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Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
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Look at the 4th Chanel it has all the links, the one you are looking for is perk text v1
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@LordRoustabout have you seen the new version of the celestial forge?
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Yes, they have. They like it, but they want to wait till it's been fully revised and trimmed, and then it would take a second-trigger like event for Joe to get the updated Forge.
I like the idea that Aura will just be something else that Joe has and forgets about. Someone was worried about the life fibers developing Aura. Actually, I sort of see it figuring Aura out much sooner than Joe.
Joe will be using Aura accidentally or in the background of things. He is actively training with the life fibers. Let's step back and look at things though. He couldn't make use of the life fibers right off until he figured out a method. Garment Gloves was the key there. Now, he has a system that makes life fibers seem rather safe so far...
Aura is a nice general background booster. Early Joe would have noticed much more than current Joe. Joe won't be training it unless he builds something like a danger room with sensors to detect/train his odder skills. More of a bring forth skills/abilities that he is neglecting sort of thing.
Someone made the comment that with Aura that Joe can't really be safe in the gym anymore. Snorts. Joe can't be safe in the gym after his life fiber training. He'd need one serious stranger effect if he wants to go back there. Joe doesn't need the Gym to train. Joe needs the Gym for Socialization. His therapist even noted that he was doing much better and thought a good part of it might have had to do with his interactions with others at the Gym.
The Undersiders are an exploitive relationship with him. He merely wanted to protect Taylor. At the moment, he would really like to forget about her. Not likely, but you know his general levels of avoidance.
Joe doesn't need to show up at the local PRT. After things calm down somewhat, he can just take a brief trip to New York and power test there if he wanted to. While there, he could quietly have a chat with Legend on Taylor's importance to his thinker power. Legend is about the only one that I could see him telling it all to. Well, that or his therapist.
So when do you think that he will get around to checking his PHO account? He has been rather busy. It's like they can't understand that he needs to tinker/train and all that. Everyone expects him to spend his time on PHO. I can see him reading and replying to each and every comment in his inbox and mainly avoiding what the threads are saying about him. PHO and/or his family are the last groups that he wants to interact with.
I can't wait until Joe actually invites anyone for a tour of his workshop and having totally forgotten about or just ignoring the wall art. Now, who would be the best person reactions wise to give that tour to?
Joe will be using Aura accidentally or in the background of things. He is actively training with the life fibers. Let's step back and look at things though. He couldn't make use of the life fibers right off until he figured out a method. Garment Gloves was the key there. Now, he has a system that makes life fibers seem rather safe so far...
Aura is a nice general background booster. Early Joe would have noticed much more than current Joe. Joe won't be training it unless he builds something like a danger room with sensors to detect/train his odder skills. More of a bring forth skills/abilities that he is neglecting sort of thing.
Someone made the comment that with Aura that Joe can't really be safe in the gym anymore. Snorts. Joe can't be safe in the gym after his life fiber training. He'd need one serious stranger effect if he wants to go back there. Joe doesn't need the Gym to train. Joe needs the Gym for Socialization. His therapist even noted that he was doing much better and thought a good part of it might have had to do with his interactions with others at the Gym.
The Undersiders are an exploitive relationship with him. He merely wanted to protect Taylor. At the moment, he would really like to forget about her. Not likely, but you know his general levels of avoidance.
Joe doesn't need to show up at the local PRT. After things calm down somewhat, he can just take a brief trip to New York and power test there if he wanted to. While there, he could quietly have a chat with Legend on Taylor's importance to his thinker power. Legend is about the only one that I could see him telling it all to. Well, that or his therapist.
So when do you think that he will get around to checking his PHO account? He has been rather busy. It's like they can't understand that he needs to tinker/train and all that. Everyone expects him to spend his time on PHO. I can see him reading and replying to each and every comment in his inbox and mainly avoiding what the threads are saying about him. PHO and/or his family are the last groups that he wants to interact with.
I can't wait until Joe actually invites anyone for a tour of his workshop and having totally forgotten about or just ignoring the wall art. Now, who would be the best person reactions wise to give that tour to?
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thanks!
I've been enjoying the idea so this should help me set it up.
Technically you would need at least Clockblocker timelock levels in spacetime hax to pop the Siberian, she'll come back of course but you could pop her
These are the abilities Joe currently has
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
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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Can I just say thank you for someone finally spelling the god damn name of the basis of all Transformers technology correctly for once in this god damn thread!
@LordRoustabout Cybertronium is named after Cybertron, for the love of God please stop dropping the second R from the word. It's incredibly jarring to read every time it happens. It's worse than running across weird british spellings or random japanese inserted into a story for now reason.
Other than that really loving the story.
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Lol, I'm dyslexic so every time I try to type a word like that I google it. I didn't even notice other people getting it wrong.
IIRC he has a Bakuda time bomb, which was in turn 'inspired' by Clockblocker. Sufficient AVE IMPERATORs later and that might do the trick even without additional perks.
of course, additional perks never hurt anybody
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Soon, most likely. He did promise it to Tattletale.
Weld Spicy (Knaka)
Ah, Weld got some of his senses back, and now you guys get a new omake. This was inspired by a comment from the author on Ao3
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Weld Spicy
Battery stared at Clockblocker as he lay in the hospital bed. They were currently in the private section of the PRT hospital. All of the male wards other than Weld had to be hospitalized earlier this evening, and Battery had to clear things up with Clockblocker about the incident. While she knew what happened in general, she needed specifics.
Clockblocker looked like he was in minor pain. He was currently in a hospital gown with a generic mask on. Battery could see Clockblocker wince as she approached.
"Alright, so what happened?" asked Battery.
Clockblocker sighed as he collected himself. "It started when Weld told us that he had a new deal with some Thai restaurant downtown and invited us to come with him to the grand reopening. Vista is still avoiding Weld, so she didn't want to go. Shadow Stalker said she was stuck with us too often as is, and Flechette wanted to rest, so it was just us guys."
Battery motioned for Clockblocker to continue and he did so. "So it turns out that Weld was there to promote the new 'Weld Spicy' challenge, where if you can eat a small bowl of soup and last ten minutes without drinking anything, the restaurant gives you a fifty dollar voucher. They said it was so spicy that only Weld could handle it, and to promote it, Weld ate three bowls during the presentation. We figured that if he could handle three bowls, we could handle one."
Battery stared flatly at Clockblocker. "You do realize that Weld is made out of metal?"
Clockblocker looked sheepish as he replied. "Yeah, but we heard that he could taste things now, so we figured it wouldn't be that bad. Completely forgot about the part with his diminished senses."
Battery continued "Didn't Weld himself warn you against trying?"
Clockblocker nodded "Yeah, but we insisted. All of us decided to try the challenge at once. We were seated on the same table and they brought out a bowl of soup and a glass of milk for each of us." Clockblocker looked sheepish as he continued. "We even joked that whoever drank the milk would get mercilessly mocked later."
"And how did that work out for you?" asked Battery.
"We each lasted one spoonful. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if we didn't all eat it at the same time." replied Clockblocker.
Battery just sighed. "Did you have to freeze the others?"
"Hey, they were drinking so much milk, I needed it." replied Clockblocker. "Besides, it was just meant to stop them until the servers brought more milk."
"Which you then drank" said Battery as Clockblocker nodded. "Along with the next serving and the gallon container Weld had to buy."
"The soup was a lot more spicy than I thought it would be." Clockblocker said weakly. "Besides I kept them frozen until the PRT arrived."
Battery just continued to stare at Clockblocker.
After a few moments, Clockblocker sighed. "Anyway, we really should have that restaurant stop that challenge, or at least have the waiters wear goggles and a respirator so people know what they're getting into, it's way too dangerous."
Battery laughed as she turned around and headed to the door. "First, it's not the PRT or Protectorate's job to do that. Second, Vista, Shadow Stalker and Flechette decided to try the challenge after hearing what happened to you. They all beat it."
As Battery left, she could hear Clockblocker's excited shouts.
"What!, Wait, What!"
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Weld Spicy
Battery stared at Clockblocker as he lay in the hospital bed. They were currently in the private section of the PRT hospital. All of the male wards other than Weld had to be hospitalized earlier this evening, and Battery had to clear things up with Clockblocker about the incident. While she knew what happened in general, she needed specifics.
Clockblocker looked like he was in minor pain. He was currently in a hospital gown with a generic mask on. Battery could see Clockblocker wince as she approached.
"Alright, so what happened?" asked Battery.
Clockblocker sighed as he collected himself. "It started when Weld told us that he had a new deal with some Thai restaurant downtown and invited us to come with him to the grand reopening. Vista is still avoiding Weld, so she didn't want to go. Shadow Stalker said she was stuck with us too often as is, and Flechette wanted to rest, so it was just us guys."
Battery motioned for Clockblocker to continue and he did so. "So it turns out that Weld was there to promote the new 'Weld Spicy' challenge, where if you can eat a small bowl of soup and last ten minutes without drinking anything, the restaurant gives you a fifty dollar voucher. They said it was so spicy that only Weld could handle it, and to promote it, Weld ate three bowls during the presentation. We figured that if he could handle three bowls, we could handle one."
Battery stared flatly at Clockblocker. "You do realize that Weld is made out of metal?"
Clockblocker looked sheepish as he replied. "Yeah, but we heard that he could taste things now, so we figured it wouldn't be that bad. Completely forgot about the part with his diminished senses."
Battery continued "Didn't Weld himself warn you against trying?"
Clockblocker nodded "Yeah, but we insisted. All of us decided to try the challenge at once. We were seated on the same table and they brought out a bowl of soup and a glass of milk for each of us." Clockblocker looked sheepish as he continued. "We even joked that whoever drank the milk would get mercilessly mocked later."
"And how did that work out for you?" asked Battery.
"We each lasted one spoonful. It probably wouldn't have been so bad if we didn't all eat it at the same time." replied Clockblocker.
Battery just sighed. "Did you have to freeze the others?"
"Hey, they were drinking so much milk, I needed it." replied Clockblocker. "Besides, it was just meant to stop them until the servers brought more milk."
"Which you then drank" said Battery as Clockblocker nodded. "Along with the next serving and the gallon container Weld had to buy."
"The soup was a lot more spicy than I thought it would be." Clockblocker said weakly. "Besides I kept them frozen until the PRT arrived."
Battery just continued to stare at Clockblocker.
After a few moments, Clockblocker sighed. "Anyway, we really should have that restaurant stop that challenge, or at least have the waiters wear goggles and a respirator so people know what they're getting into, it's way too dangerous."
Battery laughed as she turned around and headed to the door. "First, it's not the PRT or Protectorate's job to do that. Second, Vista, Shadow Stalker and Flechette decided to try the challenge after hearing what happened to you. They all beat it."
As Battery left, she could hear Clockblocker's excited shouts.
"What!, Wait, What!"
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Actually, while maybe inspired by Clock-blocker, a bakuda time bombs are merely extreme time dial action, compared to Clocks time stop, as we can see with the unfortunate case of Big Boy Daunty in Post-Worm literature.
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Well, they never hurt anybody until Joe successfully rolls The Truth and permanently loses his arm.
I'm kinda hoping it just abruptly falls off or explodes or something. It'd be a lot funnier than just blinking out of existence. Or angstier. Or both. My tastes are varied.
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I'm pretty sure all of the perk are being treated like its at the end of a jump and if I remember correctly I might be wrong but you regain your arm after you finish the jump so Joe might not loose arm.
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Should be "A hands-free straw", otherwise it's something quite different.
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He can easily regen his arm with nanites healing or alchemy healing.
Even if it's something gone at the soul level MC can just pay back that cost to regain it with his hax perks like how the main characters of FMA were able to regain a entire body sacrificed to truth.
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I think I saw this on AO3, so while I can't say I've checked the arm loss perk myself, I can say I'm pretty sure said arm loss is fiat backed. He loses his arm for the same reason hybridization works or his nanites can heal far beyond his knowledge or ability to program: "because." Thus it is an inconvenience on par with workaholic, in that it could easily be solved if only he could turn the perk off.
Of course, I think the author also noted in that post on AO3 that Joe could just build a new, better robot prosthetic easily. Which is fine by me anyways. I'm just hoping for something like, maybe, he loses his arm in front of somebody. And then that person is like, "what the fuck is this guy doing to his body..." Stuff like that, you know?
Maybe. But the willingness of the author to acknowledge the downsides of being constantly subject to the effects of these perks is one of the reasons I like this story. Why stop at the fun subtle downsides, like Joe's gradual alienation from normal life, when there's a fun obvious downside to play with, like losing an arm in the middle of an important fight due to a random roll or something else hilarious like that?
Of course, a lot of this is only my opinion. Feel free to disagree. Given the current chapter track record I imagine I'll be entertained whatever the approach the author ends up using.
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You loose your arm because fiat once. It does not repeatedly get rid of your new arm as such you can regen it.
In addition as the same comment you are referring to in AO3 noted all of mcs perks are considered post jump as such the arm part of the perk would disable anyway as can be noted in the jumpdocs notes.
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What truth is often debated, is it really god? that been disproven, is it a negative version or "conscience" of the gate user? Maybe, can it stop trades? no, it has no authority over what you do with your gate.
In fact it is only known to appear when human transmutation happens and as mc never did human transmutation Truth might not be kicking around by his gate anyway.
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Man, with just Aura and Kill La Kill tech any character could become an absurd monster. Hell, digging deep enough with either would make you Endbringer tier.
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Now with aura the only person in the bay that could hurt him is bakuda with super bombs and Flechette
Tattletale power will probably be screaming to her to not mess with joe now
Tattletale power will probably be screaming to her to not mess with joe now
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I haven't decided what will happen when Scion dies. Since this is jumpchain based 'something' will happen after either ten years of the death of Scion. Both of those situations is fairly distant at the moment, but that would be the point where the true nature of Joe's passenger gets revealed along with what the exact mechanics of the chain actually are.
Strong Spark is in the Celestial Forge list I'm using so there's as good a chance that it could be rolled as any other 600 point perk. Last chapter the rolls made it to 500 points, so we're probably going to be seeing a 600 point perk soon, whatever it might be.
Counting on a spark nature to deal with your personal issues is an interesting concept. Spark mentality doesn't so much fix your mental problems as replace them with new exciting mental problems that are probably also on fire.
I have no idea when FTL will become relevant in this story, but remember his technical level is higher than base Mass Effect and he has unlimited element zero. There as real chance he will be able to build his own relays. Even without getting into that he also has Transformers and Star Trek FTL. Just combining mass reduction with a warp field could have incredible results in terms of maximum speed and efficiency.
Joe already has perks for both applications. Deranged Alchemist can create life in classic alchemy fashion and Grease Monkey has access to all of Bubblegum Crisis's bio and chemical weapon tech. Joe has been making a effort not to pursue either option, though that was before he had both a perfectly optimized alchemy lab and a workshop addition built for all the cyberpunk bioware a person could want.
My ruling is that souls are a thing in Worm, but for most people there isn't an accessible afterlife. Once a normal person dies their soul is gone beyond reach. When a cape dies their soul is stored in their shard (what Butcher and The Fairy Queen access). Given what shardspace is like it's debatable if that counts as a good thing.
I'm using a reduced version of the original forge. Since it's years out of date some of the names of perks have changed. Additionally I add in any free perks from the jumps that are necessary for the perks to work, as well as some that seem harmless or amusing. That had added a bunch of new abilities that aren't listed in the Celestial Forge.
Joe's semblance is something I'm going to have to give a lot of thought to. Semblances are reflections of a person's personality. Not what they do, but who they are. It would be easy to go with something crafting or technology related, but that's not really reflective of Joe's personality. It will take a bit of time to figure out, both in story and for me as an author.
Considering even stealth and infiltration specialized Transformers made the noise I don't think it's something that can be removed. Diminished maybe, but it's always there.
There is a specific item (skill book) for size reduction in the RWBY jumpdoc that clarified the limits of size reduction technology:
Bigger on the Inside, 100CP, Drop-In Discount:
A book teaching miniaturization techniques. Starts with Bazookas into bottles, leads into Cars into cupholders. They still weigh the same, unfortunately. A master of this knows how to miniaturize around living things! It's very uncomfortable for them, so they won't stay like that.
This isn't Joe's current skill level, but represents the limit of what he can achieve with this kind of technology.
Awakening another person's aura is something that will take a lot or research to even realise is an option, much less the technique to do so. Massively powerful if he can manage it, but something of an uphill battle.
There was like a 98% chance he would be able to get human-Weld oxygen and to the surface in the event he real-boyed him there and then. Yes it would have been hilarious, but Joe had kind of lost context for what was happening given the distractions he was under.
This was an angle I hadn't considered, since all this stuff was just a natural extension of the forge. You are right. The logical explanation points to either case 53/monstrous cape, tinkering with mutation side effects, or a body horror based trigger. None of those are particularly appealing prospects to have associated with a tinker of Apeiron's level.
Thanks for the compliment. There are a lot of aspects to this fic that different people seem to favor and I'm trying to keep them in balance. The interactions always seem to get a good response, to the point where I think people would enjoy it if I just started writing coffee shop AUs with the characters. I can at least assure there won't be as much isolationist tinkering in the future of the fic.
This is a really fun concept. If someone wants to create the twelve constellations of the Worm protagonist forge (including PRT Accusation and Humorous Misunderstanding) that would be just about the best thing ever.
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The world had already seen Teacher granting thinker and tinker powers and ending up birdcaged, Ingenue enhancing powers and ending up birdcaged, and the Pastor manually activating Corona Pollentias and ending up as Quarantine site 2. If something seems to be too good to be true for the PRT it probably is. The apprehension around Apeiron is pretty justified.
It is too early for RWBY. The only good part of this is Monty is still alive.
A lot of Japanese creators and animation immigrated to America following the sinking of Kyushu. Anime may have died, but western animation is seriously better than in Earth Bet than in our world.
I literally screamed inside my head when I read this. Giving that girl responsibility for managing social media of any kind is a recipe for disaster, bordering on doomsday gumbo.
I really enjoyed this. With the focus on the main character people forget that 1. It has been a very short time since this mess started and 2. Just trying to follow PRT procedure during that timeframe would take most of the effort you could muster. Crafting a perfect recruitment pitch would be possible in peacetime, but they have bigger problems at the moment.
I absolutely love this line.
You might want to look up the main goal of the Generator Rex Nanite Project, which Joe has the end result of. Ageing out isn't going to be a problem. Mental strain is another story. I don't know about the full dynamics of heat death, but running a hose from one of the faucets in his workshop could produce infinite hydrogen, even beyond his own lifespan.
The computer is worst than that. It is diamond, highly pure with atomic scale imperfections aligned to function as processors. That throne is probably enough to out-compete De Beers indefinitely and would probably piss off Watchdog to no end.
Okay, there seems to be some difference between Cybertronium and Cybertonium. I will admit to being a casual fan and having to rely on wikis, but that's also the spelling used in the jumpdoc, so I'm inclined to stick with in. I will say Cybertronium sounds a lot better than Cybertonium and would be easier to write, spell, and say. Unfortunately, that's not what the sources I've pulled are using. I'm going to stick with the more awkard spelling, at least until the jumpdoc is revised to correct it.
Thanks for the omake, threadmarked!
Thank you, corrected.