sigeki / spherian power exposition thingy

Most of the population of Sigeki and the Sphere have at least lower-key special abilities, which often take strictly utilitarian forms, with the Sphere tending more towards psychic-based capacity in general (minor memory expansions, occasional hovering if not actual flight, low-level technomancy and so on). A fairly large subset of NPCs have power which is useful for actual battle conditions. Sigeki overall seems to have a better 'anchoring' in the storyspace continuum, if only because so much weirdness has taken place there in the past five years, but overall the inhabitants of both worlds are roughly genetically identical. I'ma glare at Julien for a few more seconds, here.

One side-effect of this universal power aspect is that just about everyone, if IH were actually an RPG, would get at least a slightly unique character sprite (and often be recruitable, if not for active battle then as something else, with difficulty proportional to overall uniqueness). This can be blamed on a wide variety of things. Such as one of the main components in Sigeki's origin having at least 700 or so named characters.

"If my destiny is to be destroyed, then I will simply laugh! ... Then stab it a few times, until it's either dead or incapacitated enough to quit following me for another five years or so."

character profile v2 - julien trevelyan

Age: ???
Psuedoclass: Worldwalker / Gadgeteer Genius [Chaotic Good]
Homeworld: The Sphere

History: Generally speaking, Julien was among the first (if not the first) main characters present in the KMV after it reset. Perhaps because of this, not much in the way of a family history exists for her; for all practical purposes she began existing when she first arrived at Polyscience as a student, where after about six years she entered into competition for a faculty position at the same with one Sterling Donovan. In the end, she exposed a past epic research-stealing incident, after which her position was duly cemented. Around five years' worth of research later, Julien abruptly resigned to move up north into the middle of nowhere, holing up in a familiar dark red front door-ed mansion.

A year after this, the Magometry Research Agency dispatched a field agent to locate her and monitor unusual behavior. Several months later that agent's cover was debunked, and both the MRA and Julien became aware of Sterling's return. At the end of the parallel file known as Prismatic, she was simply left at the edge of the world, watching the remnants of his plan dissipate into the void between universes...

Yet another year later, she vanished with her mansion overnight in what seemed like a soundless explosion which released several unidentified forms of energy.

Since this, among other things, Julien manufactured a one-off method for copying character data (creating Serena Kuiper) and began refining the world-walking engine prototype responsible for her earlier disappearance. Presently, she is traveling the KMV at semirandom, seeking two other 'uniques'...

Ability Diagnostic Data: Julien is one of the scant few able to traverse the KMV without technological assistance; this innate version consumes large amounts of energy, however (one of the reasons for her relatively rapid innovations in the field). With the use of the energy source known only as The Pencil, this ability enlarges to allow a limited form of time travel. (All uses of this jury-rigged time machine is carefully watched by the author. Neither potential time paradox result would be good.)

Other Notes: In Sigeki, several limited variants of the Trevelyan/Donovan-model transworld engine are sold by a single company founded some time ago. Serena generally takes over its running in the absence of the original, and both work with the Central Administration reasonably often (although rarely in person, for obvious reasons...)
Serena tends to wear blue and grey, while Julien wears red and white; both also tend to use different hairstyles, for the same reason that identical twins tend to.
The new glider she uses appears to be 30% Unit Zero, 30% 'Goblin Glider', 30% Mehve and 10% Fenrir/TARDIS/Other. She seems to be capable of summoning and controlling it mentallly, and can stand on it through turns and so on with minimal visible attachment, possibly through the use of magnetic force.

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The Pencil wasn't destroyed at the end of Prismatic, just lost; hence, it still exists as a massive energy source.
For some reason, Spherians seem to have a particularly large attachment to the resulting energy, and can sort of use it to overclock given abilities to a large extent (Mikkau's flight goes up almost to continuous warp speed, the limits on Elliot's shapeshifting are done away with almost entirely, Sterling can rip apart an entire battleship and throw pieces about a mile away, Julien for once might actually be able to time travel without abusing relative universe timeframes, Tobias goes from being a technophile to having full technomancy... and so on.)
Basically the only downside this seems to have is an effective massive-speed 'MP' drain, and various aftereffects normally experienced with losing all your stamina that quickly. At some point, I should add some sort of worse effect, but considering it'd only be hanging around in the hands of a Spherian for a rather short amount of time... maybe it wouldn't need one.
Also for some reason, among aforementioned Spherians, telekinesis or some variant seems to be quite popular. I don't know why. ... Very likely the Astronomer Royal.