Posted August 2, 200717 yr comment_54130 I was watching an episode of Batman the animated series, The one that introduces Man-Bat. Anyways old Bats pulls a aersol can and sprays it in the air in the room, then with (assumed) IR goggles he is able to see footprints (that lead him to a clue) What is it, and how would you write it up?
August 2, 200717 yr comment_1327090 Re: Help with a gadget Detect latent footprints (5pts) sense(5pts) OIF real cost 7pts
August 3, 200717 yr comment_1327884 Re: Help with a gadget Tragically, he's right -- a single footstep doesn't leave nearly enough of a thermal signature to 'show up' as the Bat does it. You're kind of stuck hand waving it to "detect foot print," "requires IR goggles" and OAF Gas (Charges).
August 3, 200717 yr comment_1327918 Re: Help with a gadget Are you sure it is in the IR? I suspect the spray was a liquid form to the dust that forensics experts use to collect finger/hand/foot/etc... -prints. If he was following an IR signature, then he would not need to spray the air with anything, just change his vision to perceive it and hope the target spent time in each step before moving on.
August 4, 200717 yr Author comment_1327995 Re: Help with a gadget not really sure if it was IR or not, the goggles made everything look red (so some kind of low light maybe), I suspect that the spray was somehow suppose to stick to the footprints to make them visible...
August 4, 200717 yr comment_1328003 Re: Help with a gadget That it turned red doesn't mean IR. The colors you see from an IR camera are an interpretation of the wavelengths that are outside our vision. You could easily change the interpretation of the wavelengths to all be shades of purple or green if one wanted to. Would be more likely that Bats was using UV like the effect you see with a black light when it strikes phosphorescent materials. The UV causes the material to fluoresce in the visible light spectrum.
August 6, 200717 yr comment_1328515 Re: Help with a gadget *blink blink* Yep. What he said. t3h r3ppz0rz!! (Never mind; I already repped that cat recently!)
August 6, 200717 yr comment_1328741 Re: Help with a gadget Could have also been some type of pheromone trail. In any event, mechanically it strikes me as some form of limited Tracking for Sight Group bought through a focus. The spray just provides a PER bonus.
August 6, 200717 yr comment_1328977 Re: Help with a gadget Umm... maybe I'm a minimalist...but I'd buy Tracking for sight group: OIF/OAF, and call the rest SFX...
August 12, 200717 yr comment_1331606 Re: Help with a gadget One of the original DC books had a lot of shtuff about detecting prints and like that. I'm guessing Batsy was using one of the powders that like sticks to disaranged fibers or something. The shtuff floureses (did I spell that right), so like maybe the goggles glowed in UV and also shifted UV to visible. Maybe?
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