GuesssWho
To Assemble A Name From Scars
- Location
- People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm pretty sure it was, but I'd have to check.
A Cat Is Fine Too (Worm CYOA)
- Thread starter CrunchySharpie
- Start date
T1203
Field Surgeon
- Location
- Earth
FTFY!Literal, you say?
*tosses an idiot ball of yarn at you*
Maromar
Crafter of Fiction
- Location
- SpaceTime
Huh. @CrunchySharpie it would appear that your cat boy is much more popular than my fox-boy. I will watch this, and take notes.
Imagine the crossover potential!
Imagine the crossover potential!
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konamikode
Cooking Harder
Fluffles?
Konami <3 Fluffles~
Konami <3 Fluffles~
CrunchySharpie
Professional Harem Consultant
- Location
- Sharpie Factory
"Oh, I guess there are some powers that don't work... Huh, maybe The Triumvirate are too damn powerful to copy and Case 53's might be somehow different? I dunno, powers are weird."
Sometimes acting ignorant is the best case scenario. And I am not really expecting my lies to last until the end of the story. Eventually Taylor, or at least Lisa or some other strong thinker is going to guess my origins as an extra dimensional being seeing as I don't have protection from cold reading and I can't really keep my story straight over months or years. I will probably, eventually get called out on some of my inconsistent bullshit. I don't know by whom as I haven't decided on it yet.
Even Ack did this in his Security fic, having his character be "Just a security guard" for a large portion of the fic until he was caught with his pants around his ankles and had to improvise, same here.
As for me being relevant to the fic? I know far more about how powers work than she does because I have access to out of universe knowledge. As I've shown, having the power doesn't immediately make you an expert in it. If Taylor tried to go for Siberians power set it's likely that she wouldn't even be able to activate it because she thinks the Siberian is some kind of brute cape so would be trying to apply the power to her own body rather than creating a projection. In the end I chose the power sharing because of reasons like this. The best way to game a double dose of Major Trump is to have a second person working in tandem with you to abuse striker power's and be able to Tinker on one another.
And I think I've made it clear that I am kinda disappointed in Taylor right from the get go. The only thing she really has that I'm interested in is her sheer potential and mentality, as well as moments of brilliance that will keep me from being a forgetful dumb ass.
Edit: That she kind of terrifies me is also a point to me stickingon her good side.
Also, there's nothing stopping me from eventually taking the power back and pulling in more people to create a team, them sharing the power between them.
I'll try to make the story as interesting as possible to give you ideas. Also sent you a PM with some helpful advice writing stories in general and a bit of my mindset of giving characters unique traits and how to use those traits in story. I'd have posted it here but my god it was like 2000 words long
Sharpie <3 Fluffles too, Sharpie shall give more Fluffles, and more tactical strikes to the feels/dignity.
...
Rodney Skinner (the Invisible Man): Hello, Dorian. The great white hunter's bagged his prize.
[they hear and see men being thrashed]
Dorian Gray: Or the prize bagged him.
I am okay with this.
FTFY!
That was the knitting needle I was stabbing at, yes.
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- Location
- Down Under
I kinda like the power sharing - I look forward:
To Schrodinger and Taylor out smugging TattleTats.
To Schrodinger and Taylor playing with PanPan - maybe trolling with powers giving plants and animals cat ears and tails.
To Schrodinger and Taylor out smugging TattleTats.
To Schrodinger and Taylor playing with PanPan - maybe trolling with powers giving plants and animals cat ears and tails.
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
- Location
- United States. Ish.
>>Accord(>>Tattletale/Dinah for data gathering, if needed)
Plan1: Keep my extradimensional nature a secret(even from high-rated thinkers), despite potential bumbling and poor memory.
Plan2: Test Plan1 against high-strength thinkers via application of Tattletale and Dinah's powers.
Accord>>Tattletale, >>Dinah
Run Plan2
Of course, this would require you to think of this, and really, who even remembers that Accord exists, out of universe? He's like a villainous Browbeat.
- Location
- Windy City
Given the CYOAs aren't shard-linked, can't see why not. Usually the answer is "Was it /ever/ mentioned in canon? Yes, you can."
CrunchySharpie
Professional Harem Consultant
- Location
- Sharpie Factory
It's not just me forgetting about the character or being unwilling to make plans with said character's power. Unlike my Momma Ziz story, this is supposed to be at least partially representative of myself. Which means if something is a boring repetitive, overly complicated slog like most Accord plans are then I will get very bored very quickly. Plus, this plan doesn't help against Contessa who's power operates differently from Tattletales and Dinah's. I'd have to literally do nothing on the scene to keep anyone from the protectorate from finding out. Which is impossible since there's already a file on me in the Protectorates systems. I am on the radar, I'm just so insignificant a blip that no one's really noticed yet. If I start making waves, huge ones, Cauldron is liable to get involved.
And also taking into account that I very seriously doubt ROB will enjoy me skulking about doing cloak and dagger crap. He threw me into a story to turn it up on it's head not chicken shit around playing speh, so I'm assuming in story that guns blazing is the modus opperandi but to do that I want to be just this side of unstoppable before I even touch some of the world's major threats.
Yes I can copy any natural trigger shard barring Contessa and Second triggers minus Skitter. Imp is currently available to me. Yes that is kinda OP., There are still characters and things that can rek me even like that. Miss Millitia, Dragon, Projection users, any precognitive with half a brain cell will notice discrepancies between two points in the future if I'm involved, automated regular/tinkertech defense systems, any organic defense system. Will I be using it often with a bit of showmanship and taunting of my enemies? Why yes, yes I probably will. When I think of it in story, which might take a bit as I haven't really had the thought "Oh I could really go invisible right now, I should probably do that."
Basically.
How to deal with Contessa:
Combine (Leet + Armsmaster) + (Dragon + Velocity or another Tinker)
Result: Mass producible, compact, wearable Tinker tech armband capable of interfering with Thinker and Precognition powers.
Tattletale can't read you, and Contessa's power doesn't see you.
One for you, and one for all your friends.
Your power is super good for munchkin shenanigans.
Combine (Leet + Armsmaster) + (Dragon + Velocity or another Tinker)
Result: Mass producible, compact, wearable Tinker tech armband capable of interfering with Thinker and Precognition powers.
Tattletale can't read you, and Contessa's power doesn't see you.
One for you, and one for all your friends.
Your power is super good for munchkin shenanigans.
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
- Location
- United States. Ish.
Why just one?
>>Leet, >>Dragon: Build initial form of armband, with beginnings of insight on how it works.
Leet>>Armsmaster: Examine armband further; completely redesign based on principles received via Dragon to avoid Leet's power fucking up whatever you end up with.
Armsmaster>>Kid Win: Make it modular, so you can fit it into, say, a set of power armor you've created as well*. Because why the fuck not.
Kid Win>>Masamune: make system mass-producible.
Masamune>>Bakuda: Make it in bomb form. Because again, why the fuck not.
Bakuda>>Masamune: Make the bombs mass-producible. See line immediately above for reasoning.
*If you're going through all of this, you might as well make yourself some utterly bitchin' power armor while you're at it.
Of course, this falls under
but then again, so does any tinkering, really- LeetTech is great, but if Schrodinger's going to do anything with it at all, he's going to want to analyze it with Dragon as he builds it, and then redesign it completely so it doesn't blow up on him. This takes resources and tools to build the tools to build the tools(to build the tools to build the tools to build the tools etc. etc.), and that takes quite a while to procure/build. Granted, if he reached out to Dragon/Armsmaster/the Guild, they'd probably leap at the chance to have his aid(admittedly, Narwhal might be a bit wierded out when Dragon's servers hop), but the whole 'no Protectorate' thing has already been mentioned in story, so...
- Location
- San Francisco
You could play up the Schroedinger's Cat thing, too.
CrunchySharpie
Professional Harem Consultant
- Location
- Sharpie Factory
It 'might' work on Contessa, and even then it's a thing I don't want to just 'try out' because if I try it and it fails I am well and truly fucked.
As for it working on Tattletale I don't think it would work too well on her either. She's not scanning you or seeing the future, she's taking in information passively and deducting from that. To create something to block her and or Alexandria's cold reading skills you'd need mental chaff, something to block things from returning positive information to her. To do that I'd have to build something that blurred my outline, removing all involuntary motions, all changes in vocal tone among a slew of hundreds of other things. To build something to block both Contessa and Tattletale you'd need something that blocks dimensional shenanigans and that risks bringing me to the attention of the Endbringers or Scion himself. I absolutely do NOT want that to happen any time soon.
Especially Tinkering. Most people don't consider this but Tinkers are molded by their powers just as much as any other cape. Armsmaster is compelled by his power to be efficient and productive just as Kid Win tries to be eclectic and all over the place, because that is part and parcel of their specialties, its where they work best so their mindsets follow this with the help of shard mindfuckery.
I don't have that mindset, I wont have any of their mindsets. quote from the CYOA.
"Imitating a power does not cause you to suffer the mental influence"
Taken literally, this means no Shard sabotage, or mental contamination. I can use Accords power without being... well... Accord. I can use Burnscar's power without it turning me into a psychopath. I can use Tinker abilities without getting sucked into the mental gravity well that some people call Tinker fugues (whether that is a canon term or not doesn't matter. We've seen enough Tinkers forgo sleep and food for hours and sometimes days at a time to Tinker, there is clearly some mental fuckery going on there.)
The downside to this is that I cant get lost in my Tinkering, I will be aware and cognizant throughout the long boring process and having the information fed to me can only help so much. This limits me just as much as anything else does. I will have to take more breaks for food and rest, both physical and mental. I'll have to think through what I'm doing as the process feeding it to me becomes less like a fever dream handing me visions of the future and more like me walking through a grocery store where all the aisles are mislabeled trying to find things.
As for the Protectorate. It's not that I'm against working with them, it's just, in combination to their limiting rules, Sophia and Taylor meeting up when I'm trying to build Taylor up and possibly drawing Cauldrons attention I'm not too comfortable being under their thumb. I'm probably not going to be drawing too much attention to myself, (or at least, attempt not to draw too much attention to myself in character, probably not going to stop the story fucking me over but whatever) until I've built myself up enough that I'm not as pants shittingly terrified of facing down the Triumvirate or Contessa.
I was planning on it. Not like I had much choice anyway given my Malus is going to be a constant point of annoyance and my cat features are only somewhat able to be hid.
Morphic Tide
Crazy Brainstormer, Munchkin and Wannabe Min-Maxer
- Location
- MI, USA
For a hyperdeath combo, Flechet+Miss Militia leads to being able to have infinite ammo everything-piercing sniper shots. If you can up the speed enough, shooting Behemoth while it's in the mantle is likely doable. Mind, blowing a hole like that through the earth's crust will probably cause issues, but the option is there. Snagging a pair of Master/Thinker effects to act as a high speed therapist is also a big useful thing, especially if applied to Slaughterhouse Nine. Master S9 into good people, it's the best way to deal with them. If you can keep yourself from being found out for the ubertrump you are, all the better!
globalwarmth
ruining the weather.
- Location
- Polar ice caps
Teacher empowered minions. All the tinkering, none of the boring parts
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
- Location
- United States. Ish.
>>Panacea, >>Bonesaw: with aid from Dragon or another trusted Tinker capable of and willing to at least partially aid you; design a time-limited hallucinogen to imitate a Tinker Fugue(while otherwise maintaining cognizance, if possible). Be extra careful to make it distinctly non-addictive.
CrunchySharpie
Professional Harem Consultant
- Location
- Sharpie Factory
All of the slaves, none of the free will, too. I'm at least somewhat moral, I'm not going to enslave a bunch of people to act as an assembly line. Granted I can probably create sentient creatures with Panacea/Nilbog and then use teachers power on them but... yeah that's still a "You're making then forcing a bunch of sentient creatures to be your factory slaves." Kinda thing.
I doubt in-universe me would go for it.. Gotta take into account that for him all of this talk is real. Any ideas that you guys come across have to be fed through a morality system that isn't pure, logical, Mary Sue munchkin. If I ever use Teacher's power, it would be on those who willingly chose such a thing and even then I would feel very, very dirty.
Yes I know I tweaked the chemicals in Taylor system but that's about the same as giving her a shot of alcohol to relax her. The subsequent chem high she got from my fuck up was unintentional on my part and was not desired, though it did help grease the hinges so to speak. I'm not going to subjugate her free will and turn her into my slave, hell with how things turned out I ended up as her whipping boy. My plans so far have landed me in a dumpster and under the tender mercies of a girl who is kind of a cruel taskmaster when she wants to be. My track record isn't that great as it stands and I don't want to delve anywhere near Heartbreaker or the like just yet or ever, not unless it's absolutely required.
So basically Tinkertech Adderall or the like? This also requires me trusting another person to administer the drug, monitor my health and well being during the fugue, then bring me out of it. About the only tinker I'd trust to do that would be Dragon and that's only because I have external knowledge that she's probably the nicest person in Worm. I also have to get in touch with her and maybe even mention that I can ape most any cape in the world, which Saint would then know. I really don't want Saint knowing how powerful I am or that I am capable of freeing Dragon. I'd have to unchain Dragon on the sly or get rid of Saint before I did anything of that nature. A plan for the future perhaps.
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
- Location
- United States. Ish.
Make it in pill form, and abuse Dinah's power to optimize tinker fugue lengths with until you make a version you remain otherwise fully cognizant with and can shake off with focus.
But by that point it's starting to get a bit complicated, dull, and OWMYBRAIN, so...
Admittedly, the panic Saint would have if he realizes you can {>>Richter, >>Armsmaster:Make Seed AI, Annihilate Ascalon} would be absolutely hilarious... until he brings a strike team down on your head, at least.
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CrunchySharpie
Professional Harem Consultant
- Location
- Sharpie Factory
Yeah, the CYOA only says that mental influence is negated, mental strain and Thinker headaches are still a thing so I'd have to use the infinite mulligans trick sparingly. Granted, with Shared Power I can have someone else Panacea freshen me up until I start running out of biomass to do that but that's also a combination that seems fair to me as It's utilizing all parts of the build rather than just gaming a single power in and of itself. It also helps that I have another mind to ping pong ideas back and forth so I don't forget or get easily distracted. It's why Taylor is one of the better choices in story as a partner, she's a very, very focused and intelligent person even before she receives her powers.
No, what's really hilarious is Saint thinking his little strike team is anything more than cute to me. Saint is only a real threat because he can spread what I can actually do everywhere if he thinks I'm that big of a threat. I really don't want that happening. And in canon he's really only a physical threat because of numbers as he has a small collection of Dragon's suits and that he generally only attacks Dragon and some random Tinkers, the first of which he can troll at any point by hacking her systems and the latter is usually because the Tinker got blitzed too quickly to actively resist.
The problem with me is that I'm not a tinker. (Unless I'm using a Tinker power of course) I always have my tools on hand and I have plenty of tools that actively negate his number advantage. If my life is on the line I can and WILL bring out all the stops otherwise I try not to rock the boat too bad lest I disturb sleeping dragons.
Well until I myself am the biggest dragon of the bunch, then I can pimpslap them with impunity.
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Sonifri
Is this the face of a villain?
- Location
- Texas
Flechette + Contessa, charge a projectile with cloth in the core, swap Flechette for Parian, fire away.
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why would that be hard Andrew richtor and tattletale for the win,
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
- Location
- United States. Ish.
Schrodinger is unable to >>Contessa, per Word of Sharpie
And then suddenly Saint thinks Schrodinger's a threat, and well...
And if Schrodinger shatters Saint's only control over his personal bogeyman, you'd better damn well believe he'll think the cat's a threat.
Sonifri
Is this the face of a villain?
- Location
- Texas
An idea, would Leet's power hate Schrodinger? Only reason Leet is weak is because his power works against him. Might work with Schrodinger.
Hrm... also does the cape have to still be alive? He could copy Hero if not.
Could he do Echidna? Pump out 'evil' clones, re-program them to not be evil using a combination of Heartbreaker, Canary, and Panacea's powers.
Also Bonesaw + Panacea combo is basically the Shaper power.
Hrm... also does the cape have to still be alive? He could copy Hero if not.
Could he do Echidna? Pump out 'evil' clones, re-program them to not be evil using a combination of Heartbreaker, Canary, and Panacea's powers.
Also Bonesaw + Panacea combo is basically the Shaper power.
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