New Powerset: Speech Control

[Darkneblade]

[Greet] : (Single target)Greets target removes resistance and confuses for short time (gives moderate dot psionic)
[Shout] : (Cone)Shouts at target removes resistance and frightens the target (fear) if you greet first (moderate damage and dot if you greet first)
[Halt] : (Cone)Orders target to halt , gives immobilize and if frightened gives disoriented.
[Intimidate] : (PBAoE) Gives fear and if already frightened / disoriented.Removes frightened / disoirented status and gives -res and chance to confuse for short time
[Boring Speech] :(Cone) Gives sleep status.If greets afterwards removes resistance and confuses for short time,/ if shout afterwards gives fear and dot(psionic)/ if Halt afterwards (already frightened) gives hold and moderate dot.
[Taunt] : (PBAoE)Taunts the targets gives -res and if Greets afterwards placates for short time or if Shout afterwards gives frightened and High Dot (Psionic)
[Placeholder] (Targeted AoE) Gives speech and if confused targets may become ally for a moderate time 
[Placeholder] (Target Location AoE) Removes resistance and chance to held for moderate time and inflict moderate dot if you shout afterwards.
[Placeholder] (Foe Targeted/Pet)You speech summons Eldricht Abomination on target foes struck with Abomination are held/sleep/frightened for short time

Feel free to add any ideas
 

[Haijinx]

Some power name suggestions for the Placeholders 

 

Spew BullS##t

Word Salad 

Summon Throne of Lies

 

[Saiyajinzoningen]

i dunno man seems like we can use the sonic animation on the mental control set and achieve similar functions. more options are always nice

[Zepp]

Usually in a control set the first two powers have damage (and the second ability is a hold)...

Other than that, replace "boring speech" with "lullaby" and maybe: "change hearts & minds" (alternatively "charm", "silver tongue", "Blarney", or "entice"), "enrapture" (alternatively "gaslight" or  "sweet talk"), and "conjure" (alternatively "incant", "kotodama", "invocation", "seance", or "seducing satan").

This seems workable for Dominator, but would be hard to pull off with a troller...

Also Rhetoric may be a better name for the set than "speech control"...

Edited December 4, 2019 by Zepp

[MetaVileTerror]

I fully support a no- / low-power Control set which revolves around just talking to your targets.  And Support Sets.  And Assault Sets.  I have a lot of concepts which I'd reroll if this, or anything like it, ever went live.

[srmalloy]

On 12/3/2019 at 2:16 AM, Darkneblade said:

[Boring Speech] :(Cone) Gives sleep status.If greets afterwards removes resistance and confuses for short time,/ if shout afterwards gives fear and dot(psionic)/ if Halt afterwards (already frightened) gives hold and moderate dot.

I am reminded of one of the narrator voiceovers from Dave Sim's comic "Cerebus the Aardvark" in the Palnu Trilogy -- "When the bureaucrat speaks, the sound of snoring soon fills the room."

[Haijinx]

On 12/3/2019 at 5:24 PM, Saiyajinzoningen said:

i dunno man seems like we can use the sonic animation on the mental control set and achieve similar functions. more options are always nice

Im pretty sure the OP wasn't a serious suggestion.

 

If it was, then yeah, just sonic animations on the Psi sets 

[boggo2300]

Terrifyingly this makes me want to create a Vigilante called Sir Humphrey Appleby

[Shadowsleuth]

 

I would want to make one inspired by either Alan from "The New Statesman" or Malcolm from "The Thick of It".

 

Thinking of those shows make wish there was a modern day Blackadder set in the current political environment.

Edited December 5, 2019 by Shadowsleuth

[Marine X]

I would have to make a Ben Stein knock-off for this, too bad you couldn't actually hear it, that would be hillarious, droning on endlessly....

[Outrider_01]

Customer Service power set (powers might not make sense though)

 

Let me route you to another department - immobilize

Please Hold - single target hold

Prank Call - confusion

Conference call - AoE hold

Long Distance Call - Knockback, guess it would be like something in gravity

Robocall- Summons robotic pet that spams summon sonic attacks

 

 

[Zombie Hustler]

Ventriloquism: Make speech bubble appear to come from target.

[Zepp]

On 12/7/2019 at 5:09 AM, Outrider_01 said:

Customer Service power set (powers might not make sense though)

 

Let me route you to another department - immobilize

Please Hold - single target hold

Prank Call - confusion

Conference call - AoE hold

Long Distance Call - Knockback, guess it would be like something in gravity

Robocall- Summons robotic pet that spams summon sonic attacks

 

 

PEBKAC issue - Target damages self (alternatively, single-target confuse)
ID10T problem - Single target stun
CtP - PBAoE +Recharge