RTCON

Workbench - R.E.T.C.O.N. Device

You set aside all of your equipment. You activate the R.E.T.C.O.N. device by shoving your talisman inside. What happens next is more like an explosion than anything. Perhaps an implosion. Possibly both. Being wrenched through time and space is far worse than you'd imagined it could be, and honestly you'd expected it to be pretty bad. There's a storm of colors, a chiaroscuro of light and dark, some deep elemental reconfiguration of nearly every molecule in your body.

To your chagrin, you feel things slipping away. Some of your strength, your intellect, your superhuman reflexes. Your endurance and vitality are drained away, leeched out into the ether. Your mind, going backwards, suffers the same fate. Facts, faces, techniques, blink out like lights. You hold tight to your very core, before even that is lost, but almost everything else goes.

It's a miracle you survive. You are left empty and drained, not much more than a talisman and a hollow shell. There's a terrible sense that something is wrong. You remember an imminent danger, the whole city at risk, but the details are gone. You're not even sure what you're doing here on the street, or why you hurt so much. Did you go out patrolling? Did a thug jump you and beat you up?

The story sounds familiar. That must have been it. Yeah, sure, you remember now. There was a fight, and then you found this talisman, and now you're a real superhero.

All this comes back to you, and you open your eyes. You turn for a moment, as if to say something to a constant companion, and realize nobody is around. It's strange, but you can't shake the feeling that someone is supposed to be here with you.

You have forgotten all of your previous non-permed skills. However, you acquire a new skill: Throw Sparks

You acquire another new skill: Proper Grounding

For your valiant efforts the last time around, Susan decorated you (literally) with some medals of honor.

You got an item: 12 metal medals of mettle

You find yourself wrapped in some kind of protective foil, like those first aid blankets. This looks like it's made out of real gold, though. You fold up the foil.

You got an item: 3 sheets of gold foil

You also find the most basic of gear: a weapon and some pajamas to keep you warm.

You got an item: 1 wonderbat

You got an item: 1 lightning yellow pajamas