Sunday, February 26, 2012

2029 - Background : Blobs

 Blobs

            General
            Human paranormals who can change themselves into liquid blobs.

            Time limited power that requires a rebound time for the user. 

Powers
In Blob form can see and hear and smell everything. Bulletproof and well-nigh indestructible.

Tar Babies – Blobs that are made out of tar. Hot, black and very sticky. Bullets and weapons dissolve on contact. The tar is hot and sticky if it gets on anything or anyone.

Quicksilvers – Blobs made out of quicksilver. Silvery, metallic in appearance.

Can harden their outside to form a strong metallic protective shell.

Stinkies  -- Smelly blobs who can generate a real nasty stink. Their smell is truly repulsive.

Lavas  --  Blobs made out of lava. Extremely hot. Can harden their outsides to form a powerful shell.
           
Can form themselves into lots of shapes being liquid. Can even form themselves into humanoid form.

Can fling and throw and spit out parts of themselves as a weapon.

Gain all the knowledge, memories and experience of the people they consume and ‘absorb’.

Strong Blobs can be stay changed a long time and have short rebound times, suffering less during their rebounds. They can break off into many smaller sub-Blobs and reform later.

Weak Blobs can usually not stay changed for more than an hour or so tops.
Can only break off into a few sub-Blobs at best.

All Blobs can form themselves into large spherical balls if they want. Lava and Quicksilver Blobs can even give these balls a hardened outer shell.

Weaknesses & Limitations
Not many weaknesses in Blob form. Pretty indestructible.

In human form, same weaknesses and frailties as any other human.

Liquid nitrogen can freeze a blob and allow it to be shattered.
Can’t change into Blob-form in lead or tin-lined buildings.

Lifestyle
Blob sex is something to behold.

Blobs, in human form, have all the frailties of every other human.

Not nearly the slobs that urban legend makes them out to be.

Side Effects
Many  Blobs suffer back problems as they age.

The longer one is in Blob form, the longer it takes for them to adjust to being back in human form again. Having bones and weight gets tougher as Blobs grow older.

Aging is hard on Blobs. They make it harder to shift to and from. This is always harder on weaker Blobs than it is on stronger ones.

Other Paranormals, Others and the Undead
            Have a lot in common with Slimers.

            Lavas and Tar Babies can set the Undead ablaze.
           
            Are immune to any and all mind control in Blob form.

            Ghouls won’t feed on them after they’re dead, usually.

Most Vampyres don’t like the way they taste (in human form) but a small sub-set find them delicious.

Are blocked by a Shielder’s shield.

Can’t harm Immaterials who’ve dematerialized.

Tar Babies and Lava Blobs can’t harm Pyros.

No Blob can harm an Immune.

Berserkers can’t be harmed by a Blob in a rage.

Cephalophores are immune to Blobs in separated form.

Sniffers can smell a Blob, even in human form.

Borrowers don’t often borrow Blob powers because they are hard to deal with.

Gifters almost never gift this power.

Invulnerables take a big hit from Blobs when dealing with them. They’re a ‘decade-plus’ on the remaining years of life scale.

Regrowers can regrow limbs lost to Blobs.

Sponges can absorb all the Blob they come in contact with and reproduce it later. In theory they can absorb an entire Blob, but most Blobs break off contact with a Sponge long before that can happen.

Daemon Spawn can be destroyed by Lava and Tar Baby Blobs. 


Copyright 2012, M.R. McCaffery. All rights reserved. 

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