Multi-form suggestions?

[McCoy]

Number Two Son has an idea for an NPC, an inner city youth codenamed Bling Bling. She has an Absorbing Man like ability to copy the properties of things she touches. I'm doing this as a multiform, giving her a limited number of forms rather than a pool. What she copies is jewelry.

A few forms come to mind:
Diamond, brick with hardened defenses and AP HA
Platinum, brick with extremely high ED
Gold, relatively low defenses, but can stretch, great for brachiating through mid-town


Anything else sugget itself?

Thanking everyone in advance.

[Supreme Serpent]

If you want things based on physical properties, then you've probably got it pretty covered. If you want to venture further into comic-book pseudo-science, you could have her generate an innate bio-luminescence that can give her some light powers in some gem forms. If you want to go even further afield, various gems have purported mystical properties, and you could base powers around those.

[LoresLost]

Ruby comes to mind as missing, and when I think ruby I think the early LASERs, so Ruby could be a EB weilding type. Silver could also be done as a attack reflector (mirrored surfaces are silvered).

Who needs science, use free form assocation gets more interresting results. Alchemical properties can be fun too.

[EverKnight]

Gold suggests to me Density Increase as well.

[Hugh Neilson]

Dig up those old Metal Men comics...

Gold is highly ductile, so Stretching

Lead is a terrific shield against radiation

Mercury "The only metal that's a liquid at room temperature!"

[Tiree]

There was a character exactly like this in X-Men: 2099 - if you have a copy or can pick it up, it might help.

But if you have any super science metal like adamantium - I would put that in there too.

[The Monster]

Flash vs vision - bright sparkly flashes, for any gem form

Invisibility with bright fringe - pure clear crystal

HA/HKA - sharp edges/points, possible with any jewelry form, but especialyl suitable for gemstones

EB/RKA - laser (I know, already mentioned, but for an odd limitation, make it dependent on having a bright light source, so that the hero is focusing light rather than generating it), especially for ruby

Desolid(!) - changing into a pile of small gems, able to slip through small holes, kind of like a "mist form"

Images - making jewelry-style signals and pictures on/with the body, especially for a primarily metal form

[tgrandjean]

Chrome: +Pre and Com- everything looks better with Chrome. ;)
14 charat gold plating: Ablative Armor, possible ablative +Com.
Bling Bling: Change environment: + Social skills (Hey, everybody likes bling right?)

[tinman]

Let's not forget about fake jewelry:

Plastic: shapeshift
glass: wickedly sharp edged HKA, maybe invisibility

[Enforcer84]

Pearls?
Silver?

[Rage]

I'd make Pearl have some RPD/ED. The special feature, ofcourse, should be being able to secrete a mother of pearl like substance for use in entangeling people, creating walls/objects and maybe even allowing extra running ala Ice Man's ice slides.

[Rage]

And, hey, it'd be cool if she could use forms like Obsidian to drain energy.

[Supreme]

First off, kudos to Number Two son on a great name and concept. Second, any crystalline form should allow for some kind of EB re-direction, though not reflection. So, some kind of missile deflection with reflection at any target except the original attacker.

[Captain Obvious]

Silver should be a good form for fighting werewolves and fairies, but I don't know how common they are in your campaign....

[Log-Man]

First off, kudos to Number Two son on a great name and concept. Second, any crystalline form should allow for some kind of EB re-direction, though not reflection. So, some kind of missile deflection with reflection at any target except the original attacker.
I was thinking of a Damage Reduction vs. lightbased attacks in gem form, along those lines.

Does it have to be a substance? I keep picturing an anthropomorphic Cadillac... :think:

[clsage]

I'd make Pearl have some RPD/ED. The special feature, ofcourse, should be being able to secrete a mother of pearl like substance for use in entangeling people, creating walls/objects and maybe even allowing extra running ala Ice Man's ice slides.

RPD with the limitation "Not VS Ammonia based attacks"...Which is
why women who wear pearls are warned to remove such jewlery
when around various household cleaners.

EDIT (11/21/05):

It should be a limitation "Not VS Attacks with Ammonia, Vinegar, Chlorine (as in pool
chlorine) or lemon juice"....Sorry I missed those on my first pass.

-Carl-

[Log-Man]

RPD with the limitation "Not VS Ammonia based attacks"...Which is
why women who wear pearls are warned to remove such jewlery
when around various household cleaners.

-Carl-
Wait...are you saying that Leave it to Beaver was wrong? Women don't clean the house in their pearls? My illusion...she is destroyed! :(

[Rage]

RPD with the limitation "Not VS Ammonia based attacks"...Which is
why women who wear pearls are warned to remove such jewlery
when around various household cleaners.

-Carl-
Brilliant, REPPED.

[dbsousa]

Hematite-Magnetic Powers
Jade-stronger than steel
Obsidian-absorbs light
Quartz-radio powers/energy reflection
Turquoise- Healing

[st barbara]

Don't forget the supposed "mystic" powers of precious stones ! If you can , try to get hold of a copy of George Frederick Kunz's "The Mystical Lore Of Precious Stones" (Newcastle Publishing Co, 1986). Bloodstone for example is quoted as causing "Thunder, lightning,rain and tempest" (p 65) and "Emerald" can "quicken the prophetic faculty" (p83-84).