Spartan3909
Bibliovore
- Location
- Down Under
- Pronouns
- He/Him
They're called Singlets here, never understood why Yanks would call something they wear a "Wifebeater"
Broken Adventure
- Thread starter theaceoffire
- Start date
- Crossover
- Status
Aurora Moon
Verfied Insomniac with too much time on her hands
- Location
- USA, Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I think it's because of the stereotype that guys who like to wear nothing but that and shorts end up being losers who like to whale on their own wives in order to make themselves feel better.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
-what I was referring to is that a dress shirt is worn beneath a suit jacket. An undershirt would be entirely concealed by the dress shirt, especially with a tie. I could kinda see wearing an undershirt instead of a dress shirt, but not with a tie, it just doesn't work.-
Rising Tithes.
- Location
- Here
Annette Hebert was still out of it hours later when she started her shift watching over the kids at the daycare. Part of it was due to the free 'level 0' power all upper management got in compensation for the 'Join or Get Out' sales pitch earlier.
Most of it however was being 21 again.
Taylor noticed first of course. "Mom, you look so pretty!"
She laughed. "Thank you dear. Now, why were in such a rush over here?"
Her daughter blinked, then gave a 'serious face'. "Emma accidentally hurt Susie's Variance doll, and we can't make it better. She sent me over to get help."
Annette sighed, then allowed her little one to tug her over to a small group of kids.
Little Emma looked distraught, and considering that Susie was almost half her age the crying one was not exactly accepting logical arguments or help in general. So... business like normal for mothers.
Before she could say anything, she heard the tail end of the conversation as Emma fidgeted. "Have... have you tried wishing it better? Daddy said Mr. Skelly answered his wishes since a bunch of his friends have better jobs and stuff now. Maybe Mr. Skelly could fix your bone man?"
Not all children could pronounce 'Variance', so to most of the play school the boss was Skelly-man, Mr. Skelly, or from some of the sillier kids 'Bone Daddy'. Bit of an awkward name that last one, since a major chunk of his employees were now supermodel levels of attractive and suddenly ranged from 18-25.
Before she could get the girls attention though, Susie had given it a shot, still sniffling. "Please Mr. Skelly, fix Princess Bone cause she got hurt and I don't want her to be hurt."
Annette blinked as a blue bubble popped into existence, time seeming to reverse as the doll reformed... and stained clothing was now clean, scratches on shoes began to vanish, dirt and smudges vanished...
A dawning level of horror hit her as she realized that Boss Variance's abilities could be given to anyone 'loyal' to him who had 'faith'... and that all her kids had just been given a heck of a 'how to' example to get free superpowers.
She hadn't even gotten half way through trying to explain to the children what was going on before one of the boys in the back figured out how to gain level 0 'Manipulation' as well. Hopefully her husband was having fewer issues.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Danny passed his last batch of notes to new Boss Lagarde. "Also, Variance has ensured that all our current medical personnel have gained level 0 'Recovery', and that they are practicing it as we speak. No idea how well it is going, the illusion interfaces can't be shared yet so they have to self report."
Sonia was relishing her new freedom from her old body, the amazing quality of the chair helping a ton as well. "He won't be showing up for a few days, but I managed to have him give level 0 abilities to everyone in the Villa before heading out. Our research team especially is loving 'Research', although at the start it only enhances memory retention."
Danny blinked. "Wait... the whole building?"
She nodded. "I thought it was silly to have the boy visit everyone and activate that 'Tithe' ability one by one. Anyone who fails to connect wasn't worth our time anyway, so just spread the love as it were."
He paled. "You did read the layout of the villa first, right?"
She looked up from her paperwork. "I made sure he only focused on those in our database, so no patients or visitors should have gained the option. Why?"
He rubbed his face, trying to find inner peace. "Most kids of our workers go to the local daycare. The children are in our systems for tracking reasons. Did you two accidentally give an entire school's worth of young people low level super powers?"
She gaped. "What!? NO!" Her hands flashed as she reviewed some texts more closely. "ARGH! Why! No one took kids to their office in my day!" She rapidly paged through some of the holographic hard light documents. "Damn, the restaurant employees got hit as well. Wait, you have pets registered!?"
He sighed. "The local employee housing has to make sure any animals are safe to be around others, so yes."
Sonia began making calls. If this facility was now full of magical pets she wanted to know NOW.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam waved a hand. "Ignore her email. Wait till the end of the tour, if it was something life threatening then Twilight would have told me. She, CD, and Dragon were going over all my schematics and products with Sonia that I had refused to sale or offer to others so I would stay relatively under the radar. I'm pretty sure if it was critical we would know." Seeing her confusion he shrugged. "Dragon's sister hasn't picked a name yet, I've been using the initials for 'Cyber Dragon' and she hasn't complained yet."
Narwhal still hesitated, but decided to check anyway. "It will only take a second, and they haven't been saying anything interesting. Be right back."
Adam hummed, listening with half an ear to an overweight man recount the history of Parahumans and show off the items at this particular tour location.
This was something he had been planning for months, but didn't dare attempt while an angel of death could predict his actions. While helping out the victims of Grey Boy was certainly worth while, Adam's goal of living a long life required addressing the largest foes that actually attacked on a regular basis, the Endbringers as a group, in a more permanent way.
Not only was each Endbringer nearly all powerful, but even at the reduced number of attacks (Once a year rather than every three months) this planet was suffering from them. Thank god no one had caused the other 20 or so hidden Endbringers from activating, three was already enough to cause large portions of humanity to despair.
Now however, Adam was thankfully untraceable.
Adam was still mostly an unknown, both to the Parahumans as a group and to the secret high level conspiracy 'Cauldron' specifically.
And Adam was about to meet one of the most powerful Triumvirate members, the one unknowingly ordering god level monsters to attack and provide enough challenge to validate his own insecurities.
When the tour finally ended and the line was setup to meet the amazing cape 'Eidolon' in person, he was number 3 in queue and waiting, 'Research' and 'Harmony' active.
Ignoring Narwhal's rapid whispering about healing puppies or something, he managed to directly shake hands with his target, 'Recovery' allowing full scans.
Whatever she was saying about technological gold fish could wait while he focused on fully researching this new section of Entity crystals.
Because at the end of the day, somewhere in this mess of power and material was the method to control or at least direct a series of murder machines.
And Adam could use some new security for his facilities. Nothing says 'Don`t mess with my people' like a series of planet ending monstrosities asking to see your badge or visitor's permit.
Wait.
He turned to Narwhal, now frustrated at his lack of input. "What do you mean I have a prophet parrot!?"
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Stan leaned over. "So... why we praying with the bird?"
Bill humphed. "Everyone who praises Variance in front of the thing and asks for a superpower gets one much easier than everybody else. Can get more than one too."
He blinked. "What, like any power?"
His friend shook his head. "Nah, one of the first guys has a list. And the more powers you ask for, the slower they grow in strength, so I says go for like two only, max."
Stan frowned. He wasn't great at snap decisions, it took forever when he had to order from fast food places. "What you goin with?"
Bill grinned. "Getting my self 'Recovery' and 'Purification'. Someone found out that even at low levels, you feel healthier all the time and stay super clean, even if you fall in mud or whatever. They work great together, even enhance each other. See, I don't want to go out and punch stuff, but my wife won't complain if I smell a bit better between baths, you know what I mean?"
He chuckled. "You would need super powers to smell less ripe."
Bill waved it off. "It's a condition! Anyway, won't matter after I pray to the bird and get myself setup."
Stan watched the line advance a few spaces. "So like... who made the outfit?"
His friend pointed. "You know crazy Jane? The real religious girl who slapped the heck out of Benard?" Stan nodded. "Well, it's her parrot. She reads scripture to the thing a lot, then suddenly it glows and... yeah. Anyway, not sure why, but she had that Pope outfit for the damn bird way before it started glowing. Them kids over there however were the ones to color the hat. Damn adorable is what it is."
Stan suddenly felt far more hesitant to ask a bird for super powers. "Jane hasn't flipped seeing her bird do magic crud?"
Bill shook his head. "Says it was an act of god and that Variance must be sent to reward her faith. Gaining 'Purification' didn't exactly convince her otherwise." He gestured toward the thinning line. "But like... she won't try and do nothing, she is ok with us doing the request stuff. Just know what you want before you get to the front, otherwise who knows what will happen."
And the nervousness was back.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Narwhal felt her alternate self exploring her new mental home. It was calming. Soothing. Much better than focusing on her boyfriends accidental magical menagerie.
Something about her mind being connected to Adam's electronics had allowed the two girls to connect, in a sort of mystical sense. So she and her cyber sister had Adam use 'Binding' on them both, allowing cyber Narwhal to hang out in her new magical mental Celestial Garden while she handled the physical body. It had been... surprisingly fulfilling.
Cyber Narwhal had connected with her like the loved sister she never had. Well... not sister. Non-related sexy clone maybe. Either way, once they had managed to not stare into each other's eyes with longing and lust for three minutes, the idea of separating again was kind of horrifying.
So now that she was technically two she's, she had the ability to rant properly to an appreciative audience at any time. "I swear our man is so easily distracted it is infuriating! How does one accidentally give a snake the 'Research' ability! Shouldn't that feel strange!? And not all of the animals are using 'Manipulation' the same way! There are two goldfish that are floating bubbles of water to swim away with and that one lizard that can phase through concrete somehow. Scared a guy silly when it fell from the ceiling onto his lap while on the toilet."
Her mental half chuckled. "I've messaged Dragon to get more updates since the start of your rant. One of the older children posted everything onto Parahuman Online about how to gain powers from our boy toy and it got spread a bit before Dragon could take it down. There may be a dozen small cults or more spreading the word, as it were."
Narwhal held back a scream. "I KNEW we should have made him practice that more."
Her sister chuckled. "No, you didn't. And you weren't worried either. You were too focused on making a 'bond' with him and then me to even note the details. Just be grateful that I was paying attention."
She waved a hand. "Fine, but how exactly are we supposed to have fun times together if he becomes a religious icon? I don't want to go celibate before we can celebrate!"
Something flashed in her other's eyes. "Well... not all religious were as stuffy as the current stuff. Can't we just pick one with sexual worship practices?"
Narwhal blinked, then leaned forward. "You already have a list."
She shook her head. "I have THREE lists. And one filled with terrible ideas for him to reject so he will take the others more seriously."
Seriously, she gave herself the best ideas!
Most of it however was being 21 again.
Taylor noticed first of course. "Mom, you look so pretty!"
She laughed. "Thank you dear. Now, why were in such a rush over here?"
Her daughter blinked, then gave a 'serious face'. "Emma accidentally hurt Susie's Variance doll, and we can't make it better. She sent me over to get help."
Annette sighed, then allowed her little one to tug her over to a small group of kids.
Little Emma looked distraught, and considering that Susie was almost half her age the crying one was not exactly accepting logical arguments or help in general. So... business like normal for mothers.
Before she could say anything, she heard the tail end of the conversation as Emma fidgeted. "Have... have you tried wishing it better? Daddy said Mr. Skelly answered his wishes since a bunch of his friends have better jobs and stuff now. Maybe Mr. Skelly could fix your bone man?"
Not all children could pronounce 'Variance', so to most of the play school the boss was Skelly-man, Mr. Skelly, or from some of the sillier kids 'Bone Daddy'. Bit of an awkward name that last one, since a major chunk of his employees were now supermodel levels of attractive and suddenly ranged from 18-25.
Before she could get the girls attention though, Susie had given it a shot, still sniffling. "Please Mr. Skelly, fix Princess Bone cause she got hurt and I don't want her to be hurt."
Annette blinked as a blue bubble popped into existence, time seeming to reverse as the doll reformed... and stained clothing was now clean, scratches on shoes began to vanish, dirt and smudges vanished...
A dawning level of horror hit her as she realized that Boss Variance's abilities could be given to anyone 'loyal' to him who had 'faith'... and that all her kids had just been given a heck of a 'how to' example to get free superpowers.
She hadn't even gotten half way through trying to explain to the children what was going on before one of the boys in the back figured out how to gain level 0 'Manipulation' as well. Hopefully her husband was having fewer issues.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Danny passed his last batch of notes to new Boss Lagarde. "Also, Variance has ensured that all our current medical personnel have gained level 0 'Recovery', and that they are practicing it as we speak. No idea how well it is going, the illusion interfaces can't be shared yet so they have to self report."
Sonia was relishing her new freedom from her old body, the amazing quality of the chair helping a ton as well. "He won't be showing up for a few days, but I managed to have him give level 0 abilities to everyone in the Villa before heading out. Our research team especially is loving 'Research', although at the start it only enhances memory retention."
Danny blinked. "Wait... the whole building?"
She nodded. "I thought it was silly to have the boy visit everyone and activate that 'Tithe' ability one by one. Anyone who fails to connect wasn't worth our time anyway, so just spread the love as it were."
He paled. "You did read the layout of the villa first, right?"
She looked up from her paperwork. "I made sure he only focused on those in our database, so no patients or visitors should have gained the option. Why?"
He rubbed his face, trying to find inner peace. "Most kids of our workers go to the local daycare. The children are in our systems for tracking reasons. Did you two accidentally give an entire school's worth of young people low level super powers?"
She gaped. "What!? NO!" Her hands flashed as she reviewed some texts more closely. "ARGH! Why! No one took kids to their office in my day!" She rapidly paged through some of the holographic hard light documents. "Damn, the restaurant employees got hit as well. Wait, you have pets registered!?"
He sighed. "The local employee housing has to make sure any animals are safe to be around others, so yes."
Sonia began making calls. If this facility was now full of magical pets she wanted to know NOW.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam waved a hand. "Ignore her email. Wait till the end of the tour, if it was something life threatening then Twilight would have told me. She, CD, and Dragon were going over all my schematics and products with Sonia that I had refused to sale or offer to others so I would stay relatively under the radar. I'm pretty sure if it was critical we would know." Seeing her confusion he shrugged. "Dragon's sister hasn't picked a name yet, I've been using the initials for 'Cyber Dragon' and she hasn't complained yet."
Narwhal still hesitated, but decided to check anyway. "It will only take a second, and they haven't been saying anything interesting. Be right back."
Adam hummed, listening with half an ear to an overweight man recount the history of Parahumans and show off the items at this particular tour location.
This was something he had been planning for months, but didn't dare attempt while an angel of death could predict his actions. While helping out the victims of Grey Boy was certainly worth while, Adam's goal of living a long life required addressing the largest foes that actually attacked on a regular basis, the Endbringers as a group, in a more permanent way.
Not only was each Endbringer nearly all powerful, but even at the reduced number of attacks (Once a year rather than every three months) this planet was suffering from them. Thank god no one had caused the other 20 or so hidden Endbringers from activating, three was already enough to cause large portions of humanity to despair.
Now however, Adam was thankfully untraceable.
Adam was still mostly an unknown, both to the Parahumans as a group and to the secret high level conspiracy 'Cauldron' specifically.
And Adam was about to meet one of the most powerful Triumvirate members, the one unknowingly ordering god level monsters to attack and provide enough challenge to validate his own insecurities.
When the tour finally ended and the line was setup to meet the amazing cape 'Eidolon' in person, he was number 3 in queue and waiting, 'Research' and 'Harmony' active.
Ignoring Narwhal's rapid whispering about healing puppies or something, he managed to directly shake hands with his target, 'Recovery' allowing full scans.
Whatever she was saying about technological gold fish could wait while he focused on fully researching this new section of Entity crystals.
Because at the end of the day, somewhere in this mess of power and material was the method to control or at least direct a series of murder machines.
And Adam could use some new security for his facilities. Nothing says 'Don`t mess with my people' like a series of planet ending monstrosities asking to see your badge or visitor's permit.
Wait.
He turned to Narwhal, now frustrated at his lack of input. "What do you mean I have a prophet parrot!?"
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Stan leaned over. "So... why we praying with the bird?"
Bill humphed. "Everyone who praises Variance in front of the thing and asks for a superpower gets one much easier than everybody else. Can get more than one too."
He blinked. "What, like any power?"
His friend shook his head. "Nah, one of the first guys has a list. And the more powers you ask for, the slower they grow in strength, so I says go for like two only, max."
Stan frowned. He wasn't great at snap decisions, it took forever when he had to order from fast food places. "What you goin with?"
Bill grinned. "Getting my self 'Recovery' and 'Purification'. Someone found out that even at low levels, you feel healthier all the time and stay super clean, even if you fall in mud or whatever. They work great together, even enhance each other. See, I don't want to go out and punch stuff, but my wife won't complain if I smell a bit better between baths, you know what I mean?"
He chuckled. "You would need super powers to smell less ripe."
Bill waved it off. "It's a condition! Anyway, won't matter after I pray to the bird and get myself setup."
Stan watched the line advance a few spaces. "So like... who made the outfit?"
His friend pointed. "You know crazy Jane? The real religious girl who slapped the heck out of Benard?" Stan nodded. "Well, it's her parrot. She reads scripture to the thing a lot, then suddenly it glows and... yeah. Anyway, not sure why, but she had that Pope outfit for the damn bird way before it started glowing. Them kids over there however were the ones to color the hat. Damn adorable is what it is."
Stan suddenly felt far more hesitant to ask a bird for super powers. "Jane hasn't flipped seeing her bird do magic crud?"
Bill shook his head. "Says it was an act of god and that Variance must be sent to reward her faith. Gaining 'Purification' didn't exactly convince her otherwise." He gestured toward the thinning line. "But like... she won't try and do nothing, she is ok with us doing the request stuff. Just know what you want before you get to the front, otherwise who knows what will happen."
And the nervousness was back.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Narwhal felt her alternate self exploring her new mental home. It was calming. Soothing. Much better than focusing on her boyfriends accidental magical menagerie.
Something about her mind being connected to Adam's electronics had allowed the two girls to connect, in a sort of mystical sense. So she and her cyber sister had Adam use 'Binding' on them both, allowing cyber Narwhal to hang out in her new magical mental Celestial Garden while she handled the physical body. It had been... surprisingly fulfilling.
Cyber Narwhal had connected with her like the loved sister she never had. Well... not sister. Non-related sexy clone maybe. Either way, once they had managed to not stare into each other's eyes with longing and lust for three minutes, the idea of separating again was kind of horrifying.
So now that she was technically two she's, she had the ability to rant properly to an appreciative audience at any time. "I swear our man is so easily distracted it is infuriating! How does one accidentally give a snake the 'Research' ability! Shouldn't that feel strange!? And not all of the animals are using 'Manipulation' the same way! There are two goldfish that are floating bubbles of water to swim away with and that one lizard that can phase through concrete somehow. Scared a guy silly when it fell from the ceiling onto his lap while on the toilet."
Her mental half chuckled. "I've messaged Dragon to get more updates since the start of your rant. One of the older children posted everything onto Parahuman Online about how to gain powers from our boy toy and it got spread a bit before Dragon could take it down. There may be a dozen small cults or more spreading the word, as it were."
Narwhal held back a scream. "I KNEW we should have made him practice that more."
Her sister chuckled. "No, you didn't. And you weren't worried either. You were too focused on making a 'bond' with him and then me to even note the details. Just be grateful that I was paying attention."
She waved a hand. "Fine, but how exactly are we supposed to have fun times together if he becomes a religious icon? I don't want to go celibate before we can celebrate!"
Something flashed in her other's eyes. "Well... not all religious were as stuffy as the current stuff. Can't we just pick one with sexual worship practices?"
Narwhal blinked, then leaned forward. "You already have a list."
She shook her head. "I have THREE lists. And one filled with terrible ideas for him to reject so he will take the others more seriously."
Seriously, she gave herself the best ideas!
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- Location
- Scotland
Another amusing chapter 
Not sure why but I'm now mentally associating Crazy Jane with Cheryl Tunt...
I do hope nothing python-esque happens to the parrot.
Not sure why but I'm now mentally associating Crazy Jane with Cheryl Tunt...
I do hope nothing python-esque happens to the parrot.
This should probably be fewer issues.
- Location
- USA
Now I want to see him accept the terrible idea plan.
Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
How about she becomes Digital Virtual Dragon, DVD and moves later into the 21st century? XD
Usually, when you start hearing voices in your head and respond to them it's a sign of madness.
But this time? Genius.
- Location
- United Kingdom
He's made pokemon.
- Location
- Australia
look above your post, you've been ninja'd
Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
Shouldn't it be Greninja'd when talking about Pokemon?look above your post, you've been ninja'd
- Location
- Australia
You'd think so, but Geninja's been Ninjask'd
- Location
- Here
Fragnostic
Cheshire
- Location
- Neko City
Speaking of those, I bet Adam Squirtles all over Narwhal's Jigglypuffs!
And now I feel like I'm back in Primary School with this asinine immature joke...
- Location
- Barquisimeto
So flying fishes, Tinker goldfish or Terminator!Goldfish, a snake with research to find stuff or become a tinker and make a pair of arms for itself, a lizard with passing through, ...A Pope!Parrot
I am surprised that there weren't puppies with laser eyes instead of the healing powers, but probably there will be a team of Rambo Hamster as one of type of pets that are bodyguards to the kids.
I am surprised that there weren't puppies with laser eyes instead of the healing powers, but probably there will be a team of Rambo Hamster as one of type of pets that are bodyguards to the kids.
Don't be ridiculous. Laser Eyes are for owls.
That Escalated Quickly.
- Location
- Here
Adam had left the entire animal issue with Sonia to handle. Along with almost everything else business related, at least for now.
It wasn't the mature choice, he knew. But he didn't want to get involved with that. Bigger issues had to be addressed.
At least he had stopped Squishy. She had been secretly using some of his stored up power charges to enable thousands of low level modifications to his abilities, so all his new followers could have variety when gaining Adam's favor.
Her defense for doing so was solid. Any level 0 abilities granted via faith to his followers could grow on their own in strange directions, and thanks to 'Tithe' the new flexibility and uses would be given to Adam himself in the process.
So technically, it was more cost efficient to grant tons of weak powers and let others grow them into new abilities rather than to use the charges directly.
Still, Squishy was part of his soul and he knew she just found it all entertaining. It didn't help when Twilight came up with a faith/magic based interface, giving a very weak 'Gamer' experience to his followers.
That too, would gain in power after enough people used it. Although 'Inventory' and so forth were actually using amazingly weak versions of 'Transfer' and 'Conversion' to store items in the soul of his followers.
Of course, up till that point everything had been going fine, if oddly.
Adam sighed as he tried to focus on his work again. Sonia was more than a bit angry that the world was now freaking out that his companies could grant what was being called 'Trump 0' abilities to anyone willing to believe in Adam or Adam's company. Then it got far worse.
Apparently praying to one of his organizations was enough for his powers to say 'good enough' and to be granted 'Tithe' bestowal as if by Adam himself.
So... hundreds of thousands of people now had the ability to store small amounts of materials (Wallets, keys, etc) and do low level party tricks. And the number was going up quickly as others saw personal proof that free powers wasn't a scam.
The powers scaled based on how close to Adam they were conceptually, which was neat and helpful. Strangers starting all those cult churches could barely heal paper cuts, create a glass worth of water, or manipulate hair styles. Employee family members got nearly triple the ability and functionality, Employees themselves gained ten times or more. Managers were close to actual Parahuman levels, and his closest people had basically gained weak versions of his actual powers, if only focused in one direction.
If you chose powers in categories similar to others, said powers would be more refined and offer more options when leveling. Otherwise, you could try new ideas all together, creating new effects and hopefully convincing friends to follow in your stead. Powers based on movies and games were everywhere at this point.
It was... uh. Chaos.
The only reason why the world WASN'T falling apart entirely was because people trying to use the new abilities maliciously near-instantly lost them. And getting them back, while possible, was VASTLY harder the second time, forget the third.
This was however shoving a time table onto Adam. The spread of power was too fast, even with his safety measures... it was causing issues.
On a low level of concern, crime was down everywhere. Gang members were coming home to find mothers and fathers with special powers, brothers and sisters floating toys or making sparkles. It uh... freaked them out. Many assumed it was a new global threat of some sort, and most organizations had reached out to their fellow criminals and in some cases law enforcement and enacted the 'Endbringer Truce' until someone found out what was going on.
That was time table issue number two for Adam. Fingers were already pointing in his direction because of the original information leaks online, and as long as you had no powers tracing everything to Variance was stupid easy. Still, that was a problem that could be ignored for a day or so.
On a high level, as more and more people joined the 'Variance Church' and the other cults that were springing up everywhere, more and more people were getting modified. Not quickly, thank god, but aside from the nice stuff like slowly becoming more fit and healthy... they were becoming protected by Adam's precautions.
Strangers were being caught in the act. Masters were losing their grip on their minions. But most of all, the Simurgh was going to be finding out VERY SOON that she couldn't actually see anyone anymore from large sections of the nation... and soon, likely, the planet.
This was Time Table Issue Number One, full stop, and in desperation Adam had begged his friends for help.
Nightmare Moon was busy handling all of Adam's prayer issues, having accepted his guidance to gain a fairly high level of 'Harmony'... which thanks to all her work was rapidly improving. Her past of analyzing all dreams in her nation prepared her well for this kind of information overflow. It was her rapid work that ensured each situational misuse of power by his followers was judged on a case by case basis as fairly as possible.
Throwing lava at others for fun? Ban. Doing the same to protect? Pass. And so forth.
Twilight was handling the faith interface spell matrix itself, both development and problem solving. Compared to hours ago it had already changed dozens of times and she had reduced spell consumption in cost and maintenance levels. She was NOT happy though, as she couldn't do much than fix the most dangerous problems that popped up... there was no time for new features that were really needed, and it would take months to be stable enough to even try.
CD (Still in sexy horned dragon mode, dang it) had taken 'Technomancy', as had Dragon herself, and the two were handling the political issues that were sweeping the planet right now. they were also hacking and directing medical services, police, firefighters, and more during the growing crisis. Taking over the air waves and giving calm announcements was likely the largest reason why several nations HADN'T torn themselves apart by now. The Dragonslayers were freaking out that an AI was taking over and that their 'murder Dragon' code wasn't working, but they were mostly irrelevant at this point anyway.
Narwhal had taken 'Purification', as it had amazing synergy with her deadly sharp force fields. While they could now be used to apply low level cleansing effects, they also increased potential damage as they could 'purify' anything she considered as contamination. Such as multidimensional flesh, hopefully. She would be an ace in the hole against the Endbringers if Adam failed his current attempt at saving the day, and was using the downtime to make sure The Guild was handling this crisis well.
And while Adam ignored Sonia's rants and let his friends and lover cover what responsibilities they could, he had cranked simulation time acceleration to the highest level possible and was scanning the shards that Eidolon's power used.
This was dangerous, and the time available outside of acceleration could be anything from seconds to hours before everything went wrong, hopefully close to the longer time range. If worse comes to worse, he would use 'Conversion' and 'Devour' on as much entity shard as he could access to destroy Eidolon's powers in general and HOPEFULLY solve the Endbringer issue.
The reason why that was not option one was NOT because Adam cared about Eidolon's abilities. No, the power that overpowered cape had was Endbringer Mastery, not creation nor deployment. There was no information one way or the other on what would happen if no one controlled the creatures.
Would they go away? Attack more often? Stop holding back? Summon more?
It was a last step option for a reason.
No, right now he was using 'Research', 'Harmony', and 'Recovery' to try and map out and identify every part of Eidolon's power as quickly as possible. Hopefully he could hijack control of the Endbringers, and more importantly control any future activation of new ones. And stop any more from being created, if that was a possibility.
He was making good progress, but the issue came from how shards were made. Basically an ability direction was chosen, then crystal randomly formed to hopefully achieve said goal. It was an organic growth, and it was entirely possible that the control mechanism was in here a dozen times or more. That attacking or replacing one section would enable a separate one.
So 'Research' was going full speed.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Scion paused, golden hand holding the 32,188th 'kitten' recently rescued from plant based organism.
No one could understand how much power had just been activated, how many methods of sensing had been enabled, how many years forward and backwards in time had been reviewed.
Thankfully, it was a normal issue of not much importance.
Setting 'kitten' 32,188th down on the nearest surface, he moved to 'fire', 11,422,655th extinguished recently. This time, he was determined to remove the organics BEFORE fire destruction.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
In the end, Squishy had to use up almost half of the remaining reserve power charges to enable him to not just copy or modify Entity shards, but to usurp their operation and relocate them.
That was... well. Honestly it all went better than expected by Adam. He had been prepared for far more horrible outcomes.
Now that it was done, it had only taken 0.001 seconds real world time to go from 'Research' to 'Manipulation' and actually carry out the final operation. Which had been step one on the 'Oh God Why Is It All Happening Now' plan.
All the rest of his charges had gone to creating a 'zoo' section in his fishbowl soul, one for prisoners, animals, and god-tier earth-destroying crystal-robots. Almost a full second was spent retaining control of Eidolon's power long enough to force the three Endbringers to calm down and accept the 'New' inputs and commands from his own power, 'Manipulation'. If he was able to fully control the robots, he SHOULD be able to pull them into his soul confinement area, safely handled until needed.
Now he was frantically using 'Conversion', 'Consumption', and 'Purification' to get rid of the original shard based power. It wouldn't strip Eidolon of all powers, in fact it SHOULD release his hold on his old one. Now he should be able to choose any FOUR abilities instead of three plus summon killer god robots.
Adam had already found the shard components for creating NEW Endbringers if needed, although the power requirements involved destroying dimensions as fuel and taking lifetimes to train. Thank everything holy, only three Endbringers currently existed right now. The Shard would normally use saved schematics to build the next ones as required, and Eidolon had been 'happy' enough after three showed up. Not that he knew those things were following his directions or even existed, but whatever.
After all that, Adam fell back into his chair with a loud sigh of contentment. It had only taken three seconds total from start to finish, but now he had taken the largest, most dangerous non-end-boss players off the board. It was both super stressful and VERY satisfying.
He smiled, enjoying the warm support as he began handling the waves of information that his friends had suffered under. Maybe he had been overestimating the threat levels of the three Endbringers, or specifically the winged angel of psychic death. He did have advantages from other realities, magic, friends that were partial deities, and sexy robot women to help along the way.
He blinked as he felt warm fingers run through his blue tentacle hair.
...He didn't have a chair in here.
He looked up at the nude angel cuddling his body with pure white wings.
She used her free hand to wave down at him.
Uh. Near Death is surprisingly comfortable.
She nodded.
Was she now excluded from his mental protections?
Another nod.
Because of course she was. Probably due to 'Manipulation' treating her as a spell or construct of Adams. As part of his soul.
She held up a peace sign and a saucy smirk.
Great.
It wasn't the mature choice, he knew. But he didn't want to get involved with that. Bigger issues had to be addressed.
At least he had stopped Squishy. She had been secretly using some of his stored up power charges to enable thousands of low level modifications to his abilities, so all his new followers could have variety when gaining Adam's favor.
Her defense for doing so was solid. Any level 0 abilities granted via faith to his followers could grow on their own in strange directions, and thanks to 'Tithe' the new flexibility and uses would be given to Adam himself in the process.
So technically, it was more cost efficient to grant tons of weak powers and let others grow them into new abilities rather than to use the charges directly.
Still, Squishy was part of his soul and he knew she just found it all entertaining. It didn't help when Twilight came up with a faith/magic based interface, giving a very weak 'Gamer' experience to his followers.
That too, would gain in power after enough people used it. Although 'Inventory' and so forth were actually using amazingly weak versions of 'Transfer' and 'Conversion' to store items in the soul of his followers.
Of course, up till that point everything had been going fine, if oddly.
Adam sighed as he tried to focus on his work again. Sonia was more than a bit angry that the world was now freaking out that his companies could grant what was being called 'Trump 0' abilities to anyone willing to believe in Adam or Adam's company. Then it got far worse.
Apparently praying to one of his organizations was enough for his powers to say 'good enough' and to be granted 'Tithe' bestowal as if by Adam himself.
So... hundreds of thousands of people now had the ability to store small amounts of materials (Wallets, keys, etc) and do low level party tricks. And the number was going up quickly as others saw personal proof that free powers wasn't a scam.
The powers scaled based on how close to Adam they were conceptually, which was neat and helpful. Strangers starting all those cult churches could barely heal paper cuts, create a glass worth of water, or manipulate hair styles. Employee family members got nearly triple the ability and functionality, Employees themselves gained ten times or more. Managers were close to actual Parahuman levels, and his closest people had basically gained weak versions of his actual powers, if only focused in one direction.
If you chose powers in categories similar to others, said powers would be more refined and offer more options when leveling. Otherwise, you could try new ideas all together, creating new effects and hopefully convincing friends to follow in your stead. Powers based on movies and games were everywhere at this point.
It was... uh. Chaos.
The only reason why the world WASN'T falling apart entirely was because people trying to use the new abilities maliciously near-instantly lost them. And getting them back, while possible, was VASTLY harder the second time, forget the third.
This was however shoving a time table onto Adam. The spread of power was too fast, even with his safety measures... it was causing issues.
On a low level of concern, crime was down everywhere. Gang members were coming home to find mothers and fathers with special powers, brothers and sisters floating toys or making sparkles. It uh... freaked them out. Many assumed it was a new global threat of some sort, and most organizations had reached out to their fellow criminals and in some cases law enforcement and enacted the 'Endbringer Truce' until someone found out what was going on.
That was time table issue number two for Adam. Fingers were already pointing in his direction because of the original information leaks online, and as long as you had no powers tracing everything to Variance was stupid easy. Still, that was a problem that could be ignored for a day or so.
On a high level, as more and more people joined the 'Variance Church' and the other cults that were springing up everywhere, more and more people were getting modified. Not quickly, thank god, but aside from the nice stuff like slowly becoming more fit and healthy... they were becoming protected by Adam's precautions.
Strangers were being caught in the act. Masters were losing their grip on their minions. But most of all, the Simurgh was going to be finding out VERY SOON that she couldn't actually see anyone anymore from large sections of the nation... and soon, likely, the planet.
This was Time Table Issue Number One, full stop, and in desperation Adam had begged his friends for help.
Nightmare Moon was busy handling all of Adam's prayer issues, having accepted his guidance to gain a fairly high level of 'Harmony'... which thanks to all her work was rapidly improving. Her past of analyzing all dreams in her nation prepared her well for this kind of information overflow. It was her rapid work that ensured each situational misuse of power by his followers was judged on a case by case basis as fairly as possible.
Throwing lava at others for fun? Ban. Doing the same to protect? Pass. And so forth.
Twilight was handling the faith interface spell matrix itself, both development and problem solving. Compared to hours ago it had already changed dozens of times and she had reduced spell consumption in cost and maintenance levels. She was NOT happy though, as she couldn't do much than fix the most dangerous problems that popped up... there was no time for new features that were really needed, and it would take months to be stable enough to even try.
CD (Still in sexy horned dragon mode, dang it) had taken 'Technomancy', as had Dragon herself, and the two were handling the political issues that were sweeping the planet right now. they were also hacking and directing medical services, police, firefighters, and more during the growing crisis. Taking over the air waves and giving calm announcements was likely the largest reason why several nations HADN'T torn themselves apart by now. The Dragonslayers were freaking out that an AI was taking over and that their 'murder Dragon' code wasn't working, but they were mostly irrelevant at this point anyway.
Narwhal had taken 'Purification', as it had amazing synergy with her deadly sharp force fields. While they could now be used to apply low level cleansing effects, they also increased potential damage as they could 'purify' anything she considered as contamination. Such as multidimensional flesh, hopefully. She would be an ace in the hole against the Endbringers if Adam failed his current attempt at saving the day, and was using the downtime to make sure The Guild was handling this crisis well.
And while Adam ignored Sonia's rants and let his friends and lover cover what responsibilities they could, he had cranked simulation time acceleration to the highest level possible and was scanning the shards that Eidolon's power used.
This was dangerous, and the time available outside of acceleration could be anything from seconds to hours before everything went wrong, hopefully close to the longer time range. If worse comes to worse, he would use 'Conversion' and 'Devour' on as much entity shard as he could access to destroy Eidolon's powers in general and HOPEFULLY solve the Endbringer issue.
The reason why that was not option one was NOT because Adam cared about Eidolon's abilities. No, the power that overpowered cape had was Endbringer Mastery, not creation nor deployment. There was no information one way or the other on what would happen if no one controlled the creatures.
Would they go away? Attack more often? Stop holding back? Summon more?
It was a last step option for a reason.
No, right now he was using 'Research', 'Harmony', and 'Recovery' to try and map out and identify every part of Eidolon's power as quickly as possible. Hopefully he could hijack control of the Endbringers, and more importantly control any future activation of new ones. And stop any more from being created, if that was a possibility.
He was making good progress, but the issue came from how shards were made. Basically an ability direction was chosen, then crystal randomly formed to hopefully achieve said goal. It was an organic growth, and it was entirely possible that the control mechanism was in here a dozen times or more. That attacking or replacing one section would enable a separate one.
So 'Research' was going full speed.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Scion paused, golden hand holding the 32,188th 'kitten' recently rescued from plant based organism.
No one could understand how much power had just been activated, how many methods of sensing had been enabled, how many years forward and backwards in time had been reviewed.
Thankfully, it was a normal issue of not much importance.
Setting 'kitten' 32,188th down on the nearest surface, he moved to 'fire', 11,422,655th extinguished recently. This time, he was determined to remove the organics BEFORE fire destruction.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
In the end, Squishy had to use up almost half of the remaining reserve power charges to enable him to not just copy or modify Entity shards, but to usurp their operation and relocate them.
That was... well. Honestly it all went better than expected by Adam. He had been prepared for far more horrible outcomes.
Now that it was done, it had only taken 0.001 seconds real world time to go from 'Research' to 'Manipulation' and actually carry out the final operation. Which had been step one on the 'Oh God Why Is It All Happening Now' plan.
All the rest of his charges had gone to creating a 'zoo' section in his fishbowl soul, one for prisoners, animals, and god-tier earth-destroying crystal-robots. Almost a full second was spent retaining control of Eidolon's power long enough to force the three Endbringers to calm down and accept the 'New' inputs and commands from his own power, 'Manipulation'. If he was able to fully control the robots, he SHOULD be able to pull them into his soul confinement area, safely handled until needed.
Now he was frantically using 'Conversion', 'Consumption', and 'Purification' to get rid of the original shard based power. It wouldn't strip Eidolon of all powers, in fact it SHOULD release his hold on his old one. Now he should be able to choose any FOUR abilities instead of three plus summon killer god robots.
Adam had already found the shard components for creating NEW Endbringers if needed, although the power requirements involved destroying dimensions as fuel and taking lifetimes to train. Thank everything holy, only three Endbringers currently existed right now. The Shard would normally use saved schematics to build the next ones as required, and Eidolon had been 'happy' enough after three showed up. Not that he knew those things were following his directions or even existed, but whatever.
After all that, Adam fell back into his chair with a loud sigh of contentment. It had only taken three seconds total from start to finish, but now he had taken the largest, most dangerous non-end-boss players off the board. It was both super stressful and VERY satisfying.
He smiled, enjoying the warm support as he began handling the waves of information that his friends had suffered under. Maybe he had been overestimating the threat levels of the three Endbringers, or specifically the winged angel of psychic death. He did have advantages from other realities, magic, friends that were partial deities, and sexy robot women to help along the way.
He blinked as he felt warm fingers run through his blue tentacle hair.
...He didn't have a chair in here.
He looked up at the nude angel cuddling his body with pure white wings.
She used her free hand to wave down at him.
Uh. Near Death is surprisingly comfortable.
She nodded.
Was she now excluded from his mental protections?
Another nod.
Because of course she was. Probably due to 'Manipulation' treating her as a spell or construct of Adams. As part of his soul.
She held up a peace sign and a saucy smirk.
Great.
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huh, I thought there were 15 other endbringers in stasis and 5 endbringer active...
Edit: Behemoth, Simurgh, Levi, Tohu-Bohu and Khonsu
Edit: Behemoth, Simurgh, Levi, Tohu-Bohu and Khonsu
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In canon, yes.
One big change in THIS story, however, is that Endbringer attacks are yearly. This has drastically reduced deployment.
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Also, this is before Taylor ever triggered, before a lot of stuff. At this time in the original story, only the first 3 were known.
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Narwhal's Night-time Adventures keep getting ever better!
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So, I just clicked the post title so that it took me to new replies, because apparently it didn't bother to take me to the threadmark, and to this post instead. So it's 100% out of context and I am like.... wtf happened in this thread since I was last here...?
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Ashkari
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Has Adam not actually finished reading Worm (/slash didn't get that info)? Because I thought we do actually know this answer.
Unless my memory of the timeline of Gold Morning events is way off (possible), isn't the death of Eidolon specifically why Tattletale was able to get the Simurgh to help out? I was under the impression that using powers related to their domain is how they were 'supposed' to be directed.
Not that it really matters here. But I immediately though of this.
I always love moments like these, lol.
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How this Worm Realm is AU.
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Well, over the course of the story so far:
*This world is AU, and several things from the story have been proven not true (Overlapping Shards/powers, etc)
*Endbringers attack less often
*Ages of some people are modified, some trigger events are earlier/later than expected
*Adam never read the story like he thought he did, the act of visiting a realty gives him new memories, with some grasp of the universe involved. Discovered during his Void journey.
*This Simurgh has been killing people randomly for trying to bother her by joining her in space. Not expected, less predictable.
*Unlike in canon, Scion is not attacking right now. No reason to help out if freed, at least not immediately.
*Endbringers attack less often
*Ages of some people are modified, some trigger events are earlier/later than expected
*Adam never read the story like he thought he did, the act of visiting a realty gives him new memories, with some grasp of the universe involved. Discovered during his Void journey.
*This Simurgh has been killing people randomly for trying to bother her by joining her in space. Not expected, less predictable.
*Unlike in canon, Scion is not attacking right now. No reason to help out if freed, at least not immediately.
Personal opinion so far: This world is alternate, the actions taken have left ripples and butterflies everywhere, so the safe bet is to NOT assume the killing bots will act reasonably once freed from slavery. Or at least, once ownership was transferred.
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