Petrolfication

Petrolfication (Major) by Stone Gargoyle

"Life is a gas."

The hero is able to control the rate of fossilization in objects and organic matter. The matter must be dead in order to convert it into fuel. This is done by touch and is a slow and tedious process. It requires the superbeing to use a containment vessel, like a barrel to store the oil and gasoline produced. The power can be used to refine existing fossil fuel as well as break down solid matter.

1. Biogenic Breakdown: By touching an object in his hands, the hero is able to apply intense heat and pressure, filtering out chemicals and gases. Normal matter can be compressed in this manner, reducing it to 10% of its former mass and converting it into coal. The hero can compress his PS number in ponds in this manner, converting it to coal. This expends an action to perform. By expending an additional action, the hero can crush the coal into an equal amount of natural oil. This can also be used to petrify and fossilize matter.

2. Petroleum Purification: By Touching Natural Oil, the hero can refine it into gasoline. He can also alter it into high octane fuel if making a successful Chemistry skill roll to do so. The hero can affect one gallon of natural gas and/or oil in this manner per level (so at level 15 he could alter up to 15 gallons by expending a single action. Oil conversion products are listed on a chart below.

3. Unbreakable Grip: The hero has Supernatural PS for the purpose of crushing items in his hand or grabbing hold of things (a Supernatural PS greater than his own is necessary to break his grip) and hanging on to prevent being thrown off of rampaging animals or moving vehicles.

4. Other Abilities and Bonuses:

+1d6 PS

+2d4 PE

+10% to Chemistry skills

Immune to Toxins and Poisons

Breakdown of Natural Oil into Product from one barrel (55 gallons):
Gasoline = 19.4 gallons = 35% converted; Distillate Fuel Oil = 9.7 gallons = 18% converted; Kerosene Type Jet Fuels = 4.3 gallons = 8% converted; Coke = 2.0 gallons = 4% converted; Liquified Refinery Gases = 1.9 gallons = 3.5% converted; Still Gas = 1.8 = 3.3% converted; Asphalt and Road Oil = 2.2 gallons = 2% converted; Petrochemical Feedstocks = 1.1 gallons = 2% converted; Lubricants = .5 gallons = 1% converted; Kerosene = .2 gallons = .4% converted; Other = .4 gallons = .7% converted