Character: Electromancer

Budget: 10 Renown?

Plan: I'm mostly wanting to make clear certain abilities of Alice, move certain power listings of hers around, and adding a synergy with The Informant . This is mostly because I'm finicky. The code part below should replace her power listings, and it's mostly the same except for noting that:

• She can phase through objects.
• She can float down from heights.
• Due to her dual nature, she can resist magical ways of controlling and banishing ghosts.
• She can understand how the electronic devices she hijacks work.
• She can use The Informant 's connection to the internet to go into and out of the Internet.
• Electrokinesis has been placed right after Electromagnetic Ghost Physiology.

[div][attr="class","subcat1"]Electromagnetic Ghost Physiology[/div]

Technically speaking, Alice is dead; she is a ghost. She is invisible and intangible to most people without the requisite spiritual skills, and can phase through solid barriers. She does not need to eat and sleep. She can float down harmlessly from heights, but lacks an actual ability to fly. However, unlike other ghosts, in her moment of death her spirit was encoded into an electronic format, making her resistant to most magical and supernatural ways of controlling and banishing ghosts, without her permission. (A combined approach of magic and technology might be more effective?)

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Furthermore, she is able to interact with electricity and electronic devices, as noted in her other powers, below. However, this comes with the weakness that she can only be in areas that have electric power or signals; her presence and consciousness diminishes in areas that lack both of these, with the sudden removal of these factors possibly lethal to her (blackouts are scary). Her essence similarly fluctuates during electric surges and similar phenomena, making her slightly more visible and tangible.

[div][attr="class","subcat"]Electrokinesis[/div]

Alice can perceive and control electricity, as she is partially made of it, herself, in her current state. She can't create it, though, and so has to rely on other sources to provide it for her to be able to use it. As such, the scale of her electrokinetic abilities is proportionate to the electricity she has available on hand--- and as the scale increases her control won't be very good, since she hasn't had many chances to play with large amounts of current.

[div][attr="class","subcat"]Technological Possession[/div]

Alice can hijack electronic devices and understand completely how they work. She can force them to do her bidding, or even short-circuit them, cause them to malfunction, or even explode. She can only possess one device at a time, although there are ways around this limit (see Self-Replication below). If a certain device is connected to a network or even the Internet, she can use it to travel to other devices connected to that same network, in effect transporting herself through distances at the speed of the network connections.

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With @maddie's permission, she can use her connection to the Internet as an entry and exit point much like she could with a connected device. She might be able to do the same with other technopaths, though this remains to be seen.

[div][attr="class","subcat"]Data Manipulation[/div]

While within an electronic device, Alice can interfere with its programming directly in a way most hackers can only hope to emulate--- while as a human she does not know anything about computer programming, in her digital form, programs and firewalls and viruses and whatnot are simple physical puzzles for her to fiddle with, although they can also hurt her if she isn't careful. However, of course, she has to access the device where the data is in order to manipulate it.

[div][attr="class","subcat"]Computer Thinking[/div]

When within an electronic device, Alice can use the processors of that device as additional brains, allowing her to think more and faster than normal. Of course, the efficacy of this power depends on how good the hardware of the device is.

[div][attr="class","subcat"]Self-Replication[/div]

When within an electronic device with enough memory and processing power, Alice can split into iterations of herself, the number increasing in proportion to the resources she has at hand. Both are equally Alice, and share the same mind, although there is a possibility that if one iteration ends up somewhere disconnected from the network other Alices are in, they will have to fend for themselves; the other Alices will only know what she thinks and what she has experienced once she has reconnected. At any time that the Alices are connected, they can merge back into one entity. Alice will survive as long as one iteration remains; it does not have to be the original.[/div]