Distance Learning for fun and profit...
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cryptoam
building an 1980s encrypted protocol
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- in lockdown waiting and bored...
All you would need is someone to be willing to take down Lung at any price(eg. revenge for lost family members) and has access to a sniper rifle. Countersniper operations before the first shot can be difficult in an urban environment.
- Location
- The general area. Possibly behind you.
The precedent it sets is 'Do not fuck with the military as they have no sense of humor at all and very big guns. So don't push your luck.'
I'm sure they could find a spare RPG. Or just do a little careful surveillance then drop a JDAM on the building from 30000 feet...
You don't need an RPG, just a Marine Corps Sniper, a .50 Caliber Rifle, about 1000 yards of space and one head shot.
Sandy River DL
(Verified Destroyer Leader)
- Location
- Lake Michigan
- Pronouns
- Her/She
And it took Taylor being backed up by Ammy-chan for Lung to care about etiquette.
There is more than one DARPA facility out there. They have a facility in Cambridge a couple blocks away from MIT. So the minimum necessary move distance is just to Boston.
That does not make it any less terrible.
Of course, I have had a soft spot for Lung. There used to be a fanfic where Uncle Iroh was Lung. Bakuda has tea with him.
- Location
- California
*Lung steps on a gravity pad and gets launched into orbit*
Done.
Done.
- Location
- The general area. Possibly behind you.
Oh, it's terrible in one sense, yes. But in another it would be entirely fitting for the setting.
That said, I've used other ways to deal with Lung in other stories, most of them much less... permanent. In Taylor Varga it was basically negotiation from a position of strength.
IE "Play nice or we eat you."
Seems to have worked. And he's on speaking terms with one of Taylor's alter-egos, not to mention respects her. Which is kind of mutual.
"You are used to be treated as if you need to be negotiated with as an equal. You are used to being able to take your mask off and be safe from consequences. You are used to people reacting only when you actually do something, not when you beat your chest and threaten. You are used to people who are prepared to suck up a certain level of disruption from you without levying consequences out of concern over some nebulous concept of legality. You need to stop being used to it when you talk to us, because those sorts of delusions will get you killed, and we won't lose a moments sleep over sending the order for the bullet that does it."
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Skrattybones
Chao is all you need
He was a low level gangbanger before he triggered, fought Leviathan, and then I don't think ever went back to Japan. He's also half Chinese so I don't know that he'd be overly appreciative of Japan's culture considering the, y'know, racism. Right?
Jordisk
<Unverified N00B>
- Location
- Blind Eternities
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
He was a half-Chinese with a Japanese mother (which means no citizenship for him), and thus was HEAVILY bullied (because Japan flips back and forth between "Gajiin Scum" and "Blond and Red Hair are So Pretty!", and Lung isn't European). He joined with a small-time gang in high school, and in his late teens-early twenties that gang tried to get in with the Yakuza. The gang was sent to deal with a small-time Yang-Ban drug operation that was setting up in their town.
During the raid, Contessa showed up, because Path I guess? There was never a reason given for why she was at this particular Yang-ban drug operation in Japan where there were no other capes or high-level Chinese, or even Japanese, people. Anyway, Contessa kills all of the Yang-Ban and Lung's gang, and causes Lung to trigger, before fucking off back to Cauldron. He returns home, and becomes one of the Yakuza's "Big Sticks" against the Sentai Elite, Japan's superhero team equivalent to the Protectorate. Eventually, he fights in the Leviathan attack on Kyushu. Lung ramps up as far as he ever has before, becoming a silvery metal lizard with four wings, six limbs, and a tail; in this state he is taller than Leviathan. Their battle rages for hours, as the island sinks around them.
At an unknown time, Lung is captured by the Yang-Ban and is kept in a pit while he is "trained", both in how to use his power and to serve the Yang-Ban. I assume this is before they got the Mind-Control cape, as he escapes. This may be before or after Leviathan, we just don't know.
After Leviathan, Lung decides that the Endbringers at not something that can be fought, only survived, and doesn't attend another fight. He makes his way to America, as many other Japanese and other Asian populations do in the wake of the attack. He settles in Brockton Bay, and unifies a half-dozen country-separated Asian-only gangs into one pan-Asian gang, the Asian Bad Boyz or ABB. During this assault, which takes most of a year, he kills all but one of the capes leading/part of those gangs. The surviving cape is Oni Lee, who swears himself to Lung. Some time after the ABB is formed, Lung fights off the entire Protectorate ENE team. Notably, this team does not include Assault, Battery, Triumph, or Dauntless yet, but does include Challenger. Challenger retires soon after this fight and Lung is usually CONTAINED rather than FOUGHT following this.
The ABB remains a rival of the E88 for the next however long, as well as dealing with the Archer's Bridge Merchants and Coil fairly regularly. This time does not last more than two or three years, before Canon starts and things happen as described in Worm. Read it if you want to know more, and then go cry in a corner because that shit is depressing.
- Location
- Canada
"Shom things in here don't react too well to bulletsh!"?
"I would have liked to have seen Montana!"
I read the link. That quote is good too.
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
Bolt from the blue suggests there were violent means.
Canon, according to Worm and Wildbow's WoG. Some people refuse to accept that though on the grounds that it makes things worse.
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Canon. In Interlude 19, this is what they discuss doing with Emma
cryptoam
building an 1980s encrypted protocol
- Location
- in lockdown waiting and bored...
No need for biggatons(despite my like for those). The author already stated a single bullet to the head when Lung is not expecting cranial surgery to be enough. Guess which group has the resources, capabilities, and will to do so? The group that has to protect Taylor. Suffice to say that Taylor will not be effectively threatened for long by Lung.
And I think everyone would prefer BB be uncontaminated by radioactive fallout(any nuke will generate enough to cause problems for BB).
EDIT: Typo sent away using specialized gravitic drive system.
And I think everyone would prefer BB be uncontaminated by radioactive fallout(any nuke will generate enough to cause problems for BB).
EDIT: Typo sent away using specialized gravitic drive system.
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He'll die of the same thing Blaise Zabini's stepfathers die of: Natural Causes.
But don't worry. Spontaneous lizardification almost never happens these days, they've got most of the bugs worked out.Quite.
You may in fact need a therapist because they fixed your lack-of-lizard problem
And how they did that...
Um, the snow is one of the few attractive things BB has going for it.
ITYM "Wordz from the Wordz god!"
Eh. No one is actually certain what his baseline toughness is, so better overkill than underkill.
I have bad news for you. That precedent was set
Presumably because it stopped (or caused) something a few years down the line. Remember: PTV is utter bullshit.