Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170410034737/@comment-25936766-20170526192315

Time for an Useless Useful Semblance.

-Name: Traffic Light

-User(s): Pedestriaman the Pedestrian

-Type: Psychic

-Purpose: Utility

-Description: Creates a traffic signal that flashes either a Green or a Red light. People who see a Red light inmediately and constantly feel compelled to stop regardless of anything, and for the Green light they feel compelled to move without stopping.

When I say stop, I don't mean they are paralyzed like a statue, but rather the targets stop running, jumping, or even walking. They stand still, but can move their face and turn around and move their arms, they just don't feel like moving to another spot.

It can only flash a red or green light, and while it can switch, there's a 3-secs-long delay beforehand, indicated by a Yellow light.

-Activation Cue: A disembodied traffic light box with 3 lights manifests floating somewhere with a series of beep sounds, then 1 strong BOOP when flashing a red or green light. During Yellow, it returns to the beeps, then does another single BOOP when flashing the light.

-Range: Long

-Tier 1: Can only create 1 traffic light with 1 head. It can be rotated, but slowly.

-Tier 2: Can create traffic lights with multiple heads so they flash lights in different directions. Each head can flash a light different from the one the other head is flashing.

-Tier 3: Can create multiple traffic lights. Light's effects don't stack. If one person sees both Red and a Green light, the effects null each other.

-Tier 4: Traffic lights now have 4 lights instead of 3. The 4th light allows the user to compell the victims to move in a specific direction (from the victim's perspective).

Example: The victim is facing forward at the moment, sees the light, feels compelled to move to the right. They would then move to, based on the direction they're seeing, what would be their right. If they turn their head to the left, they would curve and move on the direction that is now their right.

-General limitations: 1-The victim must be able to see the light to be affected. The effect lasts for 1 minute and resets every moment they see the light again, but nothing prevents them from, say, closing their eyes to avoid the latter, or moving somewhere the light is not visible.

2-If the victim can't see the light's color (can't see Red or Green), they are unaffected by that light.

3-Seeing the Traffic Light's light reflected on any surface does not apply any effect.

4-The effect's effectiveness is proportional to how clearly the victim saw the light. So if you're like a cat and see things with a paler coloration, it's not so effective.

5-Since the effect works through compelling, it can be resisted, especially if it had low effectiveness.

-Dust interaction: None

-Notes: Guess on what it's based. First 3 attempts don't count.