Presumably nothing as we're not a parahuman. But maybe we'll set up something with tinkertech to fake it.

Because allowing her to demonstrate our true self is Ziz is bad.
 
Hey guys.

Status update real quick.

1: If it's not apparently by now, I'm a really awful writer that has a habit of deleting everything he wrote down and starting over atleast ten times a chapter.

2: This is a longer time between chapters than even that.

That's because well.......

The plumbing broke. Bathroom's a complete mess, it leaked all the way down to the lobby, and right now I'm kinda focused on cleaning up that along with a bunch of other house issues. This apartment's old enough to have fricking Asbestos in the walls and said walls need to be opened up.

Landlord of course, is being as unhelpful as possible. Already had the whole bathroom torn open but I had to figure out reinstalling the toilet (which she thoughtfully had uninstalled) myself I'll get back to writing when I can but......just too distracted right now.

My apologies. I seriously don't deserve you guys.


with plan persona
wonder what happens when noel uses it on us?

Well, it'll never happen because you know what'll happen of it does happen, but right now you're just sorta-human enough for it to work. And it's exactly as horrifying as you think.

Shadow-Liz is the soulless, nonsapient killing machine that any other Endbringer is, and the thing Liz refuses to recognize about herself, that she is in fact, an Endbringer, and therefore not supposed to be able to think for herself.

Since this will totes out her, she's avoiding it like the plague.


He never said his name, did he? Poor Coil, easy to not notice small details like that when trying to keep 2 timelines straight.

No, from Coil's POV, that was Liz using her Thinker power to deduce who hired her by being really smart. The logical line of reasoning that might have done this is that despite her never really using her Brute strength or resilience, Coil still opted to have his goons rely entirely on non-physical coercion, meaning he knows she's too powerful physically to simply threaten with guns, yet it doesn't fit any org's modus operandi.

Lung won't recruit the second whitest cape in the Bay. Kaiser would have used his organization's large number of capes and grandoiseness, Skidmark's too stupid, Faultline would never break the rules that blatantly, Uber and L33t aren't that kind of scum and would have dressed your parents up as Princess Peach or something.

That only really leaves one real suspect.
 
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Good news!

I've given up.

Not on Smug quest, no, I'm basically done with the whole plumbing issue. My bathroom's still a freaking mess (tiles ripped up and it's bare wood paneling now, so I have to go while wearing shoes) and my landlord's trying to find the cheapest contractor in the city. Nothing I do at this point is going to change the situation. So I'm gonna try to stop thinking about it and start focusing back on writing.

Expect another update soon, and sorry for the delays!
 
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Life happens and people are dicks
i also spent 10 minutes looling for a pic that says something like 'Atleast you are happy here' Amd ill be damned if i found any that said anything close to it
so have a cute cat
ok all images are broken
damn it
 
Genesis 1.1: Gamer Girl
PG-13
Warning, the following contains heavy gamer-speak, badly mangled scottish accents, and dominiation, which may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.



Genesis: 1.1: Gamer Girl.

With your team now chosen, now all you have to do is recruit them. And you know just the way to do it.
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Uber and Leet's hideout


"The bomb has almost reached the final terminus!"

The Heavy vs Spy Matchup is one defined largely one by backstabbing the other from out of nowhere.

Of course, normally, Leet mused, The Heavy wasn't the one doing the backstabbing, as PootisPancake finger-gunned his laughing, french mercenary for the umpteenth time this game. He might even have been okay with being outplayed if PootisPancake hadn't also been wearing a Gibus the whole time.

He was just about to call it quits when his phone started ringing.
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[Smug]

You smirk to yourself as your avatar blows Leet's away with a finger gun for the fifteenth time. You've established yourself as someone who shared his hobby, and was better at it, while unbalancing him mentally. Now to swap to Demoman.

Who said you needed unparalleled telekinetic powers and precognition to mess with people?

Leet should be picking up in three, two-

"Hello?"

Four stickies ought to do it.

"Hello Leet. I have-"

"Busy. Call back later"

"Och laddy, I dinnae think you'd blow me off that easily!"

And with that, you made your black, Scottish cyclops blow a disguised Frenchman into unidentifiable, Pixaresque bits of meat and wounded ego. It takes Leet very little time to put two and two together, and a bit longer than that to pick his chin off the floor and respond.

"What do you want?" Ohhh he's angry at you for being better than him. And aroused, but mostly angry.

You decide on the "Steamroll them and answer all their questions at once" approach. "I'm setting up a team, and I want you and your boyfriend on it. You get paid to be on retainer, and rob particular things for an employer, yes you can still do your streaming thing, no you don't have to rename yourselves or anything, no there's no uniforms although a baseline cape outfit for when you're not doing a theme thing is recommended, yes I'm smarter than you, yes I'm a real girl, yes I'm still better at video games than you."

13...12...11...10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1…

"Where do we meet?"

[Smug]

Now that you've gotten the easiest of your new team out of the way, (and just in case, by some utter impossibility, you fail, enough to build a basic team) it's time to decide who to convince next.

Regent is, out of the two options, definitely easier. Just showing up and asking him to join while wearing a miniskirt and flashing a few big bills works three times out of five, but getting him to actually trust the team and/or become a productive team member is far harder than it will be for Noelle.

Speaking of which, your cure for the future S-class gal pal that you've been telekinetically working on should be done. While getting her loyalty would be easy, having her join up without any of her comrades insisting on also joining you might be difficult.

Oh and you may have already mastered them into a ticking time bomb. Maybe you should undo that.

Who to go after next?

[]Regent
  • []Convince him to take a different name (Write in the name)
[]Persona
  • []Defuse your Ziz Bombs
  • []Rewire them for something else instead.
  • []Make a fool of Trickster just because you can.
 
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TFW you realize you forgot to add a vote for who to recruit first last time.

Ah well, he was the easiest one anyway.
 
[X] Regent
-[X] Twitch

We should defintely remove the Travelers from their intended purpose.

I'm thinking maybe we rewire them to be our bumbling heroic rivals trying to "rescue" Noelle. (Nvm they are known villains!) If we alter Noelles power than we should do something for Oliver so he can actually contribute, but keeping the aspect that allowed him to distract Scion just in case. Some kind of stranger-trump.

Play up a hammy rivalry, follow the lessons of Mouse Protector and be what Uber&Leet only wished they could be, and be powerful enough that we humiliate anyone who tries to put us down or slander us. (And the Travelers)
 
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[X] Regent
-[X] Twitch
 
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OP if we're modding Noelles power can we do Oliver's too? They drank from the same vial, it might look better if they both change at the same time, and it allows him to be actualy useful.

And did we ever pick up cape name?

Trying to think of a good game theme name for our maximum brute and it's not coming to me.

Hax doesn't really work, nor does Tank or Aggro...

Maybe Griefer? Troll seems too on the nose.

Maybe get a warhammer from Leet, Banhammer? Ugh..


Ok, more abstract- Unreal, Epic, Mythic
 
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Trying to think of a good game theme name for our maximum brute and it's not coming to me.
You don't have to advertise Brutishness. The only Canon Alexandria Package to really play up the Brute angle is Aegis. More commonly, it seems either a "Theme" of the powers or standard "Hero" type names are favored. But you can forget all of that and just call yourself Tattletale for shits and giggles.

So far, I'm thinking Paragon (with an "Evil side" you're totally just hamming up named Renegade).

No I'm not nostalgic for City of Heroes, shut up.

If you want I can host a vote for Cape Names right now, but I'm planing to do it in the middle of your first team meeting.
 
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There's an idea, a name in the same vein as Alexandria , but implying we're better than her. Let me look some up...

Ughh, Athena for Athens is the best I got, that seems so cliched though.
 
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That works for a joke, he did conquer Alexandria. Maybe a Roman name?

Minerva or Bellona. Similar to Athena.

But then we lose that gamer theme, which makes Paragon more tempting.

I was thinking of something that reflects her love of "MMOs" but I can't make it work.

Unless we want to call her Protagonist.
 
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I was thinking of something that reflects her love of "MMOs" but I can't make it work.
It's not so much that you like MMORPGs for the gameplay, but it's pretty much the best venue you had for socializing.

No one suspects you're the Simurgh just because you're really good at timing Power Word: Shield on people. Just pick whatever kind of vague but not immediately obvious video game reference you want.

Or be obvious and lose style points.
 
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