unclevlad

That's what the +1 advantage in option 2 is suggesting...but Selective would be even higher in principle.  If it's one-way, depending on exactly what it's blocking, an enemy could use it against you.  With selective?  Can't happen.  Not sure this'd be a big deal in practice, so perhaps it wouldn't increase the cost much, if at all.
 
Note that Barrier does include a One-Way Transparent.  It's +1/2 (single attack or small group of attacks) or +1 (any attack).  6E1 173.  It's also got a Caution indicator.
 
 

Probably better to work with the rules than try to work around them.  I will almost never allow an advantage on an advantage;  it's far, far too cheap, and this is just trying to ignore the power's fundamental limitation.  
 
Option 1:
Very simply, they can't scry from within the area.  So what?  They go to some nearby secured location and scry from there.  Or buy it with Personal Immunity for you, and *you* are the only one allowed to do so.  That's perfectly fine in my book.
 
Option 2:
Create an advantage:  +1, blocks in one direction only.  EDIT:  I'm thinking *for this application and this power* it's probably a +1 advantage.  I'm assuming you're thinking permanent Non-Detection, warding a room.  For other uses, and definitely for other powers, the size of the advantage could well be higher.

You can't have a complete lockdown.  That's not even happening in Italy;  essential stores are still open, like grocery stores.  You also have to deal with public reaction.  The hammer blow we're feeling in the US is that...this bloody well feels like an Infinity Gauntlet finger snap.  Wednesay noon...normal-ish. at least in many places.  Wednesday night...20 foot waves crashing onshore.  Thursday noon...tidal wave hits.  It was that fast, that sudden, and that complete a change.  We couldn't, and still in many places, shouldn't go to a complete lockdown yet.  There are some serious consequences...shutting down public schools creates a BIG problem for kids who rely on that school lunch, and for working parents, for example.
 
The goal, BTW, isn't to stop new cases.  It's to keep the case load from spiking past the point where health care can deal with it.  That's when death rates start rising rather higher.  Plus, it offers more time for research for a vaccine or drug to take the virus out.  Because...figure.  With this many cases known, even if things quiet down as the weather warms...the risk of round 2, come November or December, is significant.

Unlike certain national leaders, the leaders at local levels tend to do that.  AND care about trying to find a workable solution.

Unlike certain national leaders, the leaders at local levels tend to do that.  AND care about trying to find a workable solution.

My school is providing box lunches (and breakfasts). Student comes in, gives their code, takes the box and leaves. In and out in under a minute.
 
It's not ideal, but it's better than kids not eating.

You can't have a complete lockdown.  That's not even happening in Italy;  essential stores are still open, like grocery stores.  You also have to deal with public reaction.  The hammer blow we're feeling in the US is that...this bloody well feels like an Infinity Gauntlet finger snap.  Wednesay noon...normal-ish. at least in many places.  Wednesday night...20 foot waves crashing onshore.  Thursday noon...tidal wave hits.  It was that fast, that sudden, and that complete a change.  We couldn't, and still in many places, shouldn't go to a complete lockdown yet.  There are some serious consequences...shutting down public schools creates a BIG problem for kids who rely on that school lunch, and for working parents, for example.
 
The goal, BTW, isn't to stop new cases.  It's to keep the case load from spiking past the point where health care can deal with it.  That's when death rates start rising rather higher.  Plus, it offers more time for research for a vaccine or drug to take the virus out.  Because...figure.  With this many cases known, even if things quiet down as the weather warms...the risk of round 2, come November or December, is significant.

You can't have a complete lockdown.  That's not even happening in Italy;  essential stores are still open, like grocery stores.  You also have to deal with public reaction.  The hammer blow we're feeling in the US is that...this bloody well feels like an Infinity Gauntlet finger snap.  Wednesay noon...normal-ish. at least in many places.  Wednesday night...20 foot waves crashing onshore.  Thursday noon...tidal wave hits.  It was that fast, that sudden, and that complete a change.  We couldn't, and still in many places, shouldn't go to a complete lockdown yet.  There are some serious consequences...shutting down public schools creates a BIG problem for kids who rely on that school lunch, and for working parents, for example.
 
The goal, BTW, isn't to stop new cases.  It's to keep the case load from spiking past the point where health care can deal with it.  That's when death rates start rising rather higher.  Plus, it offers more time for research for a vaccine or drug to take the virus out.  Because...figure.  With this many cases known, even if things quiet down as the weather warms...the risk of round 2, come November or December, is significant.

You can't have a complete lockdown.  That's not even happening in Italy;  essential stores are still open, like grocery stores.  You also have to deal with public reaction.  The hammer blow we're feeling in the US is that...this bloody well feels like an Infinity Gauntlet finger snap.  Wednesay noon...normal-ish. at least in many places.  Wednesday night...20 foot waves crashing onshore.  Thursday noon...tidal wave hits.  It was that fast, that sudden, and that complete a change.  We couldn't, and still in many places, shouldn't go to a complete lockdown yet.  There are some serious consequences...shutting down public schools creates a BIG problem for kids who rely on that school lunch, and for working parents, for example.
 
The goal, BTW, isn't to stop new cases.  It's to keep the case load from spiking past the point where health care can deal with it.  That's when death rates start rising rather higher.  Plus, it offers more time for research for a vaccine or drug to take the virus out.  Because...figure.  With this many cases known, even if things quiet down as the weather warms...the risk of round 2, come November or December, is significant.

Another trope uses the concept of the hypermassive elements with insanely large atomic numbers.  
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
 
Some writers have even pushed to atomic numbers in the several hundreds range.  These should be incredibly dense, too, because all those protons and neutrons are in such a small space.  Or maybe you don't go completely with the magic number of electrons, and go with something with, say, 6 electrons in an outer orbit...which means you form a carbene ring with em.  
 
For exotic, extra-heavy materials, there's the tungsten bronzes.  IIRC they're very tough, and pretty darn heavy...density around 16 or so IIRC.  
 
And powers can be used to explain why some things work out...for example, hardness is resistance to being scratched, whereas toughness (or brittleness) refers to chipping or shattering.  Ceramics are very hard...but they're also pretty darn brittle.  I've broken more ceramic kitchen knife blades than I care to remember.   It's the nature of the beast.  Yes, well, with powers, you can simply declare that differential tempering (a katana's body is covered in clay to keep it safe while the edge is tempered to be extra-hard, extra sharp.....and unfortunately more brittle) is the baseline but some Super has a power that allows it to be taken far beyond what the smith can do.  
 
Another approach, and one I kinda prefer, is leave this alone for the most part.  Not sure it's ever needed.  Just leave it as a consequence of a power....a bo staff wielder with 3 levels of DI, that staff now has a density of 6 or 7, if we say his DI also impacts his items should he so choose.  Or a katana would have a density of 64 or so.  A glass or crystalline weapon's often considered cool, if unworkable...but with its density shot up from 4 to 32?  
 
Last part...over-explaining and making a lot of this overly easy (as D&D did with both mithril and adamantium) doesn't ever help.   "A small quantity was created in an industrial accident."  Classic supers creation trope, that's even easier to apply to a super material.

I quite liked this prediction: In nine months there will be a suspicious baby boom. We will call the children "quarenteenies"

THE buzzwords of the moment...
 
 
Social Distancing.
 
Didn't mention...shopped yesterday as usual.  The store had big honkin' bottles of hand sanitizer prominently positioned by the produce.  That's in addition to wipes by the cart areas.

BTW, most probably know the World Health Organization declared a pandemic.  I don't think a lot of people really understood what that meant;  it's just a word.  
 
But...this was part of it.
 
 
It's that number of countries that's such a concern.  It's NOT isolated to Wuhan, to Italy;  it is showing up everywhere.  It's in 44 states;  3 just popped up in New Mexico.  So, you can't just say "don't go here"...the risk is spreading.  And that's why large gatherings are such a bad idea;  one case can explode into dozens of cases, and by the time it's recognized...who knows how many more.

Dow didn't drop 1000.
 
Right now (it'd be noon Eastern) it's down close to 2000.

What I've read via Harvard Medical is that contracting COVID-19 should provide short-term immunity, but the protection gets less and less effective as the virus mutates and the chance of coming in contact with a different strain increases over time. So, like the flu.

Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz has tested positive.  Obviously this puts all the Jazz day-to-day staff at risk, as well as every opponent over the last few weeks.
 
This clearly means numerous teams will have to be tested, and it would be highly irresponsible to have them play.  Thus, the move to suspend the season after tonight's games (other than the Jazz game which was obviously postponed) is easy.  EDIT:  and yes, that is what they did.  The NBA has suspended the season until further notice.

HD says "should not" but it will let you.  I think from HD's perspective, it may create illegal linkages between frameworks.
 
My feeling is...no, I wouldn't allow it, or Naked Advantage.  It's too subject to abuse...to tweak the basic powers of a general slot with a trivial Powers skill roll, just based on the active points of the advantage rather than the whole power.  This certainly applies to Naked Advantage;  perhaps less so to Differing, since that is ONLY applicable when UOO is being applied.  
 
 
 

Again this build doesn't work the way you think it does.  The difference is where you put the the Usable Simultaneously.  If you put the Usable simultaneously on the personal immunity, then you are transferring the ability of the personal immunity to the recipient but not the darkness power itself.  That power is still with the active user.  Thus if the recipient has the darkness power of up to 40 active points, they could use it for their power, but if they didn't have the power, the naked advantage does not apply.
 
In order for it to work you need to attach the Usable Simultaneously as part of the naked advantage making the power 30 active points.  Naked advantages of Personal Immunity and Usable Simultaneously on 40 active for 20 points.  Reduced End on the Naked Advantage for +1/2 = 30 Active.  IIF on power construct reducing final cost to 24 pts.
 
In all honesty, its a waste of points.  You can put Personal Immunity on the original darkness and then define that the personal immunity is due to special goggles.  Then anyone with the special goggles would be immune.  This could be copied by the villains but they would have to somehow discover this initially before implementing a workaround.

massey, he doesn't want "open any lock."
 
He wants to bypass any form of security system, no matter how sophisticated, no matter the nature.  And do it with a finger snap, pretty much.  Sure, systems can be bypassed...but that's talking what kinds of rolls, how many, and taking how long?  With what kinds of support tools?  
 
How tough a Security Systems roll would you make breaking into a highly classified lab doing highly dangerous and/or highly illegal work?  How many layers of security would it have?  Me...it'd be pretty high.  So to crack it that fast, without the usual support tools implicit in skills use...that's at least making the roll by 5, wouldn't you say?  So we're talking mimicking a 23- skill roll, maybe a 25-?  And potentially both security systems and lockpicking simultaneously.  So someone who wanted to build a Master Thief would be sinking HOW many points into doing this?  And those are dedicated *character* points.  
 
I suspect some of this is that it's rare to build the master thief as a PC.  The security system has to be handled;  until it is, the story is likely stonewalled.  If the PCs aren't gonna be involved in the solution, then there's no need to elaborate on the complexities.  That doesn't mean they're not there.  If you allow the complex security system, then it's a lot easier to say that a universal bypass to any and all security systems *should* be expensive, especially as a simple action.  Heck, if it's just broken up into its parts, from a power perspective it's less of a problem. 
 
It's also not simply the power.  It's the degree to which this character can hog the spotlight, and the degree to which he can use his pool to duplicate *hundreds* of points in skills.  So it's not just what it's doiing, but what it represents.  

Right.  Don't worry about the physics or conventional metallurgy as you're far, far past either.  It behaves as you say.
 
If it's needing so much STR to move, then there's several options.  One might be a big OCV penalty;  another might be Extra Time, or some similar limitation...the stroke itself, and recovering from the stroke to return to a ready position, might both be affected.  I haven't played with the Real Weapons rules...doesn't STR Min say you only get to add the damage from STR above what's needed?  Fine, this needs maybe a 20 STR to wield, at 200 lbs.
 
Lord Liaden:  there are better approaches.  I had a character build dealing with carbon forms...graphene, carbon nanotubes, and the like have some *very* interesting properties.  Then I read Laurence Dahmer's Donsaii series...among other things, he was using various forms of carbon.  One of em was lonsdaleite...a disputed form of diamond that is theoretically *harder*.  Then you play games with graphene padding underneath, as a shock absorber.  And the density's the same as diamond...3.5.  For comparison, aluminum is 2.7 and titanium is 4.5.  Armor built like this might best be modeled as rDef plus Damage Reduction (say, Stun Only, and Only if the rDef isn't exceeded), as the structure distributes the impact.

 

And it's 120 BEFORE 0 END.  So it's 24 dice of Blast, all day, every day.
 
And remember, when you try to interpret a comic book character...
--writers don't care about points
--writers don't care about mechanics
--writers have absolute control over what their characters do, AND what happens to them
--writers don't care about balance 
 
Some characters are fairly easy to translate in a balanced manner...Beast, Cyclops, Colossus should be straightforward.  Others are fairly easy to interpret but are probably *obscenely* expensive...try to define Rogue's power-stealing, to the point where it matches the effects in the comics.  LARGE number of dice, you have to buy down the fade rate and buy up the recovery delay to VERY high levels, and probably buy multiple powers at once, which gets very expensive too.  And it's Transfer, not Drain, so that much more expensive.  And some characters are simply hard to define too, as they violate system rules in one form or another, or their powers are particularly nebulous and/or problematic...every comic book mage-type fits here.  Or, one of my favorite superhero book series is Drew Hayes' Super Powereds.  One of the characters is described as a damage absorber...any injury you do to her, she can absorb, literally.  THEN give it back to you, by touch.  She can absorb damage/injuries done to others as well, by touch.  HUGELY powerful.  The injuries are stored...they don't fade until they're given to someone else.  So she's also an incredibly powerful healer.  Also, she has basically no capacity limits, and almost no limits on the types of injuries.  It might be possible to define what she does, but IMO it'd take twisting the rules beyond comprehension.

Personally...I'd never allow it.  I will consider skill levels that are OIAID or linked to a power, or possibly bought through a focus, but never bare levels in a VPP or multi.  It's free "oh I have 10 skill levels with ANYTHING for next to no cost!!!"  Taken to its extreme...
 
VPP, 15 Real points, 15 Control cost.  Don't need to change powers in combat, so you don't need half-phase, and don't need to blow off the skill roll.  In fact, you tack on Requires a Skill Roll, Gestures, and Incants as common limitations on the powers...so you get 2 skills with 6 levels each.  Any time you want, any skill you want.
 
You probably don't even need to separate this from your regular magic pool;  most skills are applicable outside combat, so you probably won't need a big attack power loaded and ready.
 
A secondary argument...I'd probably allow a MUCH simpler spell to deal with any purely physical lock, a la Knock.  But OP is trying to go far beyond that, to deal with all kinds of locks AND security implementations.  This should be HARD.  I would be more inclined to allow a spell to be constructed to target the features of the specific obstacle, which itself would require time and special senses to analyze.  And I'd still be disinclined to allow it...because I stopped supporting the "magic can do ANYTHING!!" approach.  Well, gee, why is everyone else there????
 

You can of course toss in the weight multiplier for not much.
 
However, you're also going to need something like clairsentience to see inside the vault;  Safe Blind Teleport is a poor second choice.
 
And this will get you into the vault...then what?  Let's say it's the bank's safety deposit vault...how are you gonna get the boxes open?
 
Does teleport displace air?  It generally doesn't matter...but here it does.  A vault *today* doesn't have a security measure to sense displaced air, but in a world with superpowers?  How about motion sensors to kick off lights and cameras in the vault?  Or IR sensors that automatically trigger an alarm when there's a spike.  Teleport is, IMO, the most obvious threat;  this may be campaign-specific but teleport is a sweet power.  Desolid is very nice, but also seriously expensive, and has significant, tricky implications, so it's likely to be relatively limited by comparison.  And yet, the IR probably goes off....
 
You need to play more agents, spies, and thief-types.   Getting in is only the first step.

To extend the thought...to handle REALLY good systems, I'd require Mind Scan, to *find* the actual computer you need to control.  It's connected to the door but it's not in the door.  I'd also require Computer Systems or Security Systems to see about access logging, and what countermeasures might be in place to block simple hacking.  Serious security starts by analyzing potential threats...and they take their sweet time in doing so.  So, a simple hand-wave, boom, we're in...that doesn't work for me. 
 
Secondary point:  I'd be SERIOUSLY disinclined to allow most of those limitations.  They don't matter;  this is an out-of-combat power.  

Oh, and the skill roll would be at -17 as you have it written....you have to cast em both together, and there's 170 active.  Got a 30- skill roll?
 
Last:  Magic Only is a VPP limitation, affecting the control cost.  IIRC, it doesn't reduce the real cost of powers in the VPP.  Probably not significant right now, with the other limitations.  And just looking?  5d6-1 Severe is 70;  you have +1 total advantage.  Even with just the +1/2 Improved Results Group, you're looking at 105 Active.  As a general rule, it's a very bad idea, as well, to put 0 END as a common modifier on the VPP.  Hero Designer will, I think, bounce powers that don't cost END to begin with, as they can't fit within the framework.  (I know it'll do that with limitations like Beam...you can't add, say, an HA in, because Beam can't be applied to an HA.)  Also not sure that Hero Designer always does the calculation of Active correctly when you have common advantages...I'm thinking I saw some cases where it didn't, in stuff I did like this.