A bunch of people are making this point, so only quoting once and not tagging anyone, but... is this really true? Has Joe expressed any interest in going after E88?
Before this Joe never made any long term plans, E88 included, probably as a way to avoid certain precog, but he clearly doesn't like empire. And Joe probably has bigger concerns and priorities by this point.
He is not on American soil and the only reason kill order wasn't signed was because of those same hostages.
Two things. I think part of the reason they ended up leaving Montreal to him was less about hostages and not wanting to risk any more capes being captured by him. I was under the impression that they had tried before and it had failed, giving him new soldiers/devotees/lovers, etc.
I'm suddenly remembering the horrible theme song from a certain show my little brother watched.
"Perfect is the enemy of good."
The ultimate predator.
2 days is not enough to recover from almost dying. He needs TIME. A couple of weeks is an absurdly short period to even begin to recover from the trauma he went through. Supertinker with PTSD isn't an outcome ANYONE wants.
Narwhal shouldn't be immune, so Heartbreaker gets a powerful thrall. Government might try to retaliate again, but it will just be a bloodbath.
You forgot a roll last chapter.
| Roll 412 (100): Vehicles → Miss → (100) Roll 413 (200): Magic → Miss → (200) Roll 414 (300): ??? → Miss → (300) Roll 415 (400): Knowledge → Miss → (400) Roll 415 (500): Magic → Miss → (500) Roll 415 (600): Size → Parahuman - Tinker - Miniaturization and Efficiency (Worm) (600-400) + Outside Context Problem (Worm) (Free) + Tinker-Tech Cache (Worm) (Free) → (200) Roll 416 (300): Time → Miss → (300) |
Not unless he doesn't actually do anything plot important. Joe lays on a white sand beach in the Mediterranean and sips drinks with umbrellas in them for three weeks and he gets no triggers. It's only when stuff that matters happens that he grows.
The Triumvirate are all members of the Protectorate, and it extends to Canada. Narwhal is the head of the Toronto branch for instance.
Ah... yeah I fixed the rolls analysis last week but I forgot to update the sheet. I updated this week's analysis.... I'll try to remember to update the sheet too this time.
He has almost certainly figured out by now that he doesn't gain powers nearly as frequently while he's asleep, although he gained powers while totally incapacitated post-Lung.
But Legend needs a target, and thralls will make sure to provide too many targets. And while Legend searches for Heartbreaker is a time capes on Heartbreaker's side can figure out something to pull Legend into Heartbreaker's range.
Immune to specific powers (in interlude 15 Imp might have slipped from Alexandria's mind, Alec also was able to affect Alexandria and he is heartbreaker's kid), and 'offloaded mind' might not be a known fact, nobody is going to try proving that immunity theory against Heartbreaker.
Same argument as with Alexandria. Nobody is going to risk that.
That's not even getting the sheer number of Masters and Strangers Heartbreaker has access to. Remember, the main point of his slave harem (aside from being sex slaves) is to provide him with a large number of children to act as Nth Generation Triggers with his power as the first generation. He has dozens of different variations of human Masters to influence his attackers by many methods and vectors as well as Strangers to sneak in and sabotage/assassinate his enemies. There is a big reason people don't attack him and it's because those that do tend to either die or become his slaves. Oh yeah, even if you get past all the Master and Stranger powers you also get to deal with any Parahumans he's enslaved who will attack you, and if that fails he can still have his dozens upon dozens of human shields/hostages kill themselves at any time. It's basically a no-win situation, so any serious effort to take him out either needs to be completely full-proof or consist of carpet bombing him and his hostages, effectively writing them off as collateral damage. Aisha was a completely unique counter to him since even general area of effect Masters couldn't detect or affect her (she was in close proximity to Gold Morning Khepri and didn't fall under her control until after she dropped her power), so was able to kill him and help his kids since they couldn't lash out at her due to forgetting her the moment they tried, letting her consistently talk them down until they accepted help.
huh?
