“Hey there new jumper, jumperette, and/or plaything. As thanks for agreeing to sign onto one of Jumpchan’s special ‘long term contracts’, you have been entitled to this special benefits package-entailing a specialty scaling body mod for use throughout your jumpchain and beyond.”
Ahem.
Now that the official thing is out of the way, welcome to the long contract scaling body modification supplement. This one’s a bit more complicated than other body mods, so I recommend reading through at least the entire explanatory segment. Assuming JumpChan didn’t jack it up and accidentally give this to a “journey of the century” challenge jumper again, you’re going to be stuck with it for a long time.
A really long time.
Breakdown
Body Points: 0
The Bare Minimum
- The Basics (Free)
- The JumpChain Physical (Free)
- The Mental Health Checkup (Free)
- Body Modification (Free)
- Heads Down Display (Free)
- JumpChan’s Mark of Ownership (Free)
- JumpChan’s Secrecy Guarantee (Free)
Spent Body Points: 0
Unspent Body Points: 0
- The Basics: 0
- Peak Human: 0
- Street Fighter: 0
- Metahuman: 0
- Special Talents: 0
Perks
The Basics
This isn’t so much a perk as a general notice that the body mod applies BEFORE alt-forms / transformations similar you get from jumpdocs you take. All benefits/changes you have from the body mod will apply to the alt-form as best they can. As an example if you have an abnormally tall base form, the alt-forms you use will be abnormally tall for whatever species it is, or if you import as a cheetah person the speed perks you have here will make you as unreasonably speedy for a cheetah person as you were for a human. Obviously perks and choices that are locked away by power loss/gauntlets due to being over the threshold your benefactor designated as “body mod level” will not apply as such, due to not being part of the body mod. This is a benefit/feature, and can be disabled at your discretion when taking on alt-forms.
The JumpChain Physical
Your body is set to “average” human level. This removes all physical maladies, disabilities, and illnesses both long and short term. It also removes issues born of an unhealthy lifestyle up to the point where you, while not necessarily in shape, are definitely not out of shape either and the same improvement is done for issues born of circumstances outside of your control such as genetic diseases or major injuries. You won’t fall over out of breath the first time you’re called upon to sprint two blocks is what I’m saying, or be unable to run those two blocks because of a leg injury when you were twelve. This goes on an issue by issue basis and is only improvements, so someone who is fairly athletic already will come out the other side of this better than someone who used to be a couch potato despite getting less benefits from the fix up. This is a one time benefit unless the option to purchase it again is given, if you jack your body up again in a way new alt-forms won’t fix, that’s on you.
The Mental Health Checkup
JumpChan needs her jumpers to start out in one piece. If someone’s depression spikes to cause suicide because of the emotional shock of getting pitched into another universe that’s no fun because then they never get around to being eaten by the bears. Your mental health is restored to around a healthy baseline. While this will not totally relieve all relevant mental and emotional neuroses it does reduce them to the point that they will neither inhibit your ability to survive your jumps as they are nor get worse again on their own (poor decisions on your part or negative outside influences are absolutely capable of causing eventual relapses if you’re careless though) and will do so without tampering with the undamaged portions of your psyche. If you are really attached to specific personal delusions or broken neuron pathways, you may choose to have certain ones be passed over by this treatment. This is a one time benefit upon taking the doc, the stability is up to you to maintain yourself.
Body Modification
Since this is a special contract for long term jumpers, JumpChan is making the main makeover completely free. Choose a general selection of “build” changes with no specific improvements to them. Make your body sturdier or thinner, grow taller or shorter within the realms of standard human size, even shuffle your physical gender around to what’s more comfortable. These are general changes, nothing that improves physical ability, is targeted specifically as a “appearance enhancer” in a way certain stats nerds would consider mechanical, or crap similar to that. You’ll be given a few minutes to “test run” these changes before being locked in, but you only get this once upon taking the body mod so once you’ve decided you’re not getting more free body shufflers. Don’t worry, there’s still ways to do it again if you’re not happy with your first choices.
Heads Down Display
This is a special mental HUD that you can call up or push back down with a thought that will give you assorted jumpchain related information. This info will be chosen by your benefactor: while stuff like time remaining in the jump or the health status of your companions is traditional, they’re free to stick whatever they want in there whether that be letter rankings for your jump performance, colorful gauges for your personal resource bars, or customer reviews from all the people you’ve killed. It also comes with an inbox, which your Benefactor can use to send you messages if they don’t feel like waiting to show up in your dreams or accost you next time you go to your warehouse.
JumpChan’s Mark of Ownership
Your benefactor is putting a lot of investment into you by giving you this specialty body mod, and likely isn\’t interested in losing you to some two bit chump in a super hero jump because you got mind controlled right before the jump ended. If a jump ends while you are under mind altering effects, those effects are suspended so that you can make any chain-oriented decisions (go home / move on option, which jump to go to next, your purchases for the next jump, etc) with a clear head. This is only a suspension however, if the alterations are capable of sustaining themselves into your next jump you’ll have to figure out how to remove them yourself or hope you have competent companions to do it for you. It’s not your benefactor’s problem if you’ve had undying loyalty to the dark god of destruction burned into your soul and fall into existential melancholy because they don’t exist in Hello Kitty. This explicitly overrides drawbacks unless said drawback was taken 100% entirely of your own free choice.
JumpChan’s Secrecy Guarantee
Then again, maybe JumpChan is a bit more attached to you specifically. They aren’t going to give you freebies on the above issue… but instead you get a guarantee that unless you personally and willingly allow it, nobody in a jump will learn about you being a jumper. Your companions won’t be able to spread it around without your permission, followers will just never seem to bring it up, and it will effectively be invisible to mind reading or history delving effects, to say nothing of the fact that even while mind controlled or under the effects of other forced loyalty measures you won’t be able to elaborate on it to whoever’s trying to pull it out. That being said, this is a Benefactor thing. If they prefer to see you flounder under minor mistakes like that, this won’t be active, you don’t get to choose. Also this won’t prevent people from noticing you using OCP or otherwise breaking the local laws of physics, it will just prevent people from forcing out the JumpChain explanation without your consent.