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Agrokinesis or Phyllokinesis is the Anomalous ability to mentally manipulate wood, plants and flowers. Using this ability, one could grow plants to enormous proportions nearly any environment, and use them as weapons that can grab and attack with vines and roots ( or release neurotoxins and pheromones), which quickly regenerate at the user’s will. Sometimes people can even control plants in their concentrated form, like clothes, paper and money.

Absurdity is the ability to psychically induce paradoxes and contradictory physics. This can range anywhere from the highly improbable (like a prey animal eating it's predator) to the impossible (Fire "extinguishing" water, a small being with no superstrength beating a far larger being with extreme superstrength and durability, etc.). This ability is similar to Tychokinesis, but instead of simply increasing or decreasing the likelihood of an event, it makes the impossible possible, and the improbable quite likely. The only true limit to this ability is that it is very confusing, and you can't obtain certain things (manipulating the structure of matter, omnipotence, omniscience, etc.).

Apathy is the absence of emotion, which allows one to make decisions far easier. One with this "ability" could not be affected by abilities meant to induce emotions of any sort (no love-inducing powers, pain-inducing powers, fear-inducing powers, etc.). It would also be far easier to make decisions, face opponents that others wouldn't, resist temptation (even Psychic Persuasion), and do things normal people would be far too afraid or embarrassed to do. A person with this ability thinks purely with logic, and so they tend to be fairly intelligent as well.

The Black Box Effect pertains to the ability to generate random effects at will. This is achieved by bending reality to one's own will. Similar to omnipotence or normal reality bending, but the effects are random and unpredictable (and still within the bounds of reality and logic), ranging from giving foes a paper cut to generating nuclear explosions and cosmic storms.

Dread Song is the ability to produce an eerie tune which provokes the subject to see his or her impending death. The death may or may not happen within that time frame, but the ability causes them to see how it will happen, not when or where. Dread song cannot be learned but the user of the ability can make up the tune. If not trained in this ability, one could induce the ability upon any subject and by singing any tune.

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Currently digesting:: Conversion & Other Fictions - Charlson Ong

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you won't be able to say it right.
Thesis defense on Friday. De-stressing in now.

148 THINGS (NOT) TO DO OR SAY AT OR FOR YOUR THESIS DEFENSE
Written by Master Peter A. Dutton
contributions by Jim Lalopoulos, Alison Berube, and Jeff Cohen, Patricia Whitson and a few others.

[Here.]

1) "Ladies and Gentlemen, please rise for the singing of our National
Anthem..."
2) Charge 25 cents a cup for coffee.
3) "Charge the mound" when a professor beans you with a high fast question.
4) Describe parts of your thesis using interpretative dance.
5) "Musical accompaniment provided by..."
6) Stage your own death/suicide.
7) Lead the spectators in a Wave.
8) Have a sing-a-long.
9) "You call THAT a question? How the hell did they make you a professor?"
10) "Ladies and Gentlemen, as I dim the lights, please hold hands and
concentrate so that we may channel the spirit of Lord Kelvin..."
11) Have bodyguards outside the room to "discourage" certain professors from
sitting in.
12) Puppet show.
13) Group prayer.
14) Animal sacrifice to the god of the Underworld.
15) Sell T-shirts to recoup the cost of copying, binding, etc.
16) "I'm sorry, I can't hear you - there's a banana in my ear!"
17) Imitate Groucho Marx.
18) Mime.
19) Hold a Tupperware party.
20) Have a bikini-clad model be in charge of changing the overheads.
21) "Everybody rhumba!!"
22) "And it would have worked if it weren't for those meddling kids..."

126 more. )

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I want to add some more of mine but it is time to study the thesis, especially since I do not understand the parts that I didn't write.

Boo.

After this and after finals, I shall READ BOOKS I ACTUALLY LIKE.

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(¬_¬) I don't like stalks.

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