How much range does Jack Slash even have? Could he like... look at the Butcher through a spyglass from a ways away and attack her from there in order to become Butcher Fifteen?
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
- Thread starter LordRoustabout
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Considering LordRoustabout has implied that (as far as this fic goes anyway) Cauldron's hands-off policy is the result of Jack nudging Contessa's Path in a way that benefits the Slaughterhouse 9, I would think that distance is no issue considering Contessa is often in parallel Earths.
Edit: Oh you meant the knife range thing? Line of sight. In that case, the spyglass might just work.
I stated the exact opposite. Read the full paragraph, or the one sentence of myself I quoted in my second comment. That's the reading comprehension problem I was pointing to.
ExploerTM
Ruin has found you at last!
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You know, quoting Uber from Storage Yard Fight: "Healthbar. Only last hitpoint matters"
So more wild speculations about re-purposed and fixed L33t-tech?
Dancingrage
On a crash course with the big time.
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I've always loved how Alec in this story seems to have the perfect lines to point something out, even when he doesn't even quite realize it. Yes, that last is more like what Joe's powerups have been of late, you know, contacting an achronal intelligence spanning all of time and becoming one with part of the primordial forces that govern this world. Not even getting into the Reverse Side of the World some ages ago or making it to the Throne of Heroes. The Ultimate, if reluctant, Straight Man of the story.
The fact that he later twigs onto key points that make him realize that Joe removed the 'nigh' from 'nigh-invulnerable' only adds onto that. When the Slaughterhouse Stomp gets shown to all and sundry later, he's going to probably utter something like, "I was on a call with him when he got the power that let him tank the Siberian to the face and laugh like a madman". Thus prompting Lisa to lose more shit, Brian to lose more hair or have it go grey, and Rachel to be even more smug since she called him out as being strong ages (IRL time) ago.
So, the Legendary Anti-Sting defense is now complete. I wonder what other strange and interesting combinations of powers could pop up now that he can tank an omni-dimensional attack and only walk away with cosmetic damage and, in his words:
I picture Joe coming out of that sort of thing with sweeping punting maneuvers to make sure to put boot to butt and ass to stratosphere.
EDIT: On review of the thread after, I noted the following:
And I'm gonna update with the following to mash it all together into one glorious mess because I was enjoying the Max0r vid that dropped the same day this chapter did.
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I think the question is not about invulnerability but immovability.
Joe: "What, you thought it was because you're so clever?"
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Honestly while this chapter was nice, I'm more excited for the coming therapy session with Doctor Campbell this evening, in-universe. Just imagine Dr. Campbell's surprise when Joe comes in, suddenly a lot more self-confident in himself and sure of what he could do and achieve, just mere days after their last meeting?
Yes shake his organs, but that's it they would not be liquified or burst. Heck there might not be any internal bleeding only bruising. The impact might make his entire body feel bruised and completely sore, but like not even a second later his nanobots, lifefibers and any other form of healing factor renders all that superficial damage a moot point. His pain tolerance is probably ridiculous as an immediate of being hit by March's Sting. This power combo has made Steel Gorilla basically a better Gavel. While Gavel can only ever take a certain amount of damage at a single time and can still be hit by annihilation effects, he can still die. That's his maximum capacity of damage he can take. This power combo flips all this on its head. Apeiron can only ever take enough damage to be not broken. That's it. Once he hits a certain threshold of damage(probably right before he is considered damaged), he basically become undamageable, because he will never break.
When Final Boss Metal Monkey hits his next phase its an infinite invulnerable phase lol.
ExploerTM
Ruin has found you at last!
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"So guys, have you ever heard about such wonderful videogame trope as Hopeless Boss Fight?"
derpydude9001
Some dude on the internet.
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That is much more clever than my idea, kudos!Wait!
Every great couple needs a ship name like Bennifer or Brangelina!
The only name I can think of is Studebarker, barker because of Rachel's dogs and that Studebaker is an automobile manufacturer.
Lol. I wonder what everyones faces will be like when Slaughter House 9 attacks in 3 days.
The user might need to replace the explosive charge in between uses...
...actually, he could already make fiat-backed reusable grenades with Reliable Invention. After all, detonating a grenade neither purposefully targets it nor uses it improperly, so his grenades were "completely resistant to damage caused by regular usage".
Subrosian_Smithy
endless
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- Washington
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Gaia doesn't actively interfere with conventional projections in order to break them down. They evaporate because magical energy is inherently insubstantial and can't be physically 'sculpted' like clay into stable constructs to begin with.
(Conversely, note that Shirou's esoteric style of projection - the way he falsifies a complete history for everything he creates - already produces permanent constructs. He's still not taken seriously as a route to recreating the First, presumably because he still has to pay the tolls of equivalent exchange and because the First encompasses everything, not just weaponry.)
I will admit to my mistake about that. Due to reading so much Fate franchise fanfiction along with Type-Moon being a franchise that pretty much goes "here's the rules and they are very strict. Except for this person who does something to violate them and get away with it."
But we can possibly agree that Joe can do a better Job at using Gradiation Air then Shirou/EMIYA with more creativity when it comes to weapons and Armsthrift is just going to improve them even more. And it does seem to be a underused skill set that Joe has rarely used but then again so many of the things Joe can use seem be that way for now.
Now this is making me wonder how people in the Nasuverse, including Arcuied, the Dead Apostle Ancestors, Church, and different Mage Associations, would react to Joe and the current state of the Celestial Forge.
ProfHardraad
ThreadNecromancer
uh, dood. Fire Emblem characters regularly go toe-to-oversized-demon/dragon-foot every game. Armsthrift comes from Awakening where the PC can kill a future demondragon version of themself. What do you mean "city-block level at most"?
Foxy Boxes
[Verified Box]
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- England
A quick reminder that his internals have been at that point for a while. Life fibres are just that whack. Other hybrids have shown the durability to withstand having their heart ripped out of their chest, being impaled through the chest and crucified, and being beheaded.
It's just before there was no stopping the annihilator in the first place.
I'm curious what's stopping Joe from making a bunch of triumvirate-level robots? I mean, maybe at this point it would be a little redundant. But I'm sure an army of robots with the power of the most powerful capes in the world plus invulnerability would be at least a little helpful against Zion.
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Why even point these out? Correct me if i'm wrong but Hindu Cyborg Godsbody has essentially made Joe's body a weapon which means he's just flat out invulnerable.
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Yeah, adding a what would make it not work anymore.
Garreon
Paldean Top Champion
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- Mesagoza, Paldea
Holy shit the faces of the Empire, and Damsel, when their Anti Apeiron Cape doesnt do what was brought to do, and who they painstakingly please so she stays. They did nazi this coming
Travisplo
The Necromonsieur
Would Joe disrupt her though? He's still got a bit of 'give', and I don't think the effect would immediately pierce Sib. He's not an Unstoppable Force, or a fully Immovable Object after all.
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What do you think Fleet and Survey are? Plus he can just upgrade Titanfall ones.
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- Philippines
Besides, Joe can literally outfit a normal person (Chen) to be capable of fighting at the level of the Protectorate's A-list capes, and he could train a Parahuman without a directly offensive power (Aisha) into a superpower capable of defeating the Triumvirate at their strongest. And that's before a lot of the recent perks. That's certainly better than whatever Cauldron could do anyhow.