Luckily he's already done some work with hydrokinesis. The effectiveness of those runes also scales up with the size of the weapon, and he has access to giant mechs. Let Joe put a little work in, and he could possibly pull a "Stop hitting yourself" using Leviathan's water shadow.
He's also gotten some decent knowledge about transmutation so he could also theoretically use that as a counter to specific-material-kinesis abilities like what Leviathan has.
For that matter he might want to set up a few transmutation bombs around the place as a anti-Shatterbird measure. Specifically ones that would target silicon and silicate differently so that they would become similarly conductive and similarly transparent materials respectively. Possibly also a third one for small grains and powders so as to target glasses, electronics, and sand separately.
It's kind of weird that Joe's specifically worried about a gang war being caused by uppercrust surviving and not the one that his death will almost certainly cause.
The committed parties he mentioned are probably not all on the same side, and if they're willing to fight the incumbent I don't see why they wouldn't go after competitors for the throne after he's gone.
There's also the fact that uppercrust isn't an idiot, and has maintained his position for a long time. Unless Joe heals him in public the guy wi have the advantages of being able to act first and being the entrenched power.
If there's going to be a gang war either way Joe might as well pick the option that leaves a reasonably unobjectionable power in charge who could reasonably act to minimize the damage of any such conflict.
The thing about that is that the parties expecting to take advantage of the power vacuum are likely to be knowledgeable enough about eachother for posturing to be a effective method of avoiding conflict. If they know what the results of conflict between eachother are then they're less likely to actually waste effort and resources going through with it. Adding new parties to that dynamic removes that certainty and opens up the possibility for certain parties to benefit from conflict.
One must take into account both the end result and the events leading up to it in this context.
That being said though there's always the possibility of engineering the conflict between those parties and reinstating Uppercrust after it had all settled down. The sociopolitical equivalent of safely setting off a avalanche.
Well, I admit I am more familiar with the original version of Mage, but these powers involve literally re-writing the laws of the universe-in a limited way depending on your particular powers and affinities/traditions, sure, but nonetheless, a very broken system compared to many others. I
think I read somewhere that this would come with two dots in one arcana and one in another, but of course I don't know which he would get. Even this limited amount would indicate a massive change in what Jozef can do, though of course it comes with some of the typical Mage drawbacks as well. I for one will be more than pleased when/if he gets this troublesome Perk...
Edit: just found a WOG, it will be Force and Matter. Also, LordR didn't seem that enthused about the Perk either, so evidently it
is going to be a bit of a dud after all.
I imagine that having knowledge of dimensional engineering would help a lot with White Wolf magic.
I have to wonder how aware GG is. She sees the world through a very specific filter and as LR made her from whole cloth (shut up, I couldn't resist) we don't really know how she sees or thinks about anything that doesn't really fit into her focus or if she's even capable of having romantic inclinations of her own let alone being able to act on them. She may be even more oblivious than Joe. Not able to think of couples any further than coordinated outfits.
If anything I would think that Garment would know more about relationships and partnerships then most. Complementary accessorization, and the context behind it, is a part of fashion after all.
I was re-reading the story and just had a really odd thought when I read the chapter where Joe received Mechanist. Did Lung turn into Magicite when he was killed? Since the forge treats parahumans as magic and magical entities such as espers can turn into Magicite when they die it would be interesting if there was a Lung Magicite crystal just floating in space. Joe did mention using parahumans as a magical power source but filed it under too horrific to think of...
Well there was the ripped off limb that Joe had from Lung to use for Bone Steel but that might have been because it was removed while he was alive. On the other hand though I sort of doubt that, even if he did turn into magicite, he'd be in any way Lung-shaped.
On a third hand he was hit by a light-speed weapon/vehicle so I don't think that he could actually have been said to have died
of anything so much as he just stopped being biology and started being physics. If his limb didn't turn into Magicite due to being detached from him before he died then the same could probably be said of pretty much all of him because of the way that he died.
On the subject of using parahumans for resources though I bet that he could probably shove a bunch of Crusaders "Ghosts" into that crucible to get the "enchantments" out of them.
We definitely know that she can feel something. For example, her auction. She didn't want to sell her works, especially for people she can't even be sure it'll really fit. But she wanted to help.
That mean she can have desires outside of the fashion or, at least, her meaning of "fashion" is so broad it include very distant fields.
So, the only real question is can she feel romantic interest in someone.
But even if she can, people who truly passionate about something not infrequently have all their passion tied with the subject. Musicians and artists, philosophers and scientists,... that's not common, but not too rare for those people to place their passion above everything else, and not having anything to spare for "lesser" matters.
And Garmet is the spitit of fashion. Fashion embodiment. I suspect that even worse for her than for humans.
On one hand yeah I can definitely see that at least coloring every other aspect of her life but on the other hand the fact that it doesn't prevent her from developing friendships means that it shouldn't prevent her from developing more romantic relationships.
She is fashion
manifested instead of just pure fashion after all.
Considering Lung was near totally atomized, I imagine there wasn't much left of him to transform into anything. Maybe a few Magicite particles are floating around out there.
Okay I know I just agreed with you but now that someone else has said it I find myself thinking that if you cut a person capable of it straight down the middle both halves of them would probably turn into Magicite so that's probably also true of the scattered remains of Lungs brain/brains. At least the parts of him able to contribute to his existence as a distinct being rather then just a collection of living matter.
Relatedly though I bet that just taking Lung far enough out of the atmosphere would have dealt with him well enough since parahuman abilities tend to stop working the further away from Earth one goes. Or at least without one taking their Shard with them I mean.
I feel that for Tetra "Inquisitive/Curious" or "Playful" would be more fitting.
And Taylor... Her power have little with her personality. Maybe "Controlling", but I don't think it fits her perfectly. What I'd use, at least currently, is "Striving / Struggling". She's not that "Lone" anymore, thankfully. But for her cape persona... "Ruthless" is first what came to mind.
Well do keep in mind that Taylor Triggered from the realization that a civilization where people help eachother to survive in emergencies didn't exist and/or include her so her adjective could potentially include simply the word "disappointed".
Alright I mean this in the most civil tone possible but do you not understand the fact that this is a jumpchain story?
This story isn't based on a CYOA that's meant to exist by itself its based on a Jumpchain and so made in mind that perks would interact with other perks from other jumpchains.
I mean its shown several times in story that perks stack and interact with other perks.
For example in the latest chapter LordRoustabout took the fact that Avid Glove is stated to be another hand and made it so Tetra could gain Joe's energy from it and probably means that any item made by it is influenced by Master Craftsman.
Or how about an earlier example of how Joe's various aesthetic powers boosted his runes?
In fact here's a similar situation answered by LordRoustabout himself.
"So the Monstrous Strength booth gives Joe a new form and boosts his Unnatural skills, have you an idea on what it would be, also due to the wording of the perk, it's based of his current form, meaning other forms should boost Unnatural skill too, meaning the great synergy of Titans Blood and Beast Change!: Inostrancevia.
Because the idea of Joe's best alchemy being done while as a robed gaint saber tooth wolf Dino that chants to create magical materials, sounds both awesome and ridiculous."
| Monstrous Strength works exactly like that. The idea is that a cyclops who's basically a human with one eye wouldn't be as powerful as one who's the kind of titanic monstrous being that the original cyclopes were describes as. The exact wording is that the boost is "in proportion to how obviously unnatural your current form is". Anything that takes Joe's form further from natural will increase the strength of all of his Unnatural Skill perks as well as ALL of his physical abilities. So Beast Change will provide an increase. Titan's Blood will provide an increase. The change to his form that comes with the Monstrous Strength will provide an increase. Cybernetics from Demigod Atelier will provide an increase. Finally, one that you overlooked that would be fairly significant, the Transformers body that comes with the Cybertronian Forge will also provide an increase. Essentially, if Joe gets that perk anything that pulls him away from a 'normal human' form would increase the strength of his talents and physical abilities. |
Basically perks would interact with other perks from other jumpchains and it says in Glory to Me that its divine ability booster is not limited to its parents therefore it could affect perks other than Percy Jackson perks.
I apologize if I was too aggressive with my answer.
I can't help but wonder whether this would mean that the Avid Glove would be able to use his abilities better then he could.
