Jump 392: Shadow Ops

Jump #392: Shadow Ops
>Ace of Wands, reversed: The start of an explosive situation threatening to consume all who get too close.
>Age: 30
>Location: American Southwest
>Identity: Selfer (-100)
>Drawbacks: (+600) Selfer's Scorn, Double Crossed, Latent Grenade
A month without powers, while being detected as HAVING powers, is a great way for everyone to look at me crazy. At least I'm not
>School: Physiomancy (1300)
Worth paying for, because man, I wish I had this sort of biomancy before I went to Worm. It would have streamlined the hell out of EVERYTHING.
>Spellbinder (1000)
I'm not so concerned about binding others' magic to objects as I am doing it for myself.
>Incredible Control (400)
>Raw Power (100, Selfer)
Between the two of these, I should be able to basically use my magic where and when I want, without having to worry about someone trying to keep me from using my power. Not that it's usually got direct combat applications.
>The Novels (50)
This actually isn't a bad book series, though it's not my cup of tea.

So actually it turns out that Shadow Ops is an interesting series, as long as you're willing to look the other way at all of the pants-on-head idiocy that's running rampant in the book series. Though I'm kind of... not.

Of course it really doesn't help anything that for the first month that I'm here everyone is convinced I've got a ridiculous amount of power and no talking or demonstrating otherwise shows them, but... well, I'm in a place where I don't have to worry about being drafted by the government, so I can at least keep my head down and survive. Even if it pisses the other Selfers off when I finally DO manifest powers and they go 'yeah, yeah, you've just been hiding it all along' and some actively try to sell me out to the US government. Assholes.

They shut up pretty quick when I started using my abilities to give people tune-ups at a distance, though. Nothing bad, but I did happen to be able to use physiomancy in concert with other perks in order to start editing peoples' genes, and thus ensure that most genetic diseases in anyone around me became a thing of the past rapidly.

Then about two months into the jump I got bored with doing things the polite, blending-in-with-the-locals way, and decided to actually change things. By which I mean I exterminated certain groups. Certain companies had individuals drop dead (because why would you turn a body into a mass of blades when you can just make their heart stop or give them a stroke?), which effectively neutered their control. I gave out rings that gave their bearers passive regeneration, though it turns out that it did make them more sympathetic to all human life instead of just ones without magic.

Also that whole European Caliphate thing is the most ridiculous bullshit idea I've ever heard of, a pair of meteor strikes put paid to THAT, along with enough news sources calling it divine retribution for the pograms over there.

Mostly after that I just wandered the Earth, editing peoples' genes for the remaining nine years of my stay - turns out that the connection to powers here is genetic, and a few minor edits to the genes of everyone within a given radius. A notable percentage, though far from the double digits, were empowered by such. More importantly, all of their children would be as well.

If there's magic, you may as well have EVERYONE enjoy it, right?