This is the website for Pyegar's Association of Those bearing small Powers (ATsP tm). Would you like to participate?
Think about how Superman's powers grew over the history of his comic. He started by being able to lift cars and jump over buildings. After a while, he could fly and had heat vision. Eventually he could destroy small planets by running into them. Now nearly all the comic heroes are superheros. I guess there are some who aren't- Batman is merely a highly motivated rich guy with cool tech. Daredevil is closer to what I am thinking of.
Small powers (TM)- still slightly beyond the actual human range- should make for an interesting premise. This course back to a concept I learned about in high school, in a course called "Meet the Monsters"- "preternatural." Truly preternatual powers are those which seem like plausible extensions of what humans can actually do.Being twice as strong as the winning Olympic bodybuilder is preternaural. Being able to turn into a bat is supernatural, by contrast.
The word "Paranormal" also gets at what I am thinking of, but it is critical that the powers not grow beyond relatively minor abilities.
So, I started by writing a taxonomy of small powers, and their limitations, and some other considerations. Let me know if you are interested, and I will plunk it in and send it along. Kinda fun to think about. Here's a bit of it -
"Smalls" - they call themselves this ,
Who are "Smalls" (Persons bearing small powers) ?
Smalls can, however,
That's all I know, so far. As I find out more, I will let you know.
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Randy found all the talk of “special powers,” large or small, not only annoying but dangerous. Some of the follies involved were amusing, he supposed, but he wished that more folks would learn to humble themselves at the imits of the evidence.
He scanned the internet groups, and when he found pe…
The sheer fact that it was possible – for him at least – to nudge strangers or their personal items into harm’s way, without having to touch them, didn’t seem all that surprising to Skott. What thrilled him, each time, was how good it felt.
Skott didn’t remember his first one, nor did he sp…
Terry grew up as a city kid, and it seemed as if the boys had always been after her. She was warm, and engaging, and as a teenager, she liked dating and kissing but she was never promiscuous. Indeed, even as an adult, sexual arousal came slowly to her, even in the few intimate relationships she ha…
Stephan had failed progressively downward in his choice of careers.
He had applied for medical school, but his scores and his grades were not even close to qualifying. He then started the EMT training, and was promptly booted out for insubordination. So here he was, instructing staff in an assis…
A lot of folks, when crafting the instantiation of a new idea, get all wrapped around the wheel "proving" to themselves -- if to no one else -- that the idea in question was, in the words of Daffy Duck, "Mine, mine, all MINE!"
"I don't. " (In the words of "Doc" Holliday)
This little fictional proj…
1. Known Powers
a. Stent
b. Nudge
c. Unsay
d. Locate known items
e. Guess
2. Suspected Powers
a. Dim
b. Prompt/Blurt
c. Simplify organic molecules
d. Twinned: Heavier/Lighter
e. …
Randy found all the talk of “special powers,” large or small, not only annoying but dangerous. Some of the follies involved were amusing, he supposed, but he wished that more folks would learn to humble themselves at the imits of the evidence.
He scanned the internet groups, and when he found pe…
The sheer fact that it was possible – for him at least – to nudge strangers or their personal items into harm’s way, without having to touch them, didn’t seem all that surprising to Skott. What thrilled him, each time, was how good it felt.
Skott didn’t remember his first one, nor did he sp…
Terry grew up as a city kid, and it seemed as if the boys had always been after her. She was warm, and engaging, and as a teenager, she liked dating and kissing but she was never promiscuous. Indeed, even as an adult, sexual arousal came slowly to her, even in the few intimate relationships she ha…
Stephan had failed progressively downward in his choice of careers.
He had applied for medical school, but his scores and his grades were not even close to qualifying. He then started the EMT training, and was promptly booted out for insubordination. So here he was, instructing staff in an assis…
1. Known Powers
a. Stent
b. Nudge
c. Unsay
d. Locate known items
e. Guess
2. Suspected Powers
a. Dim
b. Prompt/Blurt
c. Simplify organic molecules
d. Twinned: Heavier/Lighter
e. …
Randy found all the talk of “special powers,” large or small, not only annoying but dangerous. Some of the follies involved were amusing, he supposed, but he wished that more folks would learn to humble themselves at the imits of the evidence.
He scanned the internet groups, and when he found pe…
The sheer fact that it was possible – for him at least – to nudge strangers or their personal items into harm’s way, without having to touch them, didn’t seem all that surprising to Skott. What thrilled him, each time, was how good it felt.
Skott didn’t remember his first one, nor did he sp…
Terry grew up as a city kid, and it seemed as if the boys had always been after her. She was warm, and engaging, and as a teenager, she liked dating and kissing but she was never promiscuous. Indeed, even as an adult, sexual arousal came slowly to her, even in the few intimate relationships she ha…
Stephan had failed progressively downward in his choice of careers.
He had applied for medical school, but his scores and his grades were not even close to qualifying. He then started the EMT training, and was promptly booted out for insubordination. So here he was, instructing staff in an assis…
A lot of folks, when crafting the instantiation of a new idea, get all wrapped around the wheel "proving" to themselves -- if to no one else -- that the idea in question was, in the words of Daffy Duck, "Mine, mine, all MINE!"
"I don't. " (In the words of "Doc" Holliday)
This little fictional proj…