You wake up as a reality bender.

[Level 7 Dragon]

Mondays are difficult,

especially if your body gets obliderated atom by atom.

It was supposed to be an avarage day at the fusion power plant, however it was cut short by an accident that ended up decemating your body inside the reactor. To the suprise of many, after three days, you materialized again in the middle of the site cafeteria. Unfortunately for you, the clothes didn't make the trip. After a brief period of experimenting, you realized that you are now able to manipulate matter simply by concetrating on it. In other words, you are now a reality bender.

However, there is a catch. You have to be observing/perceving something in order to change it. You have to abide by basic laws of physics. And you cannot change any aspect of your body (which essentially means that you are still mortal).

Aside from that, if you became a reality bender, what would you do with your newfound powers?

Try not to cause too much havoc, else certain organizations will attempt to "neutralize" the situation.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Er, those restrictions mean the omnipotent label is not applicable at all.

 

[Level 7 Dragon]

Er, those restrictions mean the omnipotent label is not applicable at all.

Yeah, perhaps it's best to rename the thread to reality bending, since it's far closer to the description.

 

[happyninja42]

What would I do? Probably start directing my efforts to actually fixing some of the problems with the world we live in. Massive terraforming to improve livelihoods, help engineering endeavors. Actually, I'd probably go into the solar system and start working on establishing a network of industry to help expand humanity from the planet as fast as safely possible.

You say I'm still mortal, but you don't specify if I still eat and sleep. So you basically say we are Dr. Manhattan, but without the immortality part. Depending on what my survival limitations are, I'd just go do whatever I wanted to do I guess. Which would probably be directed towards

A: Helping humans on Earth
B: Helping expand humans into space.

 

[McElroy]

Discrete things for my own benefit. Gotta be really careful though - a stray thought could mean bad things. Like how cool would it be to live in a house made of weapons grade Plu

 

[Baffle]

Make sure my big blue cock is always slightly out of focus (that makes it look even bigger).

Enforce world piece(s).

 

[Secondhand Revenant]

Take lots of physics courses to best be able to use my ability

 

[Asita]

So...basically I'm an alchemist?

If I can find a way to do it that won't result in me experiencing...an unfortunate accident, probably look into trying to teach the ability to others. Matter manipulation is fine and dandy but it is necessarily limited by my knowledge, talent, attention to detail, and imagination. I'm less interested in what I can personally do with it than I am what would happen if the ability became widespread.

 

[Level 7 Dragon]

So...basically I'm an alchemist?

If I can find a way to do it that won't result in me experiencing...an unfortunate accident, probably look into trying to teach the ability to others. Matter manipulation is fine and dandy but it is necessarily limited by my knowledge, talent, attention to detail, and imagination. I'm less interested in what I can personally do with it than I am what would happen if the ability became widespread.

More or less. You can turn men to animals, create life from dirt and turn mountains into castles. I guess the only downsight is that you get too creative you might atract negative attention in one form or the other.

 

[happyninja42]

So...basically I'm an alchemist?

If I can find a way to do it that won't result in me experiencing...an unfortunate accident, probably look into trying to teach the ability to others. Matter manipulation is fine and dandy but it is necessarily limited by my knowledge, talent, attention to detail, and imagination. I'm less interested in what I can personally do with it than I am what would happen if the ability became widespread.

More or less. You can turn men to animals, create life from dirt and turn mountains into castles. I guess the only downsight is that you get too creative you might atract negative attention in one form or the other.

So if turning people into other creatures, creating life from dirt, and turning mountains into castles are ok, then....what "laws of physics" are we actually being restricted by? I mean, none of those examples are allowed in the laws of physics as I know them. So, really what are the precise limitations we are working under? Because so far you've described things that are, at least in 2 cases, physically impossible. I would relent that you could, with enough time and engineering, turn a mountain into a castle.

 

[Level 7 Dragon]

So...basically I'm an alchemist?

If I can find a way to do it that won't result in me experiencing...an unfortunate accident, probably look into trying to teach the ability to others. Matter manipulation is fine and dandy but it is necessarily limited by my knowledge, talent, attention to detail, and imagination. I'm less interested in what I can personally do with it than I am what would happen if the ability became widespread.

More or less. You can turn men to animals, create life from dirt and turn mountains into castles. I guess the only downsight is that you get too creative you might atract negative attention in one form or the other.

So if turning people into other creatures, creating life from dirt, and turning mountains into castles are ok, then....what "laws of physics" are we actually being restricted by? I mean, none of those examples are allowed in the laws of physics as I know them. So, really what are the precise limitations we are working under? Because so far you've described things that are, at least in 2 cases, physically impossible. I would relent that you could, with enough time and engineering, turn a mountain into a castle.

I meant the concervation of mass and gravity (i.e. you will not be able to create a five dimentional box or a pentrose triangle out of thin air). Essentially, you will be able to move the atoms into different arrangements to create any possible object.

 

[Saelune]

First I would change the rules, cause I can change reality, thus rules are irrelevant.

 

[Chessrook44]

Well if it's possible to alter reality, then with enough practice you may be able to alter things so that the reality you alter things to is the way things have always been, and as such nobody would know what you have done, believing that to be normal.

After that, it can just be interesting to experiment. See the results of various small or large changes. While of course resetting the universe to normal every so often.

 

[bluegate]

I wake up as a blender, what?

Guess I'll be blending fruits and vegetables then?

As for what I would do with my new special blender powers, I would amass enough riches for myself to be able to live a easy life without bills dragging me down, then I'd probably travel the world and visit some places. Go over to some dirt poor places and fix up their shit a bit, you know, proper housing, infrastructure, water works, anything that we perceive necessary to live in a civilized manner.

 

[McElroy]

And it became your run-of-the-mill superpower thread: "I'll just do everything imaginable." I for one prefer to have the limitations unbroken for threads like this one.

The power here is reality bending on a local or let's just say "personal" scale and scope. It's more than just matter manipulation because you could magically pull stuff and effects from your imagination (for example you could turn Pepsi into Coke even though you don't actually know the recipe). However, it would also fall short of "true" reality warping since it wouldn't last without your concentration! So yeah, you could create an Iron Man suit around you and fly around, but upon leaving said suit it would lose its abilities because it's mostly sci-fi. Sure, there "is" a way to cheese out of this as of course you could bring stuff that's not invented yet into existence. But... "ayy, they'll invent a fist-sized cold fusion reactor in 2542 so I could just this and that and so on" Frankly imo that just sucks. Bad mentality.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Probably spend my days transforming other people for my own amusement... though I'd probably make sure my stray thoughts don't get out...

 

[FalloutJack]

You wake up as a reality bender.

Moving on...

Okay, so... Secretly create advanced cybernetic cells via the creation of nanites and marriaging it to the information-storing capacity of DNA. The result is a metacell that is capable of self-perpetuating through the slow reproduction of itself through the use of time and energy, also canniballizing surrounding materials. Instruct said cells to bury themselves underground and slowly make their way out to sea. By the time the seabed is reached, it is so powerful that it could easily begin an unstoppable Grey Goo Scenario.

By making it stay quietly beneath the surface and allowing it to just spread out without causing a stir, it can begin work reshaping the planet on a whim and pushing the human race towards untold power, and I wouldn't even have to use my own powers to do it. Still, it's at some level of control over this new technology that I inform the world that all this can be yours, at the price of world peace. I manage it, they use it, and nobody has to get hurt...unless they cause problems.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Probably one of the simplest and most necessary things to do would be to provide pure water to various parts stricken by drought or waterborne diseases. Then reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere, and put up with smug climate change deniers saying they were right afterwards.

 

[Fox12]

After this election? I'd fucking leave.

 

[Level 7 Dragon]

After this election? I'd fucking leave.

Why not create your own country and rule as a god-king?