SD.net gets the ability to Jump (RAR!)

[Ford Prefect]

Turning over to the government might not be the smartest thing unless you first go massively public as to exclude the chance of the government locking you down and killing - you can't really predict the reaction.

Locking you down? One thing you really can't do to a Jumper is lock him up, unless they work out the 'thousand volts through the brain' trick.

And if one of you chumps let them know, I will jump into your house and bash your skull in with a bar from my massive collection of gold bullion.

[TheDarkling]

I would tell the government everything, hopefully I can get a nice civil service wage and if not, then at least the mundanes will have some warning about the monsters this power will create.

[Molyneux]

Turning over to the government might not be the smartest thing unless you first go massively public as to exclude the chance of the government locking you down and killing - you can't really predict the reaction.

Locking you down? One thing you really can't do to a Jumper is lock him up, unless they work out the 'thousand volts through the brain' trick.

And if one of you chumps let them know, I will jump into your house and bash your skull in with a bar from my massive collection of gold bullion.

Gold bullion? Feh. You're thinking small.

A Jumper can traverse the width of the Earth without much effort. How much do you think you could get paid if you could train to jump as far as, say...the Moon? Or even Mars? We don't know just what kinds of limits Jump distance has, or if it can be augmented by artificial means.

[DarkSilver]

keep myself nice and quiet, use it to cut out commuting for myself, and go do some random visits.

oh, and sleep in my own damn bed every fucking night instead of that stupid bunk when I'm at work...

[Wedge]

Only three have a big enough ego to say they would venture to use their jumping power to make a revolution?

I would join the C.I.A.

Since the C.I.A. has been known to remove democracies, you would be a potential enemy.

Your name is on TEH LIST now.

[Molyneux]

Only three have a big enough ego to say they would venture to use their jumping power to make a revolution?

What kind of revolution? You're still vulnerable to a bullet in the head as a Jumper. You're powerful, but not exactly a one-man army, unless you train yourself to the extent that you really would be anyway. You could make a pretty good assassin, but you'll still be putting your life on the line for very little real gain.

I would join the C.I.A.

Since the C.I.A. has been known to remove democracies, you would be a potential enemy.

Your name is on TEH LIST now.

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The NSA might be a better choice. I hear they've got less of a reputation of incompetence.

[Ford Prefect]

Gold bullion? Feh. You're thinking small.

I'm thinking 'stable future for my family'. I'm not interested in doing big things like travel to the moon for NASA or any governmental organisation. I'm interested in using my superpower to the benefit of the people I love and care for.

[Lord Relvenous]

You then Jump right into the bathroom in your, which is currently not in use.

What happens?

i use the bathroom. Anyways, i'd probably use this power to visit every city i've ever wanted to see, make myself rich and powerful, go skydiving without a parachute (teleport up, fall, then telport to the ground) and see the world from the top of mount everest. You know everyday things.

[Molyneux]

Gold bullion? Feh. You're thinking small.

I'm thinking 'stable future for my family'. I'm not interested in doing big things like travel to the moon for NASA or any governmental organisation. I'm interested in using my superpower to the benefit of the people I love and care for.

I repeat. Do you know how much you could charge for that kind of service, with essentially no overhead?

[Coyote]

There's a world full of ladies' locker rooms out there...

[Ford Prefect]

I repeat. Do you know how much you could charge for that kind of service, with essentially no overhead?

How much do you think I want the rest of the world to know I'm a Jumper? I don't need them to pay me for any service, even if it means I can become a billionaire, or even a trillionaire. I don't need that kind of money, I need a resource that will hold its value until the end of time, and I don't need to ask for it. I can take it, and then they won't know, and I'll still be able to protect my family after the inevitable crash of the rest of the world, where gold will still be valuable.

[Singular Intellect]

Oh, this is easy.

I wait for the crackdown and chaos caused by the power drunk and stupid users here to die down, and then use my power to very carefully but very meticulously improve my life situation for myself and significant others.

My biggest challenge I think would be when I'm confronted with situations where publicly displaying my ability would be a necessity to some greater good, like saving someone in distress or preventing some localized disaster.

[K. A. Pital]

Lockdown? You can knock a Jumper out with simple stun gun and keep him sedated - there you go, your guinea pig.

[Ford Prefect]

Lockdown? You can knock a Jumper out with simple stun gun and keep him sedated - there you go, your guinea pig.

If someone from this board rats us all out, then actually finding us in the first place becomes a whole lot easier - otherwise the world is left scratching their heads trying to pick up where a Jumper is from, or going, without centuries of built-up know how on how to do so (knowledge of the movie excepted).

The world doesn't have a lot of the advantages that the Paladins do - for example, they don't have the wormhole device, nor do I believe that it could be made in anything less than years or decades. I only need a week of world-wide jumping, if that in order to set myself up for life. Any more jumping will be to find traitors and bashing them over the head with gold bricks.

[K. A. Pital]

Oh god. The Paladins are totally ridiculous.

You know how you kill a jumper?

You don't go with freaky stun batons around. As far as I know, Jumpers aren't jedi. They have no eyes on the back of the head and neither are they safe against snipers. Tranquilizers, paralytic stoff, stun strikes from behind, electro-stun.

If the government wanted to kill or capture Jumpers, it would certainly take down some of them.

[Ford Prefect]

Oh god. The Paladins are totally ridiculous.

But snappy dressers.

You know how you kill a jumper?

You start swinging something heavy and jump right behind them, bringing the lump of heavy whatever into the back of their skull, rendering them unconscious, brain damaged or dead.

This is the fate that awaits all traitors.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Man this would be sooo much more simplier and fun if it was just "Us" and not SD.net as a whole

[K. A. Pital]

You start swinging something heavy and jump right behind them, bringing the lump of heavy whatever into the back of their skull, rendering them unconscious, brain damaged or dead.

Exactly. That's what the government can do to YOU and you wont' see it coming with all your uberness, if you get public.

One sniper - a bullet or tranquilizer dart - and you with your uber-power bite the dust or become an experimental polygon

Going public is a no-no I think.

[Ford Prefect]

You hear that guys? Stas is with me. Go public at your own risk. AAAAAH MOTHERLAND.

[K. A. Pital]

A vigilante, however, is nigh invincible, especially if he adopts some kind of superhero suit and jumps most to safe places if his face is open. That's a situation where a superhero costume would actually make sense - you'd avoid identification and any possible situation where you get suspected and watched.

I can't believe I'm saying this, I loathe superhero suits.

[Xon]

One major issue with a superhero suit is masking your voice.

[K. A. Pital]

One major issue with a superhero suit is masking your voice.

An agent who may cross your path by chance might not necessarily recognize your voice (would you be speaking much in places where that could be clearly recorded, anyway? I bet no). But sure as hell even a CCTV camera could make out your facial features. Unlike keeping silent, there's no way you can avoid your face being recognized.

Hell, how about your family and friends? They aren't exactly safe even if you are identified, so identification is to be avoided at all costs.

[Darth Tanner]

I havn't seen the film so what sort of limitations are there on the amount of mass that you can 'jump' with? I seem to remember jumping buses from the trailers so is there anything to stop you wearing a space suit and jumping satalites or the shuttle into orbit. Human space elevator.

With running your own parcel company your going to be raking it in, just a 15kg parcel crossing the atlantic costs in excess of £150, and you could do one every minute for an hour a day to earn a fortune, not to mention what you could charge for say ten hour delivery times (the shortest you could claim without breaking cover)

If everyone on SD.net has this ability though I'd be rather worried about some members stealing nuclear warheads and nuking various enemies. If we get Mike to destroy all his servers and back ups will that leave anything that could still be used to trace us?

[fnord]

Jump oil drilling and processing equipment to Titan (assuming that mass and distance is doable) and start extracting the hydrocarbons there for sale dirtside? (which should be doable if you can get the kit there in first place).

[Xon]

An agent who may cross your path by chance might not necessarily recognize your voice (would you be speaking much in places where that could be clearly recorded, anyway? I bet no). But sure as hell even a CCTV camera could make out your facial features. Unlike keeping silent, there's no way you can avoid your face being recognized.

I'm agreeing with you, just stating that there are drawbacks to using a costume.

The classical superhero skin-tight costume is actually bad for a jumper. Less detail you can figure out the better for the Jumper, and it isnt like they are going to be inconvienced moving a a full-body length trenchcoat.

Hell, how about your family and friends? They aren't exactly safe even if you are identified, so identification is to be avoided at all costs.

Given the population size of sd.net, the scenario in the OP virtually insures that some government in the world is going to get a near unstoppable assassin. And the only real defense against an Assassin Jumper is being completely unknown.

Covert-Ops would get downright nasty with Jumpers. You'ld have what amounts to an unblockable supply train directly to a secure depot. And that "secure depot" might not even be the factions using it.