[Jumper Jump]
Version 1.0
By blackshadow111 and Legion1771
Introduction:
This is just another Earth, at least on the first look. And even on the second, because there's really very little going on here, especially compared to some of the things you may have seen. But it's not all mundane. There is at least one thing here that's worthy of attention, and possibly more. Because you see, in this world there exist being who have power far beyond what anyone can imagine. Not powers to race locomotives or leap tall buildings in a single bound, but one, singular power that means they don't have to do either of those things. In this world there exist Jumpers. No, not that kind. These are people who can, in one word, teleport. Sometime in their childhood, typically at the age of five, a small boy or girl wakes up one day, with the power to just jump to anywhere they have been before, without covering the distance in between. A jumper requires at least a basic idea of where they're going, and having a picture on hand to remind them of the details usually helps. They can't take along much more than themselves, about a small automobile's worth of matter. But all that's unimportant compared to the main problem they face, which is the Paladins. A group of well armed, equipped religious fanatics who hunt them under the idea that only God should have such a power.
It's this world you're going to, Jumper. Take +1000 CP to help you along.
Times and Places: (Austria)
You arrive the day before the events of the movie, anywhere on Earth you'd like. Not like it matters, eh?
Origins: (Wanderer)
Drop-in
Well now, haven't you gotten caught up in a right mess? And without any papers or memories of this world, too.
Wanderer
You don't really like to remain in one place for too long. Whether you do your moving on planes or… otherwise remains to be seen.
Desert Dweller
Moving around is well and good, but you need somewhere to lie low. Better to fight back that way, too.
Paladin
Member of an ancient order, you know there are abominations roaming the world. You will be the one to cleanse it of them, you're sure of it.
Perks:
For each origin, the 100 CP perk is free and the others cost 50%.
General
Jumper - (-600 CP)
Yeah, let's get this out of the way first. You're now one of the eponymous teleporters, and a very, very powerful one. You can move across the planet instantaneously, carrying along with you anything or anyone you're in direct contact with. This is as easy as walking to you, taking no particular effort as long as you don't try to move more than your limit. Yeah, there's one. While theoretically you could move any amount of matter with you, it takes more effort the more stuff you're trying to take along. Your own self takes no effort at all, and with a decent amount of growth it's just as easy to take upto a bus's worth of people/things with you. From there it gets more difficult, though. It's tremendous effort to increase this range, and it would take everything you have after several years of growth to take along a whole apartment with you. There's no real way to judge how the ability grows, if the range increases, or where it stops growing, or even if it stops at all. So fanwank responsibly for all that.
Drop-in
Inscrutable - (-400 CP)
The Jumpers would never have been so threatened by the Paladins if not for their technology and understanding. Electricity disrupts concentration, causes spasms and all that, preventing a Jumper from focusing on a destination and making the Jump. As well, the Paladins created technology that allowed them to follow Jumpers through the rips in space left behind in the wake of their Jumps. This kind of thing won't be a problem for you going forward, however. Your powers are yours, and no one else's. No one can understand them against your will, let alone suppress or counter them.
Wanderer
Picture-less - (-100 CP/Free for Wanderer)
A Jumper needs to be able to clearly picture their destination to Jump there. If you can't picture the destination, because you lack a photo or because your visualisation skills are garbage, then you're fucked. But not anymore. Your memory is now perfect, effortlessly recalling all details and facets of anything that has passed by any of your senses. It's all sorted perfectly too, so don't worry about not being able to find anything.
Trustworthy - (-200 CP/-100 CP for Wandereer)
You're an odd one, aren't you? Something about you, an aura or perhaps just something about your face, makes you seem trustworthy. Even as a complete stranger, people are predisposed to assume the best of you. Be it getting a spare room for the night (perhaps with someone, eh?), getting a ride to the nearest town or any similar type of kindness one might hesitate to bestow on a stranger, you'll find that these kinds of things are easy for you to acquire. And once you're done, you'll slip back into the crowds, just another passing face to be remembered with slight fondness. Indeed, you have the kind of face that can just as easily be utterly forgettable and unremarkable as it can be personable.
Trackless - (-400 CP/-200 CP for Wanderer)
The Paladins hunt Jumpers to the very ends of the Earth. Once they've found even a hint of their existence, they doggedly pursue them with all of the resources and experience at their disposal. Fingerprints, hair, money trails, CCTV, the distortions in space your superpowers cause, all these things are like blinking lights leading straight to you. But not anymore. No matter how many try, no matter the scale of their resources or reach, the strange or esoteric methods of their tracking, you will never be found unless you choose to. Of course, if you're right in front of someone, then you'll have to get away first. You're not invisible.
Desert Dweller
Counter-Attacker - (-200 CP)
Some people, when faced with danger, flee. Some, on the other hand, fight. You're one of the latter. You have all the skills and talents needed to pursue a one-man war against an entrenched adversary, though it might help to have magical teleportation powers. You know how to find weak spots in the enemy's infrastructure, how to bait their teams and what spots you can leave them in to be killed, and everything else you need to survive multiple engagements against, and make actual headway in destroying an organization that makes it's purpose the extinction of hundreds of people who can all teleport across the planet at will.
Experienced - (-400 CP)
Not a newbie exploring your powers anymore. You have a solid, near-perfect grasp of your powers that lets you use them to the fullest potential, even finding new ways to use and exploit it that most people could never imagine. This doesn't just apply to Jumping, either. No matter what it is, you can find an unending list of clever and innovative uses for all your powers and abilities, pushing their boundaries and using them in more and more effective ways. While jumping in raw strength isn't really something this jump is for, you have the ability to creatively and cleverly expand its breadth until it only remotely resembles what you started with, and even that's just the beginning.
Paladin
I'm Afraid that's Classified - (-200 CP)
While the Paladins aren't strictly backed by any government, they certainly have the reach and clout to act as if they do. You can easily draw on this kind of intimidating effect, acting as though you have the right and authorisation to do the things you're doing and having no one question you. People tend not to gossip about this stuff either. Fear of reprisal and all that, so wherever you wish it, people will keep their mouths shut about things that they see you do or that you ask them to do, providing that you don't do anything too extreme or out of the ordinary.
Keeping Up - (-400 CP)
To defeat the Jumpers, whose power intruded on the realm of God, the Paladins needed to innovate and create methods to even the playing field. In pursuit of that goal, they created incredibly potent tasers to restrain Jumpers and suppress their abilities. They created technology that allowed them to track and detect the spatial distortions left in a Jumper's wake, as well as the devices necessary to forcefully reopen those distortions and allow a normal person to travel through them. Now, you have a similar kind of talent and capability. By studying something, you can begin to come up with technologies and devices capable of suppressing, counteracting, destroying or interacting with any given force, ability or creature. Depending on how strange or powerful that thing is, however, the process may take a long time.
Items:
For each origin, the 100 CP item is free and the others cost 50%. Wherever relevant, you may import existing items at no additional cost.
Drop-In
Account - (-100 CP)
One of the ways that Paladins tend to find careless Jumpers is by noting influxes of sourceless money and similar stuff. The evils of the IRS know no bounds. With this, however, you won't have any trouble, no matter how much money you're moving around. This account is entirely private and traceless, allowing you to store any amount of money completely tax-free. It's contents are transferred between settings and may be withdrawn in whatever form of currency you like.
Wanderer
The Pad - (-100 CP/Free for Wanderer)
Something you spent your ill… or maybe not so ill-gotten gains upon, evidently. This is huge penthouse apartment in a high security building, an obscenely luxurious mini-mansion with every comfort you can imagine and many you can't. It also has a number of hidden rooms, sealed up behind walls of plaster. Not much use to a normal person, but if you're capable of teleporting, then I'm sure you can find a use for them.
Papers - (-200 CP/-100 CP for Wanderer)
When you travel as much as a Jumper tends to, it helps to have a variety of ID and similar such things for any given location on hand. After all, it'd be a bit awkward if you got into trouble with the authorities because you didn't have a driver's licence or an appropriate form of identification. To that end, you can take this. It's a set of papers and cards that will change to suit any given situation. Need a Lithuanian driver's licence? You're in luck. A Russian birth certificate? What a coincidence. Australian firearms licence? You get the idea.
Possession Tag - (-400 CP/-200 CP for Wanderer)
Jumpers hate leaving things behind, don't they? And these ones are jumping just across the planet. You too, never need to be concerned about leaving things behind now. This a personal tag of yours that, once placed on something, ensured that it comes with you on all future jumps. It also makes the item self-updating much like things you buy with CP, in that they are assured to keep working in all future jumps, return if destroyed, and all the rest. You have an infinite supply of these.
Desert Dweller
The Car - (-100 CP)
When Jumping needs to be done in style. You have a very high-end, superfast car, that's not just indestructible and permananely fueled, but also boosts any transportation related powers when used in it.You can jump this car around with no added strain whatsoever, and as a matter of fact you can jump more easily and further while in it. Furthermore, it similarly boosts any flight or other similar powers you might have several times over.
Drawbacks:
Self-Centered - (+100 CP)
Say you suddenly find yourself with superpowers, think of the things you could do, the lives you could save! I'm not sure what a Jumper might be able to do, perhaps save people from natural disasters, but-- Ah, you've robbed a bank. And… Is that the Mona Lisa? I see. Why bother helping other people and using your powers for good when you can use them to live a life of luxury, am I right? It's easy to forget about the stationary world when you have all the freedoms of being a Jumper. It takes an exceptional person to resist. You are… not one of them.
Desert Plant - (+100 CP)
Maybe you adapted to living in the desert a little too much. You've been alone for a while now, so much so that you have developed something of an unhealthy liking for the state of affairs. In simpler terms, Jumper, you're something of an asshole who won't admit they're lonely.
Family - (+200 CP)
You have a very damaged home life. Perhaps your mother left when you were five and your father spiralled into alcoholism fuelled abuse. Maybe you're in a strained and toxic relationship. Whatever the case, expect a great deal of emotional baggage as a result of this relationship.
I'll Explain Later - (+200 CP)
You should really do that now, honestly. No? Okay. God only knows why, but you're absolutely terrible at explaining yourself. Insisting instead that people should trust you or that you'll explain later, when it's blindingly obvious that if you just took a moment to explain the severity of the situation to someone, everything would run along a lot smoother.
Bang - (+300 CP)
When in moments of stress or exertion, Jumper's can cause some pretty incredible damage to their surroundings in the process of using their powers. Shaking buildings down to their foundations, shattering windows, creating considerable craters in solid floors, all that stuff. You'll find that any use of power you have tends to cause considerable damage to your surroundings. Displaced air from a teleportation cracking walls, shattering glass and knocking things over and so on. And if you don't have any powers, then you're just clumsy as shit and constantly running into things and breaking stuff.
Always Check The Fridge - (+300 CP)
The Paladins are relentless and ruthless in pursuit of their purpose. No one is safe and nothing is sacred. Murdering the relatives of a Jumper or holding their loved ones hostage to draw them out or aggravate them is part and parcel of the job. And now everyone you might come into conflict with deems this an acceptable course of action where you're concerned. Nothing is ever just between you and them. If you have friends, family, pets, beloved possessions, expect your enemies to target those first.
Abomination - (+400 CP) (Paladins)
Those things, polluting the world with their very presence, aberrations against all that is good and holy… You hate them. Whatever it may be, Jumpers or Paladins or a minority, you hate them with a violent, murderous intensity. Every moment that a single one of them continues to breath is unforgivable.
Only God Should Have That Power - (+400 CP)
The mandate of the Paladins is to hunt and kill the Jumpers, because their power allows them to be in many places at once, a realm only God should reside in. And that's just Jumpers. You're a JUMPER. So… yeah, the Paladins have an even greater animosity for you, who walks between universes, and they will do their very best to find you and kill you. A group of mundane humans might not be a threat to you, but then they shouldn't have been a threat to the Jumpers either. But their ability to develop technology capable of tracking and following in the Jumpers' wake eliminated that advantage. You'll find them similarly capable of developing technology that can suppress your abilities, bypass your defences and manage to reach your location, wherever it may be, assuming you give them enough time to grow.