Official Move Approval IV

[Carmelita]

Carmelita

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Carmelita

Plastiglex Breaching Charge: How many of these does she have on-hand at a time?

For the rest, you can only have 5 moves pre-approved at one time. Let me know which ones you want me to look at and I’ll dig in.

Plastiglex Breaching Charge: One on her at any time. They're heavy.

As for the rest, I'd like to get pre-approved the STAPLED, the Rod, the Rocket and the Bubble. That makes five total. I'm getting some ready for the end of DA.

Thank you!

Approved!

Steel-Titanium Anti-Personnel Lockdown Electric Device - STAPLED (Stealth, Debuff) (300)
The Steel-Titanium Anti-Personnel Lockdown Emergency Device, or STAPLED is a device designed by Bentley for Carmelita. A small metal disk five inches in diameter, it can be dropped onto the floor during stealth mode without disrupting it like a direct attack would. When pressure is applied to the upper surface, the STAPLED erupts with bands of Steel-Titanium and entangles the thing that depressed it, provided the bulk of the target is less than eight feet tall and three feet in radius.
After the bands of Steel Titanium deploy, a light electric current passes through the bands, lightly frying electrical circuitry and attempting to shock the target into submission.
Obviously, a target tangled in the STAPLED is restrained as long as the physical bonds hold, reducing their effective speed until they break free or slip out of the bonds through other means.
To break free from the STAPLED using brute force requires a high strength or for the base to be damaged by a few decent hits. The device can be deactivated manually by toggling a switch on the underside. Once a device has been deactivated, it is functionally useless for anything beyond scrap.
Carmelita carries three of these on her at any one time, and only one can be deployed at a time. Due to how they bypass the stealth field disruption, only one can be deployed each time Carmelita engages her stealth cloak.

Is this usable with other moves?

Rod of Fish and Thunder (Physical Proficiency, Ranged Proficiency, Debuff, Utility) (900)
The Rod of Fish and Thunder is a small baton that can be used both in melee as a shock baton, at range as a taser and also as a trap.
The baton is a foot long and has a cap at one end that encompasses the top three inches. There are four buttons on the handle.
The first turns the Rod of Fish and Thunder on, and electrifies the cap, allowing for the baton to be used in close quarters fighting. The shock from the baton fluctuates so that it disorientates those hit by the weapon, causing them moments of confusion over the next ten seconds that decreases their effective technique (TEC) for the duration.
The second releases the cap off the end of the baton, transforming it into a piton. The piton is shaped so as not to puncture the skin, and trails behind it a twenty metre wire about five millimetres thick. This wire is vulnerable to being cut and prone to being broken under any decent attack. This mode allows the Rod of Fish and Thunder to be used at range, wrapping an opponent in the wire like a whip and shocking them with the same effects as the melee shocks. The twenty metre wire is more vulnerable but covers a larger area of the target, causing a much more noticeable drop in effective technique during the duration of shocking.
The third button launches the piton much further, up to a hundred metres in range. Whilst impractical for combat, the piton functions perfectly well as a grapple hook and the hundred metre wire is a non-conductive carbon-fibre composite. Fastening the baton to a secure place produces a wire strong enough to abseil, rappel or slide along, allowing for access to difficult to reach areas.
The fourth button magnetically returns the piton and returns it to cap function, rethreads the wires if broken and deactivates the shock function.

Does this do damage or just stun? How many uses does this have, or how draining is it on her stamina? Can she use other moves concurrently? Also, are you sure you want a 65 foot whip? That’ll be pretty unwieldy in combat.

Demolitions Firework (Tier 1 Super Move, Attack, Ranged, Area Attack) (1200[600+600])
Carmelita takes out six pieces from her belt pouches and assembles them into a large, bamboo firework akin to those used by the Panda King. Once assembled, the bamboo firework can be fired at any target with a clear trajectory within two kilometres. The bamboo firework travels along the arc at a velocity of forty metres per second, and spouts out huge sparks. Upon detonation, either by being shot or upon impact, the firework creates a three metre spherical explosion. This explosion will collapse buildings if a structural wall was within the blast radius, and will do considerable damage to any character caught in the blast radius.
Assembling two pieces takes a second, and Carmelita requires both hands to assemble the firework. This means that to assemble the firework takes five one second intervals in which Carmelita must have her hands free, and to launch the rocket requires an additional second to aim the trajectory. If the firework is shot while it is still in Carmelita’s hands, the move is cancelled and Carmelita takes minor burn damage.

The pricing on this confuses me. I only see a single use, so why is it priced 1200? As for the move itself, I’d ask that you decrease the range. Being able to hit people 2 kilometers away from you reliably with a Super Move is a little excessive.

Dreamtime Bubble (Tier 1 Super Move, Defensive, Area Shield) (1000[400+600])
Carmelita draws on her recollection of Murray’s dreamtime philosophy and creates a pink bubble around herself and anyone huddled up to her to deflect damage she would otherwise take.
While using the Dreamtime Bubble, Carmelita is suspended in the centre of a two metre sphere of pink energy, which can be knocked around and rolled about by outside forces.
Activating the Dreamtime Bubble takes a three second period. From the moment it is activated Carmelita must keep her eyes closed to keep the Bubble up and anyone within the Bubble cannot receive any non-visual outside stimulus. Upon opening her eyes, Carmelita has three seconds to roll the ball around herself before it pops. If there are additional characters within the ball, be they NPCs, Assists or PCs, they may roll the Dreamtime Bubble around like a hamster ball.

Similar to the above, the pricing confuses me here. It would only run you 600. Other than that, you’re approved.

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Firstly, thank you for approving the Dreamtime Bubble and the Plastiglex Breaching Charge.

Secondly, I apologise for the odd costing. When writing the moves up I included the cost of the requisite powers that I don't have. The second number is the actual costing.

On to the moves:

The STAPLED interacts with Carmelita's other moves in two ways. Firstly, it does electrical damage (which can sustain her shock pistol debuffs) and secondly it holds opponents in place to be hit.

The Rod of Fish and Thunder does damage in both fighting modes. The 'rod' does more damage, due to doing minor physical damage. Both of the modes should have an addendum of: "All electrical damage done by the Rod of Fish and Thunder, no matter the attack, is damage to the nervous system or equivalent. This damage is non-permanent and fades without the need for healing within an hour." The Rod itself has a ten second battery charge for its electricity. To recharge, it needs to be 'reset' for ten seconds. The 'whip' is like a fishing line, being cast out at opponents and twirled round them once they're caught (hence the title of the move).

Demolitions Firework's range could be decreased to five hundred meters, but as it stands the Demolitions Firework travels at forty meters a second (travel time for 2km is fifty seconds) and is visible due to the bright sparks and horrendous noise. At its max range, the only things that are going to be hit are buildings and immobilized foes, so 'reliably' hitting at that range is unlikely. If you think the range should still be reduced, I will do so, but I could instead add a clarification of the above.