Curiosity: Incarnate!

I do, but because I didn't know this system was coming, I've used a lot of them up already.

Having had some time to think, and digest the arguments (bad choice of word? ) from this thread, I'm... still not fully decided on how to use the system. I try to aim for medium-powered characters for RP purposes, and overall I intend to stay that way.

Wolfram will probably get an IC upgrade, just in the form of tapping into more powerful magics to try and stave off his ageing for a few more centuries. As a magic-user, he's fairly open-ended in what I can add to him.

Autumnfox will learn more about the extent and nature of her mutation, overcoming some of her past limitations. She might gain a new minor power or two, but for now she's mostly refining her existing abilities.

Assuming I've properly understood the Incarnate system and how it relates to the origins, all Mr. Sandman can do is continue to gain in strength as he synchronises with his new host and recovers the memories of his past lives. I'm working on ways to make this process a little more interesting than having him wake up one day with new powers.

Hank Delacroix is a tricky one. He already feels uncomfortably high-powered at times given the group he's in. In any case, the only way he could gain more power from within himself would be to draw more heavily on his power source, which would be a desparation measure for him as it's already doing bad things to him. He may be forced into doing so, assuming I can figure out a way to work it without his power level getting out of hand.

Very much so, in fact i have three that were planned with starting limitations that are designed to be over come as they level, with each cossie slot level marking a progression point, and the new cossie acting as a indication of that limitation being overcome.

i find it a good way to shape the toon's evolution, and allows me to IC reference events they have gone through.

In everything I do, I tend to build out-of-scale god-mode characters. Call it a character flaw. So in EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER I've ever made, there is some kind of hard limit on power and potential that I put in place specifically so I could write a decent story about them. Some are actually pretty interesting, some are silly and some are just plot devices, but there you go. I think the two most interesting (from my perspective) are those of my flagship hero and villain.

Samuel Tow (flagship hero, obviously) has some pretty cheating powers for a guy with a sword, specifically the ability to cut anything in pretty much as wide of an arc as necessary and move fast enough to evade any attack. In theory. In practice, he doesn't do that, because to do it, he'd need to tap into the power of a specific creature that has melded into him and constantly tries to take over his conscience. So the stronger he becomes, the more he loses his mind. So he just doesn't use his power much if at all possible.

Ezikiel Bane (flagship villain) on the other hand is just absurdly strong, with almost total control over the Earth. He tends to not use his power because he doesn't believe in getting his hands dirty, and so he delegaes and avoids super-powered confrontation. In pretty much anything I've ever written for him, I've never really explored the full scope of that power, simply because I always find a way for him to have plan more interesting that "go on a rampage."

So, yeah, I have no real problem "re-explaining" incarnates to suit my needs. Sam can easily just gain better control of his alternate self and Zik can just... Try harder

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

You...mean the element, and not the planet...right? O_O

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

He DID say "out of scale god-mode characters".

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.