Barbaric Bob
The Barbaric One
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- Soon to be plundering a village near you
Apeiron: C'mere boy! imma make me some boots outta yer shiny golden hide!
Zion: [DO NOT WANT]
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
- Thread starter LordRoustabout
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Zion: [DO NOT WANT]
Data from the Undersiders
The CF is slowly but surely becoming Cauldron, but better in every way.
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It's fiat backed to be a sol class star, so it will stay one.
- Location
- Philippines
Considering it's been literal days since the group became publicly recognized, it's far from slow. On that note, I believe that in the corner over there is Doctor Mother being sued for medical malpractice, overall quackery, and complete lack of PHDs.The CF is slowly but surely becoming Cauldron, but better in every way.
Which means it will go red giant in about 5 billion years, when sol does. Admittedly, that much in story time is at least 200 billion years of reader time, so it's probably outside the scope of the story.
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The forge is a lot of things, but subtle it is not.
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Isn't sol class a stage? So it would never enter the red giant stage?
They say a steak fried on a star grill acquires an absolutely divine taste. Note - think about tenderloin from shards.
It is also worth considering taking out the garbage into a personal black hole. Absolutely compact and eco-friendly.
I don't know if I ever explicitly said this, but this chapter is a good place for it:
I enjoy the exponential tech shenanigans, and the action is unadulterated awesome. But the thing I enjoy most about this story is the character work (as indirectly alluded to in my initial comment about ch. 8.1 being my all-time favorite).
This chapter, was just *chef kiss*
(Have I mentioned that I love what you've done with Aisha?)
My inner cheerleader is breaking out the pompoms.
Go Joe! \o/
This is going to be awesome. Or terrifying.
...
Eh, probably both.
This one caught me by surprise. Cue literal 'laughing like a loon'.
Oh god, that was too good.
... Oh you poor, OOC-less thing.
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Typos, et al.:
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I enjoy the exponential tech shenanigans, and the action is unadulterated awesome. But the thing I enjoy most about this story is the character work (as indirectly alluded to in my initial comment about ch. 8.1 being my all-time favorite).
This chapter, was just *chef kiss*
Like this.
(Have I mentioned that I love what you've done with Aisha?)
And this.
And this.
My inner cheerleader is breaking out the pompoms.
Go Joe! \o/
Oh shiiiiiiet, the penny just dropped for me.
This is going to be awesome. Or terrifying.
...
Eh, probably both.
lmfao.
This one caught me by surprise. Cue literal 'laughing like a loon'.
Oh god, that was too good.
... Oh you poor, OOC-less thing.
lol ^_^
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Glad to hear it
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That was a very nice Chapter.
Now I kind of want Lethe to get into Tinkertalk with some Armsmaster or Kid Win and after having them convinced she is every bit the Tinker they are complain that her Tinkering is barely adequate by the standards of the Forge.
When reading about the latest Power perk I can't help but wonder about the Dyson Sphere. Specifically does Joe have access to the Sphere? The desciption is somewhat ambigous there.
The only really interesting answer would be YES, of course. And if so, how large is the Sphere? Is it something smaller than the Orbit of Mercury or full Earth Orbit like in Star Trek?
I am also not quite clear on the Timeline. Is Joe going to meet his Therapist before the meeting with Upercrust? I think it was on the same day (Tuesday) but I don't know when he has that termin.
Now I kind of want Lethe to get into Tinkertalk with some Armsmaster or Kid Win and after having them convinced she is every bit the Tinker they are complain that her Tinkering is barely adequate by the standards of the Forge.
When reading about the latest Power perk I can't help but wonder about the Dyson Sphere. Specifically does Joe have access to the Sphere? The desciption is somewhat ambigous there.
The only really interesting answer would be YES, of course. And if so, how large is the Sphere? Is it something smaller than the Orbit of Mercury or full Earth Orbit like in Star Trek?
I am also not quite clear on the Timeline. Is Joe going to meet his Therapist before the meeting with Upercrust? I think it was on the same day (Tuesday) but I don't know when he has that termin.
Heh, it's not directly prevented from going nova, he just gets a new one 48 hours after the old one breaks.
Still, 99.9999999999% uptime is quite good.
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Actually, with Einsbern alchemy which directly translates a magus's hair into contructs and spells, along with the other hair styling perk from DMC? this is genuinely a Spiral-class power considering it is Fiat-backed to be conceptually PERFECT AND INFINITE. That no-evidence clause also is some very potent causality manipulation, as no evidence for someone with Survey and Apey's analytical ability means that any attack against hair-constructs effectively have never and will never happen, at all. There's some WoG about it somewhere about this without AlK perk, iirc...
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Apparently Joe is now a Jiraiya combat expy, just put some threads (life fibers of course) in his hair, wear Garment and concentrate on extending his hair. Then enter Mantra Mode.
We were all wrong, Joe won't have 100 hands, he will have a billion threads of hair!
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- Him/Dude/That/Guy
The timeline in the story is Monday evening, April 25th 2011.
The summit at Somers Rock was Sunday evening so it's been 24 hours-ish.
Uppercrust gave it the "one day" rule and then sent the message.
Quest
The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
Now I'm imagining Uppercrust playing with his hair and blushing while he waits for a reply. Thank you for that image.
With this ability Joe can actually do the power-tinkering that everybody assumes he can do. Well, sorta. But it still counts!
The difference is like having an invisibility shard power or an invisibility spell, I think? From an outside perspective it looks the same but it's not.
And yes it doesn't make him even more OP so it does kinda seem redundant. But this isn't a direct power boost. It's a foundation which he can build upon to get stronger (which may or may not happen given his mentality). Also don't forget the new insights and the possibly ridiculous power interactions that are now available to him.
Apeiron on his way to hit Kardashev Five in another three hours
Cave_Canem
Miniature Cyberwolf
It's not. He just gets Jumpchain powers (The Celestial Forge).
- Location
- Wisconsin
So does that mean instead of the slow steady collection of the output of a Sol type star inside a Dyson Sphere he can set the thing off in a nova every other day, and collect the massive energy burst released every two days after it all resets?
He might be able to make a battery to hold the excess, but thats a pretty good chunk of energy, not to mention all the exotic (and normal) particles released.
Its not exactly type 3 but...
The big thing about the teigu power is once again something that can be taught. Its a skill like the Star Trek stuff. Just taken to a logical conclusion. This also mean that actual factual shards can be harvested and used. Joe is going to look like an Entity at this rate to Scion and that is not a good thing. It means it will bring out anti entity counter measures instead of squish puny humans for funsies powers.
There is also the obvious case 63 angle, if he can't make them human again right now, he could turn them into item teigu and let them be human for the most part. Let alone what happens when a parahuman connects to the supposed spiritual might of their passenger. This also makes extraction materials like Lethe water a thing he can just do. Easily. This can apply to his own parahuman power. He can give his own from his duplicates to the rest of the Forge. Let alone Lungs. Imagine adding Lungs power to Kat, or god forbid Tetra?
Its kinda a huge deal. This is basically Teacher but can be given to anyone with no real cost. Also there is the scary option. Joe potenially can start making new buds of shards with this new ability. Splicing Armsmaster/Lung/Weld together and essentially given birth to a new shard outside of the network.
There is also the obvious case 63 angle, if he can't make them human again right now, he could turn them into item teigu and let them be human for the most part. Let alone what happens when a parahuman connects to the supposed spiritual might of their passenger. This also makes extraction materials like Lethe water a thing he can just do. Easily. This can apply to his own parahuman power. He can give his own from his duplicates to the rest of the Forge. Let alone Lungs. Imagine adding Lungs power to Kat, or god forbid Tetra?
Its kinda a huge deal. This is basically Teacher but can be given to anyone with no real cost. Also there is the scary option. Joe potenially can start making new buds of shards with this new ability. Splicing Armsmaster/Lung/Weld together and essentially given birth to a new shard outside of the network.
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- Location
- Auckland, NZ
Encasing the universe in a Dyson Sphere would prevent growth and thus limit POWER!