Maximum values are determined by the current race of the user. A human with no powers has a max value of 10 for all parameters. An Olympic athlete might have a 10 for either strength or agility, but almost never both. As a Superpowered with no physical or mental modifications your values have remained unchanged. Increase level to increase the maximum value of parameters. To increase current values, Luna recommends study, exercise, and combat!

Max skimmed through the text. He got the purpose of it. He had some sort of superpower which was cool, but nothing that would make him superfast or super strong.

Meh.

Those powers seemed cool on the surface, but they were not his fantasies. Flying would be cool. He imagined it would be like running. You could fly forever and not have to think about what is going on. Without getting tired or having to land. It would probably be cold though.

Current:

Maximum:

Regen:

Health:

80

80

8/day

Stamina:

70

70

80/hour

Mana:

40

40

90/hour

General Stats:

Current

Maximum

Affect

Strength

8

10

Physical strength; pushing, pulling, lifting. Affects health.

Agility

7

10

Physical speed; running speed, acrobatic ability, inertial control. Affects stamina.

Dexterity

8

12

Ability to move with finesse and skill. To move the body as the mind wills it. Affects stamina regen.

Constitution

8

10

The sturdiness of the body; ability to resist damage, poison, and magic. Affects health regen.

Intelligence

4

10

Your capacity to learn and remember. Affects mana.

Wisdom

9

10

Your ability to reason out the best choice. Affects mana regen.

Charisma

6

10

Your likability; Affects attractiveness.

Luck

10

10

Affects drop rates, and personal narrative.

Apparently, the system doesn’t think I am too smart. What does it know?

“Hey Paul,” said Max “what you get for intelligence?”

“Don’t want to say,” said Paul.

Max was fine with that. Paul would have been embarrassed with a 4, but Max embraced it like a badge of honor.

“I got a four,” said Max.

“Still not going to tell you,” said Paul.

Poor Paul, Max thought thinking about getting rid of the window. The next then appeared.

Skill

Level

Affect

General Skills

Identify

1/20

Gives user information. Amount and clarity based on identify level. Shows only basic information.

Dash

1/10

Expend 20 stamina for a rapid sprint for 30 feet. (+50% speed)

Athletics

20/50

Increases efficiency of stamina use. (-40%) reduction in stamina consumption.

Athlete’s Trance

9/20

Allows users to focus on a single physical task, ignoring distractions and outside influences. Increases dexterity maximum (+2), and growth of all physical jobs.

Combat Skills

Brawler

2/10

You have started down the path of the brawler. You deal (+2) damage while enraged.

Magic Skills

Family Teleportation

1/180

Teleport you and any inanimate object on your person up to dex * skill level meters away. For the purpose of Family Teleportation touching a member of your family counts that person as an inanimate object for the purposes of Family Teleportation.

Resistance Skills

Mental Resistance

10/20

Resist mental influence. Value limited by wisdom (-19%) = wis + skill level.

Archetype Skills

Cowardly Lion

1/100

Skill growth is increased while facing your fears (+1%).

Teleportation. Cool. Max then thought about himself appearing next to Paul and without delay he was on the ground next to Max where he had wanted to be.

“Whoa that’s way cooler than making things disappear,” said Paul. “Hey can you go get that baseball that got stuck up on the roof last week. I never got around to it.”

As quick as Max turned his attention to it, he was on the roof of Paul’s house and bent over to pick the baseball out of the gutter. After moving the ball to his left hand, he proceeded to scrape out some of the rotten leaves that had accumulated in the gutter and threw them onto the lawn.

“You really need to clean your gutters,” said Max appearing back on the lawn. He cocked his arm back. He threw the baseball at Paul. “Catch,” he said after he threw.

Paul was expecting the surprise throw and hand his two hands up to meet the baseball cricket style. Instead of Paul catching it the ball disappeared as soon as it touched Paul’s hands.

“Hey, where’d it go?” asked Max.

The ball reappeared in Paul’s hands with the sound of being caught a second later.

“I used my power. Seems like I can store things instantly. Yhey take a moment of effort to come back out though. I’m going to throw this over there to you.” Paul pointed at the other end of the yard a threw a lazy overhand toss.

Max appeared right where the ball was going to land and caught it in his right hand. He whipped it back at Paul as hard as he could. This time Paul tried to catch it one handed. And again, the instant it touched him it disappeared for sight.

When the ball reappeared Paul didn’t even throw it at Max. It just came out of his right hand at the same speed it was going when he was going to catch it. Max had to teleport backwards to have time to catch it properly.

“What was that?” asked Max. Shaking out the hand he had caught the ball in and the ball rested in the other.

“Looks like things keep going when I bring them back out, but I can change the direction that they are going in.” Paul smiled. “Like a delayed full speed bounce. But I’m in control.”

“Yeah, that seemed like it was one of my pitches, not one of your little lobs.”

“Yup.”

Max appeared in what most people would consider Paul’s personal space. Paul flinched backwards to give his nose more than the half-centimeter of space that Max had given him.

“Owe,” said Max as he stepped off of the wire brush that his teleport and land him on top of and tossing the baseball onto the barbeque side table in the space vacated by Paul. The ball, now embedded with the Barbeque tongs flopped in the air and fell to the ground having lost all of its aerodynamic properties.

“Hey be careful with how you jump about, it looks like the stuff you bring with you on a jump can merge with what’s around. I don’t want a set of tongs to show up in my guts,” said Paul.

“Wait a minute. This is dangerous? You mean I could teleport somewhere and lose a leg?” asked Max.

“Doesn’t look like it.”

“What doe you mean doesn’t look like it?”

“You don’t have shoes on right?”

“Right.”

“And you landed on top of the Barbeque brush rather than having it appear inside of your right?”

“Oh yeah!” Max then flickered quickly all over the back yard next to the tree, up in its branches, back on the roof, over on his roof.

****

Max and Paul spent the next couple of hours wrestling and playing catch. Once Max discovered the “Family” portion of “Family Teleporation” Paul spent a bunch of time on the roof, until he could convince Max to bring him back down.

The gutter got cleared (because Paul could send the leaves to storage without having to scrape them all out by hand) and the tree in the back yard got porcupined with kitchen utensils as they played around with Family Teleportation and Paul’s storage.

It was starting to get a bit dark, and for all the fun they were having, they were both a little worried about Violet and Lauren not returning yet. After being unable to reach them again they logged into to Lauren’s Find My Iphone through the password saved in her browser on the family computer.

“She’s still at the side of the highway,” said Max.

“Is this current or historical data?” asked Paul.

“Says current.”

“Well the world just grew by 65 percent, so I don’t know if it’s going to work like that.” Max grabbed the mouse and clicked around the screen. “Yep, current.”

“We’ve got to go get her. Her and Violet must be so scared.”

“Lauren’s resourceful, she’ll get back here.

“But what if she doesn’t? If we didn’t go out and look for her I could never live with myself.”

“It’s the end of the world. It’s like we are all lost in the wilderness. Us getting lost too isn’t going to help anything when Lauren gets back here with Violet and sees that we are gone.”

“I’m not going to sit here while my wife and daughter are out there alone. Are you with me or are you just…”

“I’m with you. I’m with you” said Paul raising both of his hands palms out. “I just don’t want make things worse. Can we at least leave a note?”

“Hold on a minute, I got one better. Come out to the garage,” said Max. The brothers headed out to alleyway, and into the garage. One half of the garage was filled with skids covered with tarps. Max walked up to one of the skids and pulled the tarp off it. The skid was filled with packages of graffiti spray paint.

“From a move, they didn’t want them and I thought they would be neat. We can mark our path.”

“Yeah. That will work and we will let her know the route we are taking in a note. Then it is a double safety. Fine. It works,” said Paul.

“Yeah and for extra safety, will the you-know-whats fit in your storage?”

“I think so,” said Paul loading the pallet up onto a trolly to take to the truck. “I’ll load the truck, you go write Lauren a note. And include directions on how we are going to go, like you were giving a greenhorn driver instructions on taking an over-height vehicle though an area with a bunch of too-low bridges.”

“Ok, but Hurry up. Her and violet must be so scared”.