Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25615397-20160301032615/@comment-26492770-20160514104754

MJM1035 wrote:

SupremeInferno wrote:

MJM1035 wrote: Personally I have already given this question a great deal of thought. I think my two choice powers would be selective power bestowal and either low level telepathy or low level telekinesis. Low level because that would limit how powerful I could become and thus how much damage/harm I could cause. Furthermore I'd ask the omnipotent being in question to make impossible for me to increase the breadth, degree, or scale of my mental power (whichever I decide to ask for). Power bestowal for me always carried a certain appeal because firstly I've never liked working openly towards anything, rather I prefer to slowly work my way towards something out of the spotlight. Plus if you are giving others abilities it means you either are transferring those abilities to them (which presumably means you had said abilities yourself) or taking those powers from an outside source and channeling them through yourself into your intended recipient. That said you'd have to be careful how much power you gave another being as too much power in the wrong hands Will corrupt its possessor. But I would ask the being granting me these abilities to place a restriction of sorts on them. If I ever use my new powers in a dangerous way or one that would upset the natural balance this restriction would strip my powers from me but leave all memories of having had them intact. I'm not sure what you mean by "selective power bestowal" (and I'd like you to explain that), but you can't pick Telekinesis because, as I've said before, it's under the Almighty Powers category and one of the rules is: No Absolute or Almighty Powers. Even if it's low level, Telekinesis is still Telekinesis. Telekinetic Force is the best alternative I can suggest if you want something close to Telekinesis. It's "low level" in the sense that its applications are restricted to the basic and advanced levels of Telekinesis, but the basic and advanced levels can be used with a sheer level of power.

By the way, if want to place restrictions on yourself and prevent yourself from getting too powerful or whatever, you can just ask for Limitation Inducement and use that to place whatever restrictions you want on yourself. As a bonus, you can use Power Bestowal and use Limitation Inducement to place a limiter like: "If you're becoming corrupt from your power, you won't be able to use your abilities until you're no longer corrupted."

Of course, going with Power Bestowal and Limitation Inducement for your two powers prevents you from getting Telekinetic Force or Telepathy initially. Fortunately, you can ask for Self-Power Bestowal instead of Power Bestowal (which only gives powers to other people), give yourself Power Bestowal, and then you can give yourself Telekinesis (which you can now have because you're not asking the divine, nigh-omnipotent being for it) and Telepathy. With that, you'd have five powers: you picked and started with Self-Power Bestowal and Limitation Inducement, and then you gave yourself Power Bestowal, Telekinesis, and Telepathy. First as far as limitation inducement as my second power that firstly sounds like a rather lame ability and secondly like a Massive headache. After all, if I understand how that power works, I'd have to place a limitation on my mental ability. To do that the limitation would have to be both powerful enough that I could not circumvent it even if I had a mind to and it would need to be worded in such terms that would render my powers moot regardless of the circumstance in question. If the omnipotent being is the one who places this limit on my mental power than I can be assured it will not be capricious in execution of the limitations penalty if necessary. Secondly as far as the power bestowal I think I might have left one thing unclear. The powers and abilities I would grant would be mine yes but I would not house all of them within myself, for fear of the consequences of doing so. Instead I would store each ability or power in an inaminate object and would channel the appropriate amount or degree of that power into the appropriate client. Additionally inside the power itself I would place an inherit and inextricable prohibitive condition on its use. If it's new, albeit temporary, master used the power in question for malicious, malefic, or malevolent ends the power would automatically become inert and compel it's master to seek me out and have the power returned to me. I would keep these power storage crystals in a library esque vault deep underground and would not allow anyone but myself to enter the vault. As a fail safe I would have the vault equipped with various security measures. And in the event of my death I would program the vault to seek out the nearest black hole and plunge itself into it, that way no one could misuse the powers contained into those crystals. Power Bestowal isn't transferring powers in you or an object to someone else. You're just giving them abilities. What you're thinking of is Power Transferal. If a user of Power Bestowal wanted to give someone, say, Ultraviolet Manipulation, they wouldn't need to have that power in them, nor would it have to be a power within an object (see Powers Via Object, Powers Via Weapon). The other person is simply given Ultraviolet Manipulation. As for where the power comes from, it's basically a "something from nothing" kind of deal.

Power Bestowal is simply giving another person powers, no limitations (aside from what limits the powers already have, like Fire Manipulation being weak against Water Manipulation), no conditions, no rules, etc. attached. You give that person the power, and they are free to do just about whatever they want with it. If you want to give someone powers and have strings attached, you'd need Limitation Inducement (or maybe Law Creation or Law Inducement).