power concept

Cape places a visible mark on the ground or other flat surface within a fairly close range of the cape, covering a variable area, from less than a square inch to about 100 by 100 feet. Cape can sense all people and material above or on the mark, (including fliers above it). This awareness comes with the ability to leverage the situation, represented with tactics pips that are only applicable above a mark. Depending on the size of the area (bigger = slower, a tiny 1" square would be almost instant, allowing for quick, less effective attacks, while a maximum sized area would take maybe half an hour), a number of rounds go by before the marked area juts explosively out of the ground by about 4 or 5 feet, sending things and people standing on it flying. Material that juts out stays extended, allowing the cape to make defensive structures or cover over the course of a fight.