Darkness and Desolidification

[taenia]

If i activate darkness and then become desolidified does the darkness fail to function or get turned off.

The idea is to make a character that can turn into a big cloud, using that combination of power to describe the character, but I am wondering if i activate darkness first then become desolidifed what exactly would happen?

Thanks, and I am enjoying 6th edition

[Steve Long]

This definitely falls into the “good question, I wonder why no one’s ever asked this before?” category. ;) To save myself some trouble I’m going to rephrase it more “generically” and answer that. Here we go:

Q: If a character uses a Constant Power on a target, and the character then becomes Desolidified, does the Constant Power continue to affect the target?

A: No. Once a character Desolidifies, any Constant Powers he’s maintaining cease to affect the physical world at that time. If he wanted to, he could continue paying END to keep them functioning so that they would start to affect the target again when he (the character) becomes solid again (thus saving himself the need to use another Attack Action and succeed with another Attack Roll), but as long as he’s Desolidified, a character cannot affect the physical world.

However, note that the “lingering” effects of Instant Powers don’t vanish just because the character who created them Desolidifies. Examples including continuing-effect Mental Powers (see 6E1 191) and Entangles.