Okay so this is plot feelers more than actual plot but I would really love for as many people to get involved as possible so here we go:
You may or may not know Jesse Pinkman. This is Jesse. He's been here a while. Generally nice guy, throws lots of parties, known to be a recovering addict and accused of being a drug dealer once, but anyway really nice in most cases. (Posted just yesterday, if you want to tag him
here.)
Jesse's actually not a drug dealer
anymore. But he
is a criminal. He has a day job as a legit pharmaceutical chemist for SERO, but in his spare time he makes most of his profit trading superpowers in the back room of Mr. Gold's pawn shop. He has become
enormously rich doing this (as evident in that post up there) and has plans for that money which will eventually benefit the Newcomer community. At least, he hopes it will.
In the meantime, he's mostly securing power for himself by making alliances and... well, literally amassing power. As in, superpowers.
The problem with Jesse is he can't actually
use any of the superpowers he gathers. He only has to sell a tiny percentage of what he gains to get as much money as he needs, since being kind of the only guy who can do this means he can set the prices himself. That leaves him with a whole stockpile. Most of the time, he's just waiting for someone worthy to give a power to.
I've invited a lot of people in the past to
buy powers from Jesse. Some people have. But Jesse's going to start looking for people to
gift powers to. People he can trust, people who will repay him by following his orders.
"Following his orders"? What's that mean? Well, basically, Jesse wants the Newcomers to work like a gang. He wouldn't exactly put it like that, but that's the system he knows and understands. He wants the Towers to be turf that outsiders are afraid to approach, and eventually to expand that territory further. He wants to guarantee protection for all Newcomers against the natives. Jesse is actually very sincerely a criminal who wants to
help his people.
tl;dr: I'm looking for people who want their characters to receive extra superpowers from Jesse in exchange for their loyalty. Jesse is building a super-superpowered Newcomer army.Not even going to talk about the eventual consequences of this because I honestly don't know! It could go a lot of ways. I fully expect Jesse to make errors of judgment and maybe pay for that down the line. For now, though, I'm just focusing on the
giving people powers thing. Anyone involved will have to sign a magical contract with Mr. Gold, as usual, that keeps them from ratting Jesse out to anyone. And we'll have to talk individually about how Jesse will come to notice your character enough to draw them into this operation.
But anyway
raise your hand if you want some part in this because it's what Jesse's up to over the next few months.
Edit: Yeah I should note that while Jesse isn't demanding much other than silence in the contract,
Mr. Gold will be asking for something from each person. However, there's a big chance that Jesse will intervene to spare your character from repayment if/when he finds out about that.