>>5523772A QUICK ASIDE (relatively speaking) ON SPECULO ETTIQUETTE
BE A SUPER FRIEND, NOT A SUPER THIEF!
Now's the time to talk about copying powers.
What? You're wondering why we're covering this now?
You think you're going to be in a fight or something?
No no no no. How would you get in a fight in the dorms?
Anyway, some ground rules for being a speculo:
1. Don't copy powers without permission. When Alf Landon became president in 1936, he introduced reforms to protect superhumans from government oppression, and part of these reforms dealt with superpowers being considered property.
That means if you copy without permission, you're copying property without permission.
Don't copy someone's power unless you have permission--which in the case of Sam, you do, because Sam is your bro.
2. Just because you copy a power, doesn't mean you know how it works. Though in the case of Rumble Rings, you know exactly how they work because you've been using them since you were a kid.
3. You can steal a power and stack it on top of your copied power, resulting in you having an even stronger power.
For reasons that probably don't need to stressed, this is very dangerous. Don't do this outside of an absolute and total emergency. People will get pissed at you if you jack their powers.
4. You can copy the powers of technology, magic books, orbs of infinite power, etc, etc, but you feel funny doing so, and the powers you get are harder for you to contorl.
5. You can copy only parts of a superpower--for instance, a Rumble Ring without a turbulent center, or just the center of a Rumble Ring without an edge...which creates a bomb, so be careful with that one. Pulling this move requires you to have experience with a power. Trying this on a power you've only heard about but never used can result in weird stuff.
>>5525294https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL-u3kAywRkThis is more Sam's speed, though he does have jock energy.
>>5525294>>5525317"I dig Rumble!"
"Good! Man, I tried to get Rumblefish, but no one got it."
"Really?"
"I know, right? It's a classic! They kept asking me if I could breathe underwater or something. And some of the Thule kids got upset. You know, a kid that can create telekinetic constructs calls himself a fish, they didn't like that, thought I was making a comment about them or something."
"...That they're rockabillies?"
"Man, I don't know, I switched to Rumble to avoid that mess. And because I got tired of explaining what a Rumblefish was to everyone."
Thules are interesting guys. You go down below the mantle of the planet enough, you reach this zone of liquified ringwoodite, that's where the Thule evolved. Each and every one of them can create telekinetic bubbles they can see through called "eyes." They had to evolve those bubbles. No telekinetic bubbles, you don't last long down there. They got continent-sized leviathans and stuff.
