Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)

Canonically speaking, in the same way there is no actual "ArmsMobile", all Wards/Protectorade capes have bikes they can use.

For canon, sure. In this story though Joe talks about Armsmaster's bike

LordRoustabout said:
Give me resources and time and I might be able to pull something together that looked like it belonged in the same league as Armsmaster's bike, though it would be nowhere near that level of efficiency.

Which I choose to interpret as Armsy at least improving a standard bike, if not having a custom built.
 
Canonically speaking, in the same way there is no actual "ArmsMobile", all Wards/Protectorade capes have bikes they can use.

The Protectorate capes? Yes. The Wards? Only the New York Wards AFAIK, who rode them through an old sewage system.

Which I choose to interpret as Armsy at least improving a standard bike, if not having a custom built.

IIRC Taylor coments that the noise Armsy's bike makes is kind of iconic to him since it's a way for everyone to know he is arriving, so I have always assumed he tuned it up to all hell so it's to his stardards, or at least moded it to keep some of his tech, like the electrified steel cage he used to arrest Lung after Tay necrosed his balls off.

Vista gets caught trying to steal Armsy's Bike and spraypaint it green

It's just her bicycle and she used her powers to move it arround :V
 
Are you accounting for her having leaned over?
I was, in fact, not; that'd do it.
Is it weird that my thoughts are something like "Garment would probably consider that kind of risque?"
She'd be making date-wear, among other things, and her primary method of interpreting people's intentions is their clothing; she'd basically be a Wingwomaning both sides of a relationship and possibly advancing diagonally in the sense that she'd be being parallel to being more then that.
Tomorrow: the Nine arrive in town (and get epically crushed).
Next week: Leviathan shows up?

I wonder if the PHO would start making memes about it in the same vein as the "three days old tech" one...
Assuming that they last long enough to be noticed? It might become a meme.

Alternatively it might become a meme in spite of that only for people to go looking for what happened on that unusually peaceful week.
 
honestly the only thing my goopy little heart desires (aside from mixing mixtures and sectional time) is a Vista Micro POV that details her mental collapse as Apeiron drags the corpses of the Nine into the Brockton Bay PRT office, calmly waits in line if there is one, and then says "Yes hello I would like to claim some bounties".

Either Vista is forced to admit Apeiron is a capital-h Hero because he finally nixed the nine, or she readily tap-dances into insanity as she somehow tries to warp removing the nine as some sort of evil act.

Honestly I think i might prefer the latter case. We've already got Glory Girl handling the "character actually self-reflects and admits they messed it up" angle, let Vista be the metaphorical slow-motion trainwreck.
 
Either Vista is forced to admit Apeiron is a capital-h Hero because he finally nixed the nine, or she readily tap-dances into insanity as she somehow tries to warp removing the nine as some sort of evil act.

Honestly I think i might prefer the latter case. We've already got Glory Girl handling the "character actually self-reflects and admits they messed it up" angle, let Vista be the metaphorical slow-motion trainwreck.


Missy and Aisha bonding at school over being the only two girls who aren't going gaga over Apeiron/Fleet/Survey. Just, for completely different reasons that neither of them are actually willing to admit to.
 
Was talking specifically about the BB wards. Vista usually gets treated like a child while the other, less experienced, wards get treated like she wants to be, like someone who has value beyond being cute.

Opened the timeline to confirm but she isn't the longest serving Ward Missy triggered and joined in April 2009 giving her 2 years at most by the time canon starts since that's the 8th of April 2011. However, Clockblocker is noted to trigger and join earlier that year, Aegis and Triumph are also the year before making them definitely more experienced than her. Kid Win and Stalker joining is the year after. Gallant is unknown but Vicky pinged off him when she triggered between April and June of 2009 so he already had powers by then.
 
Its been millions of words, so if its been addressed I dont remember it...

But since we're still mired deep in the politics of how Piggot's administration f*cked up, will there be any investigation when it calms down more on how it got to this point? The Parahuman Feudalism experiment that basically let the Brockton Bay Branch do their own thing- giving them the bare minimum.

I imagine Piggot is an extremely good scapegoat, but unless the investigators are incompetent or paid off- they should notice something stinks beyond what Piggot is giving off.
 
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Its been millions of words, so if its been addressed I dont remember it...

But since we're still mired deep in the politics of how Piggot's administration f*cked up, will there be any investigation when it calms down more on how it got to this point? The Parahuman Feudalism experiment that basically let the Brockton Bay Branch do their own thing- giving them the bare minimum.

I imagine Piggot is an extremely good scapegoat, but unless the investigators are incompetent or paid off- they should notice something stinks beyond what Piggot is giving off.
Survey is looking into it for historical context, and has already told Joe that there are clear signs of someone external has been screwing over the bay. The forge is aware of it, but it's a secondary concern to the S9, local gangs, and making sure nobody freaks at how capable the forge is.
 
Survey is looking into it for historical context, and has already told Joe that there are clear signs of someone external has been screwing over the bay. The forge is aware of it, but it's a secondary concern to the S9, local gangs, and making sure nobody freaks at how capable the forge is.
Awesome!

Its been awhile- its hard to keep track of the finer details sometimes with this behemoth of a fic. I hope in between everything, she brings it up with Joe, and he or Survey brings it up to the authorities- maybe Armstrong since they have a rapport, and he's become one of Joe's point of contacts regarding the PRT and Protectorate.


Also it is a major point of concern that something external was interfering with Brockton Bay to that degree- they would be very interested.

Except the head honcho, Costa-Brown herself- which is very suspicious if noticed.
 
honestly the only thing my goopy little heart desires (aside from mixing mixtures and sectional time) is a Vista Micro POV that details her mental collapse as Apeiron drags the corpses of the Nine into the Brockton Bay PRT office, calmly waits in line if there is one, and then says "Yes hello I would like to claim some bounties".

Either Vista is forced to admit Apeiron is a capital-h Hero because he finally nixed the nine, or she readily tap-dances into insanity as she somehow tries to warp removing the nine as some sort of evil act.

Honestly I think i might prefer the latter case. We've already got Glory Girl handling the "character actually self-reflects and admits they messed it up" angle, let Vista be the metaphorical slow-motion trainwreck.
Can you imagine if he payed people to stay in line just so that he could ominously/obnoxiously stand around waiting?
 
Like the ontological gun, which retroactively erases someone from existence, throughout all of time.
I wonder what would happen if you shot Scion with that. Would he just cease to exist and all the civilizations he wiped out just reappear?
Was talking specifically about the BB wards. Vista usually gets treated like a child while the other, less experienced, wards get treated like she wants to be, like someone who has value beyond being cute.
Vista is a little bit less than 13. She triggered when she was 10 and presumably shortly joined the Wards. Aegis was already there, so was Clockblocker. Kid Win has been around for less than a year. Shadow Stalker joined sometime in the last 1.5 years. Browbeat is new. Gallant is unknown but has been around a while. Vista hasn't been a Ward for that long and is not the longest serving Ward in BB. She becomes the second longest serving when Gallant and Aegis died to Leviathan, which lead to Clockblocker becoming team leader.
honestly the only thing my goopy little heart desires (aside from mixing mixtures and sectional time) is a Vista Micro POV that details her mental collapse as Apeiron drags the corpses of the Nine into the Brockton Bay PRT office, calmly waits in line if there is one, and then says "Yes hello I would like to claim some bounties".

Either Vista is forced to admit Apeiron is a capital-h Hero because he finally nixed the nine, or she readily tap-dances into insanity as she somehow tries to warp removing the nine as some sort of evil act.

Honestly I think i might prefer the latter case. We've already got Glory Girl handling the "character actually self-reflects and admits they messed it up" angle, let Vista be the metaphorical slow-motion trainwreck.
I would actually be pretty sad if she didn't change.
 
Of course it's gonna have to be something other than killing the 9 and claiming the bounties because that's far to easy to interpret as purely mercenary or simple greed.

What's interesting is that the claiming of Kill Order bounties is protected activity. The only thing that can prevent it is having a Kill Order of your own. So it would be a good way to insist on speaking to the local office in direct contravention of their own policy, which might turn out to be a suitable excuse for Piggot to rescind it.
 
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Of course it's gonna have to be something other than killing the 9 and claiming the bounties because that's fair to easy to interpret as purely mercenary or simple greed.

What's interesting is that the claiming of Kill Order bounties is protected activity. The only thing that can prevent it is having a Kill Order of your own. So it would be a good way to insist on speaking to the local office in direct contravention of their own policy, which might turn out to be a suitable excuse for Piggot to rescind it.
I don't think that it can be rescinded but it should at least override it for as long as he's in the process of claiming the bounty.

It'd be really fucken' funny if it didn't though; I believe that that would technically prevent anyone from interfering with his ability to claim the bounty while also preventing anyone from actually paying it out.

It also might be a interesting way to bring Dragon into conflict with the Protectorate.
 
(seriously Joe not knowing Brian's last name is like the only reason he hasn't figured out that Aisha and Brian are related yet. Well, there's also Aisha and Brian not mentioning they have siblings, the fact they don't act similar, Joe never being at the gym at the same time as Brian, etcetera. but it being solely because Joe doesn't know Brian's last name is funnier to me.)
I wonder if they look like siblings/related or as children to their father. Since Joe knows all three I'm very curious
 
I find it funnier that none of Undersides know Joe's first name. I mean, here they were giving him their legal civilian names, and that absolute creature just goes "You can call me Joe.", and to this day not even their thinker figured out that he hasn't given them his name. We at the point where Danny Hebert probably knows about Apeiron's civilian identity more than Tattletale, despite her making panicking about him 24 hours a day hobby.

I can see a meeting between Joe, Aisha and Brian, and the most surprised Brian sounds is when he asks: "Wait, your name is Jozef?!". Grounded stuff hits harder than ungraspable problems and all that.

I know that Joe likes to bury his head in the sand about social relationships but I'd love to see Brian and Aisha being the awkward ones at the looming meet up while the various boxers look on... and completely misread the situation. "Brian has a crush on Joe! What happened to Alec?"
 
Its been millions of words, so if its been addressed I dont remember it...

But since we're still mired deep in the politics of how Piggot's administration f*cked up, will there be any investigation when it calms down more on how it got to this point? The Parahuman Feudalism experiment that basically let the Brockton Bay Branch do their own thing- giving them the bare minimum.

I imagine Piggot is an extremely good scapegoat, but unless the investigators are incompetent or paid off- they should notice something stinks beyond what Piggot is giving off.

Piggot has basically lost her job at minimum and if the Teeth hadn't shown up at the rock she'd already be gone. What was in the air was if she'd face jail time. However, between how bad it'll look that she's basically been having all the prt and tied groups solely work on lowering the chance she faces jail time even if it means letting problems snowball so that when they later cause a huge mess it won't be her fault and them learning Taylor is Kephri she's pretty much doomed.

Personally tho, while I am looking forward to that I want to see what happens when someone (probably Dragon like in canon) notices the prt ENE staff has at least 3 internationally wanted mercs Coil slipped in.

Vista is a little bit less than 13. She triggered when she was 10 and presumably shortly joined the Wards. Aegis was already there, so was Clockblocker. Kid Win has been around for less than a year. Shadow Stalker joined sometime in the last 1.5 years. Browbeat is new. Gallant is unknown but has been around a while. Vista hasn't been a Ward for that long and is not the longest serving Ward in BB. She becomes the second longest serving when Gallant and Aegis died to Leviathan, which lead to Clockblocker becoming team leader.

I would actually be pretty sad if she didn't change.

I already said basically all of that tho I will make the correction that Kid Win joined in January 2010 and since it's April 2011 he has been around for more than a year. There's also conflicting information about when Vista joined as noted in the timeline page there's some stuff from canon where she joined in April 2009 but it's said elsewhere it was 2008. Triumph also joined before her and has only recently gone up to the protectorate.
 
Truly an Apeiron problem. When it's easier to solve world hunger and provide eternal clean energy than to figure out the bureaucracy.

Well, he does have an absolute Shit-ton of perks to deal with the first, and only a pitiful few to deal with the second. And remember, it is a Minor Blessing of Hera. You can only keep Grandma so drunk for so long.

Fortunately, there are solutions waiting in the Forge! The Capstone perks Spectre and Matrix of Leadership will both doubtless help with Bureaucratic problems!
 
Looking over at where the tinker was speaking with Cuff
Was rummaging about on wiki to remind myself what Tecton's team about, and noticed that Cuff triggered a month before Behemoth attacked New Delhi in July. It is still May in story.

Did Lord make a mistake or did Cuff triggered early due to events of Cape Blackout like Aisha and we yet to be told about it? Considering the second option would mean she had her powers only for around a week and doubt that would make her established enough to get into shakers team, I kind of leaning towards the first option.
 
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