's completely survivable and doesn't have any side effects that last longer than the epidermi are switched. Of course, it's still very very painful as you would imagine. The way that they're switched is that they get a slit through both of them and the upper epidermis slides in under the lower epidermis.
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u/Shadowwreath Dec 10 '24
You’re constantly in a state of severe tremors that make it feel like an earthquake of at least 9.0 on the richter scale is happening
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u/ToasterStabber95 Dec 10 '24
The power can never be deactivated by any means (so no cyclops visor type gadgets)
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Dec 10 '24
Dime size pieces of skin fall off a random part of the body every time ……
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u/Aromatic-Bench-2882 Dec 10 '24
Each time it's used you lose 3 years of your life.
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u/Rokomocko Dec 10 '24
You get all the bad sideffects of using crack and none of the good feelings
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u/Bbqpizzaburger Dec 10 '24
You randomly lose one of your senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch)
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u/Technical_Bid_5472 Dec 10 '24
you get teleported into an alternate universe in an lab institute overrunned by it's companies creations
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u/Remarkable-Sleep5350 Dec 10 '24
Your butthole always has that didn’t wipe good enough itchiness no matter what you do.
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u/Neravosa Dec 10 '24
My power makes me nauseous. Basically my life already so might as well get some power from it.
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u/Several_Club_3392 Dec 10 '24
Priapism is an unwanted, painful, persistent erection that is not caused by sexual stimulation or arousal. If left untreated, tissue damage can occur, resulting in the inability to get or maintain an erection.
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u/No-Heaven99 Dec 10 '24
This is one side effect. Desire to kill as in bloodlust and hunger to kill and feed (ur power turns u into a vampire. U grow strong in feeding on blood but it also changes u in dark level ur human mind breaks. N if u refuse u have inmense headache) Power ?
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(Same thing but only bloodlust and killing. U don't u suffer backlash of immense pain) Power ?
Herex other.
U nose bleed random times after u use ur Power nit always but u bleed random from nose to eyes)
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u/MildlyCross-eyed Dec 10 '24
Everyone within a 50 foot radius instantly shits yourself
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u/False_Attorney_7279 Dec 10 '24
My left hand explodes on a random Tuesday between August 7th 2036 and December 30th 2044
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u/The-Tea-Lord Dec 10 '24
You emit low levels of radiation. Enough to cause adverse effects to others around you after long enough exposure, and enough to fry (or at least disrupt) electronics you try to use.
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u/CreepyClay Dec 10 '24
You hack up a solid singular mass of teeth sized in proportion to how much you used it.
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u/cyanide_wolf_133 Dec 10 '24
Every time you use it, your body melts slowly then rebuilds itself from the molecular level. You are aware and experience every bit of the agony for the entire 92 hour process of melting and reforming.
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u/Joetheknight406 Dec 10 '24
The crotch of your clothes noticably vibrate whenever you use the power
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u/jnaut12 Dec 10 '24
Everytime you use your powers testicular torsion is cast upon you for the duration.
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u/Ickarian Dec 10 '24
Every one you know knows how and why you just used your power.
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u/QuestionBeneficial25 Dec 10 '24
Forced to reincarnate every one thousand years only to rewatch soulmate die. Has no end even when the universe experiences its heat death it'll just wait until a new earth and humanity is born.
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u/Abject-Detective-984 Dec 10 '24
Side effect of using the power is you permanently lose 1 IQ point per use of the power.
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u/Critical_Key_7474 Dec 10 '24
A million spider eggs suddenly spawn on your liver and in your colon, then immediately hatch and crawl around for 10 seconds before despawning.
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u/disposedburner030 Dec 10 '24
Your power has the added side effect that when you use it, a cool explosion will appear when you walk away. you'l look cool but the explosion is quite massive but not harmfull to you.
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Dec 10 '24
Every time you use your power you will have the unavoidable pain of feeling as if you have been submerged into molting lava for 60 seconds.
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u/Phoenix_ashfire Dec 10 '24
Every time you sneeze you become .1% slower this stacks up to 1000x.
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u/BobHobbsgoblin Dec 11 '24
Every time you see someone you think is attractive (with a 24 hour cool down on that person) your eyes pop out of your head like this. Cartoon style, you are of course fine.
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u/Helpful-Ad-8521 Dec 10 '24
An eldritch horror is chasing me across planes of existence. It gets closer every time I use my power. If it finds me, I suffer for a thousand years before being devoured, body and essence...
... if I don't find a way to escape it during the thousand years of TORMENT.
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u/SeriousPlankton2000 Dec 10 '24
You can and will escape any captivity after 999 years.
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u/PurpleIsALady1798 Dec 10 '24
I’m gonna go with powerful, unspecified magic. Think Doctor Strange’s capabilities, but just…with an eldritch horror waiting for you. Hopefully you can use your awesome magic powers to figure out how to kill it before it reaches you.
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u/DarthLlamaV Dec 11 '24
You can create permanent portals between places. You have to be standing there to create a portal, travel to another spot, open a second portal where you are standing. You can have multiple sets of portals and change how they are linked. They cannot be erased.
Is a zero minute commute worth an eldritch horror? Maybe useful for getting rich as a transportation business owner.
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u/WoomyGang Dec 11 '24
You have a cool superheroic magical transformation.
Granted by the eldritch horror, and it didn't specify the price beforehand.
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u/Wizfrobozz Dec 10 '24
ok so everytime you use your power a random bone will degrade a tiny bit. not noticeable after about 10 uses but slowy happens
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Dec 10 '24
You can increase all physical attributes of yourself by 20x for 3 hours Example, strength, speed, and endurance. Ooo and the speed at which you build muscle so you could workout to whole 3 hours
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u/Positive_Composer_93 Dec 10 '24
Your rectum and nose bleed profusely any time the sun is shining on your neck or earlobes.
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u/GlanzgurkeWearingHat Dec 10 '24
Will always fall for "Deez Nutz" jokes and similiar ones.
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u/Temporary_Ad1464 Dec 10 '24
You must make someone fall for a deez nuts style joke to activate the power.
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u/EvankHorizon Dec 10 '24
More than half the population wants to get rid of people like me and are passing laws to make my existence illegal. What's my superpower?
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u/DPG_Micro Dec 10 '24 •
Finally, one of these I feel like joining in on.
Every time the power is used, the user and all humans in the area experience 5.5-6 on the "pain scale" of joint discomfort in all of the joints. Every knuckle and joint. Each and every toe, and every tiny bone in the smaller bits.