Cross-Dimensional Incursion

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Cross-Dimensional Incursion (minor) by Stone Gargoyle

This power requires the GM to create a secondary landscape which only the superbeing with this power can access.
The landscape used by the character can change to one he accesses via a cross-dimensional overlapping which only he can see and utilize. When active, this power allows the character to access a parallel universe's natural features (such as the natural land bridge which collapsed in the mainstream reality but still exists in the other dimension). The superbeing must expend an action to activate the power which attempts to open the connection between worlds. This is not always successful, having a chance of success percentage equal to the character's ME attribute number, plus 2% per level of experience. Those viewing the character will see him seemingly walking in midair or on water as he accesses alternative reality landscape. They can still attack him, however, and he is still prone to being hit by things not expecting him to be there, such as speedboats (or that plane crossing what it thinks is open sky but to him seems like a continuing plain extending across a chasm to everyone else). The other dimensional landscape will not protect him from attack, hide him or hit anything when he throws it at someone, passing harmlessly through a target.
The superbeing also sees BOTH realities, making him -4 to all attack moves while the power is active. The other dimension accessed is limited to topographical features and landscape and will not differ in any other way (so even if it would be having a building on a hill in the dimension the landscape belongs to, it will not appear to him as such and he will not be obstructed by such structures when accessing the otherdimensional landscape.
The power lasts for a time equal to the character's ME number in minutes, plus one minute per level, and can only be used his ME attribute number of times per day, plus once more at levels 4, 8 and 12.