Sebastian is partnered with Alex Mercer and is temporarily assigned to the Hulldown unit
Sebastian and Ciel discuss the IC files, but the general plan of action is for them to listen and work quietly
Sebastian helps with the crate investigation, meets his roomates, and volunteers his time in between patrols to help make sandwiches for the people on the Observation Deck.
When the network goes up again, Sebastian sends off more than a few intentional misfires
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Token Purchase Purchasing: Major Power Cost: 5 Description: Six Feet Under - the ability to basically hide in or fast-travel through the ground, as a manifestation of Gen's highly suppressed desire for freedom and escape (from his hometown and now from [x]). To go into the technicals:
The ability to affect the tangibility of any ground he's directly in contact with, allowing him to sink into the ground and stay there. It will feel a bit like swimming through water, but with magnitudes less friction.
While underground he can breathe and move without effort. However, he needs to be conscious and lightly focused to stay underground (roughly the concentration level of remembering to hold onto an object); if his concentration is badly disrupted or he loses consciousness, he's violently ejected from the earth and spit out onto the ground in very uncool fashion.
He can stay underground for about half an hour for before the physical pressure starts to be too much and he needs to come back above ground. After hitting his thirty-minute limit, he needs a recovery period of an hour before he can use it again. He can use the ability in quick bursts, but his ratio of usage:recovery still remains roughly 1:2 in the long run.
While underground he can 'glide' through the earth, allowing him to move at a speed up to 5 times a normal person's running speed. This uses up about the same amount of physical stamina as running; if he spends his entire 30 minutes doing it he won't emerge completely wiped, but will definitely need to slow down during his recovery time. He can only utilize that speed when completely underground.
While underground it's only the earth itself (including any small obstacles that he mentally considers part of the earth, like tree roots, rocks, etc.) that's intangible to him. He's still vulnerable to anything that can penetrate through the earth (physical or magical), and can also be 'dug up' by other earth-shifting abilities unless he physically dodges them. His aura can also still be detected by any [x] using True Sight, though with the earth greatly muffling its intensity.
He can make the transition of tangibility smooth or abrupt, i.e. he can sink slowly into the earth or just plunge into it instantly like it's water, can creep out of it stealthily or form a foothold while underground to launch out of it for an ambush, only poke out a hand to grab at something, etc. However he does it, he leaves behind no marks of his movements into or out of the earth.
Ground only, no walls or other surfaces. He also needs to work within the constraints of the volume of the 'ground' -- he can effortlessly penetrate through any sort of flooring, but if used on the second floor of a building, he'll just drop through to the first floor. (He could technically infiltrate a basement using this ability, but would have to go in deep and come up through the floor.)
The ability can also affect anything he's in direct contact with (though with caveats, below). If he takes something underground in part or in whole and lets go of it, it will be left buried in the earth there.
Clothing and objects on his person can be brought along with zero effort. Anything super heavy or bulky requires a proportional amount of physical strain, and he can't affect huge things like buildings.
Anything that Gen perceives as having sentience requires much higher mental strain to bring underground. Organisms like plants, bugs and fish require basically no extra effort. Animals like reptiles or mammals require some concentration to sink into the earth, but he can essentially trap them by grabbing them, sinking into the ground, then pulling away and emerging alone. In moments of very high desperation he might be able to use this method on one guard-level NPC, but it would nuke his entire 30-minute "energy pool" in one go and require the full recovery time afterward.
PCs, due to their sentience and general extra power levels, are off-limits for being fully sunk into the earth. Though Gen can affect them in part (e.g. grabbing someone's arm and then sinking into the earth to bury them up to the shoulder), he can't affect more than about a third of their body before the mental strain becomes too much. This counts for both friendly or hostile PCs.
He can still use his other abilities while underground.
Notes: This is an example of a bulleted list for Notable Actions and how a Major Ability should be described. Thanks to Miru for providing an example (and don't mind the fact that the power says Gen instead of Sebastian, ssh)!
OCTOBER 2022
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Token Purchase
Purchasing: Major Power
Cost: 5
Description:
Six Feet Under - the ability to basically hide in or fast-travel through the ground, as a manifestation of Gen's highly suppressed desire for freedom and escape (from his hometown and now from [x]). To go into the technicals:
Notes:
This is an example of a bulleted list for Notable Actions and how a Major Ability should be described. Thanks to Miru for providing an example (and don't mind the fact that the power says Gen instead of Sebastian, ssh)!