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Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
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That's not a mountain.
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- Earth
Reminds me of Queen of Blood where in the epilogue, the E88 is getting taken down, while Kaiser has noped out of Brockton Bay with the twins and is just sipping drinks on a beach somewhere.
It occurred to me that if/when March pops the bubble on the duplicate, that the duplicate could have extensive data taken from inside the bubble. Even if the bubble is stretching the last few seconds of its life out to over 900 years, the computational devices stuck inside with him are likely just fast enough to be able to utilize each millisecond, microsecond, and maybe even nanosecond. Slowly compiling data to send in a burst before popping. Now, this is probably just me being hopeful, but if this is in fact the case, then it would allow Joe to both protect himself from further timestop mechanisms, and probably even help victims of Greyboy.
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That would be amazing, but probably not what was going to happen.
I am wondering when the next update is going to happen author usually does one just about every week there hasn't been one for the last week and a half
- Location
- Up on a Hill
Lord was too busy to finish the chapter last week, but because he always posts near the end of Wednesday/start of Thursday he didn't just post it early when it was long enough to be ready. Instead he'll be posting an extra long chapter today, assuming life didn't get in the way again.
Eh, I'd be sceptical of this. Even if we take a conservative estimate that Bakuda's time bubbles only last around 900 years and not Grey Boy's thousands, 4 days worth of altered time is just about a microsecond or two. And this is 3 day old technology that was already busy sending the scanning information on the time-bomb, as well as collapsing into nothingness along with the Clone. I'm doubtful there's much to be had in that timeframe, much less be sent along with the much more valuable data on the bomb. And then there's the issue that tinker-tech, in particular the really crazy stuff, is mostly a vehicle and limitation for a shard to use the actual technology from a seperate, shielded dimension. Some of it might make use of conventional principals, but I doubt time grenades have any of the actually interesting bits present inside them. And Joe definitely doesn't have the scanners to punch through Shard masking just yet (he might not be able to even with techno-pathy). I'd say at best he gets a clear view of what Bakuda's Time bombs look like in order to better prioritize them in the field, and maybe gets some scraps of design boosted by his own Shard's outrageous cheating.
They did make a post stating the delay and that this week Wednesday (probably tonight for me, in 12 hrs or so) would be the update. Of course, they also don't seem to have posted since.
"Shit, shit, okay, what do I need? Money... bug out bag... Theo? ...Fuck no. Twins? ...Definitely."
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- Him/Dude/That/Guy
To be that guy, the time bubble in Batchelder Square will collapse in October 2864 according to one of the duplicates to Aisha from chapter 32. It is currently April 2011, so not even 900 years! Bakuda is slacking.
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Cybertronium can interat with dimensions, so this might help with REing Tinkertech/fold-carbon.
To further be that guy...on myself...1-2 microseconds is in hindsight complete BS, because there's no numbers on how much time passes in the bubble exactly. Nor is it known if time in the bubble is constant, or if it shifts depending on how much juice the bubble has left, perhaps speeding up the closer the bubble is to ending. About the only thing that could be said is that it probably isn't just stopped until the bubble is over given how I (think?) it was mentioned the cloned-mechs data would continue to be transferred it'd just take a few weeks.
I didn't bother to edit the first post because none of this affects the other issues with scanning the inside of a time-bubble, and on top of that this conflict would have to stretch for weeks or until March pops the bubble (how exactly? It's an energy field. She could destroy any time-stopped object inside she could touch...but she can't get in to touch them). And Bakuda isn't likely to survive the night, much less figure out how to safely undo some of her least understood work that is also under constant public/hero surveillance.
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Well Lord rarely post here (he is more active on AO3).
1) He don't need to reverse engineer fold-carbon, he already have the plans for it.
2) As for RE Tinkertech, he had access to other dimensions way before cybertronium : call beads are pretty much a hole in reality that goes into shardspace.
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1) He doesn't have Fold Carbon plans, the fusion tech he showed off was from Fallout. Even if he did, he'd have no way of getting Fold Carbon, which is a necessary part of the design.
2) Call Beads can't be used that way and you know it. The rift he made to shardspace was unstable and fleeting.
- Location
- Florida
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- He
If he wants to impress Dragon he should show her An Las-Gun powerpack
the thing runs on magic and prayers
A solar-charged lasergun is a big deal
a Battery as good as a powerpack and as reliable is almost unheard
Edit: depending on the writer a full-powered las pack can melt the front of a chaos dreadnought
the thing runs on magic and prayers
A solar-charged lasergun is a big deal
a Battery as good as a powerpack and as reliable is almost unheard
Edit: depending on the writer a full-powered las pack can melt the front of a chaos dreadnought
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While Call-beads don't work like that, he definitely does have Fold-Carbon, and he can make it too. He just can't cheese with it due to the higher-dimensional complexity, and thus no auto-replication for now. The fusion tech he showed Dragon was one of many, the Fold-Carbon reactor is simply one of the few pieces of tech he hasn't mastered or cheesed, nor is it really time effective to invest in when his personal kit is what it is and he has the Call-ball.
Cybertronian dimensional malarkey might open up new ways to use Fold-Carbon, but Joe does already possess a basic understanding and ability to create F-C, and only needs time to advance that to mastery, and perks to make it not finicky.
Lim3_01
Anaheim
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Screw that show dragon the Hellgun backpack!
- Location
- Up on a Hill
Eh, I doubt it. It'll barely exist long enough to be technically considered "out of the bubble" anyways.
Apeirnyan / An Absowute Catdown (The Shallow)
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While we're waiting, thought I would do an omake based on some jokes on the discord.
I'm not sorry.
Apeirnyan / An Absowute Catdown.
I punched Lung away, only to feel the Celestial Forge move to the Toolkits constellation.
I gained a machine that would allow me to upgrade armor of clothing to shapeshift with the wearer. Huh.
I also gained an upgrade to my knowledge of Tai Chi Chuan, and could shift my body into that of a... humanoid cat...
Being a cat would allow me to apply my Tai Chi Chuan much more effectively though...
I pushed tetra to her limits, and shifted, tearing my coat and helmet. I felt my boots biting into my lower paws. I could handle the pain.
Lung ran at me, slowly increasing his size.
My vocal cords rearranged, meaning to a degree my talking was closer to singing, which meant it was affected by my Serene Sinatra, and so a sweet feline voice exited my lips "I mean, if you'we that hungwy fow mowe, i'm wiwwing to finish you off, nyah."
Lung hesitated in his punch, and I grabbed his large wrist, and jumped forward, using a combination of my feline flexibility and Crazy Contortionist to propel my legs forward to kick his shoulders. As he stumbled back I used my legs to propel myself over him, still grabbing his hand, thus flipping him. I slammed my balled-up paws hard into the back of his shoulders, hitting two nerve-clusters with enough intensity to knock him out.
I looked to Oni Lee, who was wearing a similar vest, but with all sorts of tinkertech bombs.
I quickly placed lung within my personal dimension, not willing to let Oni Lee retrieve the dragon of Kyushu.
My motoroid fell behind me and engaged the shields, just in time before 50 different bombs came from 50 different Oni Lee's.
Damn. He was really pushing himself.
At least half of those were reverse-engineering bombs, the others being various crystalline and melting exotic effects.
Fleet dropped the shields and took off, Survey using the knowledge from sensor arrays to tell me where Oni Lee was at all times.
I used my claws to climb up to the motoroid and used my Omnitool to fabricate some tools. I quickly upgraded the laser, making it weaker (not that was a necessary trade-off, I just didn't want to fry Oni Lee to death), but much much more precise, and much quicker.
Brilliant Red gossamer threads of heat painted the afternoon sky as they flew towards the teleporter, thicker ones occasionally flying out and hitting any duplicates he left behind to death, not letting them live a moment longer.
Oni Lee began running more savagely, in fear of his life. Barely dodging the surgical blasts that tore into his flesh. He was duplicating like crazy, making flesh-walls that were quickly eradicated.
He suddenly fell, still.
I assumed I had knocked him out, and ran over to the scene, only for him to stand up, 5 clones suddenly bum-rushing me.
I dodged and jumped to the top of the building. They were weirdly avoiding their bombs, but after a second I realized what was happening. They weren't disappearing. I had gotten Oni Lee WAY too close to his original trigger event apparently, and his power had upgraded seriously.
"sowwy dawwings, but i don't think you can handwe me, even if i spwit it among you aww, nyah."
They all froze, and my motoroid flew in behind them and lasered them away.
I jumped up, hitching a ride to the motoroid as it flew down the street.
"Owo no!" I didn't know what sounds I was making or why, while my vocal cords had changed to be more feline, there was a level of intentionality to my word-choice that just felt right to this body.
Did that count as a quarter for the jar?
I dodged a torrent of exotic grenades and looked down at the matter of my concern. The army of Raging Oni Lees.
"Damn lee, you weawwy want me to finish you, don't you? i'm wiwwing to obwige, nyah."
I fabricated a massive transmutation array and created a dome around all the clones. Surgical lasers pierced the asphalt and killed all clones but one. I then activated the transmutation array again, collapsing most of the asphalt back onto the road, except for the asphalt box that now surrounded the top of the teleporter's head like a glove. It was formed in such a way that it could not be removed without alchemy.
I kicked Lee in a specific cluster near the crotch, and he fell unconscious.
I felt the theatrics of the moment, something this form of mine seemed to revel in, so I engaged the speakers of my Motoroid. "You guys need to weawn you can't compete with me. I'm apeiwnyan! i am the boundwess! even with two tinkews you guys can't get anywhewe neaw my wevew! i'm sick of sick fucks wike you thinking you can wun this city..." I glanced up to a helicopter that was monitoring the fight, I increased the volume of the speakers, added some reverb and grinned as I yelled valiantly "SIC SEMPEW TYWANNIS!"
And with that declaration of war upon the gangs of the city in the most harmless voice, I stored Oni Lee and flew away.
I flew over to the first duplicate, who had hacked his way into the deadman's switch, and had tracked down Bakuda and March. Their armor was more effective, being more than super-plated vests, but with my duplicate doing drive-by cuts into their clothing, slowly paving a way, I would manage to laser them out in a second.
March scoffed as she dodged a slice and nicked the duplicate with her saber. "I'd hate to have to destroy two of your machines, but it's worth it."
We both knew what was coming. I flew up as quick as I could as the omnidimensinal attack blew away his side and he popped away, sending all his data on the deadmans switch to me right before it was all erased with him.
March froze, then slowly looked up to me. I opened the hatch and hopped out.
"I agwee, that was absowutwey wowth it!" and with that I sent a torrent of stone at her face, and she collapsed. Bakuda, who stood gobsmacked now, had a laser redirected through her cornea, used as a reflector to slice away her corona polenta and gamma.
I stored the two villainesses within my subdimension along with their other teammates.
I sighed "Aww in a days work!"
I then flew over to the second duplicate, recording as much data that had survived about various fronts, and met up with the second. I then looked to Chen.
"Owo no!"
I'm not sorry.
Apeirnyan / An Absowute Catdown.
I punched Lung away, only to feel the Celestial Forge move to the Toolkits constellation.
I gained a machine that would allow me to upgrade armor of clothing to shapeshift with the wearer. Huh.
I also gained an upgrade to my knowledge of Tai Chi Chuan, and could shift my body into that of a... humanoid cat...
Being a cat would allow me to apply my Tai Chi Chuan much more effectively though...
I pushed tetra to her limits, and shifted, tearing my coat and helmet. I felt my boots biting into my lower paws. I could handle the pain.
Lung ran at me, slowly increasing his size.
My vocal cords rearranged, meaning to a degree my talking was closer to singing, which meant it was affected by my Serene Sinatra, and so a sweet feline voice exited my lips "I mean, if you'we that hungwy fow mowe, i'm wiwwing to finish you off, nyah."
Lung hesitated in his punch, and I grabbed his large wrist, and jumped forward, using a combination of my feline flexibility and Crazy Contortionist to propel my legs forward to kick his shoulders. As he stumbled back I used my legs to propel myself over him, still grabbing his hand, thus flipping him. I slammed my balled-up paws hard into the back of his shoulders, hitting two nerve-clusters with enough intensity to knock him out.
I looked to Oni Lee, who was wearing a similar vest, but with all sorts of tinkertech bombs.
I quickly placed lung within my personal dimension, not willing to let Oni Lee retrieve the dragon of Kyushu.
My motoroid fell behind me and engaged the shields, just in time before 50 different bombs came from 50 different Oni Lee's.
Damn. He was really pushing himself.
At least half of those were reverse-engineering bombs, the others being various crystalline and melting exotic effects.
Fleet dropped the shields and took off, Survey using the knowledge from sensor arrays to tell me where Oni Lee was at all times.
I used my claws to climb up to the motoroid and used my Omnitool to fabricate some tools. I quickly upgraded the laser, making it weaker (not that was a necessary trade-off, I just didn't want to fry Oni Lee to death), but much much more precise, and much quicker.
Brilliant Red gossamer threads of heat painted the afternoon sky as they flew towards the teleporter, thicker ones occasionally flying out and hitting any duplicates he left behind to death, not letting them live a moment longer.
Oni Lee began running more savagely, in fear of his life. Barely dodging the surgical blasts that tore into his flesh. He was duplicating like crazy, making flesh-walls that were quickly eradicated.
He suddenly fell, still.
I assumed I had knocked him out, and ran over to the scene, only for him to stand up, 5 clones suddenly bum-rushing me.
I dodged and jumped to the top of the building. They were weirdly avoiding their bombs, but after a second I realized what was happening. They weren't disappearing. I had gotten Oni Lee WAY too close to his original trigger event apparently, and his power had upgraded seriously.
"sowwy dawwings, but i don't think you can handwe me, even if i spwit it among you aww, nyah."
They all froze, and my motoroid flew in behind them and lasered them away.
I jumped up, hitching a ride to the motoroid as it flew down the street.
"Owo no!" I didn't know what sounds I was making or why, while my vocal cords had changed to be more feline, there was a level of intentionality to my word-choice that just felt right to this body.
Did that count as a quarter for the jar?
I dodged a torrent of exotic grenades and looked down at the matter of my concern. The army of Raging Oni Lees.
"Damn lee, you weawwy want me to finish you, don't you? i'm wiwwing to obwige, nyah."
I fabricated a massive transmutation array and created a dome around all the clones. Surgical lasers pierced the asphalt and killed all clones but one. I then activated the transmutation array again, collapsing most of the asphalt back onto the road, except for the asphalt box that now surrounded the top of the teleporter's head like a glove. It was formed in such a way that it could not be removed without alchemy.
I kicked Lee in a specific cluster near the crotch, and he fell unconscious.
I felt the theatrics of the moment, something this form of mine seemed to revel in, so I engaged the speakers of my Motoroid. "You guys need to weawn you can't compete with me. I'm apeiwnyan! i am the boundwess! even with two tinkews you guys can't get anywhewe neaw my wevew! i'm sick of sick fucks wike you thinking you can wun this city..." I glanced up to a helicopter that was monitoring the fight, I increased the volume of the speakers, added some reverb and grinned as I yelled valiantly "SIC SEMPEW TYWANNIS!"
And with that declaration of war upon the gangs of the city in the most harmless voice, I stored Oni Lee and flew away.
I flew over to the first duplicate, who had hacked his way into the deadman's switch, and had tracked down Bakuda and March. Their armor was more effective, being more than super-plated vests, but with my duplicate doing drive-by cuts into their clothing, slowly paving a way, I would manage to laser them out in a second.
March scoffed as she dodged a slice and nicked the duplicate with her saber. "I'd hate to have to destroy two of your machines, but it's worth it."
We both knew what was coming. I flew up as quick as I could as the omnidimensinal attack blew away his side and he popped away, sending all his data on the deadmans switch to me right before it was all erased with him.
March froze, then slowly looked up to me. I opened the hatch and hopped out.
"I agwee, that was absowutwey wowth it!" and with that I sent a torrent of stone at her face, and she collapsed. Bakuda, who stood gobsmacked now, had a laser redirected through her cornea, used as a reflector to slice away her corona polenta and gamma.
I stored the two villainesses within my subdimension along with their other teammates.
I sighed "Aww in a days work!"
I then flew over to the second duplicate, recording as much data that had survived about various fronts, and met up with the second. I then looked to Chen.
"Owo no!"
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That was amazing and I love it.... even if I didn't understand some of what was said at first glance.
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LordR just showed up in the Discord, made a few statements and all heck has broken loose over there:
So, quick update on the chapter. It WILL be coming this week at around the usual time. Currently the main portion of the chapter is just over 36,000 words. I am still finishing the preamble, so I won't have the final word count until then. The Addendum got away from me, so has been moved to its own interlude chapter that will come next week, though it will not be a point granting interlude like with Dragon. In terms of rolls, spoilered for those who want to be surprised, there were 200 points left at the end of the chapter. No 600 point perks were rolled, but one that people have been waiting for has finally come up. No, not Miniaturization/Efficiency. That continues to elude me.
Largely a joke, but suggested playlist for this chapter (Spoilers without context)
So, quick update on the chapter. It WILL be coming this week at around the usual time. Currently the main portion of the chapter is just over 36,000 words. I am still finishing the preamble, so I won't have the final word count until then. The Addendum got away from me, so has been moved to its own interlude chapter that will come next week, though it will not be a point granting interlude like with Dragon. In terms of rolls, spoilered for those who want to be surprised, there were 200 points left at the end of the chapter. No 600 point perks were rolled, but one that people have been waiting for has finally come up. No, not Miniaturization/Efficiency. That continues to elude me.
Largely a joke, but suggested playlist for this chapter (Spoilers without context)
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IT IS VERY LIKELY TITANS BLOOD WAS ROLLED!!!!!!
THOSE LAST TWO MAKE IT OBVIOUS!
THIS WILL BE GLORIOUS!
PRAISE THE LORD AND PRAISE THE SMITH BOUNDLESS!
Also kill la kill, Life Fiber Weaponry with Waste Not?
NUmber One I'm not sure about, but!
An interlude means most of the conflict will wrap up this chapter!!!!
THOSE LAST TWO MAKE IT OBVIOUS!
THIS WILL BE GLORIOUS!
PRAISE THE LORD AND PRAISE THE SMITH BOUNDLESS!
Also kill la kill, Life Fiber Weaponry with Waste Not?
NUmber One I'm not sure about, but!
An interlude means most of the conflict will wrap up this chapter!!!!
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Dragna
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If titan's blood isn't fused with his demigod blood for extra bullshit I will be incredible dissapointed.
- Location
- London - "Muffin wants to project a trans fantasy"
What will Titan's blood grant Joe anyway?
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- Him/Dude/That/Guy
Never a bad time to post a link to the
Brockton's Celestial Forge Reference
where all your perk questions can be answered. What perks are remaining? What free perks come with that? How much does that cost? What perks does he have? Where is a link to the relevant jumpchain document? It's all there.
To answer the question, from the God of War jumpchain and Joe does *not* yet have the related Deadalus' student perk.
Titan's Blood (500CP) What a curious thing you are, to have become such a thing. One of your ancestors was a Titan, a primordial being of great power and ability that was responsible with shaping the world as it is. You are not full-blooded, but the effects have been prevalent on you nonetheless; your size may be increased up to fifteen meters in height, with your strength as such that you could throw pieces of buildings one-handed at your enemies. You may also choose one Titan you are a descendent from, gaining aesthetic appearance changes similar to them. But more importantly, you may relax yourself and 'commune' with the world and nature around you; by opening your mind to the world you can learn about it and its secrets quite quickly, along with finding what is the largest threat to the balance of nature. You are of the planet, child. It is your birthright to know these things.
Titan's Blood also grants access to the following boost for Deadalus' student: Your crafting has undergone a dramatic improvement, to the point where you can make incredible works with the strength of an army within them. You have also gleamed into a new type of crafting, and you can forge energy constructs such as Zeus' Lightning to be used in your wishes.
Possible free perks:
-Epic Poem (Free): The Greeks very much enjoy their tales and stories, traveler. They were infatuated by stories, and things that could be done to improve them. You have been blessed with such a boon, and now have access to the entirety of the God of War series' soundtrack to play for you in the background! You may turn this on or off at your leisure.
-Scowl of Sparta (Free): There are times where you are angry, or disappointed. Like, INCREDIBLY angry or disappointed. However, in these times your face may be expressing maximum dissatisfaction but you must scowl HARDER. That's why you can have this, on me. When your face does not match the depth of the emotion you are showing, people can get a really good idea of how far you really feel just by looking at you. As a bonus, this will work for you regardless of what form you may be taking at the moment. DISAPPOINTED.
-Attire (Free): When in Rome! ...wait, wrong place. Ah well, the phrase still holds. You'll be able to have a set of Greek or Spartan outfits so that you can blend in more efficiently. It doesn't have any extraordinary properties, but it does at least help you look the part. Assuming you're human in appearance... but hey! If you're a monster, you're going to be the most trendy monster out there!
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