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Old 05-04-2011, 10:16 AM   #1
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Seeing that fertility is a 0-point feature:

Affliction 1 “Command Fertility” (advantage: fertile, +0%; disadvantage: sterility, +0%; extended duration, truly permanent, +300%; selectivity, +10%; area 23, +1150%; emanation, -20%) [144]
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Old 05-04-2011, 10:30 AM   #2
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Seeing that fertility is a 0-point feature:

Affliction 1 “Command Fertility” (advantage: fertile, +0%; disadvantage: sterility, +0%; extended duration, truly permanent, +300%; selectivity, +10%; area 23, +1150%; emanation, -20%) [144]
No. You can't afflict someone with a feature. You'd have to afflict them with an alternate form that has that feature.
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Old 05-04-2011, 10:56 AM   #3
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Seeing that fertility is a 0-point feature:

Affliction 1 “Command Fertility” (advantage: fertile, +0%; disadvantage: sterility, +0%; extended duration, truly permanent, +300%; selectivity, +10%; area 23, +1150%; emanation, -20%) [144]
Affliction 1, "Command Fertility" (HT) (Advantage: Alternate Form w/ Fertile Feature, +150%) (Advantage: Alternate Form w/ Sterile Feature, +150%) (Extended Duration, Permanent, +300%) (Selectivity, +10%) (Area Effect 23, 4800 mile radius, +1150%) (Emanation, -20%) [184]
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Old 05-04-2011, 10:59 AM   #4
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How about this?

Affliction 1 “Command Fertility” (limited enhancement: advantage: morph +1000%, “subject remains itself except for fertility changes” -70%, total modifier +300%; extended duration, truly permanent, +300%; area 23, +1150%; emanation, -20%) [183]
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Old 05-04-2011, 11:24 AM   #5
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How about this?

Affliction 1 “Command Fertility” (limited enhancement: advantage: morph +1000%, “subject remains itself except for fertility changes” -70%, total modifier +300%; extended duration, truly permanent, +300%; area 23, +1150%; emanation, -20%) [183]
If you want to end the world, you can do it quicker and a little more cheaply with this.

Affliction 1 “Happy Dance” Seizures +100%; extended duration, truly permanent, +300%; area 23, +1150%; emanation, -20%) [163]

Once you hit some one, they seizure till they die of exhaustion. Really bad for the people who are currently driving/flying/doing surgery.
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Old 05-04-2011, 11:29 AM   #6
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If you want to end the world, you can do it quicker and a little more cheaply with this.

Affliction 1 “Happy Dance” Seizures +100%; extended duration, truly permanent, +300%; area 23, +1150%; emanation, -20%) [163]

Once you hit some one, they seizure till they die of exhaustion. Really bad for the people who are currently driving/flying/doing surgery.
Add singing and you have "Once More With Feeling"
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Old 05-04-2011, 11:30 AM   #7
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If you want to end the world, you can do it quicker and a little more cheaply with this.

Affliction 1 “Happy Dance” Seizures +100%; extended duration, truly permanent, +300%; area 23, +1150%; emanation, -20%) [163]

Once you hit some one, they seizure till they die of exhaustion. Really bad for the people who are currently driving/flying/doing surgery.
That might work. However, that wouldn't kill off all surface life, just the ones that can seizure and the organisms that depend on those for survival.
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Old 05-04-2011, 11:44 AM   #8
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How about this?

Affliction 1 “Command Fertility” (limited enhancement: advantage: morph +1000%, “subject remains itself except for fertility changes” -70%, total modifier +300%; extended duration, truly permanent, +300%; area 23, +1150%; emanation, -20%) [183]
I don't think this does anything, since you already have your own racial template's features by definition.

I'm also not sure what making beings fertile and sterile at the same time would have accomplished.
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Old 05-04-2011, 11:53 AM   #9
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I don't think this does anything, since you already have your own racial template's features by definition.

I'm also not sure what making beings fertile and sterile at the same time would have accomplished.
I suppose you could throw Improvised Forms on Morph for +100%, giving victims the wrong reproductive features.
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Old 05-04-2011, 11:59 AM   #10
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That might work. However, that wouldn't kill off all surface life, just the ones that can seizure and the organisms that depend on those for survival.
Hmm, good point. Plants that don't require insects for pollination would be completely unaffected. As would any jellyfish that could survive on aquatic plant life.

Can't think of anything better then your Command Fertility affliction. You'd need something to deal with the bacteria if you want a truly sterile world though, since infertility wouldn't affect cell division.
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