It's because Wildblow wanted to write a story focusing on broken people with powers, and having normal people being significant players wasn't a focus or concern. Not saying this is good or bad, it just wasn't something he was concerned with when telling his story. Like, yeah, you get people like Doctor Mother and Piggot who are significant, but they very much are not the focus of the story.
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
- Thread starter LordRoustabout
- Start date
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Y'know, I'm really dreading the echidna (Travelers ) arc if it happens especially if its more than 20k arc(~2 chapters?)
Oh god, I forgot about Dinah (confused it with another story and I thought he already saved her)
Mhm? Rory got his powers modified? I wonder how (I mean striker rating?)
Really, really hope they didn't put up a flag with that and hope that Dust really cant propagate anymore or be recreated though I doubt there isn't going to be a plot point or future conflict involving dust tech (or god forbid Crawler consuming it and getting more buffed or even a wet tinker getting their hands in it)
Damn, Hopefully Joe can deal with Saint quickly, plus it'll help Dragon - Wait, if he goes to Sumer's Rock wont it mean that Joe and his AI would be able to sense the terminal! especially if Saint doesn't want to part with it for even a bit
"...design your own upgrades" wouldn't that mean stuff other than double jump and quick attack(lol)?
Wait, Joe shouldn't even leave a trail when he jumps in base form because he doesn't have a tail, unless he is in a alt form (which he technically doesn't have, but kinda does) so... did I read this part wrong or what? I'm... Going to reread it in a bit
Sky Machinist is actually really broad and probably stacks with other perks too
Anyways I loved the Fleet POV
Cerridwen
President of the Roustafarian Book Club
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I understood it as the rainbow trail only appears when he uses the Wish powers of double jump and dash attack. Regular jumping won't trigger it but a second midair jump will.
Having actually played RUA and RUA2, I kinda get the reason why Lord wrote those memories as traumatic for Joe. He was endlessly running for his life in a technicolor hellscape full of bizarre creatures for who-knows-how-long with the understanding that (if you buy into the conspiracy theory that this game actually has a plot) his failure would lead to the death of his dreams, whatever that means. So he failed and tried again, and again, and again, and again, with no idea if he'd ever succeed. Just running, and dashing, and jumping, and killing, over and over and over again.
That said, the Dash Attack might actually be really useful. Considering his baseline durability and the fact that his body isn't made of explodium any more, it could be a pretty huge durability increase while charging forwards. It's essentially I-Frames against anything but terrain features in-game, although I don't know how Lord will rule how that works in a non-game setting.
A speculative analysis of Unicornium:
Unicornium is a durable and corrosion resistant metal that has the unique property of exploding when exposed to a rainbow. This material is likely operating on principals related to the additional colours of Fallen London as well more vaguely to the warp from Warhammer 40K and is emotopsionically sensitive.
Unicornium can interact with light is a controlled non-destructive manner to power machines.
Unicornium upon receiving a sufficient emotional energy charge exposure will produce corresponding light energy in a controlled reaction.
It can be used to create an outlined cloaking field.
It is a silvery chrome grey with a golden sheen.
It appears to likely be some form of steel with an added chemical compound or element.
Unicornium is likely a matrix alloy material vaguely similar to some clathrates.
The added agent is based on optical properties likely some form of Tourmaline or slightly less likely Zircon.
Best guess on general composition and proportions is one part potassium or sodium;three parts the aluminum, iron, and lithium mix;6 parts aluminum and iron;3 parts B1O3; 6 parts boron, aluminum, and silicon mix; 18 parts oxygen; and for parts OH and Fluorine mix.
One or more of the component elements are likely out of phase along at least one higher dimensional axis.
The number of protons and electrons involved in out of phase interaction are almost certainly non-zero, but equal while the number of neutrons may vary wildly and they were probably the first key particles involved in the isotope formation.
I relied heavily on pleochroism to aid in identifying candidate materials as well as fluorescence and dispersion.
This is merely my headcannon.
I have a more detailed headcannon analysis of dust from RWBY.
Unicornium is a durable and corrosion resistant metal that has the unique property of exploding when exposed to a rainbow. This material is likely operating on principals related to the additional colours of Fallen London as well more vaguely to the warp from Warhammer 40K and is emotopsionically sensitive.
Unicornium can interact with light is a controlled non-destructive manner to power machines.
Unicornium upon receiving a sufficient emotional energy charge exposure will produce corresponding light energy in a controlled reaction.
It can be used to create an outlined cloaking field.
It is a silvery chrome grey with a golden sheen.
It appears to likely be some form of steel with an added chemical compound or element.
Unicornium is likely a matrix alloy material vaguely similar to some clathrates.
The added agent is based on optical properties likely some form of Tourmaline or slightly less likely Zircon.
Best guess on general composition and proportions is one part potassium or sodium;three parts the aluminum, iron, and lithium mix;6 parts aluminum and iron;3 parts B1O3; 6 parts boron, aluminum, and silicon mix; 18 parts oxygen; and for parts OH and Fluorine mix.
One or more of the component elements are likely out of phase along at least one higher dimensional axis.
The number of protons and electrons involved in out of phase interaction are almost certainly non-zero, but equal while the number of neutrons may vary wildly and they were probably the first key particles involved in the isotope formation.
I relied heavily on pleochroism to aid in identifying candidate materials as well as fluorescence and dispersion.
This is merely my headcannon.
I have a more detailed headcannon analysis of dust from RWBY.
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Sakuya's Butler
A refined Butler to a knife wielding Mistress.
- Location
- ↓, ↘, → + Punch
Ace Combat, plus Macross, plus Zoids, plus Bubblegum Crisis, plus Gundam.
So it'll be a giant fusion powered sapient techno-organic pterodactyl with a LOLNOPE spinal energy cannon rated at 'Yes' gigatons per second per shot, and can launch off 80+ transformable Ghost X-9/V-9s that each have 80+ missiles & mount beam cannons. Which can also turn into motorcycles or robots.
All of which have an unhealthy obsession for trying to fly into & through tunnels at ludicrous speeds. While playing a bitchin' '80s synth-rock background track over all frequencies.
With rainbows streaming out its ass.
And not one bit of that was crack.
...This train has no brakes.
So it'll be a giant fusion powered sapient techno-organic pterodactyl with a LOLNOPE spinal energy cannon rated at 'Yes' gigatons per second per shot, and can launch off 80+ transformable Ghost X-9/V-9s that each have 80+ missiles & mount beam cannons. Which can also turn into motorcycles or robots.
All of which have an unhealthy obsession for trying to fly into & through tunnels at ludicrous speeds. While playing a bitchin' '80s synth-rock background track over all frequencies.
With rainbows streaming out its ass.
And not one bit of that was crack.
...This train has no brakes.
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A few suggested corrections:
fourth family dinner
drone compliments
The last part sounds a little off. Maybe it should be something like "and her estimated financial situation" or "and the estimated financial situation she was in.
end of corrections.
Now, I should say that Lord has officially added to the 'terrible ideas for Joe' meme with neathbow unicorns.
While we're talking about the robot unicorns,
I think this was explained in chapter that it uses his mane (his hair):
fourth family dinner
drone compliments
The last part sounds a little off. Maybe it should be something like "and her estimated financial situation" or "and the estimated financial situation she was in.
end of corrections.
Now, I should say that Lord has officially added to the 'terrible ideas for Joe' meme with neathbow unicorns.
While we're talking about the robot unicorns,
I think this was explained in chapter that it uses his mane (his hair):
- Location
- Somewhere and Nowhere in a state of super-position
Or it will be cutting the knot on the pseudo-hostage situation.
Apeiron: "Oh shit, that's the same code that's mastering dragon!" *Yoink* *Delete Geoffs copy*
Saint: "HAAAAACKS!! THE HAAAAAAACKS!!!!"
Oh boy. Next chapter is Somer's Rock. Can't wait.
Did I miss something as I don't remember this? And these type of things I love.
- Location
- Deep inside the sand
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
He's refers to Apeiron call to Weld in the latter Weld Interlude. We haven't gotten the teleconference on screen so to speak. Roust just highlightened some of it so show what happens outside the 'on screen' moments.
Bakkasama
There is always a greater fool
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pronouns
- He/his
Apeiron should show up with tinkertech chocolate eggs, so they can take to their children back home. Also get the Merchants hooked to that shit, see how they like it.
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Apeiron: I am missing Easter dinner with my parents to come here.
Most gangs: Oh shit!
Tt: Hey, me too! High five!
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theflyingbiscuit
"Titanic neechan"
Come on Roy, give the man $20 dollars and a letter requesting a phone call to deliver to Apeiron. It would cost almost nothing and would help so many problems.
I don't think everyone would let the mega-tinker cook for them. Also it's a bar, let the bar, bar.
Presumably the bar made preparations for the day for a largish crowd.
I guess it's good that case 70's haven't shown up yet, but poor Rory.
I've been having a questioning thought about Sommer's Rock. Are the kid/teen capes really allowed?
It's a bar. To me, that reads as 21, serving alcohol and not wanting minors around. Then again with the way Joe spoke about it, if you could sneak in there, they wouldn't really care too much. But that was when he was in the college scene and not a high school age.
So 18-21 should be fine. Those under 18? What are the rules?
No one is really showing up to drink at this thing. It's a meeting where they are talking, listening, whining, and making deals.
Just had a thought that it would be funny if the Undersiders, Lethe, and Rune weren't even allowed in the Bar due to their age or being carded.
I find the entire Dragon Slayers thing funny. Lethe is going along with Joe. Joe wants that box, she grabs the box and they won't even remember having the box or who took it.
Now cracking through it, might be more difficult, but I could see his tried and true method of letting a cloned one go to the lab and be tested to destruction. Presto, he'd know anything and everything that he couldn't already just feel from it.
The only thing that might delay the entire Dragon plot line coming out is if someone mentions that they were hired to come into town by the ABB. Sounds like something Tattletale would do just to shake them up. Then again, the Dragon Slayers could just claim to be taking the ABB money and now they don't really have to do what they were paid to do as the gang is defunct.
Would that even work? We know the ABB is pretty much doomed. The real question is what's the rules about failing gangs and their contracts.
The Dragon Slayers have a spot merely stating that they are in town doing what they usually do and being paid through some ABB accounts. Now that the gang isn't around there shouldn't be any danger of getting dragged into their plans.
The Dragonslayers should be viewed as disposable out of towners to hire to take handle things with Dragon.
Sadly for the Dragon Slayers, Joe doesn't even need to handle them. It could be a family project where the AIs and Lethe handle and troll the dragon slayers. I can see Lethe stealing anything from them. Matrix showing up would be fun to infect their suits. 15-30 seconds later and those suits are all gloop on the floor or rebuild to something else.
I want to see Aisha after movie night and going through a basic training montage. Will she be the same girl or will she grow through it?
It's a bar. To me, that reads as 21, serving alcohol and not wanting minors around. Then again with the way Joe spoke about it, if you could sneak in there, they wouldn't really care too much. But that was when he was in the college scene and not a high school age.
So 18-21 should be fine. Those under 18? What are the rules?
No one is really showing up to drink at this thing. It's a meeting where they are talking, listening, whining, and making deals.
Just had a thought that it would be funny if the Undersiders, Lethe, and Rune weren't even allowed in the Bar due to their age or being carded.
I find the entire Dragon Slayers thing funny. Lethe is going along with Joe. Joe wants that box, she grabs the box and they won't even remember having the box or who took it.
Now cracking through it, might be more difficult, but I could see his tried and true method of letting a cloned one go to the lab and be tested to destruction. Presto, he'd know anything and everything that he couldn't already just feel from it.
The only thing that might delay the entire Dragon plot line coming out is if someone mentions that they were hired to come into town by the ABB. Sounds like something Tattletale would do just to shake them up. Then again, the Dragon Slayers could just claim to be taking the ABB money and now they don't really have to do what they were paid to do as the gang is defunct.
Would that even work? We know the ABB is pretty much doomed. The real question is what's the rules about failing gangs and their contracts.
The Dragon Slayers have a spot merely stating that they are in town doing what they usually do and being paid through some ABB accounts. Now that the gang isn't around there shouldn't be any danger of getting dragged into their plans.
The Dragonslayers should be viewed as disposable out of towners to hire to take handle things with Dragon.
Sadly for the Dragon Slayers, Joe doesn't even need to handle them. It could be a family project where the AIs and Lethe handle and troll the dragon slayers. I can see Lethe stealing anything from them. Matrix showing up would be fun to infect their suits. 15-30 seconds later and those suits are all gloop on the floor or rebuild to something else.
I want to see Aisha after movie night and going through a basic training montage. Will she be the same girl or will she grow through it?
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
When you're a costumed criminal in Worm, basically, you can do whatever you want, unless another costumed criminal or the PRT / Protectorate take issue with it. Civilian agencies are hamstringed with dealing with capes, and the PRT / Protectorate can't, and sometimes chooses not to, be everywhere.
- Location
- Mass
I'm also fairly certain that teens would try to show up, and would probably atleast be listened to when the speak if they have decent powers. Age really is just a number when they can breathe fire.
- Location
- Somewhere in The Woods
Since the Protectorate are just Cauldron sockpuppets, then aren't they, too, just costumed criminals?
- Location
- Deep inside the sand
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I came up with an idea. What if one of the many problems BB has is that PRT's ineptitude to handle matters make the criminal elements much worse that it would originally be. Like because people doesn't get justice they think they deserve they get sucked into the gangs because they can provide protection and vengeance. It could be anything from normal cases that has capes even remotely related to it so they transfers to PRT. Then it becomes placed on top of the list of PRTs to do list. They don't have enough budget and manpower to everything they are supposed to do because of Cauldron, and additional things Piggot picks up because of reasons doesn't help.
It would be rich to have statistics that say that 50% of all criminal elements is because YOU (read: Director Piggot) couldn't work with the police.
It would be rich to have statistics that say that 50% of all criminal elements is because YOU (read: Director Piggot) couldn't work with the police.
- Location
- Philippines
That's quite unfair to them, as flawed as the Protectorate is, plenty of people working in it did do great work. If anything, Cauldron was just sabotaging them from a very high position - so it's less that they are criminals and more like they're the harried victims of an organization corrupted to its core.
Apeiron: Thank you. You have no idea what it can be like to have your parents constantly heaping expectations and disapproval on you like that.
Kaiser: Oh, I can relate. This one time, Allfather told me…
Skidmark: … and that's why I ran away from home and made the mistake of turning to drugs.
*Katsujinken Success! Everyone present has been convinced to give up on villainy, and turn themselves in to the PRT!*
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
Dragon: "YOU'RE ALL UNDER ARR-- wait, why are you all holding your wrists out?"Apeiron: Thank you. You have no idea what it can be like to have your parents constantly heaping expectations and disapproval on you like that.
Kaiser: Oh, I can relate. This one time, Allfather told me…
Skidmark: … and that's why I ran away from home and made the mistake of turning to drugs.
*Katsujinken Success! Everyone present has been convinced to give up on villainy, and turn themselves in to the PRT!*
Kaiser: "I'm a changed man. I don't even hate the minorities! I just said that to get respect from my father."
Apeiron: "Dude, I can relate."
...
Apeiron: "Not the whole "being a nazi" thing, I meant more kowtowing to societal expectations of patriarchal respect under the reasoning of tenuous bloodline connections."
Lathe: "Do you even count as mostly related to your father?"
Apeiron: "That's what bothers me!"
Kaiser: "Yikes. Can I go to jail now?"
- Pronouns
- Male
There are two types of bars here in the USA, one is part of a restaurant or other such establishment, another is a stand alone bar. You are thinking of the second type.
- Location
- Earth
While I'm no legal expert and not in any way knowledgeable about earth bets legal code I'm pretty sure knowingly hosting a ton of criminals with active arrest warrants, likely breaks a few laws, what's knowingly selling a minor alcohol in comparison.
Joe kept calling it a 3rd rate dive bar. To me, that's the second one. We've got one state highway with about 6 minor "bars" right beside each other. Those are about what I'm picturing what this place usually is. A low end bar for college kids that are out of high school, but haven't hit 21 to somewhat safely get drinks.
You know that place that the cops all know about, but generally don't care about. Well unless you are Aisha's age trying to get in alone.
It's not like it's apple bees or chills. That's the first type. Those are more bars in near name only. They've got a bar in there, but you go there mainly to eat rather than drink. Well, I've never heard of anyone actually going to either to drink rather than eating a meal there. I'm sure some of those folks exist.
Then again as has been pointed out when a ton of costumed capes all show up to eat, you just serve them and hope that they eat and not fight and make a mess.
I can see the owners of the place having mixed reactions to the capes using it as a meeting place. On one hand, capes are less likely to fight there, on the other, capes are more likely to show up in general or their minions.