JamesB
You needed worthy opponents.
- Location
- Kansas
The CYOA says one thing, his build says another:
Non Cauldron capes can be copied, not just Scion capes.
A Cat Is Fine Too (Worm CYOA)
- Thread starter CrunchySharpie
- Start date
Non Cauldron capes can be copied, not just Scion capes.
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
I know, I mentioned that. When you said "the Trump restriction" I thought you meant the CYOA
- Location
- San Francisco
What even is his power?
- Location
- The Void
To cause everyone to think he is a parahuman.
Dark Ness
Rises Where Silence Dies
- Location
- The Primordial Soup
Nobody knows. All we know is that 1. Everybody leaves him alone, even Kephri who took every other super cape 2. He took over a whole planet by himself
- Location
- Home
Hookwolf + JackSlash = Walking blender.
Night + Grue = You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Parian + Clockblocker or Parian + Flechette = lets spin all the death threads.
Vista + Purity = or almost Legend.
Labyrinth + Flechette = Thinking with Portals
CrunchySharpie
Professional Harem Consultant
- Location
- Sharpie Factory
1. That was me just being a jackass for humors sake.
2. Taylor Hebert may not currently have the experiences to make stabbing a person in the eye seem reasonable, or have so very little physical or emotional feeling due to Bakuda's pain bomb and shunting her emotions into her swarm that she can just bull rush through all her problems but she is still highly highly capable of it. Just because she was molded by her events doesn't mean she wasn't already capable of it which allowed those events to further refine who she actually is. Some people just don't have the mentality or the capability to be as much of a determinator as she does. That was my point. If I walked up to her and started playing grabass as a cape and there was no one around to see her, she would drop 3 city blocks worth of bugs on my head.
She is only limited to what outside stimulus is brought upon her, which is why she is fucking terrifying.
Also, I may, perhaps, be a little disappointed when I do meet her. Knowledge of what will be and what is are two very different things. I'm in a good mood in-story and I have yet to have the wind blown out of my sails. Seeing Taylor as a very different person than what I'm imagining her as would probably do that.
Panacea and L33t were alluded to be natural Eden triggers by Wildbow. As far as I know It wasn't outright stated.
Trump: You can switch between canon powersets. Any Scion-based natural trigger cape to appear in canon Worm can be imitated, except for those who accumulate other capes powers, such as Glaistig Uaine or Butcher. You can, at will, jump from having the powers of Dragon, Skitter, Tattletale, Panacea, or many, many others. You cannot however imitate the powers of Contessa or Cauldron capes. Imitating a power does not cause you to suffer the mental influence suffered by the cape you're imitating.
This is most likely, simply a case of the author not doing their homework. However the main selling point is "natural triggers' and Cauldron are 'unnatural' with Contessa specifically being singled out even though shes 'technically' a natural Eden trigger. And by technically I mean that Contessa getting her shard was actually unintentional. I remember clearly that the shard Contessa got was one that was fumbled by Eden herself while she was face planting the earth in multiple realities and was not part of the list of things she wanted to give away.
So tentatively taking all of this into account I'm making an executive decision to say that all natural triggers, sans Contessa are fair game.
Eidolon is also a moron. He doesn't use any Tinker or Thinker powers even though those would be far, FAR more useful to him in regaining his lost powers. And even then, Eidolon still has, quite frankly, ludicrous amounts of power available to him. A majority of his powers are still an order of a magnitude greater than most of the ones I have at my disposal. Since I am limited to "Any Scion-based natural trigger cape to appear in canon Worm" That means I'm stuck with a finite list of characters to actually do things, while Eidolon could literally pull shit out of his back pocket because his power gives him the exact and or a near similar power that he needs to handle his problems. He's dump statted his intelligence for Luck and casting power. Or luck based expert in all master in some, whereas I'm starting out with zero experience using powers except what I can feel naturally or what I know that they can do and then floundering even then. I will have to actually practice with my powers which was shown when I landed in a pile of trash after using Striders power.
I'd also have to keep Jack Slashes power up constantly to make sure I don't get out gambitted before I fall into Contessa's radar.
I am stupidly overpowered for a fair portion of the setting, yes. But that is because I'm mixing powersets. One of the main selling points of having a bunch of limited things to choose from in one of these CYOA's is the ability to mix and match power sets to make a fairly strong character. And my main goal was to prove that even though most people look down on this particular CYOA version as being fairly weak choice wise that I can still make a build that can eventually put the hurt on Scion.
Also, the side goal of in-story ROB is that I am here for his entertainment, so it is my job to throw Canon out the window. Likely, the only real station of Canon I might end up going through is the Lung fight, and only because that fight is 3 days away. however if I went out and beat lungs ass right now, there would likely be no stations of canon, or at best just flavors of it as different factions have similar ideas.
Again, combinations make the OPness not the fact that I simply have their powers. I have to work at gaming the system rather than starting out stupidly OP from the beginning like first version WORM CYOA Power Manipulator. It will take me some build up time and I DO need a partner in crime, like I said, to really maximize my gains from this, so that means finding someone to share my powers with so I can say, start affecting myself with Panacea's power through the medium of someone else. And Tinkertech still requires that I have the materials and the tools, which I don't have the money to buy or the materials to make, which means it's also a slow return, even though it could give higher long term returns even than just regular power combinations, it still takes time.
Yes.
Commmmbinaaaationnnnsssah = OP
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- Location
- United States
I like to have plans to kill or maim OC's or SI's. You are going to make it hard to kill you if you... Get Creative.
globalwarmth
ruining the weather.
- Location
- Polar ice caps
Change to spree/grue, night/grue, or ash breast/anything.
globalwarmth
ruining the weather.
- Location
- Polar ice caps
Theo(golem) and Kaiser solve most material problems by creating then ex nihililo. Dauntless is kind a tinker while empowering items so depending of how you go you could cycle his power to get charges every time you slot it into place or slot it every morning to charge a piercing out something. Go Richter and make dragon a boyfriend to help you out, or better yet get minions and go Teacher and get an army of tinkers...
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Double posting.
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
- Location
- United States. Ish.
Except that Dauntless-charged items have ridiculous levels of buildup anyways, and can only be used by Dauntless(or Schrodinger using Dauntless's power, presumably...). Admittedly, slotting it in once a day and charging an item before going about your business sounds like a good idea, but that's only if the power doesn't have to be active for the charge to build. If it does, that idea's right out the window.
Also, making Dragon a 'boyfriend' would just make Dragon guilty of killing the only other AI she's ever met- Richter was very thorough in his fear of rogue ai's.
Kuriboh
Self Insert Junkie
- Location
- Ohio
There was one fic where this happened. It wasn't any of the E88 Capes though. Just 20 or so random gang-bangers. I just can't think of the name of the fic off the top of my head.
This is tied with "Addicted to Power" for my favorite CYOA fic.
I mean, Dragon already has a waifu - just use Richter to deal with her problems.
At least their powerset doesn't have to be described in canon, just their presence. The yangban (neither the power distributor, nor the power amp accumulate powers, note), the massive list of deaths in endbringer battles, the crowd scenes (again, Endbringer battles, S9000, Echidna), and so on...
Don't remember if Hero was actually a cauldron/vial cape. It might actually be useful to use Accord's power to list out all the capes you can access for yourself.
Don't remember if Hero was actually a cauldron/vial cape. It might actually be useful to use Accord's power to list out all the capes you can access for yourself.
CrunchySharpie
Professional Harem Consultant
- Location
- Sharpie Factory
The Endbringers, Triumvirate, the S9 working in concert, Any large grouping of capes working together/Endbringer truce, Butcher(depends on how power nullify works on him/her/it), Coil (given incentive and decent build up time), Contessa/Cauldron, Scion, Eden, Abbadon, ROB, My Malus allowing lesser capes an advantage, etc. There are plenty of things that are still very much so a threat to me as I have to balance defense, utility and offense. It's why I didn't spring for a third pick of Trump when I very well could have taken another complication and done so.
Spree's clones are a bit too murderous and Ash beast isn't at all controllable. Grue wouldn't necessarily stop me from seeing the laser light as I can see through my own power.
Yeah Dauntless' power is really best used when you have years in advance to power things up, but then you'd be able to reach triumvirate tier easily. Personally, it'd just be faster and easier to use A Tinker combo.
Hacking Dragon with A Richter-Tattletale/other decent thinker combo would work though
I'm not using cardboard cutout capes, especially those that have, at most, a few lines of dialogue or mention in canon. It's too easy to interpret those characters powers as whatever I want, which gives me way, way too much leeway in abusing the wording of the CYOA. Now, if I take time to establish some of these characters as protagonist and or antagonists then yes, I could use their powers. But none of them would be anything extremely unique, I'm trying to be sportsman like for this story. If I wanted to make up powers from nothing I'd have simply started a Power Manipulation CYOA story.
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
Can you use capes from PRT Quest?
When your SI gets the resources, combining Leet and Armsmaster should make for an effective combo. Leet's power should be more than capable of making a device to block precognition - basically a counter to capes like Contessa, Dinah. Bonus points if it also counters Thinker and Master powers as well. Though you don't need it to do that, any teammates you gather would doubtless be very appreciative.
The Armsmaster half would be to make the device more durable, as well as smaller and more efficient. Hopefully something you can wear (or if you want, maybe even swallow once a day in pill form), instead of something you need to lug around.
Heck, you may as well finish off with Dragon's power in order to get at least some sort of limited mass production. Even if it's only a handful at a time, it would make life easier.
The Armsmaster half would be to make the device more durable, as well as smaller and more efficient. Hopefully something you can wear (or if you want, maybe even swallow once a day in pill form), instead of something you need to lug around.
Heck, you may as well finish off with Dragon's power in order to get at least some sort of limited mass production. Even if it's only a handful at a time, it would make life easier.
Leet's power is best used when you want to make a Magnum Opis or in conjunction with Kid Win's power. The thing you want to make with his power is something that will either last a long(functionally a lifetime) time or something you don't want to use again after it breaks down. Things like self repair or replication are requirements if you want to get extended use out of the resources you spend considering things he made would have to be complete recycled rather than have reusable parts. Though Leet with Dragon would be a viable combination and could lead to quite interesting paths as well.
Honestly, the big question is would a Tinker power allow Miss Militia's power to produce Tinkertech. My gut says yes but author might say no. Regardless her power is a ridiculous force multiplier for a number of other powers. Eidetic memory and no need to sleep means everything she Tinkers up in one power set is available to the other Tinker power as if they had studied it extensively. Not exactly like having two tinker powers at once but it does allow for effective reproduction of several working together. That isn't even counting what could be done with other thinker powers like a Coil/Tattletale/Dinah combination or what can be done with Uber's powerset.
He already had bad relations with the E88. Why not take Victor's power with Velocity and steal all of his skills before he knows what happened.
King_KaRASu
Actually a Prince
- Location
- Saipan
Was Number Man a cauldron cape, or was he just picked up by them later? His power is a good way to build capital if he triggered.
Pretty sure he was a natural trigger. The wiki doesn't say anything about when/how he triggered, but he was part of the Nine before he joined Cauldron so it seems unlikely they gave him a vial and didn't immediately recruit him. Author fiat here, I guess.
Can we talk about the fact that a Number Man/Jack Slash combo would be utterly terrifying? Cutrate Contessa right there, you'd never lose a fight at least.
- Location
- Uk
Number man was harbringer i think
Syn0
QoP of Pain
- Location
- Low Priority T_T
Hero's a cauldron cape. Not sure if there's WoG on it, but it's implied that Hero received Eden's stilling shard in a Tinker variant.