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Being able to sneak unoticed into the football teams locker room=priceless
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Sorry I'm late but i still pick invis. If it truly is a super-power, then that means I can control it and its scope/duration. Otherwise it is an inconvenience; a mutation, and not a boon.

So cool to be invis, when I fly I want a plane.
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Post by C.S.Strowbridge »

Anyone here watch the X-Files episode with the Djinni? The one guy wished to be invisible, and was almost immediately run over by a truck.

That's not to say Flight's terribly useful. Imagine Rapture of the Deep at 30,000 feet.
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Invisibilty, but only if it's an on/off thing. But then sneaking into chick's rooms and watching them, thatsa..big plus. :D
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First choice: flight. Then I realized that flight didn't necessarily mean quick flight. For all I knew, I fly with the speed of an unconscious fly. Thus, invisibility. I can get away with spooking girls in the locker room! (No offense, ladies)
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For those that keep asking


Invsibility is Complete, Is on and off with either mental or voice command, It makes YOU invisbile and anything CLOSE to you but not other people, basicly just enough for thin clothes, heavy Jackets and whatnot will be visable as will thick things like rollex watchs or carkeys and wallets


FLIGHT is Flight, You can carry people on your back only if you can do so now and still manage a heathy run, Flight is as fast as you want it but phyiscal constraints are present, IE Faster than 60 MPH and you can't see much and its rather cold as well, You can fly but your not protected from the elements or the temepure up there

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Invisibility, for the standard reasons. :twisted:
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Mr Bean wrote:For those that keep asking


Invsibility is Complete, Is on and off with either mental or voice command, It makes YOU invisbile and anything CLOSE to you but not other people, basicly just enough for thin clothes, heavy Jackets and whatnot will be visable as will thick things like rollex watchs or carkeys and wallets


FLIGHT is Flight, You can carry people on your back only if you can do so now and still manage a heathy run, Flight is as fast as you want it but phyiscal constraints are present, IE Faster than 60 MPH and you can't see much and its rather cold as well, You can fly but your not protected from the elements or the temepure up there
Invisibility takes the cake, then.
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I chose flight. I'd make hella money just showing off my powers. Invisibility is lame, people don't wanna pay to see that.
So all you hard-up invisible freaks can go around stalking your high school crushes, and I'll be making the green on the Today Show.
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Re: Two Options...

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Mr Bean wrote:
The question is this, Choice of Superpowers

1. Invisibility
2. Flight

Questions are welcome but answear first, if you change your mind do it in the follow-up the next day
Flight. I'm scared of heights, so flying would remove that completely (it's hard to fall when you can fly :) ). Plus the saving on international flights would be great and I would never get a parking ticket (warm jacket and a Bike helmet means i can safely fly at 100 mph - who needs a car?). I'd never be able to drown in a shipwreck, die in a climbing accident, be trapped in an Avalanche while skiing, stuck in a burning building. An absolute boon.

Who needs invisibility unless your robbing a bank? You want naked women? Try talking to clothed ones for a while, they can become naked if you try hard enough. :P
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Mr Bean wrote:For those that keep asking


Invsibility is Complete, Is on and off with either mental or voice command, It makes YOU invisbile and anything CLOSE to you but not other people, basicly just enough for thin clothes, heavy Jackets and whatnot will be visable as will thick things like rollex watchs or carkeys and wallets


FLIGHT is Flight, You can carry people on your back only if you can do so now and still manage a heathy run, Flight is as fast as you want it but phyiscal constraints are present, IE Faster than 60 MPH and you can't see much and its rather cold as well, You can fly but your not protected from the elements or the temepure up there
Seeing as I have no stamina, definitely invis.
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I would say flight. Invisibility just doesn't interest me that much. Dunno why, just doesn't.
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My first thought was invisibility...

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But finally I chose flight. From ten thousand feet in the air (about the max a human flyer can comfortably go without needing ANOTHER supernatural ability so they can survive with a lot less oxygen,) I'll be pretty invisible anyway to the ground observer (unless they are searching for me with telescopes.) If I want to stab someone, being able to deliver my blow in flight gives my blow almost as much surprise.

Besides, let's say my target has a supernatural counter. The counter to invisibility would be the ability to detect invisibility. Thus he sees me coming at him anyway and I get no advantage. If I'm sneaking up on him from the back, either he turns or he doesn't. Once he turns, I lose all my advantage.. But if I choose flight, the counter to flight would most likely be flight itself, so if I can get him before he chooses to fly up off the ground, I still retain the advantage, and will retain the initiative in the whole fight afterwards if my first blow doesn't get him - unless I make a mistake, of course.
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My first thought was invisibility, but I have decided that flight would be much cooler....many sexual positions would be easier to perform when levitating.....or when the lovely wench says "elevate me" I can oblige in a more unexpected way.
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StupidWhiteMan wrote:My first thought was invisibility, but I have decided that flight would be much cooler....many sexual positions would be easier to perform when levitating.....or when the lovely wench says "elevate me" I can oblige in a more unexpected way.
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Invicibility because it ads to how i veiw myself as a lurker
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But if I choose flight, the counter to flight would most likely be flight itself
The counter to flight isn't flight itself, it's a damned shotgun. People blast birds out of the air all the time, and they're a lot smaller than you are.

Invisibility has many more novel uses. Off the top of my head, you could team up with a partner, sneak into stupid peoples houses, convince them they have a poltergeist, and sell them "ghostbusting" services. :wink:
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invisibility. I stayed that my choice because it just seemed more useful.
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Invisibility.

Just sooo many illegal or immoral things could be accomplished. :twisted:
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Yeah, being able to go invisible is superior to being able to fly except for a few things, like falling off a building for some reason and being able to fly so you won't kill smash down onto the floor.
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Uh, I would want to fly. *eyes glaze over* Then I wouldn't have to walk the FIVE FLIGHTS OF STAIRS TO GET TO MY FIRST CLASS, I COULD JUST FLOAT UP THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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2) Flight

It would making getting to work a hell of a lot easier, and save me a bundle on gas.
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Oh, this one's tough... but I went with Flight. Invisibility is great, but I couldn't let myself have a power that would let me get away with shit like Invis would. I'd turn real bad, real quick.
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