- Location
- Africa
This is viable, the gate spell would let us access those worlds, there specifically developed divination spells/rituals and tools meant for exo planner travel, navigation and exploration to help us find those worlds
All Level, No Experience (Worm/Pathfinder Amnesia Quest)
- Thread starter Sckribe
- Start date
- Crossover Fantasy Superhero
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I first proposed starting an extra dimensional colony. I still think it'd be cool. Alternately, I would rather start any world conquest on literally any other continent besides that one that's already mostly functional.
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You fail to understand that starting an extra dimensional colony is cool in of itself. It needs no other reasoning than cool factor.
Having slept on it, I think that whether or not I do other things, one thing I am going to do is that if a commitment is made, like back with the S9 sending the video to Legend or might be about to happen with Taylor, then Iluontar won't let you forget.
He, like a number of Lawful characters, loathes Oathbreakers, so generally won't let himself become one. So on that S9 video for instance, he absolutely would have eaten up however much time it took to get that squared away before bothering with anything else.
I'm thinking about still doing one or both of the other ideas thrown out, but this one at the least I think I will be implementing.
He, like a number of Lawful characters, loathes Oathbreakers, so generally won't let himself become one. So on that S9 video for instance, he absolutely would have eaten up however much time it took to get that squared away before bothering with anything else.
I'm thinking about still doing one or both of the other ideas thrown out, but this one at the least I think I will be implementing.
AeonIlluminate
The power of friendship and aggressive landscaping
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Hack into the local PRT and see what the organization thinks of you. (PRT Threat Ranking/Interlude)
[X] Go to your Number Man brokerage account and spend the time day-trading. (Number Man/Cauldron Interlude)
[X] Go to your Number Man brokerage account and spend the time day-trading. (Number Man/Cauldron Interlude)
- Location
- Africa
a system for commitments maybe, like every time Iluontar commits to something all actions and write ins that contradict that are vetoed and every turn we have action locked on towards fulfilling or advancing Iluontar commitments.
speaking of actions I sort of wandering but what is the max number of things(actions) Iluontar can do in a single day, like he is an effectively an Outsider so he doesn't need to sleep, eat or even go to the bathroom, with his teleportation spells travel time means nothing to him being effectively instant so that is even more time freed up and then there is his magical abilities spells that create clones should in theory mean he can exponentially increase the number of things he can do even if the clones are lower level than him
That one has less of a hard answer that uses in universe stuff, and more of a narrative one, in the form of 'a few things, but no so many it makes it impossible to effectively write a chapter of it', especially since it seems better, to me, to measure in terms of chapters than in-universe means. Like, 'Raise a full Clockwork Army' could only be 1 action, but spanning multiple days, whereas the time y'all met Lisa spanned a few chapters, but was only a few hours, or fighting the Simurgh was only a matter of minutes, but was multiple chapters. So, I can't really give a hard answer on that one.
Honestly, him being an outsider that doesn't require food, drink, or sleep actually makes the usual lines for days much blurrier. That paired with the Staff having Mage's Lucubration and Memory of Function, having Fast Healing, and the Jar of Endless Nectar, means that resting mainly only fixes up a bit of ability damage, and is mostly just the way to regain and re-prepare or spells of 6th level and higher. Like, you absolutely could go straight weeks without even taking a single 1-hour Recuperation rest, if nothing ended up forcing your hand on the high level spell-slots, especially since you do have a lot of those.
Vote closed
I would be perfectly happy if we made a S-class shopping list and beat them up to get free real estate (given that S-class threats that have meaningful real estate have done a lot of harm to the former owners of said real estate, and are insoluble problems to the existing world order), and find a reason to take over it so we can establish that our rule is indeed a positive thing for those under it?
- Location
- Africa
I am kind of set on the bay now , this was the first worm story that described its geography for me which is beyond perfect for the goal of setting up an independent city state with its access to sea , natural harbor and mountains protecting its from overland attacks as far as someone from pathfinder/D&D would be concerned plus we already built a base here and tried giving it a moat of endbringer blood levels of invested , besides the plan involves conquering everything anyway
Interlude 1 - PRT Assessments
(As of ALNE 2.8)
(As of ALNE 3.8)
(Sections identical to previous reports are largely omitted, noteworthy changes are underlined.)
As of ALNE 5.9
(Sections identical to previous reports are largely omitted, noteworthy changes are underlined.)
(As of ALNE 7.1)
[1]. See Internal Assessment File Dragonslayers
[2]. See Internal Staff File Velocity
[3]. See Internal Staff File Armsmaster
[4]. See Internal Tinker-Tech Filing T-00127-W-M 'Halberd, Armsmaster'
Hm. You know, in a particular way, it's actually quite flattering, really. If you hadn't the memory you did, you'd be tempted to download your own copy of these, leaving evidence on your laptop be damned.
Oh, it appears Mr. Hebert is due any minute now. Perfect timing, really.
AN: Continues in a few days, no vote this time. However, if you want to suggest something, it might be taken into account, considering that 'lore-wise' you all are his various trains of thought, and I will set a phantom vote scheduled as a deadline for myself, where I will leave the write-in option on, I suppose. Again, that's more to use it as a bootleg deadline for myself, though.
Your character sheet is literally identical, so not adding it again. Also, to actually roll your Disable Device (INT) here for how well you got in and out of the PRT- that is 111, against normal 2011 human tech. If anything, the systems ran better when you were on them (not really).
Hope Y'all Enjoyed!
| Internal Assessment File: #0112200011 |
| Filing Date: 01/02/2011 |
| Mountain-Smith; Iluontar |
| Classification: Blaster/Thinker |
| Precise movements and vocalizations allow for specific power manifestations, alongside a passive grab-bag, particularly enhanced senses & skills. |
| Disposition: Independent Hero (PRT Affiliate) |
| Location: Brockton Bay, PRT ENE |
| Age: Unknown | Status: Active |
| Height: 9'7" | Weight: 1,080 lbs. |
| Appearance: Tall, quadruped, spider-like legs, armored segmented plates, six eyes, dark gray coloration, secondary lower pair of arms, no visible musculature, segmented 'plates' cover/are the body, 'skin' coloration & apparent texture in line with basalt, 'plate' coloration & appearance in line with mineral iron. |
| History: Case 53, First Sighting |
| Personality: There is little information to go on, however, observations have shown Iluontar to be keenly professional, cautious, and articulate in PRT interactions thus far. He is noted as being moderately proud of what he views as his strengths, and is exceedingly intelligent by all tested metrics. He is mildly charismatic, though noted as either oblivious or uncaring to certain more subtle social cues. |
| Powers: Powers are sub-divided by category, due to apparent grab-bag status. Blaster 8: Iluontar is capable of producing rays of extreme cold, and 60 ft. (90 degree) cones of light. Being struck anywhere by the rays flash-freezes targets, and contact with the cone produces a variety of possible effects. Brute 6: Iluontar possesses superhuman physical strength as well as superhuman stamina, capable of an overhead lift of 2,400 lbs. with commensurate general strength, and self reports a high durability as well as rapid healing (details uncertain). Changer 2: Iluontar can temporarily (approx 5 min., potentially longer) assume a non-specific human form, for which no identifying marks found. It is unknown if he must assume the same form or not each time. Mover 4: Iluontar can move at low highway speeds both running and climbing, and has reported an ability to burrow through solid earth. As well, he is noted to be capable of teleportation to a range of approximately 1,000 ft. Stranger 5 (Breaker)/-1: Iluontar can temporarily (approx 5 min., potentially longer) become invisibile alongside all of his worn equipment. (-1): Iluontar innately repels all non-micropscopic animals within a 30 ft. radius, apparently regardless of form or if the animals in question are aware of his presence. Animals can be coaxed to remain or enter this radius, but will not do so without external pressure. Animals physically forced to remain in this radius do not attempt to break walls or containers, but will attempt to escape being held if not calmed. Striker 3: Iluontar possesses exceptionally sharp claws, with a reported transformative effect (Rating to be updated upon future observation). Thinker 7 (Shaker 2): Iluontar possesses beyond exceptional sight and hearing, reported to be capable of hearing keystrokes on a membrane keyboard located in an entirely unrelated office, a total of approximately 80 ft. away through multiple steel walls, and accurately identifying the specific keys pressed. All tests report Iluontar as possessing a staggering intellect, having not only maxed out the results of all provided intelligence tests, but also correcting certain questions in places with work shown. Iluontar possesses near polymath familiarity with all pursued lines of inquiry at a minimum; within his spheres of knowledge he is suspected to have knowledge equivalent to 80-150+ years ahead of the current day. (Shaker 2) Iluontar also possesses the ability to sense ground vibrations to an apparent 30 ft. radius. Tinker 0*: Iluontar is self-reported as a Tinker, with claims to have created nearly all of his belongings, bar a mid-2010 model flip-phone. This rating to be revised at a later date, pending further evidence &/or Thinker reports. Trump 0*: Certain powers are purportedly 'prepared' in advance. This rating to be revised at a later date, pending further evidence &/or Thinker reports. |
(As of ALNE 3.8)
(Sections identical to previous reports are largely omitted, noteworthy changes are underlined.)
| Filing Date: 01/15/2011 |
| Mountain-Smith; Iluontar |
| Classification: Tinker/Thinker/Trump |
| Precise movements and vocalizations allow for specific power manifestations, alongside the ability to create lasting Tinkertech, and a passive grab-bag, particularly enhanced senses & skills. |
| Disposition: Independent Hero (PRT Affiliate) |
| Location: North American Continent (Excluding Mexico) |
| Age: Approx 4,481 (Thinker Estimate) | Status: Active & Recovering from C53 Amnesia |
| Height: 9'7" | Weight: 1,080 lbs. |
| Appearance: (Unchanged) |
| History: Case 53, Singlehandedly subdued the Dragonslayers[1] by means of ambush, who were brought in with the aid of Canadian Tinker and Guild member Dragon. |
| Personality: Keenly professional, cautious, and articulate in all interactions. He is exceedingly intelligent by all tested metrics, and noted as taking exceptional pride in his craftsmanship. He is mildly charismatic, though noted as either oblivious or uncaring to certain more subtle social cues. Unofficial reports from Dragon note him as occasionally delving into more archaic turns of phrase, in particular the use of 'Hail' as a greeting and 'Friend _' as a form of address. |
| Powers: Powers are sub-divided by category, due to apparent grab-bag status. Blaster 8: Iluontar is purportedly capable of Manton-Limited matter disintegration, unknown details. Rating remains 8. Thinker 8: A combination of hearing and general knowledge allows Iluontar to identify complex systems and specific materials within those systems through purely auditory feedback, reportedly taking systems of Tinker-level complexity before he loses full confidence in his ability to 'Decipher' and 'Recreate'. Tinker 5: Guild reports indicate that his provided 'Wings of Flying' work exactly as specified, and have thus far shown no deterioration in use despite a 1&1/2 week period without maintenance. Rating to be revised at a later date, pending further evidence &/or Thinker reports. Trump 8: Iluontar has casually confirmed that he 'prepares' his powers in advance of use- numerous powers reported in use thus far from The Guild during his prolonged Tinker fugue. This rating has been raised to match his highest rating in other categories. Potentially to be revised at a later date, pending further evidence &/or Thinker reports. |
As of ALNE 5.9
(Sections identical to previous reports are largely omitted, noteworthy changes are underlined.)
| Filing Date: 01/31/2011 |
| Mountain-Smith; Iluontar |
| Classification: Tinker/Thinker/Trump |
| Precise movements and vocalizations allow for specific & extremely powerful manifestations, alongside the ability to create highly varied & advanced Tinkertech, and a passive grab-bag, particularly extremely enhanced senses & skills. |
| Disposition: Independent Hero (PRT Affiliate) |
| Location: North American Continent (Excluding Mexico) |
| Age: 4,481 (Thinker Estimate) | Status: Active & Recovering from C53 Amnesia |
| Height: 9'7" | Weight: 1,080 lbs. |
| Appearance: (Unchanged) |
| History: (Unchanged) |
| Personality: (Unchanged) |
| Powers: Powers are sub-divided by category, due to apparent grab-bag status. Blaster 9: Iluontar's demonstrated disintegration effect is not Manton-Limited, delivery mechanism is via nigh-invisible green-beam. Specialist Thinkers took 20 total hours of repeated collaborative re-watches of the recording to notice the beam. Iluontar is also capable of an apparent 'Instant Death Wail', also nigh-impossible to notice, capable of inducing immediate and sudden death in at least 2 otherwise healthy parahumans. Autopsies have found no apparent cause of death beyond sudden, immediate, and total cessation of all bodily activity, including both brain and heart. Breaker 7: Capable of temporarily inducing a massive increase in personal speed, near-identical to the hero Velocity[2], Thinker speculation indicates this forces a Manton-Limit on all interactions. Mover 7: Teleportation confirmed to be intra-continental in range, and near-instantaneous in execution. Tinker 9: Iluontar has proven capable of creating Thinker 10: Iluontar is reported to have such advanced technological knowledge that upon first viewing the internals of Armsmaster's[3] Halberd[4], after also being allowed to handle it for approximately 5 seconds which included a single tap on one side of the haft, he was capable of integrating himself into Armsmaster's normal maintenance routine to the degree of not only suggesting tool order, but ordering it in such a fashion that Armsmaster's normal Halberd maintenance cycle was halved in duration. Thinker consultation also confidently suspects extreme amounts of beyond-human skill/knowledge in further fields. Trump 9: This rating has been raised to match his highest rating in other related categories. Potentially to be revised at a later date, pending further evidence &/or Thinker reports. Stranger 7: Iluontar is capable of granting invisibility to others, as well as a version of invisibility that does not break on interaction in the way the previously tested 'lesser' invisibility does. |
(As of ALNE 7.1)
| File Update Pending |
| File: Mountain-Smith; Iluontar |
| Proposed Threat Ranking Overall: Blaster 9, Breaker 8, Brute 7, Changer 2, Mover 9, Shaker 8, Stranger 7, Striker 3, Thinker 10, Tinker 9, Trump 9 Additional Order from Director Costa-Brown: Do not engage under any circumstances. In the event of a potential hostile engagement, all reasonable means towards de-escalation must be taken, and non-reasonable means are permitted if de-escalation can be attained. If a hostile engagement becomes unavoidable, all individuals within a 15-mile radius are to shelter in the nearest building. All individuals within a 15 to 150-mile radius of the engagement are to be evacuated immediately, the Triumvirate & Dragon are to be immediately contacted, and the Endbringer Truce is to be considered active effective immediately in any affected areas for 48 Hours or until further notice. In the presumption this occurs within Brockton Bay, evacuees are to be sent to and lodged within the towns/cities of Bangor, Saratoga Springs, Albany, and New Haven, excepting individuals located on the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, who are to shelter in place until further notice. |
[1]. See Internal Assessment File Dragonslayers
[2]. See Internal Staff File Velocity
[3]. See Internal Staff File Armsmaster
[4]. See Internal Tinker-Tech Filing T-00127-W-M 'Halberd, Armsmaster'
Hm. You know, in a particular way, it's actually quite flattering, really. If you hadn't the memory you did, you'd be tempted to download your own copy of these, leaving evidence on your laptop be damned.
Oh, it appears Mr. Hebert is due any minute now. Perfect timing, really.
AN: Continues in a few days, no vote this time. However, if you want to suggest something, it might be taken into account, considering that 'lore-wise' you all are his various trains of thought, and I will set a phantom vote scheduled as a deadline for myself, where I will leave the write-in option on, I suppose. Again, that's more to use it as a bootleg deadline for myself, though.
Your character sheet is literally identical, so not adding it again. Also, to actually roll your Disable Device (INT) here for how well you got in and out of the PRT- that is 111, against normal 2011 human tech. If anything, the systems ran better when you were on them (not really).
Hope Y'all Enjoyed!
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What I'm hearing is that
1) We have a lot of leeway for actions as long as we don't go totally stick about it,
2) and anything actually important is going to be stored via paperwork or encoding or whatever?
1) We have a lot of leeway for actions as long as we don't go totally stick about it,
2) and anything actually important is going to be stored via paperwork or encoding or whatever?
I got nothing for the upcoming conversation, so...
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[O] "Can I have Brockton Bay to administrate? It's a win-win situation, that way I will be busy not getting stronger and you all can build countermeasures for me in peace and quiet"
I genuinely don't understand what you guys expected PRT to do about us.Man, they Straight up treat my guy as an Endbringer if he get angry.
From the look of it, they will just give him Brockton if he declares that he's king of Brockton.
Start inventorying Powers and finding all the no-save-you-just-die (Grey Boy clones or sth) ones lying around to throw at us I guess?
Lopezelpesado
Space worm best worm.
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- Something
That was a fun read but dammit now I REALLY want to see those other interludes....
- Location
- Norway
OK. With the reminder you gave us recently that Iluontar is supposed to be accumulating power and planning a reconquest force for Golarion, I will propose a suggestion for the conversation that also leads into actionable objectives later.
[X] Mr. Hebert potentially has a perspective on the city that will be less skewed by personal desire for power, organizational obligations, or various special cases. After talking about Taylor, use him to feel out what you could do in or for the city that would make people support you coming to power. Smaller-scale monsters to kill, infrastructure to build, cultural icons to recover, that sort of thing.
D&D Trope Expectation would be to combine all three and it turns out the Boat Graveyard is home to a corrupted Metal Elemental that has stolen the statue of the city founder Barry Brockton; kill the monster and recover the artifact so the city can safely clean up the harbor and regain its prestige.
Give us a quest, GM!Obscure Lore Quibble: the superpower ratings in Worm aren't supposed to be general power like D&D spell levels, they're quasi-military threat ratings based on what sort of counterforce squad and tactics are needed to effectively fight a parahuman with this superpower.
Rating 1 indicates a power so combat-ineffective the user can still lose a fight to an unarmed civilian, even if it's very valuable and socially impactful. For example, Reconstruct is a 5th level spell, but would rate Tinker 1 on its own. Going up the scale, 4 is "cops can handle it" (paraphrased), 5 is "cops should bring a parahuman of their own", 6 is "cops should bring a combat-spec parahuman", etc, up to 10 "call in the Triumvirate".
The first Mover entry, IMO, goes to Mover 7 right away because it means the Mover can break line of sight, leave range of fire, ignore obstacles and walls and killing grounds, escape ambushes, bypass cordons, gain total cover at will, and generally clown on anyone walking at regular speed. It dominates the tactical situation.
But for much the same reason, it is really hard to get a high Blaster rating without long-range cover-penetrating homing AOE omni-tactical intelligent-projectile multi-feature nonsense. Miss Militia can manifest a bottomless rocket launcher and she's only rated Blaster 5, iirc. Blaster powers are often deadly, but a mundane gun is also deadly, and a gun with quadruple damage can't kill you more than once. Damage dice on Disintegrate don't do much to change the tactical situation to the degree an 8 is supposed to indicate.
(The books are self-contradictory and frequently don't match their own official rating scale, so don't take this too seriously.
)Oh yeah, that's also the sense I got too. That and to my knowledge/use, the numbers are mostly meant as an 'if this were just on its own (since powers usually are) what'd it be?', also paired with it being subject a bit to internal PRT stuff (looking at you, 'give her a 2 in every other category' director whose name I forget). As for the mover one specifically, that one was admittedly a chunk due to thinking in PF movement terms where 30 ft. is standard human, and 40 ft. isn't too far past that, while them also not including the burrowing they have no known examples of at the time.(The books are self-contradictory and frequently don't match their own official rating scale, so don't take this too seriously.
Funny enough I did have two versions of the same scale open for reference as I made these
.On the blaster side, it's a mix of 'Oh this kind of like Legend's beam, maybe similar-ish' and the fact that a 60 ft. cone is just, pretty dang big, and also dang flashy, which gets it a bit overplayed in the report. As for the MM thing, eh, I'm going to assume that's also a bit of an internal thing, 'keep our guys/gals/creatures a bit less scary if these documents leak or something, bump the numbers down one or two'.
Of course, that then leads to some ridiculous conclusions when Vista being a Shaker 8 comes up, but yeah- it's a bit of a thing, and frankly being called on only two is a victory in my eyes!
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- She/Her
Being entirely fair, that's only slightly overstating things. Tinker 2 for spider silk tripwires and garments, Stranger 2 for Bug Clones, Blaster 2 and Shaker 2 just from having a giant swarm of bugs, Mover 2 from effectively being omnipresent in her range, Brute 2 from her bodysuit and absurd pain tolerance.
There's still some stuff missing, but it's not coming from nowhere.
That's mostly a fanon thing, not a Wildbow thing, to be fair.