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Just to clarify, this is one choice only seeing as it's what we do right next?
A Champion in Earth Bet [Worm/Original Setting]
- Thread starter sun tzu
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FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
- Location
- Los Angeles
I've been waiting for shit to hit the fan practically since the quest began and you keep on pushing things back without ever letting that conflict come to a boil. You horrible tease you.
Goddamn it I want my Superman telling people in charge how he's disappointed in them.
Well with one power removed (Coil), another about to be removed (E88, because fuck Nazis), one minor group going to ground (Undersiders), and another two other groups no longer getting paid to start shit (Travelers and Faultline's crew) BB is going to be a lot more quiet. They aren't going to need more firepower (although the PRT is going to want to maintain a presence so things don't slide back out of neglect or because someone thinks there's opportunity) since the villain population is dwindling rapidly.
So there isn't anywhere as much pressure to bring in Weld or do any sort of horse trading because the situation in BB is so much better.
Not that I'm saying that it would Ruin Everything Forever if you brought him over to BB. Weld's cool and I think he and the Avatar could have some really interesting scenes together, buuuuuuut I think there's a lot more narrative potential in having him and Skitter in the same city.
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Yeah, just one choice.
You can vote for several choices, but only one will win.
- Location
- Brazil
[X] Spend most of the day helping Noelle. It's slow, gruelling work, but you might help her maintain her humanity… physically, at least.
[ ] Spend most of the day helping Noelle. It's slow, gruelling work, but you might help her maintain her humanity… physically, at least.
Urgent, we've already noticed she's backsliding more or less even as we work. Gives deeper insight into the nature of powers, as well as increases Noelle's trust, since she's one of the few desperate enough for mind reading.
[ ] Check up on the Undersiders. Villains or not, they're Skitter's friends, and you wonder what they're up to now that their boss is out of the equation.
Moderately urgent. The Undersiders will be feeling betrayed and upset, but they're also not the type to go on a rampage over the matter. We'd want to do this before they meet Taylor again, but not otherwise on the clock.
[ ] Assist the Protectorate in patrols. Gearing your secondary powers toward super-senses, you can clean up the city with exceptional efficiency.
Mostly PR benefits and reducing chaos a bit.
[ ] Look deeper into S-class threats. The sooner those are handled, the better for Earth-Bet.
Moderately urgent. This will become a THING within the next 4-5 months or so, but not "today" urgent.
[ ] Try to have a chat with Scion. He's both incredibly powerful and, from the looks of it, purely heroic - there might be something there.
Wildcard. Poke the Scion and...anything can happen when he notices the OCP fucking up his plans. Don't do this until we know more about powers and Entities.
[X] Spend most of the day helping Noelle. It's slow, gruelling work, but you might help her maintain her humanity… physically, at least.
Closest thing to urgent that we have.
Urgent, we've already noticed she's backsliding more or less even as we work. Gives deeper insight into the nature of powers, as well as increases Noelle's trust, since she's one of the few desperate enough for mind reading.
[ ] Check up on the Undersiders. Villains or not, they're Skitter's friends, and you wonder what they're up to now that their boss is out of the equation.
Moderately urgent. The Undersiders will be feeling betrayed and upset, but they're also not the type to go on a rampage over the matter. We'd want to do this before they meet Taylor again, but not otherwise on the clock.
[ ] Assist the Protectorate in patrols. Gearing your secondary powers toward super-senses, you can clean up the city with exceptional efficiency.
Mostly PR benefits and reducing chaos a bit.
[ ] Look deeper into S-class threats. The sooner those are handled, the better for Earth-Bet.
Moderately urgent. This will become a THING within the next 4-5 months or so, but not "today" urgent.
[ ] Try to have a chat with Scion. He's both incredibly powerful and, from the looks of it, purely heroic - there might be something there.
Wildcard. Poke the Scion and...anything can happen when he notices the OCP fucking up his plans. Don't do this until we know more about powers and Entities.
[X] Spend most of the day helping Noelle. It's slow, gruelling work, but you might help her maintain her humanity… physically, at least.
Closest thing to urgent that we have.
edmantgoog
init high just high
[X] Look deeper into S-class threats. The sooner those are handled, the better for Earth-Bet.
Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
- Pronouns
- She/Her
One thing I would like to point out that no one has mentioned...is that Brian is completely fucked over right now. There is no state of emergency, Aisha shouldn't have triggered, his current plans on getting custody rely completely on a man who just got put behind bars. So while the rest of the Undersiders may or may not be fine (I'd expect the group to implode rather quickly), Brian's situation is probably more urgent than you'd think.
Whether helping him is a waste of the avatar's time or not I'll leave up to you.
Whether helping him is a waste of the avatar's time or not I'll leave up to you.
Probably, but he's also the cautious, deliberate one. It's Taylor and Lisa most in favor of the crazy plans, and while Aisha's family situation is bad, it's also not catastrophic(aside from in his head anyway, which I suppose is what matters).
So I expect any problems from him to arise mid term. Well, unless the city recovers faster than expected and he can get a legitimate job and claim custody of his sister without relying on a supervillain. Or unless Lisa already looted Coil's finances, which would solve his problems just as effectively.
By contrast, we more or less promised Noelle our help, she's desperate, and her shard is actually working on reversing all the progress we've made.
Do note that, back in "The God and the Serpent", Tattletale was telling him that with the situation changing as it was, she could help him out "the Tattletale way"*. Granted, she kind of had a vested interest in Coil going down ASAP, and she tends toward overconfidence, but...
*read: "Find blackmail material on social workers and get them to hand Brian the damn custody."
DarkSideBard
Flying, without moving on
Mmmm... I want to say S-class threats, but really? They can wait a bit longer. It's not as if they're going anywhere. Well, they might be moving, but they aren't moving, and that's what's important.
So:
[X] Spend most of the day helping Noelle. It's slow, gruelling work, but you might help her maintain her humanity… physically, at least.
Let's take care of this horrible accident waiting to happen right now. Plus, what is she going to do if she touches us?
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Noelle: *lunges towards Avatar and tries to grab him*
Avatar: "Nope." *Intangible*
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Noelle: *lunges towards Avatar and tries to grab him*
Avatar: "Oh No!" *Is somehow caught. Somehow.*
Noelle's Shard: "Now, finally! Time to RULE THE...um? Uhhhhhhhh... hmmmm. Yeah, no, I don't know what this is? Some kinda, fucking, magic?"
Avatar: "Actually? Yeah. It is magic. I'm an incarnated God."
Noelle's Shard: *Throws multidimensional hands in the air*
Noelle: *Chewing on tasty golden snack*
Everyone Else: "Not to interrupt your... thing that's apparently happening, but does this mean we have to apologize to Myrddin?"
Avatar: "I don't know who that is. But given the name, and the fact that your dimension doesn't have magic? He's a wackjob."
So:
[X] Spend most of the day helping Noelle. It's slow, gruelling work, but you might help her maintain her humanity… physically, at least.
Let's take care of this horrible accident waiting to happen right now. Plus, what is she going to do if she touches us?
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Noelle: *lunges towards Avatar and tries to grab him*
Avatar: "Nope." *Intangible*
-Or-
Noelle: *lunges towards Avatar and tries to grab him*
Avatar: "Oh No!" *Is somehow caught. Somehow.*
Noelle's Shard: "Now, finally! Time to RULE THE...um? Uhhhhhhhh... hmmmm. Yeah, no, I don't know what this is? Some kinda, fucking, magic?"
Avatar: "Actually? Yeah. It is magic. I'm an incarnated God."
Noelle's Shard: *Throws multidimensional hands in the air*
Noelle: *Chewing on tasty golden snack*
Everyone Else: "Not to interrupt your... thing that's apparently happening, but does this mean we have to apologize to Myrddin?"
Avatar: "I don't know who that is. But given the name, and the fact that your dimension doesn't have magic? He's a wackjob."
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- Location
- Texas
[X] Spend most of the day helping Noelle. It's slow, gruelling work, but you might help her maintain her humanity… physically, at least.
The Avatar's actually seen Myrddin during the Leviathan fight and noted that he looked like a wizard. Then he realized later on that he wasn't sensing magic anywhere. XD
As to what would happen if Noelle touched the Avatar: Clones. Clones without any superpower, but with some very dangerous knowledge. He'd basically have to put them down very quickly.
So basically, if we touch her we need to work from inside a sheath of something non-organic. But we don't need to touch her.
[X] Look deeper into S-class threats. The sooner those are handled, the better for Earth-Bet.
Noelle's a bit of a delicate situation, because we want to lure her into agreeing to us helping her. The more time we leave her alone, the more we risk her falling off the deep end perfectly. However, the more time and effort we expend on her, the less she is going to value us. It's basic psychology. So: cooling-off period.
Talking to Scion immediately is silly. We have several semi-urgent situations and he is not urgent.
Noelle's a bit of a delicate situation, because we want to lure her into agreeing to us helping her. The more time we leave her alone, the more we risk her falling off the deep end perfectly. However, the more time and effort we expend on her, the less she is going to value us. It's basic psychology. So: cooling-off period.
Talking to Scion immediately is silly. We have several semi-urgent situations and he is not urgent.
I dunno. It seems to me like spending time healing her will make it more likely she'll let us mess with her head, which could blow open the entire cycle secret and, at the same time, win the support of an incredibly powerful cape for the inevitable clash against Zion.
Not changing my vote. Just sayin'.
[X] Spend most of the day helping Noelle. It's slow, gruelling work, but you might help her maintain her humanity… physically, at least.
You started the job, you are committed to give your best shot to seeing it through.
By the way, according to Avatar's definition of "dimension" , powers shoud be extra-DIMENSIONAL , since their source is a microportal to another (empty) Earth where a shard is parked, consuming its mass to power the parahuman abilities. Although I guess that upon arriving into Earth-Bet's dimension, might be being channelled through another plane first.
You started the job, you are committed to give your best shot to seeing it through.
By the way, according to Avatar's definition of "dimension" , powers shoud be extra-DIMENSIONAL , since their source is a microportal to another (empty) Earth where a shard is parked, consuming its mass to power the parahuman abilities. Although I guess that upon arriving into Earth-Bet's dimension, might be being channelled through another plane first.
I am aware of that.
And yet, the Avatar - a guy who is effectively immune to mind-altering effects - thought it was inter-planar rather than inter-dimensional.
There are reasons for that.