MCr7 - Spray (70-88)
[ Back ] [ Next ]

The hero can spontaneously create a directed cloud of gas, mist, or dust. The Spray has a range of up to one area. It has the basic properties of doing Feeble damage by choking off the target's fresh air and reducing visibility by -2CS for anyone within the cloud. The main purpose of Spray is combining it with other Powers, thereby producing unique Spray Powers for the hero. In all these cases, the range remains the same. Other factors, such as the nature and Intensity of effects, are determined by the Power that has been combined with Spray. Some possibilities include:

• Hallucinogenic: The Spray is combined with Image Generation to produce vivid visual images in the target's mind; these, of course, have nothing to do with reality. The target's Fighting and Intuition drop -3CS.

• Corrosion-proofing: The Spray combines with Catalytic Control to lessen corrosive attacks' Intensity by this Power rank number.

• Insulation: The Spray combines with any Energy Control to produce a coating that protects any target from that form of Energy Emission. The insulation reduces the energy attack's Intensity rank by the Energy Control's rank number.

• Healing Spray: This uses any of the more pleasant forms of Bio-Physical Control to produce a cloud that heals anyone in the target area who has taken damage up to -1CS.

• Napalm: The Spray is combined with Fire Generation and does Power rank damage.

• Freeze Cloud: The Spray combines with Cold Emission to do Power rank damage.

• Shrink Dust: The Spray combines with Diminution to reduce the size of anything in the target area.

• Booster Dust: The Spray combines with Power Control/Magnification to raise the Power ranks of everyone in the target area +1CS.

Any Power in the Ultimate Powers Book can be combined with this Power to create unique Sprays for each character. When creating such characters, the player should follow this simple guideline: If you can figure out a way to combine externalized Powers with this one, do it. Powers that are completely internalized are exempt from this rule. This includes most of the Mental and Physical Enhancements and all of the Self Alterations and Detections.

If a character. is High Tech, has rolled such Powers as Hyper-Invention or Weapons Tinkering, or possesses a magical device, then the Spray Power should be incorporated into a device. This may be a gas gun, ring, horn, or any other piece of superheroic paraphernalia the player can imagine.

Example: The player rolls up the following Fire Generation, Elemental Conversion, Spontaneous Combustion, Spray, and Enchantment. She is a Humanoid, an Elf to be precise. She determines she is a magical character. The first three Powers readily combine with Spray. The player decides that the heroine possesses a magical flute which she built herself. Besides playing normal tunes, she knows three special melodies that create clouds which possess each of the first three Powers.

The hero has a finite amount of Spray. The maximum number of Sprays the hero can create in a 24-hour period is equal to his Power rank number. This limit also applies to Technological or Magical versions of this Power; the Gas-gun/flute/whatever simply clogs up from repeated use.