Billy Baker's Powers

### Effect

Change others' perception of reality; see through alterations in reality made by others.

## History

Though it unknown exactly how Billy Baker first received his powers, it has something to do with the time his Ego, Lucas Jenkins, spent in the town of Undecided. Billy is known as "The Great Diviner" throughout the multiverse, and is hated and beloved by a swath of different entities encountered by the Kollok Radar. The express purpose of sending "Lucas" into Billy's body was to destroy the Prime Universe, though Billy had no idea that he was supposed to do so, as he had no memories of his past, or even how his powers affect people.

When Billy first begins to understand his powers, it's believed that, similar to the powers of Tibby Devin or Mickey Jones, he's only killing whoever it takes to change his universe. A popular Billy sacrificed to make Prime Billy cool, a normal Marcus, Mickey, and Billy gone to make them look normal, deaths in the multiverse such as that. Instead, it is revealed to Billy by Clarence Anah that he's not killing one or two people, but whole universes to change their whole perception of reality.

During the time Billy is captured by the Devourer, he tries to convince Billy, and himself, that they are the same. That Billy kills because he likes it, not because he has to out of necessity. Billy tells him that this is false, that he's only doing it to protect his friends.

While the Kollok Radar is in the Grotto, Billy asks Phobos to take his powers away. Phobos agrees, and appears to, but in the end it doesn't work.

## Cost to Use

Premonition: 3 tokens to sense any danger that might be ahead.

Reality Warp: 5 tokens to change the perception of reality and make that reality "true".

## Instances Used

* **Episode 6**
* Billy uses his power to break the illusions affecting Skye, Mickey, Marcus, and Jayna Grace as well as Jayna's house.
* **Episode 9**
* Billy uses his power on one occasion, which has multiple effects on the world at large.
* He creates the illusion that himself, Mickey, Marcus, and Bucket look as though they are normal, while they are actually decomposing bodies.
* He changes perception of himself to be seen as a popular kid.
* In doing so, he realizes that the cost of his power was destroying these other Billys, as well as the universes that they came from.
* As a side effect of this use of his powers, the town of Kollok's memories of the preceding five days are effectively deleted.
* This erases any documents that were created and other evidence that these days had occurred.
* This does not change the deaths that occurred during that time.
* **Episode 16**
* Billy uses his power to make a stack of napkins look like $100 bills. He then is able to use this money to pay for hotel rooms and other items in Portland.
* **Episode 19**
* Billy first used his power to hide the gun that Mickey's mother was holding. This was to avoid suspicion being cast in the shooting death of Bucket, as no other gun was present at the hotel they were staying at.
* At Mickey's request, he altered her mother and sister's memories to make it seem as if Mickey never existed.
* Billy attempted to use his power again, but had no tokens. He was allowed to make a dice roll at a high difficulty (a requirement of six by rolling two D4s). He failed this roll and, consequently, was tranquilized by an invading group of soldiers.
* **Episode 20**
* Billy used his powers to make the group look like rescue workers. This allowed them to enter Kollok without other authorities questioning them.

## Trivia

1. During the "Teens In Space" episodes, Billy claims to use his powers to change the world around them to resemble spaceships and life in outer space. Zac, as Tibby, interjects that he's "pretty sure this isn't how Billy's powers work", and in the first episode of season 2, this is retconned by the Driver, as all the character pretend that they had seen all of the illusions Billy made, when in reality they were just playing along. Mallory, on the other hand, (because of a low Brains roll), was "so engrossed with Billy's storytelling" that he believed that all of it was real.