http://mamba-with-me.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] mamba-with-me.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] ways_back_room2011-03-18 03:14 pm

Permissions post: Black Mamba

Hi there. Apologies for the long permissions post but, this character has a complex and wacky set of powers.

Meet Black Mamba, mercenary chick and herpetologist, who I've recently brought into Milliways and thus this is the requisite permissions and plotting post for her since she has some telepathic abilities. You can respond here or on her journal where I go into a bit more depth about her powers and abilities.

Firstly, she will not, I repeat not, ever use her telepathic abilities on someone without explicit mun permission.

Mamba's powers include extensive manipulation of the Darkforce. The Darkforce is a dimension near Earth-616's that is made up of, you guessed it, the Darkforce or dark matter with special properties. The list of people who can tap into it and manipulate it with skill is small. Once tapped into, it requires considerable skill to use; users can cause anything from lethargy to death in other people. Users can also use it to obscure themselves, other people, and a host of other nasty or good things depending on where you sit on the axis of good/evil and what you're using it for. Black Mamba most often uses it to project the image of the person her victim loves or desires the most into her chosen victim's mind while having the Darkforce slowly either suffocate them or be horrified by the vision she's projecting.

Black Mamba's telepathy is technological; she got it via a device implanted in her brain. She will use this mostly to lightly scan her immediate environment unless a threat/potential customer presents himself/herself/itself. In other words, she'll use her telepathy to take a snapshot of the moods of the people around her rather painting than probe someone deeply. Those she will probe deeply she considers a threat and/or a victim, but again, never without mun permission.

Mamba is also a mercenary extraordinaire. If you want espionage done, people disappeared, something liberated, something put back before its owner notices it gone, etc., Mamba's your girl. She's good alone and also a good team player. So I'm searching for plot for her - she spent years with the Serpent Society and functions well in a team environment. But don't shy away from asking her to do solo work.

Other abilities that Mamba has due to the Darkforce: the ability to create and project vivid hallucinations directly into the minds of her chosen foes, mind control, hypnotic suggestion, illusion casting, and mood control. She can stay underwater for a long time due to the gills in her neck. The gills are very hard to detect unless she's closely examined.

She used to be a bad girl but she's reformed into anti-hero status. She'll hurt and embarrass (see Cable & Deadpool #20) but won't kill unless her foe is truly evil or trying to kill her.

I'm up for any and all plotting shenanigans with her, so please let me know if you could use her for anything.

So please let me know if you do or do not want your pup to bump up against her powers. Thanks, and again, sorry for the length.
death_gone_mad: Amascut smiling, baring and gritting her teeth. Who knows what that expression means? (yes!)

[personal profile] death_gone_mad 2011-03-18 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear, I always worry about psychics making passive sweeps like that and stumbling across Amascut.

Due to the curse on her name, it is amnesia inducing. Partially because she is one of the few people that can remember her name, partially as a defense mechanism (or maybe she likes nomming on psychics), her name is always on her mind on constant repeat.

I am sure the vampyres on her world love that ability of hers. They can't use their mind tricks on her unless they want their mind wiped.

HEY! That is probably the reason why she hasn't raised an army of vamps to do her bidding. Well, one of them, besides hating the undead.

Ummm, read minds at your own peril?
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[personal profile] mechanicalswans 2011-03-19 02:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I got some demigod-types who could be of service at shenanigans-providing, if you'd be interested! Three demigods, three different types of trouble ^_^
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[personal profile] winter_arrows 2011-03-20 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Skaði here, and the yet-to-be-EPed (but soon I promise!) [livejournal.com profile] scarred_grin. Weyland could really use someone to get him strange and very specific supplies for his crafting projects, Skaði tends to be more secretive and more forceful with things she wants done, and Loki has a lot of smaller things he could use having done so he doesn't have to do them all himself. Feel free to ping me at amselakaantje on AIM or private message any of my LJs if you want to discuss it further. ^_^

[identity profile] gammagammahey.livejournal.com 2011-03-20 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Ooooh, the Weyland thing sounds promising. Mamba doesn't take being ordered around well, so Skaoi may not be as good as a match. Loki? Mamba's willing. She's all over it, bebbeh!
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[personal profile] mechanicalswans 2011-03-20 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
The guys are a lot easier to get along with than Skaði anyway; she's kinda... difficult. *chuckle* Excellent!
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[personal profile] bcgphoenix 2011-03-22 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
...okay, I am (a) really belated in this and (b) threadjacking liek wo, BUT. Holy crap. Once you EP Loki, would you have any interest in threading with [livejournal.com profile] changeinasnap?
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[personal profile] mechanicalswans 2011-03-22 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely! ^___^ (I'm aiming for this weekend for EPing, if all goes well on the background work I need to do first.)

[identity profile] elffreaky.livejournal.com 2011-03-19 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
you are totally welcome to mess with any of my pup's heads. The only one that might be a problem is Rem, but she's not a telepath. It might be a bit freaky though, for someone to run across the real names, and lifespans of all the human pups in Milliways. Then again, that might make for some fun crack.

Other than that, there is the Fox in Naruto that is a different mind all together. And Seras is a vampire... Daniel Jackson used to be ascended, but he doesn't remember any of it, but it is still there. Vala has all the memories of the Goh'uld that had used her as a host. Tass is a Kender, enough said. And Raziel is well Raziel from Legacy of Kain. Oh and I have Toby from the Labyrinth but he's just a regular kid.

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[personal profile] penderwydd 2011-03-19 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
But where ever Rem is Looking she can see the names and lifespans of the humans in her view.

[identity profile] kali921.livejournal.com 2011-03-19 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, I see. I can't see that affecting Mamba much unless she was told or was scanning Rem specifically and Rem's mind makes that information available to her in a way that Mamba understands.
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[personal profile] penderwydd 2011-03-19 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
She's not telepathic, and hasn't met one yet, so she's not hiding her thoughts or anything. So, I'm sure some of them might get through. It's a natural thing for her to see the names and lifespans, so, she really doen't pay to much attention to them.

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[personal profile] happy_kender 2011-03-19 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
There are some calculations that Rem has to do to know what the lifespan is in Human years. Let's just say that she does them auto like and if Mamba gets a hit it's just the raw.
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[personal profile] kd7sov 2011-03-19 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm. Is she any good at finding hidden or disguised doors? And what are her feelings on killing non-human, not-especially-intelligent monsters?

[identity profile] kali921.livejournal.com 2011-03-19 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, she's good at finding lots of things. She'd likely have no problem with killing monsters - it'd help if they have someone they answer to or care about because Mamba's MO, when she's using lethal force, is to usually have the person/thing experience incredible bliss while being strangled to death by the Darkforce. Most often she has her victim imagine they're in the arms of the person they loved the most while back in reality they're being suffocated.

But she's good with killing monsters, as long as they're bad.

[personal profile] fallsinplace 2011-03-21 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
OMG, Black Mamba yay!

In other news, anything my pups mention in their posts is free to be noticed, and if you have something specific, I'm definitely up to talk about it!

Oh, I guess you can't do that with Belle, since she has shielding, but everyone else is fair game! Especially Kyo. He is going to be projecting like a mofo.

[personal profile] fallsinplace 2011-03-22 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Both! Give me a couple months to get Domino to an acceptable point in canon. At the very least, they can talk about how hard it is to find women's combat boots without heels.

I've got Belle Rogan (canon name Belladonna Boudreaux) [livejournal.com profile] poisonwine
Kyo Sohma [Unknown site tag]
Domino
and Lorna Dane [livejournal.com profile] magneticxman

[identity profile] the-fell-fire.livejournal.com 2011-03-21 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Aegnor thinks it is cool. :P