Essence of theProgenitor (Wild Talents: Progenitor)

Consuming this Dark Energy Colored Essence will give you several boons.

• You gain the knowledge, powers, skills, & abilities of Amanda Sykesfrom the Wild Talents Progenitor RPG book & all progeny stemmed from her.

• To put it short your main ability is to create superpowers as needed you can use several at once or one big one. (Think of yourself as a Dr Manhattan-Lite minus the time abilities.) This is the power she uses to duplicate powers with all three Qualities, or to mimic Hyperstats or Hyperskills.

• Some examples of powers she & her progeny has access to.

  • Some feats by Amanda herself to give you an idea of her powers.

    • Teleport thousands of people of the 92 mile size Island of Atlantis before sinking the entire island in a matter of seconds.

    • Turns thousands of nuclear warheads into duds.

  • Without augmenting yourself with Dark Energy you're still a force to be reckon with.

    • You can exhale hard enough to inflate a truck tire. You can tear a half dozen sheets of tempered steel in half without breaking a sweat. You can shout and shatter glass within sight range. You can throw objects up to 3 tons as if they were as heavy as baseballs. Your vertical leap is twice your Body in yards and three times your Body in a broad jump.

    • You are a perfect example of physical excellence. All muscles are absolutely under your control. You can flex or unflex any muscle in your body, including those muscles in your internal organs. You climb so well, you appear to stick to walls. You can try to dodge perceived gun attacks. You can contort into any conceivable position. You can catch fast objects in flight.

    • Your senses are absolutely perfect. If there is a stimulus within the ranges of the human senses, you sense it. Nothing can sneak up on you under any circumstance. You can attack invisible enemies without roblem, & see through illusions, camouflage & other forms of obfuscation without even trying. Your senses are as sharp as an animal’s. It’s impossible to sneak up on you. You can see in near absolute darkness. You can detect motion at more than a mile through ground vibrations. You can identify targets by smell at more than a mile & track by scent. Your taste is so acute you can differentiate between chemicals in a mixture. You can differentiate between dozens of sounds amidst a cacophony. You can aim firearm attacks using hearing alone as a guide. You can read printed materials by touch alone.

    • No stimulus, no matter how terrible, affects you unless you wish it to. You are completely immune to battle fatigue. In addition, so-called “reflex” responses such as breathing,heartbeat and other autonomic systems are under your conscious control. You never suffer any penalties due to distraction, noise, exhaustion or pain. You are in fact completely immune to pain. All your feelings are under your conscious control.

  • Monica Spielman, who can turn object, people or herself temporarily or permanently change someone into their otherworld versions of themselves, but with a couple of big, big restrictions. The first is, it has to be voluntary, either on the part of the person being obliterated (or ‘transformed’) or on the part of the alternate who’s going to replace the Progenitorverse native.

  • J. Edgar Hoover, who can psychically study a person and create a template of that individual body, mind & dark energy profile & duplicate the look of those he has scanned, opinions, skills, powers & memories. He’s got a range of around 2,909,090 miles.

  • Jason Weeks, who can answer any question. When he activates his power, his massive intelligence examines the question and engages his clairvoyance (can perceive everything within the range of one light year) to gather the information it needs to answer the question authoritatively. Because the process is entirely outside his consciousness, Jason’s oblivious to it. (By the same token, if there’s any human or personal bias involved, it’s completely hidden.) This robs him of most of his powers, so he’s stingy with its use. But when you need an answer, he can provide it.It is not a quick process, taking anywhere from a few minutes to several weeks to yield a solution. The duration of the calculation seems unrelated to the apparent difficulty of the question, but as Jason himself is quick to point out, determining the true parameters of a question is often a great part of the challenge.

  • Barbara French, who can play with light the way a teenager plays with gum. She can bend it, color it, diffuse it, intensify it or curve it. That last one’s particularly interesting. It means that with a bit of time and attention she can create a stable light-warp around a location. It takes multiple rolls to get 360-degree coverage, but if she’s willing to put in the time, anything in that bubble of space has light flow around it, making it essentially invisible. At least, from most perspectives. Within the bubble, light is dim and seems to come in brief shafts from outside. (The intangible ‘walls’ keeping the light out look like perfect mirrors, though usually curved ones.) Keep in mind that she can affect a 30 yard radius sphere.

  • Tyler T. Ford, who can erase his own presence, indications of Ford’s presence and passage are ignored, suppressed and forgotten. Clairvoyants can’t find him either. Even expert detectives overlook his footprints and fingerprints—unless, of course, he wants them to be found.

  • Martin Luther King Jr., who can teleport anywhere within a range over 29 million miles.

  • Sipho Masango, a macroscale telekinetic who has the power to pull the Earth apart or knock it out of the sun’s ecliptic.

  • Cynthia Carls who can form a thousand tons of matter into any shape she wants, in seconds.

  • Jack Grimes who has the power to permanently transform twelve million tons of matter into any chemical or compound he wants.

  • Å, a fifth generation, who has ability to choose when he shares his powers and control what powers his descendants develop, can send messages into the minds of those he chooses. It’s quite specific—he can choose to broadcast to all whites in his range, or all traffic control officers, or all third sons, or all followers of his religion. They all hear in their minds what he wants heard, and it reaches as far as high Earth orbit & control the weather within 80 yards.

  • This doesn't even include the standard telekinesis, telepathy, invisibility, dynakinesis, regeneration, body modification, illusion casting, astral projection, emotion control, size alteration, teleporting injury on others, flight, etc. This should give you an idea of the powers you can create.

• Some Third Generation & others.

  • General Colt can contact any mind on Earth or between Earth and the moon’s orbit. He can also broadcast (or receive from) everyone in a 40 yard radius of his attention’s focus or focus a person directly & remotely kill them, when he attacks psychically, he strikes directly at the autonomic nervous system. Depending on circumstances, this can take the form of phantom pains in a limb, muscle spasms, vomiting, cardiac arrest, sudden vascular constriction, histamine overload or simple lung paralysis. As well as place a psychic perceptual probe anywhere on Earth or out to the radius of the moon’s orbit.

  • Abraham Sykes who can keep molecules from moving out of their current configuration, often in the face of tremendous forces. He can, for example, apply his power to a plasterboard wall and enable it to resist machine gun fire. Or he can apply it to paper cup in a bonfire and keep the cup from burning. That’s the defensive application. He can also ‘rewind’ objects to undo the effects of time and force upon them. This is often used to heal people—he turns back the clock to before that shrapnel took your arm off and ta da—it’s restored. He can do the same for a wrecked building, or a rusted-out car. He cannot bring the dead back to life, though some suspect this is less a limit on his power than a limit imposed by his subconscious, the outcome of his religious upbringing. With Molecular Restoration he can take someone back to their peak, but with Corporeal Refinement, he can make them better than they ever were. He can realize their physical potential. This talent can affect up to 1,600 pounds at a range of 320 yards. With Rectoperception he can ‘look’ (though it’s not exactly sight) into the past and know what happened to objects in the area where he is. It’s like seeing the past, just… not exactly. But it’s close enough to psychometry for his purposes, which are often finding people who ran away. He starts at their last location and just chases their.

  • Amy Sykes, aside from her body’s physical resistance to damage, she’s protected by a potent infusion of dark energy. It keeps her the same. To a limited extent, it provides her needs—she can’t be smothered or starved and she can’t die of thirst. While she matures, past a certain point she does not age. As well as emitting explosions from her hands & body.

  • Christopher Marshall, at his command, the stones themselves will fight. More specifically, man-sized and -shaped entities tear forth from the soil, ready to take up weapons and march. They’re featureless , robotically obedient & interchangeable. They have roughly the training of a soldier fresh out of boot camp, and a grasp of the Uniform Code of Conduct about equal to Sergeant Marshall himself.

  • Dac Kien can touch a person and instantly vaporize him. The person’s mass is then incorporated into Dac Kien’s body as whatever material he desires.

  • Nguyet Cam, one of the most if not the most hyperintelligent, charming, & commanding person in the world. Her idiosyncratic and autodidactic approach to mechanical and electrical (and, eventually, nuclear) engineering is decades ahead of the rest of the world. While her machines push the envelope, they are not inherently “impossible.”

  • Ngoc Vo who does not have General Colt’s attacking abilities, nor can she alter memories as he does, but she is a strong receiver and adequate broadcaster. With her range boost, she can contact anyone in the world (or indeed, as far away as the Moon), as long as she’s sufficiently familiar with him. She also instinctively scans for malevolent intent and intuits attacks even as they’re decided upon. Ngoc Vo canalso move a little more than three tons of mass to anywhere on Earth, or to the surface of the Moon. Or much, much farther. Her utmost range is around 133 astronomical units, more than three times the average distance from Pluto to the sun. She can also use it to easily ‘blink’ away from attacks. While she cannot technically attack with her power—she can’t phase people into objects or teleport away sections of their bodies—setting someone adrift in space or at the bottom of the ocean is close enough.

• Some feats by her Second Generation Progeny empowered by her accidentally.

• Your powers doesn't come without limits You can manipulate or create anything that can be accomplished through the observable matter &/or energy. You cannot directly create beliefs of influence social factors for example.

• Like Amanda who until the computing revolution of the 1990s, couldn't use her powers to increase her Hyperbrains, Hypercommand or Hypercharm skills because, until then, she doesn’t know how to use energy to create patterns of logic. But once those concepts are available to humankind (and can therefore be read with telepathy) she’s able to extend her power into those Hyperstats. Until then you won't be able to modify yourself mentally to increase your intellect, your force of personality, your capacity for leadership, your composure in the face of crisis or increase your charisma, influence & diplomacy.

• Once you do however. You're capable of the following.

  • Hyperbrains: You are a thinking machine, and have a photographic memory on a level not easily understood by the common man. Every event ever experienced by you is recorded, along with every nuance of the situation down to the smallest observable detail. A facial twitch, the placement of a tablecloth on a table, the number of squares in a tile floor, all this and more is obvious to you, along with your exact emotional state during such situations. At this level, it is almost as if you were experiencing every moment of your life over and over again-simultaneously. Your memory is flawless, and you recall everything with perfect clarity. You can consider intellectual problems even while asleep. You can make a nearly photographic drawing of anything you have seen. You can calculate figures as fast as a supercomputer.

  • Hypercommand/ Hypercharm: You can sway crowds so thoroughly given the time to do so (matter of minutes), that they will follow you to the ends of the earth and do anything for you. Even commands encouraging suicide, murder, rape or other anti-social behavior seem somehow beneficial to the targets when they are under the effect of your power. At this level you can bypass any indoctrination, training or resistance with ease. If you give an individual your undivided attention, you can instill your own indoctrination with simple sentences. This brainwashing can take less than a minute. You can convince crowds of anything in less than an hour. You can bark orders in a voice that will cause a single subject to obey a simple command before he can consider the consequences of such an action. You can instill your own indoctrination into targets in a few simple sentences.:

• You're also immune to any ability that uses Dark Energy. This is an extremely subtle and potent defense. While it can be overwhelmed by raw power, someone who attempts to read your mind gets nothing. Someone who attempts to model your personality using an analytical engine built from dark energy structures is forced instead to rely solely on human observation. Someone who tries to find you with clairvoyance can’t unless you're willing. (You can, of course, switch it off to allow positive effects to work on her, such as being healed.)

• Your powers have a range of from Earth to the Moon capable of covering the surface of both. As your knowledge & abilities grow so will this.

• You have full knowledge how these powers work & the best ways to use them and you won't be overwhelmed by the sheer number of powers you have.

• Your powers cannot be suppressed, copied, altered, nullified or affected negatively against your will & will not malfunction or have control loss of.

• Unlike Amanda you have total, conscious control of the descent of your power. You chooses who receives it, and when, & most importantly, you determine the powers your descendants develop.

  • How much power the people you empower get up to 75% of your original power.

  • Your progeny won't lose their powers should you be knocked unconscious.

  • Your progeny need your approval to create more progeny. Fourth generation progeny don't require your approval & can freely create progeny at will & their power level will be 50% of the progeny doing the empowering.

  • If you don't know which power to bestow upon a person, you can choose to auto-bestow one which will give them a power based on the persons strengths & weaknesses & directly compliments them.

  • People whom you empower are unable to use their powers to harm you in any way, shape or form, unless you allow it, (in case of surgey). Neither are their progeny or their progeny, etc.

  • You can severe this connection at any point & recall these powers back to you.