Chapter 19. Hancock.
"Why are we going to this particular world? That drawbacks makes us as baseline human as we can be. I don't think your Body Mods would be spared."
"That it does, what I want to do in this world is basically have a vacation. Also learn a few martial arts and other skills without any perks and the likes affecting us. And it's not like our memories are going to go away just the perks and boosts for me and magic for you, you are basically a normal human with magic unlike me."
"True, and while we'll be powerless as far as we know there are apparently only two other beings of greater power and those are this Hancock, presumably immortal God who has lost his memories and his wife who wants to have a Normal life and doesn't actually use her powers." Dani replies.
"Yep, And considering only our powers go away, I'll still have my castle, the criminal organisation, the hotel chain, the various Farms, my warehouse if needed and my Monopoly properties which will all produce enough money for us to basically travel all over the world and have fun, I have spent nearly eighty years now training, a ten year vacation sound about good. Also I'll still have a planet killing spaceship so we'll be fine. And in exchange we get a toggle on all our abilities, perfect control of all magic, powers and the like we'll ever have and a anti stress perk for our minds with a perfect memory that works retroactively. So yeah worth it."
"Acceptable enough, I will let you make the choices for me I have no knowledge on this particular world, nor any knowledge on what to choose I shall go with your Choices" Dani says.
"True, after this jump you'll probably be able to choose yourself, I'm going with the housewife Origins for the both of us, it'll give a working Knowledge base for the world. And more importantly we'll probably have a lot of time, The start when you want Perk From Game of Thrones boosted by Born of the Divine means we can appear exactly when we want to. We'll be appearing nine years and ten months before the Movie happens. We wake up and immediately leave for London. And then proceed to have Fun."
"Acceptable enough, and if there's a chance the Entertainment is similar to the one from your own world it'll make it easier for me to catch up to you on knowledge of said franchises. Or you could just share your memories of watching the shows and reading the books. The Document specifically says powers not items."
"Yep indeed it does." And theres Jump-Chan and her desk. "Good starter world you chose there for Daenerys. Perfect power control, ability to turn of a perk or power either completely, making you superhuman, and perfect memories working retroactively. Very very good. Also great Choice getting The start where you want."
"Thank you Jump-Chan, also I am right about items and properties not being sealed due to the Mate thing right?"
"Indeed, it says power, but you will have your body mods. Nothing can ever take away your body mods."
"Alright, Jump-Chan, the whole separation, suppose one of us goes into the microverse I created will we both regain all our powers immediately?"
"Ohh, good cheat, good cheat. Yep, technically you are literally as far apart as possible and the farther you are the faster your power returns, but no to the warehouse, it's an attached pocket reality not a separate one when you are in Jump. And the whole being together reduces Power only appears in this world in all others powers from this jump will stay with you."
"And what about my banked CP, can Dani use it?"
"Yes at a 1:2 exchange rate. If she uses up 200 CP over her Limit, the banked CP will reduce by 400. Same thing for any other companions you might have."
"Thank you Jump-Chan, now if you would please."
"Byeee," and we wake up in a bed per usual. Dani is slightly startled takes a bit to get used to her habits I suppose. And it's 1999. Nearly ten years before the movie events take place.
Hancock Jumpchain Build:-
Dorian Build:-
Beginning CP:- 1200.
Drawbacks:-
Obnoxious French Boy. 400.
Wherever you go, you have an obnoxious french boy following you around talking to you in the most arrogant, annoying tone possible, doing shenanigans, basically doing exactly whatever you hate the most. The instant you deliberately do any harm to him, your chain ends.
Powerless in Love. 600 .
Oops. There should be an 'and' up there. Anyway, so there's a certain someone. Might be male,might be female, might be a tentacled thing from beyond the stars, it doesn't much matter. What Matters is that the both of you love each other. You're attracted, inexorably, irresistibly…inevitably.
Problem is, as soon as the two of you spend more than a few hours together, your powers start going away. The longer you spend together, the weaker you become, until both of you are left at the level of an ordinary mortal. This would normally affect only things like your supernatural powers, but somehow it affects everything. Your charisma, your intelligence perks, the longer you both stay together, the faster they drain away. No, the warehouse is not affected at all.Enjoy.
They do come back if you separate, but… well, remember the description of how much you bot hlove each other? Yeah. Good luck with that. This can be a companion if you want. If not a companion, then it's a normal person and you're the only one getting the power-drain. If you have a Mate and assign this drawback to them, they get an additional 300 CP.
Total CP:- 2200
Origin:- Housewife. 33.
Perks:-
Different Names. 100.
One would think a god in mortal flesh would be big news on an otherwise vanilla world. Except itisn't, for some reason. Not with you. Unless you desire otherwise, people are easily able to come to terms with any supernatural powers or abilities you display.
It helps if you actively say something, in which case they almost always believe whatever you say. But even normally, people tend to come up with their own explanations, or just manage to shake their heads and move on without even explaining it.
Gods, Angels. 800.
Are but two of the names people have used for you and your kind. That's kinda what they have to do, don't they? You are something beyond ordinary humans, a being that the people around you can only reconcile by considering you something like a god, a demon or an angel. Your strength, speed, endurance and toughness are all magnified by immense orders of magnitude, enough that you could stand toe-to-toe with Hancock himself. You have the power of flight at ridiculously fast speeds, and can survive in space without any equipment needed.You could take a locomotive to the face without even noticing it, or toss a whale most of a mile as easily as someone else would throw a toy.
For an additional 200 CP, you also have powerful elemental powers. If you pick 'storm' you can create immense hurricanes at a moment's notice simply by willing it, and can call down huge thunderbolts to strike down your enemies. Picking other elements would let you control them onan equal scale. You can pick this part multiple times. You have Chosen Earthshaker.(Water and Earth)
Take a train to the face, get drunk on cheap booze. 400.
Turns out, there's a lot in life you just can't enjoy properly when you're an all-powerful demigod doing whatever. So you have the ability to turn off your powers, partially or completely. You Become able to simply deactivate any and all perks, abilities or powers you have, and do so either completely or on a dial.
Anything you deactivate in this way, for all intents and purposes it will be as if you don't have it at all. You can undo this at a moment's notice simply by willing it, of course.
Atilla was Cross-eyed. Free Housewife.
You've lived a long time, and probably have a lot of stories to share. Good thing you can do it masterfully now. This perk makes you an expert storyteller, able to repackage any and all experiences for just about any audience you may need to prepare for.You can reinterpret ancient tales of slaughter and debauchery for children without losing any entertainment value, while being equally capable when it comes to spicing up sugar bowl experiences for tavern audiences.
Also lets you write assured bestsellers and blockbuster screenplays, because why wouldn't it?
Remembrance. Discount Housewife. 100.
A life lived long loses its value when it turns out you've forgotten most of it. It doesn't work that way for you, not anymore. Not only do you have a perfect memory and flawless recall of everything you've ever encountered and ever will, you are also incapable of losing your memory by any other means.
Magic, nanites in your head, a grievous injury… nothing can make you forget anything you don'twant to.
Perfect Control. Discount Housewife. 200.
Living an ordinary life while being able to toss people through walls with a flick of your wrist can be… challenging, let's just say. Not for you, though. You have absolute, pinpoint perfect control over each and every aspect of your powers.
Whenever you do something, not only do you spend only the exact amount of energy you wanting it, you also know how the get the most possible bang for your buck. You have a preternatural grasp for precise movements that let you both use your enormous powers extremely effectively,and achieve ridiculous effects while spending the barest traces of your true might.
This carries over to the same extent with any powers you may have too, such as Mana or Ki or whatever.
Facing the Fearsome. 100.
Not everyone can step up to a virtual god and tell them they've made a mess of their life and they should get about putting it right. Well, a lot of people in this world probably could, but not elsewhere.
No matter how powerful someone is relative to you, you never lose your courage. You can interact with them just as you would with an ordinary person on the street, and curiously, they'refar more likely to actually hear you out than smiting you on the spot. Note: This doesn't make it any more likely for anyone to accept what you're saying, but they'll almost never kill or hurt you just for daring to sully their ears or eyes with yourself.
Incredibly Wholesome. 200.
Hancock has his Flight, Invulnerability and Super-strength, Mary has all of these and then the power to call down tornadoes and thunderbolts on top of that… what superpower do you have?Turns out, it might be the greatest power of them all.
You have the power of being an incredibly well adjusted, wholesome person. No matter what stress you may undergo, what dramatic, world-shattering revelations you may encounter, you're main able to reasonably think things out. No horrors will shatter your sanity, nor will incredible power or age render your mind alien or unknowable.
Heists and Plans. 100.
Not everyone can be a successful criminal. It takes more than a gun and willing to shoot. You need to be able to plan things out in both the long and short term, establishing plots and schemes and executing heists.
Good thing you have a superb grasp of strategy and tactics, being able to setup both long term plans and short term operations and make them incredibly robust and effective.
Total:- 2000. CP.
Companion:- Mate, Dani, free.
Bank:- 200
Current Bank:- 11400.
Dani Build:-
Beginning CP:- 800.
Drawbacks:-
Powerless in love. 300.
Annoying French Boy. 400
Total CP:- 1500
Origin:- Housewife. 32.
Perks:-
Gods, Angels. 800.
You have Chosen Storm Bringer.(Air, water and lightning.)
Take a train to the face, get drunk on cheap booze. 400.
Atilla was Cross-eyed. Free Housewife.
Remembrance. Discount Housewife. 100.
Perfect Control. Discount Housewife. 200.
Incredibly Wholesome. 200.
Total:- 1700. Balance:- -200
Bank:- -400
Current Bank:- 11,000.
"Jump-Chan did us a favour with our identities, we are reclusive billionaires who own a worldwide chain of hotels and do not actually work for a living." Dani says, as Remembrance ensured she gets every single memory of The Jump identity of Daniella Storms-Beleth of the Beleth International.
"Indeed, makes getting out of LA easy. I don't really know when Hancock starts getting active but he's a shitty hero, a good man but a shitty hero." As I wake up, I actually put a call to the Beleth's usual Travel agent, yep we were rich enough to have a dedicated travel agent and booked a plane ticket to London the next day, considering I could casually convert a building into solid gold if I wanted money wasn't as issue.
Two days later we were in London. A month later we were touring France, a month after that it was Japan, and so on and so forth. There was some training using the Training Room form PUBG. However it was mostly a vacation. Except the last two months here where the whole movie things happened. the Annoying French Boy was indeed as annoying as advertised. he kept fluting with Daenerys and Dani's french boy kept flirting with me. our meditation practise was very helpful, and thankfully they could appear in the Microverse or my Warehouse so small victories.
Every once in a while one of us went into the Microverse for a few days and the other into the training room from PUBG and practised our new powers. Considering Dani now had a major Affinity to Fire, Water, Air and Lightning. Due to her choosing stormbringer, as magically speaking a storm was a mixture of Air, Lightning and Water elements. And I now had an abnormally huge Earth and water affinity, probably due to my choosen power Earthshaker being more specialised than Dani's Strombringer. I could level a mountain with a gesture using my new found Powers or cover a country the size of France on a storm cloud that would rain down Thunder at any I targeted or drown an entire coastline of England with a sweep of my hand.
I should know I did all that in the microverse. On empty Planets, there wasn't actually any life here nor will there ever be. I actually planned to go to Frozen and get the Air element and get Dani the Earth element and complete our sets.
Then we could go into the higher tirer elements like Naruto's Crystal release or even more esoteric Elements such as Light,Dark, holy, demonic, gravity, space time and the like. Everything always had a elemental weakness, whether it be something simple like fire or more advanced like Holy Light or demonic darkness. Hence Elemental magic being OP.
Hell at this point I had the Power set of Zeus and Poseidon, and with my necromancy and earth affinity I could play for hades's power set as well, and this was all without Divinity. also make. A pretty good combination of Odin, Thor and Loki with my spear wielding, Lightning Manipulation, and Illusion mastery. not that I'd claim I was as strong as them, not yet. well maybe the MCU versions. I hadn't yet named my spears yet, nor had Dani, probably waiting to name it in an important battle of some Sort, it was a tradition ya know.
All in all Hancock was a pretty easy Jump to do, not much action, just because Hancock existed didn't mean there were a bunch of superpowered Villains as well, yes I'm looking at you DC, Marvel. It was great vacation actually. Also we used our now perfect memories to memorize every book in our Sorcerer's tower, that is to say every book on magic from Game of thrones and Alladin. Where you could bind beings as powerful as genies. the elemental magic here was mor asking to Storms, or Iceman's from X-men innate abilities fuelled by magic than actual spellcasting.
The sheer amount of Rituals boggled my mind. Enchanting in Alladin was very, very good. Incredible even. I had my Castle Plomp down in Germany on the edge of a lovely Forest, and it was warded against granting entry to well, my species currently. And then there was the mundane science I was teaching Daenerys. Nearly P.Hd levels in every subject I could think of and she could keep up due to Perfect memory, she wasn't inventive but she had knowledge enough to gain a couple dozen P.Hd's in various Scientific and social fields and common sense I sometimes Lacked.
We both actually attended a Course for Psychology and were actually good god damned therapists. And we sparred a lot, using Fists, Guns, our spears, I actually started to use two spears, while Sword of the Morning allowed me to dual wield any weapon in conjunction with Born of the divine. Doing it without the perks was literally impossible so I decided to learn it the hard way, getting Beat up in the training room it was. This was a good decade. And considering the whole movie thing and the all heart symbol happened
I was actually baffled by that, Dani had fun laughing at me as I tried in vain to figure it out. If an average human intelligence couldn't figure it out neither could I as long as I was in contact with Dani and she refused to let me get away on what she called an exercise in futility "It's movie Logic, literally Dorian, stop frustrating yourself. I'm pretty sure, like you he is an earth elemental and the just changed the Structure of the Earth on The moon to have more Iron oxide like Mars." And just like that my questions have been answered and I face vault, no literally with my stage four in Dexterity I Face vaulted. And cue the laughter from Dani.
Then I realised neither of us had actually pushed each other in training these new powers and in the movie Hancock never actually strained himself in any manner. He accidently pushed a train of a track and casually deflected grenade launchers. And tanked a literal train without moving or showing so much as a little effort.
Neither I nor Dani knew the Upper levels of our power, considering we both could Lift mountains with not much more effort than lifting a pistol would have been pre Jump chain we needed to find a Goddamned upper limit by training against each other once the drawback had ended. Right now my best estimate lied somewhere between movie Superman and Comic superman which wasn't much of a range considering it went from able to kill a human by sneezing at it or able to move galaxies.
Right now the powers from God's,Angels extended but weren't limited to an immense amount of Magical power, Ridiculous physical strength, durability, speed, at least Mach 20. Flight, Could survive in space without aid indefinitely, and underwater as well, me and Dani went Skinny dipping in the Mariana trench to test that, and considering we could see as clearly Down there as we could on land, we had super senses as well, and perfect control automatically made it so that we weren't overwhelmed and kept it at Baseline human for Dani and My usual their four sense. And basic invulnerability to any non magical Weaponry, including many energy based weapons. Only actual magical and enchanted weaponry seemed to pierce our skin. We made sure of this by toggling all our powers and the like off except for The Gods perk.
meaning we could now possibly go toe to toe with being such as Spiderman, Black Panther and the like without issues. I was pretty sure I was at Thor's Ragnarok level powers especially with my Elemental powers. And perfect control meant we were always exactly as powerful as we wanted to be. This jump was profitable if a bit boring.
I had decided any time we picked up new companions, we'd come here for the control perks alone. alternate world's though. not this world. same but different.