Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 6: Fatal Fires Flagrantly Fry Frantic Friends, Family
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Gromweld
Learning By Mistake
Aww, don't go. After all this, the only place left to go is up!Kelenas said:
People that were awake before Noelle ate them wake up normally fairly soon after being regurgitated/extracted.scope said:
We'd need to jumpstart it by getting them awake with the Omnitools.scope said:
Get Eidolon or Alexandria to help.Logos said:
"Door"
Doormaker: Can't see shit captain.veekie said:
trooperist
Cinnamon Roll AI
The ones not dissolved by acid blood may be still alive. Though granted since they were hit by redirected powers launched against Behemoth that possibility is unlikely. There's a possibility that if we choose to save Capes we might be able to get them to healers in time.uju32 said:
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We're sufficiently close to dying, and suffering enough wound penalties (-4) that it is quite possible further efforts will endanger people by making them have to worry about saving us. Not to mention that any further injuries will involve weeks of additional healing.
[X] Save Yourself
[X] 4 XP - Presence
[X] 4 XP - Vat Bank
[X] Save Yourself
[X] 4 XP - Presence
[X] 4 XP - Vat Bank
Recover? Pretty sure Eidolan's going to have a nervous breakdown if he doesn't blurt something in public that crushes the Protectorate, Brockton Bay might be condemned with a majority of its active capes dead, pretty widespread civilian destruction in one of its few profitable areas & horrific contamination from whatever Noel released. Iris is out of the game, likely intercepted by the Simurgh to be punted into space. Overall the Endbringers are now attacking out of schedule & their full power is now known by the public.Logos said:
Basically the veneer of power the Triumphurate will fade with one of its members likely withdrawing from public life, the unveiling of the true power of the Endbringers & them attacking out of schedule will make them less "forecastable if chaotic disasters" to "when are they planning to stop playing & finish us off". This doesn't even cover what negative reactions Noelle might have, especially if the nature of Cauldron gets out.
No access to Vats, Iris gone, & the relative inability of Robot Taylor to hurt Behemoth. It's all downhill from hear. I'm just wondering what's collapsing first.
Basically the vary narrow sense of stability that may have existed is shattered in the public's eye, with that predicted collapse in a few decades now looking like mere years, or less if the Endbringers stop apparently toying with us. IC Most of the heroes Taylor know died, she got a real sense at how ineffective she, and by contrast well every other parahuman, is against the Endbringers. She lost Iris & well any chance of summoning Autochan(IC as far as she knows). Her dad is going to the Birdcage if he isn't dead?
Pretty much downhill from here.
Updated my vote with these expenditures.ticktrick said:
Clairvoyant can't see out of the atmosphere, and Doormaker can't aim there.
Legend may be able to fly after him.
Alternatively, Iris is capable of self-locomotion while we're fuelling him. We've just run out of Essence. It's possible that if we recover some or heighten our recovery we can re-connect to Iris and fuel him so he can fly back. However last time we broke the connection, when we re-created it he was within range of our SoPA, so that may be a requirement. In that case ... well, we don't need to breathe and are in fact completely immune to unintended environmental damage, so we can fly after him I suppose? If Behemoth managed to fling him out of orbit though it gets a lot more difficult....
Legend may be able to fly after him.
Alternatively, Iris is capable of self-locomotion while we're fuelling him. We've just run out of Essence. It's possible that if we recover some or heighten our recovery we can re-connect to Iris and fuel him so he can fly back. However last time we broke the connection, when we re-created it he was within range of our SoPA, so that may be a requirement. In that case ... well, we don't need to breathe and are in fact completely immune to unintended environmental damage, so we can fly after him I suppose? If Behemoth managed to fling him out of orbit though it gets a lot more difficult....
Doormaker: Still can't see shit, captain.Carrnage said:
We can probably fill that time entirely with meditation to catch up on the occult stuff we should have been studying.Anasurimbor said:
I think you forgot about the interlude?megrisvernin said:
scope said:
Eidolan's cracking as expected in it
With Iris gone, well, lockout on that outcome.
Should be pretty easy for the simurgh to smash him into the moon & keep him there.
Downhill from here.
megrisvernin said:
Eidolan's cracking as expected in it
Wistful, smiling, laughing. About the best response we could hope for, and something that bodes well in the long-term.
FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
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[X] Save The Capes
[X] 4xp - Presence
If all the civilians in Brockton Bay die, it'll be sad the but world will survive.
If all the capes in Brockton Bay die, the world is pretty much fucked.
I think that right there puts our priorities in perspective.
[X] 4xp - Presence
If all the civilians in Brockton Bay die, it'll be sad the but world will survive.
If all the capes in Brockton Bay die, the world is pretty much fucked.
I think that right there puts our priorities in perspective.
Really? I take that as signs he's becoming unhinged. Him slowly realizing that he's directly responsible for millions of deaths.RCa said:
Sure, right up until you feel like kicking us again. No thanks.Gromweld said:
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Hmm so what are the chances of use salvaging anything from the wrecked cradle?
Hey give the QM credit. When a quest burned because of the dice roll, he had use lose the artifact that could save the world. In a lot of ways this outcome has been very true to the spirit & tone of Worm. Even when when it ends with you standing its a Pyrrhic victory at best.Kelenas said:
If Iris is under observation on earth, then she can watch humans track it. Zazie should be able to figure out what orientation Behemoth threw him.sainen said:
If Iris is under observation on earth, then she can watch humans track it. Zazie should be able to figure out what orientation Behemoth threw him.sainen said:
meianmaru said:
. Stop blasting the QM. Matching the tone of the original setting is to be praised. I'd make some type of gallows humor joke but of course Taylor's a robot. She'll probably to be there till the end to watch it all unfold. Hell since she doesn't need to breathe & appears functionally immune to most poisons I don't think she'd be able to suicide even if she wanted too. She's in for a front row seat as the world burns to the ground.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Okay people we need to think up a priority list. Which should include finding Iris, we saw him being thrown and know his trajectory so we should be able to calculate roughly where he landed
FunkyEntropy
Occasionally insightful, possibly grumpy
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I love how much people are freaking out. What, were they expecting the first Endbringer attack - one that caught us by surprise - to be all sunshine and lollypops?
I also love how so many are jumping to conclusions and assuming that just because the locker got blown to smithereens it means the actual connection to Autochthon got lost.
Hmm. Gromweld we should be on our last -2 Health Level if the numbers (6L, 2B) are correct, meaning our wound penalty is still at -2 and not the -4 you have written there.
[L] -0
[L][L] -1
[L][L][L][ B][ B] -2
[ ] -4
[ ] Incap
I also love how so many are jumping to conclusions and assuming that just because the locker got blown to smithereens it means the actual connection to Autochthon got lost.
Hmm. Gromweld we should be on our last -2 Health Level if the numbers (6L, 2B) are correct, meaning our wound penalty is still at -2 and not the -4 you have written there.
[L] -0
[L][L] -1
[L][L][L][ B][ B] -2
[ ] -4
[ ] Incap
Which is precisely what I did *not* started participating in this quest for. If I wanted Worm's Grimdarkness, I would either read the story again, or play Wildbow's Worm-quest. Gromweld - despite claims and assurances to the contrary - obviously intends to keep the Grimdark as much as possible, given how much effort he's put into making things as difficult as possible, which I'm not interested in, so I'm leaving. Simple as that.megrisvernin said: