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Post by Nimrod / Nicholas on Jun 29, 2011 22:07:52 GMT -5
"Tipping the scales sounds exactly right to me. Though I would likely over complicate the details."
"As for the next step in evolution, there are at least three of them already. The Brotherhood met one at Alcatraz. When it gets to one in a thousand mutant births, then you can worry. 50 years might be too late. Once the count of them get's close to a hundred, it's a forgone conclusion."
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Post by Avalanche on Jun 30, 2011 9:27:06 GMT -5
"Three?" Lance asked, changing his pose slightly by leaning forward; he was curious. "Who would that be?"
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Post by Nimrod / Nicholas on Jun 30, 2011 12:14:15 GMT -5
"I don't know if I should tell you. Magneto knows two of them personally, and when he decides he wants to see me I will tell him of the other one I found. I have some suspicious scans that suggest there are more, but no solid proof. I will also give him the files for other regular mutants I have found or learned of others finding."
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Post by Avalanche on Jun 30, 2011 13:51:25 GMT -5
"Well, okay, don't tell me, then," Lance replied, rather annoyed that he couldn't convince the man to. "But what makes you think they're the next stage?" He wouldn't let the argument lead him into confessing that he was really kind of vague on all those scientific biology things, never having finished high-school properly, but it bugged him a lot that someone was telling him that his top-of-the-evolutionary-chain pride was about to be trampled on by someone already more evolved.
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Post by Nimrod / Nicholas on Jun 30, 2011 20:38:48 GMT -5
"One that Magneto knows was with the brotherhood when it attacked Alcatraz. The lady in red, that was beside Magneto the whole way. He could lift the bridge, with effort. She could disintegrate the city, with little effort. There are large differences in their bio-matrix. Some people refer to a measurement scale wherein Magneto is a Class 4. She would be referred to as a class 5, but that is misleading if you think the scale is a straight arithmetic progression. It's actually an exponential progression. To show scale it might be more appropriate to put her at a Class 8 or 10."
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Post by Avalanche on Jul 2, 2011 10:58:21 GMT -5
Something bothered Lance about this explanation, but, even though he was a bright guy, he simply wasn't educated enough to remark that evolution in most cases meant quantitative, not qualitative changes, so he had to accept the argument as the final, since he himself could think of nothing to object to. "But does this mean that if my powers are enhanced, I hop over to the next stage of evolution?" Where classes of mutants were concerned, he was also not of the more informed people.
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Post by Nimrod / Nicholas on Jul 5, 2011 1:25:15 GMT -5
((Grendel and Nim have theories that might not be supported by some of the facts that they don't have yet. They 'could' be completely wrong.))
"That enhancement to your powers you speak of, similar to when Xavier uses Cerebro to boost the range and power of his telepathy and mutant detection, is from an outside source. With Cerebro Xavier could kill all the the mutants, or all the humans, on the planet. This is an outside power source. He is, by himself, at the outside range of what a mutant can do. The power that a mutant body, and/or a mutant brain, can supply to their mutant abilities hits a wall at the outside of class 4. To do what Jean Grey could do, she would have to have the body of a blue whale and the brain the size of a Volvo. Class fives tap into something else entirely."
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Post by Avalanche on Jul 5, 2011 13:07:24 GMT -5
(( okay, I just need a justification for the fact that my character is unable to put two and two together in that particular instance ))
This was a bit too much for Lance to take in at once, but he honestly tried to follow and to keep his dignified nonchalance that way.
"So you're saying there's a limit to what every mutant can possibly do? Who measures this limit, who is to say how far everyone can go? I personally don't like it when people force boundaries onto me."
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Post by Nimrod / Nicholas on Jul 7, 2011 9:24:05 GMT -5
"Most mutants are operating at far below this physical limit. When you push your power to your limits, this is just a temporary limit of your training and fitness. When you push your power to the point where you start to fry or drain yourself dead, that is the physical limit."
"There are creative way around limits, just as as you suggested earlier. Some form of enhancement to allow you to do more then what the physical energy limit of your mutant biology is capable of. Be it technological, chemical, or something else. There is the possibility of mutants that enhance another mutants powers."
"Then there is my favorite, applying your power in a planned fashion to yield greater results. If you aim for weaker spots in your target, the results are much more effective. Most of us have a lot of room to grow in our powers."
"So, know of any other mutants that would would like to see some action or effect some change?"
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Post by Avalanche on Jul 7, 2011 15:28:15 GMT -5
"I still don't get it," Lance said, stubborn as he was, for a moment not paying attention to the fact that he was all but being recruited into a new team by another player. "How is them merely having the limit to their powers higher than mine making them the next step in evolution?"
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Post by Nimrod / Nicholas on Jul 7, 2011 21:17:30 GMT -5
"Actually they have the same limits as you, with regard to the energy output of their body and brain."
" The difference is they tap into something that NO other Mutants can tap into. What that is is still a mystery to me."
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Post by Avalanche on Jul 8, 2011 7:05:39 GMT -5
Lance finally saw the whole picture in a more or less convincing light.
"I see," he said, trying to keep a dignified appearance after all that. "Well, they'll still be a minor exception for a while."
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Post by Nimrod / Nicholas on Jul 8, 2011 22:21:31 GMT -5
"Yes."
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Post by Avalanche on Jul 9, 2011 11:59:10 GMT -5
Lance took the magazine, rolled it into a tube and observed the park around him as if through a telescope. "That means I'm still on top," he remarked in a couldn't-care-less tone. "What was it about recruiting, you were saying?"
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Post by Nimrod / Nicholas on Jul 9, 2011 14:47:58 GMT -5
"More like networking. I'm not starting or leading a team, but I do want mutants to get into contact with each other. And Facebook has such crappy security. Though I wouldn't pass up joining one or more teams, mainly to help each of them cooperate. Sort of like cells in a resistance movement. So they don,t get in each others way and to share things. Information and other resources. And I am handy in a fight, for espionage, and training."
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