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Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)

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Psiidmon said:
Why wouldn't Armstrong endeavour to nab both groups to get them out of Bakuda's hostage range?
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Because they aren't in hostage range? It's specifically noted that they avoided being hostages due to being in PRT's custody, and Bakuda is now holed up somewhere. Also, they aren't carrying bombs and have been healed of any injuries. Putting a bunch of peoples who are under observation for suspicions of being mastered together with people who have bombs in their head makes no sense.
 
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An Abrupt (Not-so) Bad End (Shyft)
  • Apocrypha
    • An Abrupt (Not-so) Bad End​
    The Workshop portal snapped shut with an apocalyptic crackle, the furious mastery of an entire Multiverse brought to bear on something that was greater than even the most atavistic of elder beings.

    Aisha let out a low breath. "Is... Is that everyone?"

    As a group, the Celestial Forge looked out upon the seemingly endless flat expanse of the Workshop terrain. Even now, they imagined what was happening, beyond the extra-dimensional boundary of the fiat realm.

    Survey mimed a holographic clipboard, unflappable even in the face of such an event. "Accounting for the indeterminacies inherent in dealing with lesser and greater infinities, we have secured a number of populations equal to tenth to the-"

    "It was rough, having to save so many on short notice...." Tetra did not exactly cut Survey off, but the other woman took the interruption in her usual stride.

    Aperion- that is to say Joe. The time for masks was truly done, and he pulled his visor from his brow with a sigh. "Not everyone, but enough."

    Below, spreading out on the incredible expanse that was the Workshop, stood the teeming masses of humanity. Not just of Earth Bet, but Alpeh, Gimmel, and whole swaths more- Earths and stories only just shy of being countable.

    Outside, the threat to mankind raged, burning countless abandoned copies of the planet to cinders, cracking them against the moon and Mars- bidding the sun go nova and other stark abuses of physics. Abandoned copies... and inhabited ones. They could not save everyone....

    Already, the Duplicates were hard at work, fashioning whole new worlds to inhabit, phantasmal spaces for the refugees of multiversal humanity to live and grow, safe from the predation of ancient worms burrowing through the cosmos.

    "Well, I don't know about you-" Aisha grinned. "But I think we got this."
     
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    • Pen-Paper Toad said:
    So everyone who dies ends up reappearing as ghosts and continuing as if nothing happened, making the religion catch on even more?
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    "Oh hey Bob how was your day?"

    "Yeah, crazy shit, I didnt hear a warning and was squashed by an excavator."

    "Holy shit, you lucky you lived man."

    "What? I didnt."

    "Huh?"

    "Yep, squashed like a bug. Loooots of red everywhere."

    "Uhhhhh"

    "Yeah so funny thing, if you die around these parts turns out you just kinda pop right back in. Like, five meters away or something. So thats a thing. How was your day anyway? Did you asked Ellen out yet?"
     
    renextronex said:
    Of course he has outscaled Cauldron. He has several ways to fight the endbringers, which nobody in Cauldron can do. Hell, the only thing in-universe that he is not able to easily deal with is the entities
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    Which to be fair is because he is in the gathering information phase of things. For all his current knowledge Joe and the CF don't really understand the nature of the oncoming threat, just that it's large and they have a few guideposts from his future sight about it.

    Speaking of, has it ever been confirmed on how he's getting even a few pinches of future knowledge? Did QA or another shard send a data packet back to it's past self or something? Gift from the ROB who started the CF?

    Oh, and is there still a shard connected to Joe? Or was it eaten by the CF?
     
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    Dur'id the Druid said:
    Speaking of, has it ever been confirmed on how he's getting even a few pinches of future knowledge? Did QA or another shard send a data packet back to it's past self or something? Gift from the ROB who started the CF?

    Oh, and is there still a shard connected to Joe? Or was it eaten by the CF?
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    Joe has no shard. He has an emulated, unrestricted copy of Armsmaster's Efficiency powers, down to the halberd, but that's as close as he gets.
    Joe's "thinker power" of limited foresight is part of his initial abilities and takes the form of a nonverbal intelligence giving him emotional cues tied to events, places, and people from the canon Worm timeline. The way the intelligence reacts to those canon events strongly resembles the aggregate of the Worm fandom in general. No ides at this time if this is an act being put on by whoever gave Joe the Forge, an emulation baked into his powers, or something else entirely, like a Joe from a mundane world reading the canon Worm.
     
    According to the story description, Joe's power does come with a shard, although per later story content it's not in the network:
    A minor background character from Worm gets access to a compounding series of Jumpchain crafting powers and is left to figure things out with nothing but the nature of his abilities and a vague connection to his passenger for guidance.
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    (emphasis added)
     
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    That Passenger, not a Shard. I know that in Worm those terms interchangeable, but in description it just means some intelligence behind the power, not necessary a part of the worm entities.

    On the other hand, Joe actually maintains some sort of connection to genuine Shard - King of Arms. Beyond the fact that his Echidna clones of Joe would have connected to this Shard though emulated trigger (which implies it's still around to give powers), WoGs also mentioned that people with "power vision" like Chevalier and Fairy Queen will see Apeiron as host of King of Arms, with some add-ons from the magical side of CF due to Paras=magic thing. Now, what sort of connection it is and what happened to King of Arms after CF hijacked Joe's trigger, we simply don't know. Maybe we could learn more if Joe finds KoA in Shardspace, but that did not happen yet and might never happen at all.
     
    Dur'id the Druid said:
    Which to be fair is because he is in the gathering information phase of things. For all his current knowledge Joe and the CF don't really understand the nature of the oncoming threat, just that it's large and they have a few guideposts from his future sight about it.

    Speaking of, has it ever been confirmed on how he's getting even a few pinches of future knowledge? Did QA or another shard send a data packet back to it's past self or something? Gift from the ROB who started the CF?

    Oh, and is there still a shard connected to Joe? Or was it eaten by the CF?
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    Mr_Rose said:
    Joe has no shard. He has an emulated, unrestricted copy of Armsmaster's Efficiency powers, down to the halberd, but that's as close as he gets.
    Joe's "thinker power" of limited foresight is part of his initial abilities and takes the form of a nonverbal intelligence giving him emotional cues tied to events, places, and people from the canon Worm timeline. The way the intelligence reacts to those canon events strongly resembles the aggregate of the Worm fandom in general. No ides at this time if this is an act being put on by whoever gave Joe the Forge, an emulation baked into his powers, or something else entirely, like a Joe from a mundane world reading the canon Worm.
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    This but he also has a few divination powers and has also had 1 pjo demigod dream which had him fighting scion which unfortunately he doesn't know enough about demigod dreams to consider important.
     
    He was also given a couple of vague warnings by his perks, namely one from the Worm Jumpchain that specifically says "blocks the Simurgh, Contessa, and Zion (but not Coil due to weird powers)" which would most likely clue him in on Zion when he finds out about Contessa (right now he has no idea who she is, so he has no idea that the list is about enemies). And the other is from the Titan's Blood perk I believe, which gives him a vague direction on what constitutes as a world wide threat.
     
    Slentoru said:
    That Passenger, not a Shard. I know that in Worm those terms interchangeable, but in description it just means some intelligence behind the power, not necessary a part of the worm entities.

    On the other hand, Joe actually maintains some sort of connection to genuine Shard - King of Arms. Beyond the fact that his Echidna clones of Joe would have connected to this Shard though emulated trigger (which implies it's still around to give powers), WoGs also mentioned that people with "power vision" like Chevalier and Fairy Queen will see Apeiron as host of King of Arms, with some add-ons from the magical side of CF due to Paras=magic thing. Now, what sort of connection it is and what happened to King of Arms after CF hijacked Joe's trigger, we simply don't know. Maybe we could learn more if Joe finds KoA in Shardspace, but that did not happen yet and might never happen at all.
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    King of Arms, when it started, "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!?!"
    King of Arms, now, "THIS IS AWESOME!!!"
     
    Hey guys. Love the story, but kind of new. Which power is King of Arms? Is that what we call Armsmaster's power or is that the name of Joe's passenger?
     
    It's power is to lord over Armsmaster's Shard, nothing more, just smuggly look down at it from it's metaphorical throne, maybe throw a peanut or two, or flick kernels of popcorn at it so it gets stuck in it's hair for it's amusement. It most likely wears a crown or a top hat too, just to show Armsy's Shard how superior it is, make it bow and everything when they meet.

    That's why Armsy didn't like Ape at the start, it's canon. Believe me, Lord told in a dream.
     
    Here some WoGs from Lord about King of Arms:
    I saw the King of Arms (a reference to a real position that certifies genealogies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Arms) as a shard that defined parameters for hosts of the coming cycle. It's the shard that would define what the Balance formula needed to contain, since entities wouldn't naturally have a 'human' shard ready beforehand. Effectively the Balance shard would be something like a bud of the King of Arms produced solely for the cycle in question then recycled to incorporate knowledge of the host species for future cycles.
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    Joe's shard was a Scion shard that Glaistig Uaine would refer to as The King of Arms. In terms of shard hierchy it could be called a semi-noble shard, in that it's not essential to the cycle, but still provides important utility.

    The King of Arms is responsible for documenting the host species of the entities, both their biology and psychology. It has detailed records of the physical makeup, culture, and neurology of every species encountered from the point when it was created. When Scion or Eden needed to make their human models for the creation of their avatars they used the The King of Arms. It was able to draw from experience of the previous cycles to construct models of the mentality and biology of the next host species. It also provided guidelines to allow triggers not to harm their hosts, essentially helping to facilitate the Manton effect. All of these functions could be managed by other shards, but entities large enough would have a dedicated shard for this purpose.

    It's the kind of shard that leans heavily towards master or changer powers, with any other expressions being applied through that lens. For instance, if its host had a brute trigger it would probably go changer/brute for some kind of combat form based on its records of biological information. Blaster would probably be the same, with things like bioelectricity or chemical production being the way it would express things. Thinker powers would be expressed by directing biological or psychological principles towards its host, or monitoring the same principles in the outside world. Breaker and Shaker powers would be the most difficult ones for the shard to express, and would probably have heavy master or changer elements to them.
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    To add some context to the name, despite being called 'king', there's nothing royal about the King of Arms. It's a reference to an actual position responsible for certifying genealogies and noble titles. Specifically, it was a shard devoted to tracking details of host species, both biological and psychological. I've referred to it as semi-noble because it's not necessary for the cycle, but it would help facilitate various aspects of it. For contrast, if the Queen Administrator was a reining monarch the King of Arms would be a court official. Nowhere close to as important, but more significant than the more general purpose shards.
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    So archivarius and a rule setter on how to interact with host species. That's right, King of Arms is the giant Shard that makes all of the rules. Funny, Joe described that bio-tinker power as "Heartbreaker meets Nilbog by the way of Bonesaw", but King of Arms' data and Human modelling is probably the main thing facilitating all of those people's powers. Well, a lot of people's powers, but more so with anything that related to manipulation of mentality or biology.

    Joe: This power was like the powers of the worst, but worse!
    King of Arms: More like their powers are like me, but less.
     
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    Shaper is probably still the top of the biology hierarchy of Shards, since it holds the data on all life encountered by Entities, not just the previous and current hosts. If King of Arms is a court official, Shaper is the Minister of Life.
     
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