Invisibility, telepathy or flight? Pick one

Gotta be:

  • Invisibility

  • Telepathy

  • Flight

  • I'm good just being me


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There are conditions though:

  • All of them can deactivate at random moments.
  • Each time you use the skill you lose a random amount of your remaining lifespan ranging from 1% up to 25%.
  • Each time you use the skill the amount of people who know you have the superpower doubles starting at 100K (so 100,200,400K etc..)
  • Maximum running time of 45 minutes per activation, doesn't matter if you use 1 minute or the whole lot. It still counts as one spin.
  • The less you use the skill the more unreliable it becomes.
  • The rest of your biological functions and systems remain as standard so falling out of the sky will hurt etc..

In regards to deactivation - with invisibility and flight its obvious what happens but with telepathy the person you're using it on will know 100% what you were doing as they switch back to their usual state. Proving that is another matter of course because who can say if you're viewing their thoughts or putting some new ones in but lets say they'll go straight to the Feds with it who will definitely sit up and take notice, even with just one complaint.

With the public realization you'll have to deal with the fallout and consequences just as you are with your current skill set and resources. First it will just be an urban myth, then a rumor, then it starts getting more and more traction as people start talking about it and the alphabet attention this brings as they all start describing the same 8 foot, 8 cert, 8 cert, 8 series Coli Breh with <insert superpower>.

Reliability means you can't just take the deal and walk around with it like an Ace up your sleeve pretending to be regular and just waiting for a rainy day because it might not work on cue. To keep it fresh you've got to use the skill once a year.



This is one I think most people would definitely prefer to watch unfold via the safety of their screens and social media as the whole world would tune in to watch it happen so carrying on as you are is an option if you don't want to pick a gift.
 

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The lifespan reduction and random deactivation renders the powers useless. Even in a best case scenario I would lose 10% of my life just using my powers 10 times and millions of people would know that I have them.

Flight is pointless without superhuman durability, since your chances of falling or crashing are high. Invisibility would be cool but you can't really engage in fukkery if everyone knows that you have it, the police would always suspect you. I would have probably chosen telepathy but the con's aren't worth it.
 

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It's fatal for either invisibility or flight to suddenly fail on you.


So telepathy is a fair bet. Salespeople routinely manipulate folks so discovery isn't a big deal
 

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Telepathy. Only need it one time and I'm set for life

Telepathy

Use Telepathy once to finesse billions of dollars somehow, never use it again.

invisibility. just use it a couple times to rob and steal a large sum of money and be done with it.

So telepathy is a fair bet.

Whats your plan? How do you see it playing out and in what scenario could you use it as a one hit quitter and walk away with your target, clean with no heat and be able to use/keep it? Someone loses a billion they may be cool with it because of your tricks but that doesn't apply to everyone else around them and their financial team that comes with the territory when they notice its missing. Actions have consequences.


Actually, typing that I've just thought of a perfect lick.
 
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