Subrosian_Smithy
endless
- Location
- Washington
- Pronouns
- She/Her/Hers
I'm pretty sure that if Josef "romance was a mistake" Duris doesn't see that Flechette is undressing Garment with her eyes, it's not his gaydar in particular which is the problem.
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
- Thread starter LordRoustabout
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I'm pretty sure that if Josef "romance was a mistake" Duris doesn't see that Flechette is undressing Garment with her eyes, it's not his gaydar in particular which is the problem.
Especially since he didn't pick up on very similar vibes/reactions from Kid Win and Jacob's Ladder.
(Speaking of Kid Win: I notice how he completely misinterpreted Uppercrust's compliment, and entirely missed a huge hint towards his Modularity specialisation
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AntaeusTheGiant
Child of Gaea
- Location
- Lawrence, KS
Another wonderful chapter from LordR, as he does for free on the regular. And we get to benefit!
The forge did quite a bit of trolling tonight. Yes, there is the obvious troll by addressing the molecular bond issue, but there were two rolls in the Toolkit Constellation, and both managed to miss The Toolkit, the remaining unique 100pt perk in there. Now there are only 3 perks in that Constellation, and two of them 100pt perks, so we may be seeing lots more Workshop additions in future, and maybe even finally get The Toolkit. But also, twice the forge hit my beloved Size Constellation, without actually getting any of the 3 wonderful perks there.
Anyway, Apeiron, the Enigmatic Artificer, may have dodged a bullet with the extra ward being Kid Win rather than Vista, who knows if she might have detected unusual spatial variances in Garment's back room. And Uppercrust! So close to healing.
Speaking of which..
Yeah, even the more-than-three-day-old healing he handed out in the storage yard cured many of the symptoms of aging, so way more than that. Don't know if his Nanite healing has been upgraded with Star Trek Medicine effects or not, but he may decide to use the really good healing on Uppercrust, just as a show of power if nothing else. And if he gets Chosen of Death before then, boy howdy....
I was mentioning earlier Hephaestus's ability to curse in regards to the necklace he gave Aphrodite's daughter Harmonia at her wedding, which caused her family no end of trouble for generations. Maybe Aphrodite is employing a little payback?
Oh, really. Nice to know some of us are not default humans. Yeah, this could def. start a huge out of context discussion, so I'll just ignore this steaming pile.
I would like to see more Natural Puppy references in story though, its barely been mentioned since he got it.
The forge did quite a bit of trolling tonight. Yes, there is the obvious troll by addressing the molecular bond issue, but there were two rolls in the Toolkit Constellation, and both managed to miss The Toolkit, the remaining unique 100pt perk in there. Now there are only 3 perks in that Constellation, and two of them 100pt perks, so we may be seeing lots more Workshop additions in future, and maybe even finally get The Toolkit. But also, twice the forge hit my beloved Size Constellation, without actually getting any of the 3 wonderful perks there.
Anyway, Apeiron, the Enigmatic Artificer, may have dodged a bullet with the extra ward being Kid Win rather than Vista, who knows if she might have detected unusual spatial variances in Garment's back room. And Uppercrust! So close to healing.
Speaking of which..
Yeah, even the more-than-three-day-old healing he handed out in the storage yard cured many of the symptoms of aging, so way more than that. Don't know if his Nanite healing has been upgraded with Star Trek Medicine effects or not, but he may decide to use the really good healing on Uppercrust, just as a show of power if nothing else. And if he gets Chosen of Death before then, boy howdy....
I was mentioning earlier Hephaestus's ability to curse in regards to the necklace he gave Aphrodite's daughter Harmonia at her wedding, which caused her family no end of trouble for generations. Maybe Aphrodite is employing a little payback?
Oh, really. Nice to know some of us are not default humans. Yeah, this could def. start a huge out of context discussion, so I'll just ignore this steaming pile.
I would like to see more Natural Puppy references in story though, its barely been mentioned since he got it.
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With Jozef knowing about Lily's attraction to Garment( it was brought to his attention by some asian girl that never appeared again, weird ), the fact that he still miss all social cues for "Romance In Progress" is just wild.
I mean with being THIS dense Joe should already have his own Event Horizon. Socially idiotic human shaped Black Hole... Fascinating.
I mean with being THIS dense Joe should already have his own Event Horizon. Socially idiotic human shaped Black Hole... Fascinating.
I'm pretty sure that that "Asian girl" was March in her civilian persona…
AntaeusTheGiant
Child of Gaea
- Location
- Lawrence, KS
While it is obvious Jozef did not recognize March in that incident, I've wondered if she figured out what was up with him. She did, after all, bump into him, which with her timing power and all should have been impossible. And didn't she also hint around about how somebody must be managing the whole thing? Which of course was Jozef himself, even if he didn't contextualize it that way...
I do think Accord was involved, but I could be remembering wrong.
AntaeusTheGiant
Child of Gaea
- Location
- Lawrence, KS
The "not even you notice it" line was what clued me in, but if you read the whole chapter, he really is managing things behind the scenes, telling camera men where to set up, re wiring the whole place, all kinds of things.
Mizu
Software Developer
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
Natural Puppy is a TWEWY clothing brand, and shouldn't exist on Earth Bet outside of the jumpdoc items Joe got. There's also the fact all his clothes are made by Garment nowadays, so I'm doubtful he'll be wearing the plain apparel that brand embraces.
The Shallow
Shallow, Yet Deep
- Location
- Your Universe
- Pronouns
- She/They
He is aware of his speciality, he just isn't proud of it because it means he sees at as meaning he'll only ever be recycling the works of others. Also, next to Armsmaster, Dragon, and Apeiron, Modularity is basically nothing (to Kid Win, at the very least. I certainly disagree with his assessments).Especially since he didn't pick up on very similar vibes/reactions from Kid Win and Jacob's Ladder.
(Speaking of Kid Win: I notice how he completely misinterpreted Uppercrust's compliment, and entirely missed a huge hint towards his Modularity specialisation
EDIT:
Chapter 35 Addendum Chris said:
My understanding of Natural Puppy was that he could now make Natural Puppy clothing, is that not what the perk means?
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Mizu
Software Developer
- Location
- Victoria, Australia
Could be, I haven't checked the perk.
- Location
- Philippines
She was more focused on blaming Garment for the public event, remember? The entire time she was talking to Joe, she wasn't talking to him as much as he was just the convenient listener to her thoughts - and with her bias over Garment and Flechette's relationship, the entire time she had her hackles up over this new Rogue that had gotten Flechette's attention.
Correction: Kid Win thinks he knows his specialty, and he thinks it is literally trash. As in, he thinks his specialty is tinkering with trash. How could he not, when recycling the wreckage of his skateboard he got something even better and he got a lot of work done just working on the pieces left behind by Armsmaster? I would quote the relevant WoG for this bit, but yeah, Kid Win's issue is that he's mistaken on his specialty and is beating himself up for it, and should Joe actually realize the issue he could easily point out the mistake for Kid Win.
While that's his interpretation of his speciality, and how he's using it, has he actually tried creating modules from scratch since "figuring it out", or just converting existing tech into modules? Because, there's a difference between "can convert other Tinkers' work into modules" as his main ability ("garbage tinker" as he puts it), or just as a small aspect of his actual ability.
The Shallow
Shallow, Yet Deep
- Location
- Your Universe
- Pronouns
- She/They
ok so the perk just says
Checking the jumpdoc though, this seems to be purchasing affinity, and it says nothing of use about these brands in future worlds... I have literally no clue.
I stand corrected. He thinks his speciality is seemingly more recycling. Makes this scene make more sense, actually.
You were correct that he missed a hint, Chrono.
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- Location
- Not here. Maybe on SB.
IIRC, Joe got another perk right before that... Right! That's why he zoned out and didn't noticed her, in the first place!
So, her power miscalculated his movements, because without new perk he would've moved faster, and been more aware of his surroundings.
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I've updated the reference. It now counts total CP spent automatically instead of me needing to manually update that. With this fairly objective measure we're at 37700 CP spent with 300 more waiting around for next chapter.
Link to the reference doc
Rolls analysis for this chapter:
1: Size constellation: guaranteed miss
2: Vehicles Constellation: 1/5 chance to obtain Titan Engineering from Titanfall. It would have been nice to get this because it's 100CP but otherwise it's not important.
3: Time Constellation: guaranteed miss
4: Magitech Constellation: 1/8 chance to get Technomancy from Mage the Awakening. This would have been mostly more of the same I think. I'm sure Lord would have a new twist or spin with this perk but idk what it would be.
5 - 4: Lathe-Wrought Armour Plating Kit from Toolkits Constellation. This is a good roll the material here is both quite useful and it'll make Joe's skull friends happy. We missed "The Toolkit" which is mostly useful in that it's a unique 100CP perk.
2: Size constellation: guaranteed miss
3: Vehicles Constellation: same as above
4-1: Workshop: Clothing from Tookits Constellation. I guess this made Garment happy. I don't know how useful this will actually be regardless of what was said in the text. We did again miss "The Toolkit"
Link to the reference doc
Rolls analysis for this chapter:
1: Size constellation: guaranteed miss
2: Vehicles Constellation: 1/5 chance to obtain Titan Engineering from Titanfall. It would have been nice to get this because it's 100CP but otherwise it's not important.
3: Time Constellation: guaranteed miss
4: Magitech Constellation: 1/8 chance to get Technomancy from Mage the Awakening. This would have been mostly more of the same I think. I'm sure Lord would have a new twist or spin with this perk but idk what it would be.
5 - 4: Lathe-Wrought Armour Plating Kit from Toolkits Constellation. This is a good roll the material here is both quite useful and it'll make Joe's skull friends happy. We missed "The Toolkit" which is mostly useful in that it's a unique 100CP perk.
2: Size constellation: guaranteed miss
3: Vehicles Constellation: same as above
4-1: Workshop: Clothing from Tookits Constellation. I guess this made Garment happy. I don't know how useful this will actually be regardless of what was said in the text. We did again miss "The Toolkit"
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Hello, Weld (Albert)
"Hello, Weld."
"Hello Apeiron, the Enigmatic Artificer. Can I just say how much everyone in the PRT loves your expanded title?"
"Yeah, I get that, but it prevents posers from claiming they're me. After this week, that was going to be even more of a thing than some PHO idiots playing around."
"Right."
"Anyway, I have a request for your bosses."
"Oh?"
"Yeah. I recently observed Uppercrust, and he's clearly sick. He's also responsible for maintaining a bunch of force-fields, right?"
Weld got a sinking feeling. By their expressions, everyone monitoring the call was getting the same idea of what was coming. "Both statements are accurate, yeah. You planning to do something about it?"
"Well, since he's a vital pillar of defense all up and down the coast, including the city that I live in, I'm offering to heal him under 'this is where I keep all my stuff' enlightened self-interest. For payment, he can bump Brockton Bay to the top of his list for scheduled maintenance, although that's something for the Protectorate to work out with him.
"But with the state of emergency still going, I'd rather not have to fight off the heroes when I approach him. So I'm requesting Truce conditions for things related to Uppercrust, until I contact him, make my offer, and we complete our transaction."
Director Piggot's face looked like she was sucking a lemon, something the screen displayed immaculately, but she nodded. 'Make the Truce', text spelled out below her image.
"Oh, and one other thing. The recent villain gathering at Somer's Rock was . . . interesting. You should ask your villain informants for their take on what happened."
The sinking feeling had lightened, when it seemed that Apeiron, the Enigmatic Artificer, was just trying to convey a helpful offer, but now Weld was joined by everyone in their looks of apprehension.
What had Apeiron, the Enigmatic Artificer, done now?
"Hello Apeiron, the Enigmatic Artificer. Can I just say how much everyone in the PRT loves your expanded title?"
"Yeah, I get that, but it prevents posers from claiming they're me. After this week, that was going to be even more of a thing than some PHO idiots playing around."
"Right."
"Anyway, I have a request for your bosses."
"Oh?"
"Yeah. I recently observed Uppercrust, and he's clearly sick. He's also responsible for maintaining a bunch of force-fields, right?"
Weld got a sinking feeling. By their expressions, everyone monitoring the call was getting the same idea of what was coming. "Both statements are accurate, yeah. You planning to do something about it?"
"Well, since he's a vital pillar of defense all up and down the coast, including the city that I live in, I'm offering to heal him under 'this is where I keep all my stuff' enlightened self-interest. For payment, he can bump Brockton Bay to the top of his list for scheduled maintenance, although that's something for the Protectorate to work out with him.
"But with the state of emergency still going, I'd rather not have to fight off the heroes when I approach him. So I'm requesting Truce conditions for things related to Uppercrust, until I contact him, make my offer, and we complete our transaction."
Director Piggot's face looked like she was sucking a lemon, something the screen displayed immaculately, but she nodded. 'Make the Truce', text spelled out below her image.
"Oh, and one other thing. The recent villain gathering at Somer's Rock was . . . interesting. You should ask your villain informants for their take on what happened."
The sinking feeling had lightened, when it seemed that Apeiron, the Enigmatic Artificer, was just trying to convey a helpful offer, but now Weld was joined by everyone in their looks of apprehension.
What had Apeiron, the Enigmatic Artificer, done now?
- Location
- Not here. Maybe on SB.
Thanks, I don't know how I missed that. Both my post and the reference are fixed.
- Location
- Not here. Maybe on SB.
Maybe. Or by getting the Strong Spark... Like that:
"..."
"Jozef?"
"..."
"Jozef! Are you ignoring me?"
"Yes."
"What?!
""Yes, let's do it! "
"What?
""Ok, you may tell mother that she'll get the ideal son back tomorrow."
"What with your tone? Are you drunk, or what?
""Only with the prospect to leave it all behind and finally move forward, dear sister!"
"Jozef, I worry about you. What happened?"
"Nothing but a little realization. And now bye, I need to create a mindless android that will replace me in the household!"
"
""Mindless part is most difficult and important, of course! I'm not that cruel to send sapient being in that hell, you know."
*beeps*
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- Location
- Barquisimeto
So... nobody is comment about Garment going 'I have infinite power!' moment? Because that kinda looks important and hilarious as she basically is one of the stronger Fashion Tinkers with her own Tinker lab to make even better clothes.
- Location
- Not here. Maybe on SB.
Glad to help.
That image is too pure (and terrifying) to touch with our lowly words!
Cerridwen
President of the Roustafarian Book Club
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm not totally convinced that Lathe Armor could stop DiD. It could stop any molecular disruption or physical impact based attacks, but the reason she's so dangerous is her power takes a "shotgun" approach by launching a dozen or more different kinds of attacks. Some might be spatial warping, some might be temporal shearing, or thermobaric shock, or miniature black holes. While Joe can defend against possibly the vast majority of her power, chances are there's at least one effect that might get through, and that's what the Empire is banking on. There are canonical examples of supposedly invincible capes getting taken out by the perfect counter, and DiD has access to enough effects to count as an Annihilator: i.e. the Protectorate has reason to believe the vast majority of defensive powers will fail to hold up to her attacks.
- Location
- Not here. Maybe on SB.
She's Damsel of Distress. But otherwise I agree.
Although, that's not the only defense Apeiron, the Enigmatic Artificer, uses.
P.S. bets on who will be the first to ask for their own title? I bet on Alec, because Aisha know that's not something Joe created himself.