There are so many ways that Aisha could use it to mess with Brian. Other than just the context her being given a ring. Because LotR presumably exists in Worm she could call it a Ring of Power for one. Not sure how much Brian would know about the Rings but they are pretty scary.
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The thing is, they'd still be Apeiron-made. Anything Joe makes would be wildly more overpowered and overly laden with additional effects and powers compared to the base objects. You're looking at a "One Ring" that can unfold into a castle, a robot, and a Ferrari as additional forms, has an elemental focus, of Divine make, and so on and so forth. And it'll still be able to evolve and gain more capabilities over time, because that's a thing with Heretical Adaptation. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Joe makes a "One Ring" and it stops being just one ring because being only able to be worn by one person at a time is a too plebian concept for Apeiron.
Omake: Taking Turns (Recogitate)
Omake: Taking Turns
Keith watched the livestream in awe as Kataklyzein delivered the final blow, breaking through Leviathan's watery cage of death with a spear thrust and striking his exposed core-
-with his paw?
The cat quickly retreated from a renewed onslaught by a panicking Leviathan. He stepped through the forcefield and seated himself in the popup colosseum's stands while cheerfully accepting congratulations from his teammates and the giant mech spectators. This ranged from polite clapping to Proto Aima's cheerleading routine.
Why had the cat retreated though? He was so close to ending that monster once and for all.
"We will be taking a short recess while Leviathan recovers." Survey announced from her commentator's box with 'guest star' Garment. "After the break: Proto Aima will be field testing her newly developed Energised Foldwarp Threads against Endbringer durability. For the full fight schedule and more details on this emulated Foldwarp technology visit our website. Stay tuned."
Oh.
(Several Curb-stomps Later)
Apeiron stared at the sealed core in his hand with that damned contemplative expression. His eyes gained a dangerous glint of inspiration. The Enigmatic Artificer raised his starlight hammer, and struck. When the flash of light died out, a majestic eastern water dragon had replaced Leviathan. "This is Panlong, he'll be patrolling the oceans and stabilising the earths' weather systems from now on."
Oh dear.
Keith watched the livestream in awe as Kataklyzein delivered the final blow, breaking through Leviathan's watery cage of death with a spear thrust and striking his exposed core-
-with his paw?
The cat quickly retreated from a renewed onslaught by a panicking Leviathan. He stepped through the forcefield and seated himself in the popup colosseum's stands while cheerfully accepting congratulations from his teammates and the giant mech spectators. This ranged from polite clapping to Proto Aima's cheerleading routine.
Why had the cat retreated though? He was so close to ending that monster once and for all.
"We will be taking a short recess while Leviathan recovers." Survey announced from her commentator's box with 'guest star' Garment. "After the break: Proto Aima will be field testing her newly developed Energised Foldwarp Threads against Endbringer durability. For the full fight schedule and more details on this emulated Foldwarp technology visit our website. Stay tuned."
Oh.
(Several Curb-stomps Later)
Apeiron stared at the sealed core in his hand with that damned contemplative expression. His eyes gained a dangerous glint of inspiration. The Enigmatic Artificer raised his starlight hammer, and struck. When the flash of light died out, a majestic eastern water dragon had replaced Leviathan. "This is Panlong, he'll be patrolling the oceans and stabilising the earths' weather systems from now on."
Oh dear.
Probably wouldn't even be that hard honestly. One of the base powers of the One Ring is all the powers of the other Rings. Just. All of them. Which is crazy when you consider that at least some of the powers other the other Rings are based on the powers of whoever is using them. So if it's actually ALL the powers of the others that should mean it's also power copying. Joe can also remove the major weakness of the Rings, being stolen or removed from the person, by just binding them to their wielder. Make them impossible to lose.
The Rings actually do help with greater understanding. They do stuff like let you see the Unseen, meaning you can see more about the nature of reality. They also let you just do stuff better. Also Joe does want more power because he still isn't sure if he can punch Scion in the face hard enough. While the physical boosts basically don't matter the main boosts of the Rings are more conceptual. LotR magic basically works on what a person or things Purpose is and the Rings make that be more. He probably would also like a power dampening ring though. He could swap between them, it isn't like he has to wear them all the time.
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Aisha: Joe made me, fanfare, The One Ring!
Brian: Does it do anything?
Aisha: I-it's The One Ring, of course it does stuff!
Brian: Ok, but specifics? Like, does it shoots lasers and stuff?
Aisha: Come on, it's The One Ring! How come you don't know what it does!?
Brian: Should I?
Aisha: It's from Tolkien!
Brian: The weirdoes who think powers are magic?
Aisha: What, no! From the books!
Brian: You read books?
Aisha: And you don't!?
I would actually believe the idea that Brian hasn't read LotR. He never struck me as well read. With there being a decent chance that the LotR movies not existing I could honestly see him just being unaware. It would be sad though and Aisha would probably be disappointed.
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IIRC only the books exist since the weirdoes who think powers are magic (I seriously can't remember their name) started using names from Tolkien's work, so the books are 'tainted' on the view of the public and no movies (post the 80s) were made. I think it was mentioned in one of Uppercrust's interludes.
The old Hobbits cartoon may still be out there though, as well the one made to scam people.
The old Hobbits cartoon may still be out there though, as well the one made to scam people.
That sucks. It's probably the Adepts who did that. Regardless though I would say they are weirdoes for other reasons than for thinking powers are magic. They are full on Clark-tech indistinguishable from magic after all. It's even weirder with Cauldron where they drink elder god smoothies for phenomenal cosmic power and insist this isn't magic.
Yellowjack specifically referred to "the Morgoth branch of the Adepts" when informed of the name of Uppercrust's new notebook/calendar/workbench/warehouse. That's about when the book started getting sarcastic at him too. You'd think he'd correlate those events…
Anyway powers are magic here so technically they're not wrong. Just wildly imprecise.
Anyway powers are magic here so technically they're not wrong. Just wildly imprecise.
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Nah, the thing that'll actually happen is:
Aisha: Brian, Joe did something crazy again.
Brian: What did he do!? Do you need me to talk to him? Do you need to leave the Forge?
Aisha: What? No! It's perfectly fine, it's okay... just, I need to vent, okay? It's not what you're imagining.
Brian: You certainly don't sound fine to me though.
Aisha: It'll be fine once I finally get my head around it. So, you know how Joe makes these crazy things and all you can do is to just adapt to it as much as you can while he hands world changing power to you?
Brian: ...what did he give this time and what did it do.
Aisha: The better question would be, what doesn't it do?
Brian: Aisha...
Aisha: For the sake of your sanity I won't delve into the how's and why's of how this ring that I got works, but let's just say that if I wore this and fought the Apeiron of yesterday, I'd win. Can't beat the him of five minutes ago, of course? But the him off yesterday? With this ring it'll be easy.
Brian: ...I need a drink. Preferably alcoholic.
Aisha: YOU DON'T GET TO DO THAT TO ME MISTER, NOW SIT DOWN AND DRINK THIS TEA WITH ME
And then Brian gets absolutely hammered by the tea that Aisha casually drinks, because unlike her, he hasn't had the chance to work up his way to literal divine blessed elven tea.
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I love how every member of the Forge is a master artist in differing ways. Particularly Aisha.
"So, Brian, I trust you know better than to let anyone know about your sister's identity?"
"You mean as Lethe? Of course I do, that doesn't even need saying."
"Of course not; besides if you blab she can take care of it herself. I meant her artistic endeavours."
"What?"
"Those paintings in the hallway. She's going to try to do the 'mysterious artist' bit and hang them in galleries overnight to make a name for herself then pretend to be her own agent."
"The paintings?"
"Yes, didn't she tell you they were hers?"
*Brian.exe has crashed. Press the Any key to reboot.*
… Hmm, do any of the others work with the Neathbow Colours? Or is it just Aisha and Garment with creations that require containment procedures?
Joe: "And here we have one of Aisha's early works. Unfortunately we have to keep it covered — gazing upon it without suitable precautions is enough to send you mad"
Brian: "Seriously? I doubt even Aisha's artistic talents are that bad…"
Aisha: "Brian!!" *scowls*
Tolkien originally put together Lord Of The Rings as a setting for his fictional language, the nerd (affectionate), so I can't see him stopping just because powers showed up.
Also, I wonder whether The Joenes, Survey, possibly The Matrix, and anyone else are performing movie adaptations of books.
Of course the one made to scam people was around; it's Earth Bet.
As I understand it they're kind of like Hipsters in that they lean into the absurdity of things mostly ironically by being mock-serious about it, complete with the second-wave suckers who ended up unironically doing the same thing.
Does anyone know what degrees Aisha would be able to get if she tried?
- Physics
- Physical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Architectural Engineering (this is a maybe)
I can't remember if there's been a list of given at any point, or if it's been mentioned in bits and pieces.
Anybody got a list handy?
Can anyone else picture Aisha walking by a whiteboard in a classroom after a class is let out, and casually solving one of the "unsolved" math equations the professor had shown the class as an example of "something to strive to solve in the future"? And seeing the jaw drops of prof and few students still in the classroom?
Priceless.
- Physics
- Physical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Chemical Engineering
- Architectural Engineering (this is a maybe)
I can't remember if there's been a list of given at any point, or if it's been mentioned in bits and pieces.
Anybody got a list handy?
Can anyone else picture Aisha walking by a whiteboard in a classroom after a class is let out, and casually solving one of the "unsolved" math equations the professor had shown the class as an example of "something to strive to solve in the future"? And seeing the jaw drops of prof and few students still in the classroom?
Priceless.
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Tale as old as time: someone paid for the rights to make a film about The Hobbit under the condition that it made a certain amount of tickets were sold, guy got someone to give him money to make it, produced unwatchable slop that he paid people to watch the slop, and ran away with the money he didn't use to watch the movie.
Or something like that, it's been a while since I learned about it. It's a 'movie' older than the animated The Hobbit movie with rotoscope too.
Dime-a-dozen is what that scene is.
The leader of the (New York) Adepts by the time they're on screen in WORM is a cape named 'Epoch' who has time based powers very similar to Perdition / Cody of the Travelers. And he's a Cauldron cape. So the Adepts, who are trying to increase their understanding of Sechen ranges via 'mystic' means... are led by a Vial Cape who doesn't have any of the same responses.
It was subtle, I liked it a lot.
A question for @LordRoustabout - is Mrs Gartenberg going to get any "on-screen" lines, or is she pulling a Morn?¹
I noticed that whenever she's present in the scene she's either doing something out of earshot like at the gym or has just got done speaking to a minor character or communicates only with gestures (as she did in the after-party for the Gala) so I was curious if it was a "bit" or not.
I noticed that whenever she's present in the scene she's either doing something out of earshot like at the gym or has just got done speaking to a minor character or communicates only with gestures (as she did in the after-party for the Gala) so I was curious if it was a "bit" or not.
infamously garrulous according to all the other characters, to the point where when he 'died' everyone said the bar he was usually found propping up was too quiet, but never got an actual speaking line.