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"Not bothering Joe because she can't hurt him" makes me think that she should be thrown at Crawler. Not because she would be particularly effective at it but rather because that sort of aimless harmful intent makes me want to metaphorically swap her sugar and salt for each other.
Well power-sight that can reach all the way to Shards tend to have multiple layers to them which I believe represents the person, the power, and then all of the other powers that the Shard itself has, so I would think that she would at least get the first and second layer, though that second might be badly interpreted and a little bit scrambled or vague or something as a result, but I would think that most powers would lack that third layer unless they were being bolstered by a external source. She'd probably be able to see Joe though the Avid Glove.
Edit: I have to wonder what Noelle would smell though since that's how she interprets powers.
Tissue-engineering, printing organs and the like, might be what they end up using it for before moving to more direct medical applications.
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Can someone explain why I got alerts for these two posts by @Spidey_phd in my email? I'm watching this, yeah, but I have it set to OP Posts only, and I know that is the setting I have because I 1) double-checked and 2) have been watching this thread for 1-2 years and have only ever gotten email alerts for @LordRoustabout's posts.
Overhaul of the watch options. One of them is email notifications for when the thread gains new threadmarks, you can undo it if you want.
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except that the statement "so perfect it could barely be part of the physical universe" refers to the Alcohol, not the libations, and we use a singular pronoun for alcohol and other liquids.
Que Deadpool appearing while breaking ALL the walls)
Maybe? It would really be down to Lord. But I could totally see Scion not having any defenses against a psionic mental assault. Probably not though because that makes killing him way too easy.
Pretty sure his biggest defence against psi is being multiple connected minds with ECC between them. That is she's have to get all of him at once, across all the dimensions he occupies
I believe there's a standing WoG that attempts to interact with Joe's shard get his original shard; a hypothetical Noelle-clone of Joe would get the biotinker trigger.
Nothing they are protected from scrying.
I doubt that Alma can produce a effect that Zion can't avoid being harmed by either by nullifying the effect or recovering so fast and being so redundant that what she does doesn't matter.
It happened during one of Joe's therapist visits, but I don't remember which chapter.
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In theory Psychic powers are not affected by the magic-parahuman equivalence, giving a serious edge to Alma against parahumans. Basically no-one can resist her because her powers are completly unknown for the shards.
However, Scion is the Warrior. His job is to defend the cycle against Outside Context Problems. If there's someone that have a chance to have defence against psychic powers, it's him.
And of course, from a story perspective, it would be boring to cheese the final boss that way.
Henry Campbell. Keeping both the strongest parahuman sane, and his cool even when assaulted by psychic ghost.
This guy have balls of brass.
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Joe got the "Star Wars but you are not Jedi" perk. Then he immediately got the "Fine, you are a Jedi but cursed with a connection to Samara's angrier big sister" perk.
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Alma has been accurately summed up in the past as an abuse victim who's gained godlike power only after things have crossed every imaginable line. Institutionalized by her overwhelming psychic powers as a child, stolen by the government as an experimental test subject for a super solider program, forced to bear two children that she was never even allowed to hold, and "decommissioned" via the long, slow process of drowning in a offline life-support tank. And then granted perfect clarity and even more powerful abilities as a psychic projection immediately following her body's physical death.
Aside from her immense trauma and perfectly understandable murderous rage at all she considers culpable for said trauma, Alma's defined by her absolute crippling loneliness as a sentient being. Said loneliness drives her to a number of very villainous and depraved ends, exacerbated by the absence of any true peers that can so much as disagree with her without getting turned to paste by her impulse response.
I'd honestly not bet on Joe offering her a body without immense sessions of therapy beforehand. Said body would have to be made by Joe after all, and Alma letting loose while she's piloting something like that would probably be even more devastating than her canon feats.
Everything Joe makes great quality and aesthetic. But it doesn't have to be dangerous.
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Once things get calmer, Joe could easily set a Spiritron simulation with Survey's (and the rest) controlled simulated Psychiatric staff to give Alma 20 years of therapy in an environment where she doesn't have powers, help her overcome the damage she suffered (or if she can't be helped, then give her a simulated happy life)... Joe tends to have this protective behaviour with any "companion" he gets... Heck the Kerbal's are being humoured... I would love to see more of them tbh
I would be very interested in seeing Joe create some kind of therapy tech.
AI therapist? Robotic equivalent to pet therapy?
Hire therapist like Yamada and Dr. Campbell to provide online therapy via Apeiron-level technology?
Too late to add Inception to possible Perks?
Honestly, therapy is a valid concern. Joe is planning on taking on the S9 within the next 2-3 days then physically heal as many of their victims as possible.
Survivors, like Mouse Protector and Bonesaw's other experiments, are going to need serious psych/mental health.
What is Joe planning?
I can't really remember any sci-fi/fantasy examples of one-size-fits-all therapy that doesn't have a Madera or Matrix twist to it.
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The afterlife in a number of fictional mythologies is basically therapy. Gets you to accept everything that happened in your life or whatever. Generally though they have unlimited time.
Doesn't even have to be that since he got the trigram power; he can make a perfectly crafted pile of junk if he wants. And with the way his perfectionism perks would apply to the crafting/carving/casting of the trigram scripts I expect the transformation to be so perfect that no-one would ever be able to tell that the stack of broken car parts used to be Saint.