Hero Reserve Chapter #47 is recruiting for superheroes!

[Master Rel]

Maybe a bit to much on the practical side but I go where my muse takes me sometimes.

Armadillo

Armadillo has a semi-subdermal-partial carapace along his back and parts of his limbs. It’s pretty durable and while not bullet proof it can deflect small arms fire if they’re not too close. Armadillo is able to curl himself into a ball about 3’ in diameter, which causes the plates to fully extend and cover him completely. With a running start he can get a pretty good roll going. He’s not super strong or fast so he’s limited to speeds and distances any reasonably fit person could attain. While the front of his body is not protected by his carapace in a close fight he can block things like bats and knives with the backs of his arms. When he punches it’s like he’s wearing light metal gauntlets.

In a relaxed state his carapace is only partially extended. This means he looks sort of like he’s got a really, really bad skin condition all over his back, skull, and the backs of his arms and legs. It’s not very appealing.

Fun!

I could see a lot of itching and scratching...the rolling ball that only goes a short distance, whaaa whaaa whhaaaa lol 

Good one.

[Master VorNach]

I could see a lot of itching and scratching...the rolling ball that only goes a short distance, whaaa whaaa whhaaaa lol 
Good one.

He invests heavily in skin lotion.

[Kham-Ryn Kurios]

He invests heavily in skin lotion.

To be specific, Cocoa Butter. 

I just saw a scene of "Dillo" (whose full name should be Armie Dillo) is at someplace like Costco, wearing a hoodie buying cases of the stuff. 

[Master VorNach]

Iron Lung

Iron Lung has an incredibly efficient cardiovascular system which allows him to function without air for extended periods of time. At rest he can hold his breath for a couple of hours. Under exertion this drops to 30 or 40 minutes. Additionally, when not holding his breath, his endurance exceeds that of an ultra-marathoner. While he cannot run as fast as a professional athlete he can maintain a jogging pace for 10 hours before beginning to tire. He can maintain a fast walk for as long as he can stay awake.


A professional couch potato and part time marketing consultant, Lewis Slack would have lived the course of his uneventful, mundane life without incident if it wasn’t for “the Accident”. On a long, painful corporate retreat, (you know the type, team building exercises, group activities, uncomfortable camp beds and not enough central air conditioning) Lewis was in the back of the group for the cave tour; an expensive touristy trek through an defunct, ancient copper mine in Michigan’s upper peninsula. Having been bored to tears by an even more bored sounding guide Lewis fell behind, trudging slowly and hoping distance would muffle the chipper sound of his co-workers mock excitement. Then the ground gave way underneath him.

When he woke at the hospital the puzzled staff could not explain to him how he had survived for hours, buried in an old, long forgotten collapsed ore shaft. He should have suffocated in minutes. They chalked it up to one of life’s mysteries. Lewis gratefully took the workman’s comp time off and semi-retired on the law suit against the tour owners.

Then all the heroes died and the man in the blue suit came to Lewis’ door, with an offer that Lewis could not refuse. Literally could not refuse, thanks to the court order in the man’s hand. Lewis had just been drafted into the nations newest super team.

[TheHobbitofDune]

Megadeth

Steven Angst was an average teenage boy with a passion for heavy metal music. One day, he found out about this incredible band called Megadeth. Inspired by their music, Steven picked up his electric guitar, and in his excitement, cranked all the knobs past eleven. He then began jamming along to a Megadeth song, not realizing that sparks were flying out of his amplifier. They grew in size, and when Steven reached the guitar solo, the amp exploded. The blast from the amplifier gave Steven the ability to transform into this indestructible metal version of himself. However, the effect only lasts for ten seconds before it wears off, and does not become available again for at least an hour. In order to access this power, Steven must do this:

[Master Rel]

Interesting...I am a little confused though...does he do the Metal! pose or play a riff to gain the 10sec of into I Am Iron Man?

I like the idea just bewildered   

[TheHobbitofDune]

Interesting...I am a little confused though...does he do the Metal! pose or play a riff to gain the 10sec of into I Am Iron Man?

I like the idea just bewildered   

Yeah, the pose. lol. Hands crossed in front of chest, devil horns, the whole deal. Sorry, I was trying to go for the most outrageous idea I could come up with XD

[Master Rel]

It works!



Edison

Light




Thomas "Edison" Murphy was and is a sewer line worker for the city.  When his incident happened he was caught in a flash flood and was washed away into a previously blocked off sewer main, a drop.  This drop was loaded with a cocktail of various chemicals, runoff, and byproducts creating a fermenting stew of chaos...and stink.  It was pitch black, his natural fear of drowning kicked in, and he started screaming for help.  The chemicals, the emotional outburst, as the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars...all this came to a smelly frothing head as the room was lit up and he could see the way out!  So he stopped screaming and the light went out.

His ability to generate continual white light, emanating from his skin/hair/eyes/mouth/etc., comes with an on and off switch...as long as he is yelling at the top of his lungs it shines bright...if he just hums or whistles then a soft glow is momentarily generated...if he sings a song the light ebbs and flows with the pitch and volume.

He is training with a vocal coach...he is a terrible singer.

[ThreadJack]

Dood.

Right on target for near useless superhero...and in TJ methodology...gross!

I gotta ask, or maybe not...sigh...is that a normal sized tapeworm or a man sized one?

lol

A larger than average tapeworm, but not quite man sized. lol.

I was going to make it a hamster, or a canary, but I figured this was slightly funnier...

[ThreadJack]

Stopwatch.



Barry "Big" Benjamin is your typical, average DMV employee. He's 40, lives in the suburbs with his wife and two kids, and drives a Toyota Camry. Until one day last year, when he fell in a vat of sour cream, wearing lederhosen. Then he was a DMV employee wearing lederhosen in a vat of sour cream. And he does have a secret. He has the power to manipulate time. Freeze it, speed it up, slow it down, rewind it, fast forward it, etc. It's a good superpower, but it does have a major catch. See, Barry can only manipulate time for as long as he can hop on one foot. If he loses his balance time speeds up, slows down, continues, rewinds, or fast forwards back to normal.

[Kham-Ryn Kurios]

Watching this team operate would be one of the absolute strangest sights ever. 

[Master Rel]

Pickle Pete

Elasticity




Peter "Pickle Pete" Johnson was a simple delivery boy when his accident...he was delivering a box of pickling salt to the pickle factory when he fell off a catwalk and into a vat of boiling pickle juice...but the pickle salt box had been mislabeled and was in fact a rare radioactive isotope meant for the research laboratory...the radiation, the hot vinegar, and the pickling spices penetrated his body completely...leaving him without any bones, his skin and flesh was permanently puckered and wrinkled, and left him mottled green.

He feels no pain, is not very strong of arm, not very bright, smells of garlic and dill.  But he is also quite pliable...he can bend and flex in any direction without issue...once he misstepped off a tall building and when he hit the ground bounced a half dozen times.

As a rule he only eats pickles and only drinks pickle juice.

[Master Rel]

A larger than average tapeworm, but not quite man sized. lol.

I was going to make it a hamster, or a canary, but I figured this was slightly funnier...

One might...no, one would say not so much funny as nasty 

Stopwatch.



Barry "Big" Benjamin is your typical, average DMV employee. He's 40, lives in the suburbs with his wife and two kids, and drives a Toyota Camry. Until one day last year, when he fell in a vat of sour cream, wearing lederhosen. Then he was a DMV employee wearing lederhosen in a vat of sour cream. And he does have a secret. He has the power to manipulate time. Freeze it, speed it up, slow it down, rewind it, fast forward it, etc. It's a good superpower, but it does have a major catch. See, Barry can only manipulate time for as long as he can hop on one foot. If he loses his balance time speeds up, slows down, continues, rewinds, or fast forwards back to normal.

Why the lederhosen and why/where the vat of sour cream?

Yes indeed...time manipulation is insanely powerful...if he carries a cane he could brace himself somewhat well.

But it sounds like it will always return back to normal unless he can continue hopping indefinitely?

He could gain information and maybe grab an item, as it is assumed he retains the personal knowledge of his time passing...still it is crazy powerful...hop on one leg, hop over to the bad guy, disarm him, and when he stops hopping the bad guy would be disarmed.

The idea has merit...I like the idea of a time guy, though for this creative challenge maybe very very limited...?

Maybe as the name notes he can stop time by hopping on one leg, because he has always hopped on one leg when under stress, because he is weird...so in theory he could use his power in other cases but because he has a mental block...so when he hops on one leg he can stop time and when he stops time resumes but if he moved then he would be where ever he was when he fell.

This would be more powerful but his balance is terrible, his hand and eye coordination is not much better, so he mostly starts hopping and does his best to hop out of harms way?

Just a thought 

[Master Rel]

Stink Eye

Contagion



Sara "Stink Eye" Kara is an elementary school nurse in her mundane life and as such she comes into contact with a wide variety of minor illnesses and communicable conditions.  While on vacation in Hawaii she made the mistake of removing a small idol and was cursed.  When she treats a child (or adult) of a minor illness she absorbs the condition and is able to transfer it by staring with one eye and a great deal of concentration (scrunching up her face) she can pass one of these illnesses along to another person.

The closer to the target the stronger the result.

Pink eye, upset tummy, loose bottom, summer cold, croupy cough, sneezy, throwing up, etc. but she does not know what effect will appear as it is completely random.

She can make the condition go away by treating it, school nurse style 

[ThreadJack]

One might...no, one would say not so much funny as nasty  


Why the lederhosen and why/where the vat of sour cream?

Yes indeed...time manipulation is insanely powerful...if he carries a cane he could brace himself somewhat well.

But it sounds like it will always return back to normal unless he can continue hopping indefinitely?

He could gain information and maybe grab an item, as it is assumed he retains the personal knowledge of his time passing...still it is crazy powerful...hop on one leg, hop over to the bad guy, disarm him, and when he stops hopping the bad guy would be disarmed.

The idea has merit...I like the idea of a time guy, though for this creative challenge maybe very very limited...?

Maybe as the name notes he can stop time by hopping on one leg, because he has always hopped on one leg when under stress, because he is weird...so in theory he could use his power in other cases but because he has a mental block...so when he hops on one leg he can stop time and when he stops time resumes but if he moved then he would be where ever he was when he fell.

This would be more powerful but his balance is terrible, his hand and eye coordination is not much better, so he mostly starts hopping and does his best to hop out of harms way?

Just a thought  

That was just to be funny. The vat of sour cream and lederhosen are actually pretty irrelevant. lol.

I should have clarified a bit more. He has to sustain an actual hop. Simply being on one foot is not enough. If he stops hoping for too long, like 5 seconds, time returns to normal. I'd imagine that would make it incredibly hard to do anything, and you'd likely have very little time, especially since any number of things could cause you to lose your balance. Even if time is slowed or frozen, you can still trip over inanimate objects, or bump into someone.

And RW/FF, is really only good for a few seconds, so it really doesn't do much good. For instance, he can rewind time, but only can go back 10 seconds.