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Character Abilities Tally

Guess who gets to steal another post from Erin?

(Hint: It's me)

In an effort to keep things a little more organized for plottishness and so on, we're going to ask a quick favor of you all.

Could you please reply to each appropriate comment below, and let us know what kind of powers/abilities/etc your character possesses? This is for all characters - students/alumni, teachers and townies - and covers everything including especially good researching/support skills, magic, skill with weaponry, mutations and so on. This is mandatory for all characters, and we would appreciate it ASAP though there is no specific deadline.

Anything that is a canon power or ability of your character and could be used in a plot in some way, please list below in the correct thread. Temporary powers for specific plots do not need to be noted now.

Please be as thorough as possible, as this will help everyone out with plots and knowing who can fill what roles.

Thank you so much in advance for taking the time to do this!

~~**Wait for the OCD omg or I will take you up on a roof and Chuck Bass you.**~~ OCD up and nobody is getting molested. Huzzah!

1 In this instance, "canon" does refer to FH canon as well. If your character at this time has honed their fighting skills or anything like that, please do make sure to note that. For guidelines on characters picking up abilities, please see this post.

2 For those of you who had characters around the last couple years and just want to C&P what you put in the post then, here are some shiny links for you.

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Algren is familiar, primarily, with guns. Pistols and rifles, it makes no difference to him, and he's able to his his target from a fair distance with little trouble, even when he's heavily under the influence of alcohol. Because he's hardcore like that. And possibly not so bright when it comes to basic firearm safety in that sense, but we're working on that.

Also! The cavalry has swords! He's able to lift one and swing it! But he doesn't stand a chance yet against, say, a samurai. It's a very hack-and-stab approach with those, thus far.

Typical Jedi: Force mental powers (see Psychics), plus the physical advantages that come with being Force Sensitive: he can use the Force to move more quickly and jump great distances.

Also, Zayne has what is frequently described as a "special relationship with the Force." Basically, Zayne has a habit of lucking into sudden reversals of fortune. He can be losing a duel to the death horribly, but something will happen to prevent him from being killed. Somebody JUST HAPPENS to be there to make the save, a wild Force Push JUST HAPPENS to smash something into the other guy's face, stunning him. Things will blow up and merely throw him while somebody else takes the brunt of the explosion.

Basically, it's a built-in deus ex machina. You know, more than the Force usually is.

t's not that I figure these skills are going to come in handy at any point, but uh, Tahiri's fluent in the language and culture of the Tusken and Yuuzhan Vong.

Related to that last, and probably more likely to come into play, she's got a mental resistance to pain because of her Yuuzhan Vong shaping, and while she feels pain the actual sensation or threat thereof won't slow her down or incapacitate her (short of lopping off limbs, which I hope none of you will do because none of you are Troy Denning, I hope), and she won't break under physical torture.

Priestly can throw a tackle. Seriously. That's about it. Punch him, and he goes down, but he'll drop you with his whole body if he needs to.

Blair is insanely good with her schoolwork which would lend itself to research. She's also used to organizing parties and school events. According to the books she can speak French.

Not just you.

If you ever need anyone to make seemingly random connections between different people and events, Priestly's your man. He makes leaps of logic that make other leaps look like simple hops. He . . . just might throw Hoffa or Elvis in there somewhere, too.

Yzma can wield a knife. And a hammer. But her favorite weapons is potions/poisons.

Algren's hand-to-hand could use a little work, as he does tend to rely primarily on his guns, and when the guns fail he'll grab whatever he can reach. This usually involves a great deal of swinging things around, but that doesn't change the fact that he's a strategist, and he'll wait until the most opportune moment to make a hit.

He's a tenacious bugger, too, and will fight to the bitter end, even in the face of utter hopelessness- a trait which is canonically compared to the ferocity of a cornered tiger. And which tends to get him beaten into the mud in very, very painful ways.

Bwah

Jolee's a survivalist. Throw him into a mysterious forest and he'll have a shelter built, a fire going, and dinner ready in no time. Basically, he's spent a long time not dying and he's likely to keep it up.

He's also well versed in natural medicines. He usually makes his own medicines from local plants, and those tend to work very well. He also generally knows what he's doing with first aid for a variety of species. This is on top of his Force healing abilities.

SHE WILL KNOCK YOU ON YOUR ASS WITH FLYING FOOTWEAR.

...So mostly you only have to be afraid if you're Henry Higgins or George Bush.

Ben is a Jedi who's also related to Mara Jade and is an officer in the Galactic Alliance Guard. Ben knows his weapons.

He's exceptional with a blaster (he picked up assassination-level sharpshooting in an afternoon, wtf canon), skilled with ~~knives~~ vibroblades, and the always-handy lightsaber.

He's been working on his lightsaber skills, but he's still not good enough not to get his ass handed to him by Jacen, Luke, Jaina, or Anakin.

Jedi stuff. Again, quite strong, although not necessarily Skywalker strong. He'll feel disturbances in the Force, he can read emotions, strong telekinesis. He hasn't shown any specific tendencies towards actual telepathy in canon and it's not an available power in the game, so I don't consider that to be something he's really able to do.

But the mind trick, he's really strong with that. Those things are Jolee's bread and butter. Basically, you're going to have to be VERY strong willed to resist a mind whammy from Jolee Bindo.

Ben's very skilled in hand-to-hand combat, though he prefers to have a weapon in hand when he gets in really close. Most Jedi training is focused on one-on-one encounters and his mother was a former assassin. Ben knows his stuff.

However, he's also fourteen. Ben's certainly not unbeatable.

Algren speaks fluent Blackfoot- he's something of a linguist, and tends to pick up on other languages quickly, especially when he's immersed in them completely. It's a fascination of his, right along with learning the customs of other people.

Also, he's a military strategist. He's got an uncanny ability to pick out weak points in the defenses and offenses of others, and to work them around to his advantage.

Jolee's a good pilot and a good smuggler, even though he hasn't really done that for a couple decades. He also knows his way around computers.

Also, he's OLD, dammit! That can be useful. He is both wise and generally cranky. And he has a hose by his hut in the woods that he will spray trespassers with!

Shirtless, I can do!

Yay for the Jedi!

Like all Jedi, Ben has the enhanced reflexes, telekinesis and empathic thing. And Jedi healing techniques--but he's very, very rusty on those. He also has perfect recall. He has the ability to disappear completely in the Force: it'd feel like he died to other Force-sensitives.

He's pretty young, though, so he's still learning most of the tricks.

And again!

Ben's an extremely powerful empath: enough that he felt his cousin die when he was a baby and reacted. It's also noticeable enough that his parents make sure to block their emotions around him.

He's also rocking the Jedi throwing-things-with-your-mind thing.

GOB has a sword. It's called The Sword of Destiny.

His skill level is very low. VERY low.

GOB has no magic abilities.

He has illusion abilities!

GOB is an expert at fighting brothers. He fights dirty, too.

Outside of beating up his little brothers, though, you don't want him fighting for you. He'll get his ass kicked.

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