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  • A setting-wide one, especially expounded upon in Ishkabibble and Obscured Truth: No matter where you are in the world, there's always the chance that you're going to be caught in the crossfire of a battle between Powers. Even more alarmingly there's no telling who's a Power and who's not; it's entirely possible that the seemingly innocuous teenage girl or genteel senior citizen waiting at the bus stop with you could suddenly destroy the entire city when their powers run amuck. These fears are totally justified; estimates on the death tolls from battles between Powers since the setting began easily run into the millions, or even tens of millions.
  • Triannual
    The man's eyes shifted into soulless black fields and a series of pointed digits erupted from his cheeks, meeting around his mouth and covering it. They flared outward again with his next words.
  • Ishkabibble
    • Link: Lucas steps it up with his ice powers a little bit... by summoning violet-colored spirit arms belonging to the souls of the damned out of the ice, turning the room into a wall of hands.
    • Link: Mandelbrot is actually Julia. At face value, it makes some sense. When it comes to characters who have interacted with her? Terrifying.
  • (Dis)Orientation
    • Link: At the corner of Nightmare Fuel Avenue and Tear Jerker Boulevard, we have Talia's power demonstration going awry and bringing back flashes of another disastrous time when she lost control of her powers in the past, vaporizing her father.
    • Link: Carlos panic attack and flashback. While the act in itself is horrific, the narrative indicates that the dog pinning him down by the throat is a near-daily event and his mother legitimately feels nothing but disgust for him.
    • Link: The alternate future that Jesse presents when her power is sent into overdrive by Nessa. It's a hellish vision of the school in ruins, the staff murdered and hung on display, and the students in chains, all enacted by the will of an unknown, laughing presence.

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