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Okay. Grand list of all the ways I think we might be able to apply our power manipulation power:
*Simple enhancing or suppressing the effect of the power (the volume, as it were).
*Possibly (eventually) complete suppression of a power- rending the target functionally normal for a period of time.
*Messing with the scope or complexity of a power (ie, sliding up and down the scale from manipulation of a single grand of sand up to elemental power over all aspects of sand).
*Increasing or decreasing the difficultly of use of a power.
*Interfering with the degree of control a user has over their power (for example, taming a "wild magic" unpredictable ability, or turning a precision power into a unpredictable hair trigger shotgun).
*Enhancing or altering a specific aspect of a power. This could be as simple as cranking the 'volume' on that aspect up and down, or as complex as changing how the aspect functions / is interpreted (ie, granting or denying access to an aspect, reducing or removing costs/consequences/drawbacks, adding in extra costs/consequences/drawbacks, working in added effects, etc).
*Detection at greater and greater range, not blocked by LOS.
*A sense of the general strength of a given power.
*Up to a full scanner readout of how all aspects of a power function- possibly including aspects the owner of the power has not discovered, thought of, or mastered yet (especially useful in exploiting weakness people may not know they have, or helping allies master their abilities).
*Up to a full scanner readout of what a user is currently capable of and/or has mastered, of their available power.
*Scanner readout on a target's current available energy (assuming people's powers have some kind of MP pool they can burn though).
*If there is some kind of 'power pool' we draw on- the ability to steal or transfer energy / MP from one target to another.
*Manipulation of the actual use of a power. Ie, remote puppet control of the power, or usurping or stealing it for our own use, for a time (obviously, we wouldn't have time to master a power gained this way, but though direct manipulation and whatever we scan from the target, we should get some degree of useful control).
*'Lending' power. Usurping control, and passing the reins to another.
*Scanning for / predicting the arrival of more power granting cubes. For making allies.
*Or possibly manipulating our own cube- rending it active again to grant someone else a power.
*Inverting a power? (The get high power causing mental clarity, pyromancy becomes aquamancy, etc).
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