>>5911607>>5911518>>5911511>>5911431>>5911363>>5911307>>5911175>98Given the time, you think it would be wisest to test out your superhuman abilities and gain a better understanding of what you're capable of. The worst thing that could happen is you engage in villainy and then find out the hard way at some critical moment what your limits are. Especially if, chances are you run up against other superhumans. If and when the authorities grade your crimes beyond a certain threshold, then heroes will be after you.
Of course a gym or something like that would be nice, but you don't have one yourself and probably won't find one empty in the middle of the day. The next best thing then; the woods near your house!
<span class="mu-b">"Alright Caroline, let's see what you're made of... or should I say, Stretch Goals ahah!"</span>
Managing to find a decently secluded spot in the forest, you'll at least be able to know if someone is coming from afar.
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You ponder what various tests and experiments you can get up to then, to test your capabilities. The first, being the limits to your elasticity. By grabbing and holding a tree, you walk backwards through the woods farther and farther away causing your arms to elongate further and further. In the end you can make it about a hundred feet away you'd guess, before it becomes too difficult to continue. You notice however that this isn't specifically the limit of how far you can stretch but rather the point where the tug from your stretched arms will start to stretch the rest of your body, and then you loose footing of the ground. If for example you made it these hundred feet away, someone could grab your feet and then pull you probably another hundred feet or more.
<span class="mu-b">"I wonder if I just let go from there... no, I bet that would hurt."</span> you wonder aloud while walking the hundred feet back to the tree you held onto.
Though whether you'd actually want to stretch that much is questionable, since naturally the farther you stretch the thinner your body becomes and by a certain point the stress becomes difficult to maintain and even painful. But you know your practical limit for now.
<span class="mu-b">"Uagh, that looks gross!"</span> you remark in alarm at your elongated torso.
Another idea is to see what else is able to stretch. Of course your entire body is elastic but you didn't consider more than your limbs really. By relying on the height of a tree however, you can anchor your feet and then climb up with your arms to reach a height where your entire body starts to stretch rather than your limbs. A little bit sickening to observe actually, a limb getting longer is one thing but seeing the rest of your body elongating is rather weird. There's also a problem you find with your clothes and how they become ill-fitting or even start to fall off embarrassingly, when you deform your body enough.
