clsage Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Had a thought on the ride home tonight and I'm not certain of an "elegant way" to generate the effect... Basically it's a device (built into a PDA or such) that generates a "privacy field" surrounding a couple of people and negating any evesdropping attempts while they talk. My initial idea involves using: Invisibility - Hearing group; Area Effect - Hole in the Center; IAF (PDA/Widget/whatever). I've also toyed with: Force Wall - Transparent to all but sound; IAF (PDA/Widget/whatever). Anyone got a cleaner, simpler method ? -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design You could do it as a mind link between the people involved. The special effect being that those outside of the circle just can't quite seem to make out what they are talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBikle Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design Howsabout: Darkness, 1" (which is 6.5 ft) vs. hearing group (possibly TV radio group too if you want)with Personal Immunity and the Area Effect advantage, Selective. Comes out to about 15 active pts. and 10 real points if it's through an IAF. You'll probably want to buy it as a continuing battery charge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design Howsabout: Darkness, 1" (which is 6.5 ft) vs. hearing group (possibly TV radio group too if you want)with Personal Immunity and the Area Effect advantage, Selective. Comes out to about 15 active pts. and 10 real points if it's through an IAF. You'll probably want to buy it as a continuing battery charge. I was thinking Darkness, too, but with a hole in the middle. Also, unless it can keep outside noises out, too, you'd want some form of "Only vs. noises from within" or some such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxom Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design Howsabout: Darkness, 1" (which is 6.5 ft) vs. hearing group (possibly TV radio group too if you want)with Personal Immunity and the Area Effect advantage, Selective. Comes out to about 15 active pts. and 10 real points if it's through an IAF. You'll probably want to buy it as a continuing battery charge. This won't quite work because you also need to make the person you want to talk with immune. That's why folks are going with hole-in-the-middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBikle Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design This won't quite work because you also need to make the person you want to talk with immune. That's why folks are going with hole-in-the-middle. That's why I chose the Selective advantage, which I believe, accomplishes the effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCMaenza Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design I kind of like the mindlink within the tight radius. This way the people can "talk" without it appearing like they are talking. Otherwise, folks walking buy would see them moving their lips but nothing would be coming out - thus the folks viewing them might think they were losing their own hearing. Then again, if that's the effect you want to go for... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsage Posted November 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design I kind of like the mindlink within the tight radius. This way the people can "talk" without it appearing like they are talking. Otherwise' date=' folks walking buy would see them moving their lips but nothing would be coming out - thus the folks viewing them might think they were losing their own hearing. Then again, if that's the effect you want to go for... [/quote'] The effect is basically a "white noise/listening device jammer" deal. I had thought of it (funnily enough) as a part of the backstory for how my (currently unfinished and unrun) character Sekkou would share the details of his secret ID with one of his contacts, a judge. Basically the backstory has him in her court chambers and activating the jammer/masker so they can talk privately. So it needs to be able to cover the area of a "standard office" and impact technological and/or "casual" (ear to the door) evesdropping. And since it's a sort of cool gadget for him to have in his tech arsenal I decided to make it more than just a plot point and build it. I had thought about Mindlink, but I have to admit I wasn't sure I could generate a "handwave physics/psuedo-science backstory" to explain it. And as Sekkou is mainly a sort of "Iron Man meets Reed Richards" type I'd really like to have that.... -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted November 30, 2005 Report Share Posted November 30, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design pseudoscience hand waving for this is a white noise generator with automatic transcription so you speak the unit cancels out your voice instantly and translates what you said into text for the other person to read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmurie Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design Force Wall 0PD 0ED Xpts Mental Defense, only vs. tech-based mental powers(-1), Opaque to hearing and radio (+15 points). It'd be pretty expensive though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ura-Maru Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design Darkness, Hearing Group, 2 hex radius, with a one-hex Hole in the Middle (+1/4). 13 points before disads. You can get away with a one-hex radius (6 points) if the GM is nice. ‘White noise’ really should be images ‘only to blot out sound’ or Change Enviornment to force a PER roll at a penalty, but Darkness is so cheap, it’s hard to resist. Mind link with no range is good too, but Mind Link has a pretty high ‘entrance cost’ --- Wasn’t this one of the example powers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsage Posted December 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design Wasn’t this one of the example powers? Hmmm. I'm going to need to take a gander at 5th and see.....Double hmmmm. Thanks. -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted December 2, 2005 Report Share Posted December 2, 2005 Re: Help With Gadget Idea/Design 5 Darkness to Hearing Group 1" radius, Mobile (+1/2), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (10 Active Points); No Range (-1/2), IAF (-1/2) Plus 1 of the following: 4 Option 1: Personal Immunity (+1/4) for up to 10 Active Points of Darkness, Usable Simultaneously (up to 2 people at once; +1/2), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Continuous (+1) (6 Active Points); IAF (-1/2) 3 Option 2: Hole In The Middle (1 hex in center; +1/4) for up to 10 Active Points of Darkness, Selective (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Continuous (+1) (5 Active Points); IAF (-1/2) HM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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