Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
- Thread starter LordRoustabout
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Weekly on Wednesdays unless stated otherwise.
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Most likely, if not we will get notified in a few hours.
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Any idea what time zone he's in/ time he updates? I always see them like at midnight
Four to six hours from when you posted your reply.
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- Canada
Yup, that's around midnight to 11-1am for me
Zakara
Semi-Found Cat
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- Chaldea, Bleached Airspace
Same here. Anyways, tonight's the night. If Lord needs more time, he gives us at least 12 hours of notice that there's a delay.
That's different than churning out what apparently might be seen as a machine army. Machine armies have connotations that FTL-level vehicles do not have.
I mean, would you want to be the guy who can theoretically transport people to other planets or the guy who can dominate the world with robots?
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It's torture! It'll be out, but depending on the time I may have to wait until after work
Not if anyone is thinking more than 30 seconds. There is nothing that seperates most FTL drives and a planet cracking weapon. Being able to act as high end robospree is cool and all, but it's not going to level a city if someone forgets the earth is a backstop and shoots under the horizon line.
But I just thought it was funny because Joe was JUST called out in character to stop upgrading his gear and just run with what works rather than het caught in an endless cycle of upgrades.
yeah... sadly, no one is.
preconceptions and all that. Cars could kill you as much as guns can but we're still afraid of the latter than the former (cars could even act as small bombs). not everyone's acting on logic and I think its bad to generalize people based on that
it would probably destroy the plot and the story, me thinks... but yeah, it kind of feels frustrating reading all that crap and still being told that it wasn't enough. Then again, most of us came here for the technobabble and not the plot so... yeah, if you want rational actions tho, might as well read rational fics
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Oh my god I can't describe how utterly happy this makes me. I'm 100% going to reread that chapter with all this in mind, because I was so frustrated during the first reading that I could barely enjoy the amazing fight scenes. This has genuinely made my day and I thank you for sharing that with me. And yeah, I felt bad sharing my thoughts on the matter with so many more pages unread, but I felt like I had to share my thoughts as I had them to really convey my feelings on it.
Anyway time to go back dozens of pages and play catch up!
Is it wrong to hope that coil picks up squeeler, trainwreck and mush from the merchants and role them into working for him. Squeeler,chariot and trainwreck colaborating might have some incredible potential and coils mercenaries using squeelers vehicles that has the otger tinkers colaboration coordinated via coil could likely mess up a few out of town gangs. Not to mention givings squeelers vehicle the laser attachment to reverse engineer for point defense.
There's something to be said for one-shot-ing an arc villain on your way to her last remaining beefy ally that makes her defeat so much more satisfying.
Sure, she got her licks in, but the moment she thought she had won, she realized that Apeiron has even more depths of bullshit than she had expected and got wrecked as fast as you'd expect a fragile thinker to get wrecked by an enraged Apeiron.
In which case he should get massively more powerful. I don't remember the capes in canon Worm getting ridiculously stronger every time they were beaten, not like keeps happening here. Ah it's Ward stuff. Whatever the case I hope it stops showing up here because all it does is make any advancement feel meaningless (spend tens of thousands of words on hyping up new powers only for SUPERSHARD to go "Nope I'm a million times stronger now because reasons!").
Eh it's not important. I'm just glad I'm finally caught up and this arc is finally over. It could be a tenth as long without much being lost (again, the fact that from chapter 16 to now is more than half the entire Harry Potter series means there has got to be a way to lower the superfluous word count), but I'm just thrilled it's done. I desperately, fervently hope we never see March, Bakuda, or Oni Lee ever again in this story. Because in that spoiler it said:
The ABB as a group was done. It didn't necessarily say the individuals were done. And that kind of worries me. The moment I see them pop up I'm tempted to run from this story because I literally can't handle another almost million words of March/Bakuda/Oni nonsense.
Dawnk41
Comatose Grizzly
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- America
While I also hate how difficult it has been to deal a meaningful blow on March before this, I wouldn't necessarily hate seeing her pop up again... if only to see how her defeat has shredded her. She could even turn out to be a threat again, in her zombie-shard-puppet state, and as long as she isn't an inexplicable force multiplier for an entire gang again, it will at least feel fresh compared to her previous shenanigans.
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Sure - where to? And which Joe? Current joe? Joe from just before the ABB arc got properly up to steam? or... ?
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- Florida
How about Isekai'ing him into a generic (or grimdark) Magical Girl setting?
He already has all the markings of a Tuxedo Mask, just none of the bad parts. Also I want to see Joe get skeeved out as the magical girls flirt with him. It would be hilarious.
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Lord has already made a wog answering this. Shards will not pull up new moves or stronger ones to get apeirons data is just going to basically give them a speed boost like for example with lung growing faster, so for low level cape is not going to make any difference to Joe in fights based on his power level.
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- Up on a Hill
Shards never make their hosts more powerful, unless it's a baked in feature like with Dauntless. Not even in Ward. Shards encourage actions they want their host to take by adjusting the variables of their power, making things a bit more flexible or efficient for them. In the case of Lung his power is already "getting stronger" so he just got stronger faster. In the case of March, her boosts and the boosts of those she guided were simply icing on the cake to the far more potent power synergies she set up between the parahumans under her guidance.
I don't remember the exact word of god, but the "Boosts" other people get from Joe work something like this. Apologies if I'm unknowingly filling in the blanks in my memory with bullshit:
1. You are in direct conflict with Joe. Your power has become far more efficient and flexible than usual.
2. You are in indirect conflict with Joe. You get the boost you might get from being in direct conflict with a regular cape.
3. You are a direct ally of Joe. Whatever adjustment your shard is doing to your power is probably hard to distinguish from the help Joe is giving you, but your shard definitely likes what's going on.
Narsauce
The Crucible Shitlord
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Well, in regards to the spoiler, they aren't going to have even remotely the same threat level. For the story purposes, the ABB arc is done and we're moving on. Again, while the individuals might still pop up, they won't be even half a threatening. Though I will say that Oni Lee is most likely never going to be a thing in the story again. March may, in her now single-minded drive to eat Flechette and Bakuda has super cancer, so I don't know about her.
And even if they do pop up, it'll probably be for a short while at most. They aren't main antagonist material anymore.
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Hmm, perhaps we could clarify which Chapter Joe we're talking about depending on the verse. Not a lot of verses besides the big bois like comics or WH40k could handle Joe
So update still on for tonight?