Broken Adventure
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Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
For the record, these...
...had me in an uncontrollable snicker fit for a solid ten minutes, at least.
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Robot Queen in the Healing Team
- Location
- Here
Healing people with powers was on hold.
Amy was grumbling while Armsmaster set up all kinds of gadgets in a corner.
Victoria was floating as far to the back corner as possible, and was only really staying quiet due to how fast she was texting her family. Apparently, those crowns require some preparation work before being crafted and the over-eager girl was jumping all over that.
That said corner happened to be on the opposite side of the 'Goat Cage', where Scapegoat was still 'Baa'ing in amusement, was irrelevant.
Adam himself was awkwardly sitting at the table in the middle of the room with a few non-Parahuman doctors and nurses. If he went anywhere else, it would be taking a side.
Thankfully the tension was broken by Armsmaster. "They are not robots."
Seeing the girls attention, he pointed at a screen. "Too small, not enough components for any level of instruction. Your power is creating a series of tiny tools. Springs, rotating levers, heat transfer rods, chemical catalysts, and so forth."
A model was rotating on the screen, showing many basic shapes. Adam's flames were cooler, in his opinion. "Your power creates tiny objects that are in the midst of moving. Where and at what orientation those objects are added to the patient handles the 'healing' you do."
Adam glanced at Dragon. "So the real power is whatever is calculating where to place those devices, what orientation they have, and how far along the tiny movements are at?"
Armsmaster barely nods, focused on the devices. "The crystal material itself doesn't exist long enough for capture or anything more than the shortest amount of examination. The models only completed due to the sheer number deployed during a repair."
Dragon was 'leaning' against the wall, looking slightly concerned. "Did this affect how you heal people, Variance? You already developed some pretty intense technological powers already."
Adam shook his head. "No, the feeling is more like it was inspired by Panacea's power, not copying it. In fact, I can not do minor or selective changes, like gene therapy or cosmetic surgery. My power has basic settings that I can't change yet. Give it a few days."
Thankfully this has Amy distracted from her slight 'Queen' freakout. "What kind of settings?"
He counted off. "Triage, or 'Stabilized'. Just enough to keep them alive without me. 'Standard', where you get a full heal. 'Peak', which tries to make you the best you can genetically be without extra DNA or hardware. And... uh."
Adam sighed. "Well, the last level I haven't used yet. It is 'Enhanced', which will use any and all knowledge, abilities, and surroundings to make me as powerful as possible. It will cut down my lifespan, toss out some organs and such not needed for short term combat, and rebuild me as basically a weapon of destruction. Extra organs and limbs with robot parts are pretty likely."
Seeing the shock he waved it away. "Going back to 'Standard' or 'Peak' would heal me right up, lifespan and all. It just would hurt, not last for too long, and... well, I would not trust it on other people until my skills improved by a LOT."
Armsmaster looked intrigued. "Have you used 'Peak' on anyone else so far during testing?"
Adam shook his head. "No, kept it 'standard'. Felt like anything else would required user consent beyond the whole 'heal me, please' that we have been collecting."
Whatever Armsmaster was going to say was cut off by a slight sigh from Dragon. "Orders from on high: No use of 'peak' on anyone until this whole healing session deal is over. They want a far more recorded and secure facility before possibly enhancing someone to almost Parahuman levels."
Adam shrugged. "That's fine, I'm not sure what my power would do to someone else anyway at that point." He blinked. "Or... or what it would do to someone who already had powers. My 'Peak' healing skill just makes you the best you can be... and that may apply to their power as well."
Ooo, good face-palm Dragon! "Correction: When my contact finishes freaking out she will likely delay testing even longer now."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The several day wait was punctuated by periodic requests from Armsmaster for various custom Flame Metal and Null Metal products, which he was ecstatic over. Not that it was easy to tell, but Dragon let him know.
The healing in general dropped to only two hours a day, which was still dozens of patients due to how fast treatment was.
At this point Adam had gained and used enough charges to allow 'Recovery' to (when desired) suggest changes and wait for approval before running through the still automatic process.
Thus genetic issues could be addressed, and he could now handle cosmetic work with no issue. No idea if he could fix the 'mutant' case 53's, because the testers were working REALLY HARD to prevent any more 'cape' patients.
Legend endorsing Adam's charity had accidentally become a huge boom in all of his businesses dealings as well, as everyone did background checks on this strange new guy.
At this point, his original name for his charity had been ignored and tossed by the public, and everyone was just calling it 'Charity Garden'. To the point where Dragon got it officially updated.
Well, it could be worse.
Anyway, 'Charity Garden' had some unexpected gains. Of course the Heroes applauded the concept, more healing is great, but surprisingly Villains in general were giving positive reviews of the deal. And the number of new self-reporting healing capes had hit double digits, as the few people with healing powers finally found a safer outcome than 'Someone finds out and a gang kidnaps or kills you.'
The ones with little or no attachments had actually signed up with The Guild directly, and Narwhal had backed them up to the hilt. There was now a healing division that was being set up so they could share ideas, gain advanced equipment, and get deployed during disasters.
Still, there were two days until he was scheduled to attempt to heal a person with Parahuman abilities. Two days.
Two charges.
Glancing at the 'Efficiency Tinker' Armsmaster, whom he had been around all this time...
Maybe time to enhance the 'Cybernetic Warfare Suite' by adding a 'Software/Hardware Optimization' option.
Victoria squealed. "Queen P! Aunt Sarah says she already has a princess dress with healing symbols on it!"
Amy growled. "Aunt Sarah is about to have a coffin with her NAME on it."
Vicky grinned. "Can it be pink?"
Her sister was only stationary due to all the sensor wires attached. "It will be black with hatred and filled with vengeance."
...Uh. This will be fine.
Just in case, how is Scapegoat doing?
...Is that a Tin Can!?
Amy was grumbling while Armsmaster set up all kinds of gadgets in a corner.
Victoria was floating as far to the back corner as possible, and was only really staying quiet due to how fast she was texting her family. Apparently, those crowns require some preparation work before being crafted and the over-eager girl was jumping all over that.
That said corner happened to be on the opposite side of the 'Goat Cage', where Scapegoat was still 'Baa'ing in amusement, was irrelevant.
Adam himself was awkwardly sitting at the table in the middle of the room with a few non-Parahuman doctors and nurses. If he went anywhere else, it would be taking a side.
Thankfully the tension was broken by Armsmaster. "They are not robots."
Seeing the girls attention, he pointed at a screen. "Too small, not enough components for any level of instruction. Your power is creating a series of tiny tools. Springs, rotating levers, heat transfer rods, chemical catalysts, and so forth."
A model was rotating on the screen, showing many basic shapes. Adam's flames were cooler, in his opinion. "Your power creates tiny objects that are in the midst of moving. Where and at what orientation those objects are added to the patient handles the 'healing' you do."
Adam glanced at Dragon. "So the real power is whatever is calculating where to place those devices, what orientation they have, and how far along the tiny movements are at?"
Armsmaster barely nods, focused on the devices. "The crystal material itself doesn't exist long enough for capture or anything more than the shortest amount of examination. The models only completed due to the sheer number deployed during a repair."
Dragon was 'leaning' against the wall, looking slightly concerned. "Did this affect how you heal people, Variance? You already developed some pretty intense technological powers already."
Adam shook his head. "No, the feeling is more like it was inspired by Panacea's power, not copying it. In fact, I can not do minor or selective changes, like gene therapy or cosmetic surgery. My power has basic settings that I can't change yet. Give it a few days."
Thankfully this has Amy distracted from her slight 'Queen' freakout. "What kind of settings?"
He counted off. "Triage, or 'Stabilized'. Just enough to keep them alive without me. 'Standard', where you get a full heal. 'Peak', which tries to make you the best you can genetically be without extra DNA or hardware. And... uh."
Adam sighed. "Well, the last level I haven't used yet. It is 'Enhanced', which will use any and all knowledge, abilities, and surroundings to make me as powerful as possible. It will cut down my lifespan, toss out some organs and such not needed for short term combat, and rebuild me as basically a weapon of destruction. Extra organs and limbs with robot parts are pretty likely."
Seeing the shock he waved it away. "Going back to 'Standard' or 'Peak' would heal me right up, lifespan and all. It just would hurt, not last for too long, and... well, I would not trust it on other people until my skills improved by a LOT."
Armsmaster looked intrigued. "Have you used 'Peak' on anyone else so far during testing?"
Adam shook his head. "No, kept it 'standard'. Felt like anything else would required user consent beyond the whole 'heal me, please' that we have been collecting."
Whatever Armsmaster was going to say was cut off by a slight sigh from Dragon. "Orders from on high: No use of 'peak' on anyone until this whole healing session deal is over. They want a far more recorded and secure facility before possibly enhancing someone to almost Parahuman levels."
Adam shrugged. "That's fine, I'm not sure what my power would do to someone else anyway at that point." He blinked. "Or... or what it would do to someone who already had powers. My 'Peak' healing skill just makes you the best you can be... and that may apply to their power as well."
Ooo, good face-palm Dragon! "Correction: When my contact finishes freaking out she will likely delay testing even longer now."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The several day wait was punctuated by periodic requests from Armsmaster for various custom Flame Metal and Null Metal products, which he was ecstatic over. Not that it was easy to tell, but Dragon let him know.
The healing in general dropped to only two hours a day, which was still dozens of patients due to how fast treatment was.
At this point Adam had gained and used enough charges to allow 'Recovery' to (when desired) suggest changes and wait for approval before running through the still automatic process.
Thus genetic issues could be addressed, and he could now handle cosmetic work with no issue. No idea if he could fix the 'mutant' case 53's, because the testers were working REALLY HARD to prevent any more 'cape' patients.
Legend endorsing Adam's charity had accidentally become a huge boom in all of his businesses dealings as well, as everyone did background checks on this strange new guy.
At this point, his original name for his charity had been ignored and tossed by the public, and everyone was just calling it 'Charity Garden'. To the point where Dragon got it officially updated.
Well, it could be worse.
Anyway, 'Charity Garden' had some unexpected gains. Of course the Heroes applauded the concept, more healing is great, but surprisingly Villains in general were giving positive reviews of the deal. And the number of new self-reporting healing capes had hit double digits, as the few people with healing powers finally found a safer outcome than 'Someone finds out and a gang kidnaps or kills you.'
The ones with little or no attachments had actually signed up with The Guild directly, and Narwhal had backed them up to the hilt. There was now a healing division that was being set up so they could share ideas, gain advanced equipment, and get deployed during disasters.
Still, there were two days until he was scheduled to attempt to heal a person with Parahuman abilities. Two days.
Two charges.
Glancing at the 'Efficiency Tinker' Armsmaster, whom he had been around all this time...
Maybe time to enhance the 'Cybernetic Warfare Suite' by adding a 'Software/Hardware Optimization' option.
Victoria squealed. "Queen P! Aunt Sarah says she already has a princess dress with healing symbols on it!"
Amy growled. "Aunt Sarah is about to have a coffin with her NAME on it."
Vicky grinned. "Can it be pink?"
Her sister was only stationary due to all the sensor wires attached. "It will be black with hatred and filled with vengeance."
...Uh. This will be fine.
Just in case, how is Scapegoat doing?
...Is that a Tin Can!?
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ExquisiteTopHat
Lined with 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
- Location
- Planet Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her/It/Its
Scapegoat, no! Don't eat that, you don't know where its been!
Loving the story thus far.
Loving the story thus far.
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
I am still ... fuc... breahtingh brb.
[edit] I was going to change that, but decided it was funnier the way it was.
Okay... Breathing under control now. That was hysterical. Odds on "Goth-Pan" have gone up dramatically.
Also... odds on goat plushies for Victoria have risen just as dramatically.
I guess you could say that it was a proportional response of Goth v/s Goat. LOL :lol
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Timerider
That guy who really should get out more.
- Location
- The End of the World.
Glad to see Amy's coming along nicely.
Quick, someone sit her down and show her the Addams Family movies. You know, give her a good role-model.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
are probably
- Location
- Australia
So with his constant contact with Amy, will he be picking up the increase in hormones from Vicky's "fear/adoration" aura?
Powers are Lazy.
- Location
- Here
Amy was pouting at Adam, which was adorable.
Turns out that after long, expensive, extensive testing: Neat understanding of power.
That's it.
She basically spent three days being poked to have no real change in training or abilities.
On a positive note, Victoria was very excited over the new headgear (Crowns, etc) that she was convincing the rest of the team to get for Amy. Like... far too excited.
They were tea-party age, he supposed.
Moving on, after some arguments Adam was going to heal his first (known) Parahuman!
It had taken a couple of days, one of which Amy had to leave with her sister because being around dudes all the time was concerning for their family. Or something.
Anyway, Adam invested his charges into Research focused on Dimensional Analysis, Remote Dimensional Analysis, and Biological interfaces. Basically, detecting shard portals, reading the ability on the other side, and understanding how the stupid thing can hook up into a human's head without it exploding. The head OR the power.
Seriously, you don't connect an ocean of water to a coconut, using portals to connect a brain to another PLANET seems unsafe.
With a sigh, Adam tried to ignore the glares Amy was tossing him. If his power was less crippled, he could convert a planet sized crystal entity into a shardless magical thing, or create copies, or all kinds of stuff.
As it was, he could no longer use charges on other people or even do TOO much when messing with other people's abilities. Side effects of having his whole ability shoved into a single soul and mutated to heal the drastic damage.
At least he wasn't slowly decaying anymore. Yay.
With ANOTHER sigh, he leaned forward. "Speaking for the record, I am now beginning the procedure. Expected results is at minimum a decrease in brain swelling, with optimal results having the power related tumors reduced in size. Amy, can you confirm his current state?"
As she rattles out details, he looked at the patient. This guy wasn't in the original story, or if he was Adam had forgotten it by now. In the Protectorate, injured a few years ago due to a grenade, unable to regain consciousness.
His original power was to reduce velocities, or basically block projectiles. Sadly, this had him in the cross-hairs when they found out that while all the shrapnel from grenades were stopped as expected, the actual shock-wave was NOT.
If they could heal him, he should watch out for air cannons too, he supposed.
Seeing Amy reach the end of her spiel, he continued. "Attempting a 'Standard' heal, Amy monitoring brain changes." This guy's family was pretty desperate to agree to this, but after four years people will grasp any straws they could. "Starting. Using manual healing."
The potential change list came up. Listing each one aloud, he began accepting the options. "Bone density issues, fixed. Organ failing and straining, fixed. All genetic issues ignored for now until patient can give consent."
Both of those were due to the coma and being stuck in bed really. "Brain damaged... several ways. Preserving memories. Regenerating dead subsections. Analyzing 'Corona Pollentia'."
Yeah, this is the tumor that connects your brain like a phone to a crystal planet. Neat.
Uh... this isn't exactly formed logically. A quick backup of the memories again. "Swapping to 'Research'." That's better. Eww... Oh, eww!
It is like someone took half a dog and shoved it into a cat until it worked! WHY do this? Are all powers this badly connected!?
Half of this tumor is literally doing nothing. It is just useless dead meat basically. There are four or five modules attempting to connect to the shard, but only one is actually working as intended and two are actively fighting each other to connect to the third... which is ignoring everything. There are buffers here to handle the hand-off of advanced calculation to the shard, but there are too many and most, again, are not pointing in the right direction.
Well, it's not like those aliens knew how to connect to a brain to begin with. Humans were not the first species they harvested, after all. But still, talk about 'slapping mud on the wall and see what sticks'.
Eugh. "Switching back to 'Recovery', and I am going to fix ALL of this. Hopefully his power is this screwed up due to brain damage from the blast, otherwise I'm going to be disappointed in the world."
Hologram Dragon, still taking advantage of my constant 'eye' interface, simulates leaning in. "What did you find?" Very nice shirt. No, focus.
He frowned. "Half the brain tumor isn't needed to connect to your power. In fact, most of it seems randomly placed to the point where I feel he is lucky his ability works at all. Maybe this is why most people with 'Corona Pollentia' can't get powers, because their brain tumor is all weird."
Adam nodded at the stunned Amy. "Watch this, I am going to get rid of most of this and replace it with healthy brain stuff. Memories will be restored after, but this should have no negative reaction to the power itself."
Half of the tumor vanishes, replaced with healthy brain. From analyzing the 'meat units', the power connector is given the most perfect and optimal version of itself Adam could figure out. He also tripled the number of 'calculation buffers', which made the whole thing only half as large instead of almost nothing.
The shard had no negative reaction, indeed it suddenly seemed to double transmission speed without nearly as much heat buildup as he had just sleeping there. "That should do it, did you get all that Amy?"
Her confused face was the start of an hour long conversation, where Amy and Armsmaster would review the ongoing brain scans with Adam while pointing out each part, what they did, what he changed, why he changed it, and so forth. Dragon was documenting it all, which was much less annoying than having Adam's brain computer do that. Typing sucked, even mentally.
Apparently the idea that powers were in another dimension had been tossed around for a few years now, mostly because there was not enough SPACE in a head to do what they do. Our notes were just sort of going to be tossed on the pile, although the memories of my modifications were already being uploaded to The Guild for review. And of course, to the local PRT and Armsmaster. Probably higher up as well.
It was another hour or so before everyone realized that the patient (What WAS his name again!? Healing so many people sucked.) had not only awoken but was now very confused and staring at a man with a goat mask eating another tin can.
Those things were food color painted chocolate, by the way. Vicky loved it after trying one (from a safe distance, of course). Amy had given a speech about health foods while hiding the one she was nibbling behind her research book pile.
In the end, none of this really cleared up what was going on for grenade dude, but if Adam had wanted to handle junk like that he wouldn't have thrown most of his responsibilities on an all powerful sexy AI.
The three healers would have normal patients for the rest of the week while all that collected stuff was being analyzed, so Adam decided to set up some actual entertainment as TV was getting old and the argument over movies was even more tiring.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
And so Adam had to make a game console.
Because these ones sucked.
Why had laptops advanced so much farther than the gaming industry?
Garden OS Gaming was going to be a thing.
Well... eventually. First, to sick Dragon Lawyers to gain control over all these abandoned games and platforms, spend the stupid amount of money building up on owning various intellectual properties, and... uh. Start hiring a ton of developers to be full time game designers. ADAM wasn't going to spend time making these things. Wow, there are like NO professional game designer companies left, and the Indy scene is horrible.
No wonder Uber and Leet went a bit nuts trying to get people into games. Almost everything is locked into Earth Aleph, and the ports are ridiculous expensive.
Better make a series of emulators for Garden OS, then make the most advanced software development platform for gaming possible. The default Garden system will work as a base, just add in a controller (also sold separately), and as it is so cheap it will end up flooding the market easily. Well, the market that hadn't already begun saturating with the things. Meh, marketing will likely force a custom version with a user interface focused for gaming anyway.
Thankfully he had experience with rapid software development from when he had to port everything to Adaman Eve OS to begin with.
While the sisters raced each other in Mario Kart, he leaned back on the couch (The recreation room rocked) and began hacking various games and forcing them to work right.
It was going to take a while.
Turns out that after long, expensive, extensive testing: Neat understanding of power.
That's it.
She basically spent three days being poked to have no real change in training or abilities.
On a positive note, Victoria was very excited over the new headgear (Crowns, etc) that she was convincing the rest of the team to get for Amy. Like... far too excited.
They were tea-party age, he supposed.
Moving on, after some arguments Adam was going to heal his first (known) Parahuman!
It had taken a couple of days, one of which Amy had to leave with her sister because being around dudes all the time was concerning for their family. Or something.
Anyway, Adam invested his charges into Research focused on Dimensional Analysis, Remote Dimensional Analysis, and Biological interfaces. Basically, detecting shard portals, reading the ability on the other side, and understanding how the stupid thing can hook up into a human's head without it exploding. The head OR the power.
Seriously, you don't connect an ocean of water to a coconut, using portals to connect a brain to another PLANET seems unsafe.
With a sigh, Adam tried to ignore the glares Amy was tossing him. If his power was less crippled, he could convert a planet sized crystal entity into a shardless magical thing, or create copies, or all kinds of stuff.
As it was, he could no longer use charges on other people or even do TOO much when messing with other people's abilities. Side effects of having his whole ability shoved into a single soul and mutated to heal the drastic damage.
At least he wasn't slowly decaying anymore. Yay.
With ANOTHER sigh, he leaned forward. "Speaking for the record, I am now beginning the procedure. Expected results is at minimum a decrease in brain swelling, with optimal results having the power related tumors reduced in size. Amy, can you confirm his current state?"
As she rattles out details, he looked at the patient. This guy wasn't in the original story, or if he was Adam had forgotten it by now. In the Protectorate, injured a few years ago due to a grenade, unable to regain consciousness.
His original power was to reduce velocities, or basically block projectiles. Sadly, this had him in the cross-hairs when they found out that while all the shrapnel from grenades were stopped as expected, the actual shock-wave was NOT.
If they could heal him, he should watch out for air cannons too, he supposed.
Seeing Amy reach the end of her spiel, he continued. "Attempting a 'Standard' heal, Amy monitoring brain changes." This guy's family was pretty desperate to agree to this, but after four years people will grasp any straws they could. "Starting. Using manual healing."
The potential change list came up. Listing each one aloud, he began accepting the options. "Bone density issues, fixed. Organ failing and straining, fixed. All genetic issues ignored for now until patient can give consent."
Both of those were due to the coma and being stuck in bed really. "Brain damaged... several ways. Preserving memories. Regenerating dead subsections. Analyzing 'Corona Pollentia'."
Yeah, this is the tumor that connects your brain like a phone to a crystal planet. Neat.
Uh... this isn't exactly formed logically. A quick backup of the memories again. "Swapping to 'Research'." That's better. Eww... Oh, eww!
It is like someone took half a dog and shoved it into a cat until it worked! WHY do this? Are all powers this badly connected!?
Half of this tumor is literally doing nothing. It is just useless dead meat basically. There are four or five modules attempting to connect to the shard, but only one is actually working as intended and two are actively fighting each other to connect to the third... which is ignoring everything. There are buffers here to handle the hand-off of advanced calculation to the shard, but there are too many and most, again, are not pointing in the right direction.
Well, it's not like those aliens knew how to connect to a brain to begin with. Humans were not the first species they harvested, after all. But still, talk about 'slapping mud on the wall and see what sticks'.
Eugh. "Switching back to 'Recovery', and I am going to fix ALL of this. Hopefully his power is this screwed up due to brain damage from the blast, otherwise I'm going to be disappointed in the world."
Hologram Dragon, still taking advantage of my constant 'eye' interface, simulates leaning in. "What did you find?" Very nice shirt. No, focus.
He frowned. "Half the brain tumor isn't needed to connect to your power. In fact, most of it seems randomly placed to the point where I feel he is lucky his ability works at all. Maybe this is why most people with 'Corona Pollentia' can't get powers, because their brain tumor is all weird."
Adam nodded at the stunned Amy. "Watch this, I am going to get rid of most of this and replace it with healthy brain stuff. Memories will be restored after, but this should have no negative reaction to the power itself."
Half of the tumor vanishes, replaced with healthy brain. From analyzing the 'meat units', the power connector is given the most perfect and optimal version of itself Adam could figure out. He also tripled the number of 'calculation buffers', which made the whole thing only half as large instead of almost nothing.
The shard had no negative reaction, indeed it suddenly seemed to double transmission speed without nearly as much heat buildup as he had just sleeping there. "That should do it, did you get all that Amy?"
Her confused face was the start of an hour long conversation, where Amy and Armsmaster would review the ongoing brain scans with Adam while pointing out each part, what they did, what he changed, why he changed it, and so forth. Dragon was documenting it all, which was much less annoying than having Adam's brain computer do that. Typing sucked, even mentally.
Apparently the idea that powers were in another dimension had been tossed around for a few years now, mostly because there was not enough SPACE in a head to do what they do. Our notes were just sort of going to be tossed on the pile, although the memories of my modifications were already being uploaded to The Guild for review. And of course, to the local PRT and Armsmaster. Probably higher up as well.
It was another hour or so before everyone realized that the patient (What WAS his name again!? Healing so many people sucked.) had not only awoken but was now very confused and staring at a man with a goat mask eating another tin can.
Those things were food color painted chocolate, by the way. Vicky loved it after trying one (from a safe distance, of course). Amy had given a speech about health foods while hiding the one she was nibbling behind her research book pile.
In the end, none of this really cleared up what was going on for grenade dude, but if Adam had wanted to handle junk like that he wouldn't have thrown most of his responsibilities on an all powerful sexy AI.
The three healers would have normal patients for the rest of the week while all that collected stuff was being analyzed, so Adam decided to set up some actual entertainment as TV was getting old and the argument over movies was even more tiring.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
And so Adam had to make a game console.
Because these ones sucked.
Why had laptops advanced so much farther than the gaming industry?
Garden OS Gaming was going to be a thing.
Well... eventually. First, to sick Dragon Lawyers to gain control over all these abandoned games and platforms, spend the stupid amount of money building up on owning various intellectual properties, and... uh. Start hiring a ton of developers to be full time game designers. ADAM wasn't going to spend time making these things. Wow, there are like NO professional game designer companies left, and the Indy scene is horrible.
No wonder Uber and Leet went a bit nuts trying to get people into games. Almost everything is locked into Earth Aleph, and the ports are ridiculous expensive.
Better make a series of emulators for Garden OS, then make the most advanced software development platform for gaming possible. The default Garden system will work as a base, just add in a controller (also sold separately), and as it is so cheap it will end up flooding the market easily. Well, the market that hadn't already begun saturating with the things. Meh, marketing will likely force a custom version with a user interface focused for gaming anyway.
Thankfully he had experience with rapid software development from when he had to port everything to Adaman Eve OS to begin with.
While the sisters raced each other in Mario Kart, he leaned back on the couch (The recreation room rocked) and began hacking various games and forcing them to work right.
It was going to take a while.
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Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
So he just taught Amy how to hack powers.
- Location
- usa
Here's an excuse to get a power for him to be able switch his gender on command. Never know when that could be useful.
No, guy whose last memory was taking a probably lethal attack. Just because there's a horned guy looming over you is no reason to think you're in Hell.
Jonn Wolfe
(Verified Sarcastic) (Not a Wolf)
- Location
- Beyond Sanity Since 1971
And of course, Scapegoat says the first thing that comes to mind.
- Location
- Dodging chaos dragons in Limbo
They used Hebrew letters as indices for the realities, not Greek. Hence, Earth Aleph, Bet, ... instead of Earth Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and so on.
Tisaku
Head Chief Thinkomancer
- Location
- Here
*sigh*
Tried to add a summary, couldn't insert it in the correct spot, decided to add it to the first chapter instead.
Seriously, it is hard to get those threadmarks straightened out. Glad I don't have to mess with them a lot.
Tried to add a summary, couldn't insert it in the correct spot, decided to add it to the first chapter instead.
Seriously, it is hard to get those threadmarks straightened out. Glad I don't have to mess with them a lot.
Just... Stay in the house, please.
- Location
- Here
Director Piggot was clearly taking her time authorizing any further Parahuman healing with Adam.
A month had already passed, and the two girls had to cut down their visits to the afternoon due to having to go back to class. It wasn't too much of an issue, and Adam got to share the experimental game consoles being developed with Scapegoat, who was surprisingly talented.
As far as powers though, he had learned some things.
Scanning shards may not allow Adam to copy them or whatever like his original power could, but it DID provide Shard Administrator (Miss Squishy) advanced information that could be 'Researched' and referenced.
In other words, it would take less charges to accomplish better results if he could keep scanning people.
Since that was going to end up being a long term goal, he buckled down on more easily met goals.
His original plan had been to modify 'Recovery' to have an 'area of effect' feature, but in the middle of applying the charge he had felt the strangest thing.
A squish. In his brain.
Squishy had been poke-poking him. In the brain.
It had taken some confusion and tentacle-charades, but she wanted the 'Area' charge instead of giving it to 'Recovery' directly.
It took four charges instead of one, but Squishy seemed happy.
Also: Adam could now apply 'area' effects to any of his power-sets. Including 'Research' (Which sort of had it with 'Search' being absorbed) and 'Flame Manipulation' (Which did NOT have it. Mmm, fire pretty.)
This felt more like adding a specific ability or spell rather than a new type of power, and it inspired him to do something similar with all the other 'use or lose' charges.
'Recovery' gained 'Sleep', 'Numb', and 'Subdue' which was a combination of drugs that may or may not be legal.
'Flame Manipulation' gained 'Restrain', 'Absorb' (Ice anyone?), and 'Detonate', which Dragon refused to test indoors.
Spoilsport.
'Research' gained 'Scan', 'Duplicate', and 'Deploy', which sped up and simplified real-world to virtual data handling and visa-versa.
And 'Technomancy'... well.
He had been heavily investing random charges into 'Technomancy'.
Now he was more than slightly sure that Dragon was suspecting something, as he had invested charges in dynamic world simulation, advanced scanning, and data-to-sensory conversion.
At this point, the data stream from Dragon into his graphical user interface (AKA, his vision) allowed her to 'interact' with the area around him.
It was more accurate if directly within his range of sight/smell/sound/touch, and the better he could experience something the more accurate the simulation... but basically, if she touched something a simulated manipulable replica would appear. And since all memories were being preserved, she could wander through places he had been and review items scanned previously. Like libraries. That had impressed her.
Further, she could could pick up a burger and gain a digital copy.
And eat it.
Since she was sharing the digital output stream with Armsmaster, to the two of us it was quite entertaining.
Even if the other tinker was fairly restrained socially, his amusement watching Dragon play with various things was palpable.
Adam couldn't help but blush when he heard her try cake for the first time though.
Aside from her 'Been in a medical facility' excuse, she clearly had never experienced that level of flavor... ever. Case in point, the moaning.
Seriously, inside voice.
She had demanded a copy of the software allowing the sense translation and luckily he had a high enough level of software development at that point to quickly whip up something that could duplicate what his power was actually doing. Well, that small portion of his power that turned digital feed into sensations. It wasn't as flexible or as powerful as when his power did it, but it would make digital dates with Armsmaster more interesting.
...If she ended up developing a mechanical suit for Armsmaster to wear to simulate touching others, that was not going to be done by Adam.
He was fine helping a bit, but not THAT much.
In retrospect, the charge allowing her (and future programs) to (non-lethally) touch HIM may have been a bad idea.
Dragon was a hugger.
And when she made an actual Virtual Reality pod for Narwhal to try, well...
She was a hugger too. And still wearing that... revealing shirt-dress he had made.
Had... Had she oiled up? Or was that a visual filter?
ANYWAY. Anyway. Moving on.
Thanks to the virtual pods Dragon was deploying, plus some basic software to make virtual office rooms, meetings in general were no longer speaker phone for us.
Narwhal was clearly abusing the privilege.
It was... nice to see her though. It had only been a few weeks, but she was fun to talk to. And watch, obviously.
Anyway, since healing and stuff was being side-lined waiting for review of the past Parahuman healing session, Adam ended up focusing on his financial stuff.
Eve OS was being adopted world wide. The OS was incredibly stable and fast, and had an ever expanding and HUGE library. Garden systems were selling everywhere that hadn't bribed Dragon to delay deployment in.
The Garden Charity was doing... well, much better than expected. In addition to the general 'Healers Rule' policy, Adam had donated Garden machines that were being given out to libraries world wide, since they were basically free to make anyway and this introduced the unknowing public to the things. Multiple pools of money were being set up to encourage not just Parahuman healers, but to increase the number of people able to become paramedics, nurses, doctors, and pharmacists in general.
Dragon even suggested funding the creation of a couple of colleges, ones dedicated to healing and advancing software and hardware development. Adam was ALL over that idea, so those things were allocated to begin construction. Parahuman building organizations were a thing apparently, and several of the facilities had rapidly gained local government support due to the increased jobs they would generate.
Finally, the game console. Since this thing was restricted to the gaming market only, Adam was able to get away with more expensive, silly-powerful parts. It had no Null Metal or Flame Metal, but it flat out dominated the hardware currently dedicated to gaming already out there.
More importantly, it had a dedicated digital market. All those old, abandoned games were available for download and offline use for either a one time cheap fee or a low, continuous subscription. That same subscription model was used for media content, which Dragon had begun gathering rights to thanks (Again) to the power of lots-of-cash and lawyers. Netflix didn't exist here... well, not until now.
It was being called 'Forbidden Fruit', and needed parental permission to access adult content.
...Also, it had adult content.
Honestly, it was this kind of crap that was delaying the whole process. Adam was making the machines to make each console version for local testing until all the Lawyers stab each other or whatever they do to let him get started on the stupid things.
The console was currently shaped like a melon, by the way. The actual forbidden fruit in the bible was a pomegranate he thought, but it had been years since he checked. One of those historical shows mentioned it once, maybe.
Anyway, marketing said melon. More 'cute', so more money. Most of which would go into costs or his charity.
The dang thing wasn't even mass-producible yet and people were protesting. Make super cheap, wide accessible console? No problem. Burn people alive in the games? Go ahead!
Adult material, restricted to adults? How dare you!
Meh, it was mostly America freaking out. Canada was more laid back about the issue, surprisingly.
Maybe not surprisingly, online sort-of-celebrities Leet and Uber were... very enthusiastic about the entire concept. To the point where private discussions were underway with Dragon to gain them as testers (Uber) and prototypers (Leet) in return for giving up a life of crime. Something Dragon's shackles would have prevented considering in the past, but the two hadn't done that crazy Grand Theft Auto stunt yet so their crime rap sheet was short and clean.
They may end up becoming spokespersons for the thing, which was a welcome (if unintended) consequence of Adam being bored.
So back to those unused powers.
He had been forced to spend a LOT of charges on stuff more subtle due to not being around more capes.
His cover story was a tool that could save him some day, and he wouldn't show off his ability to spawn random abilities that easily.
'Flame Manipulation' constructs could now include a 'brain' that could be controlled through digital commands. Like 'Technomancy' simulated commands.
His Golden Garden simulated hardware could now store and access information saved into his soul/body/brain stuff.
Together, he could now control a flame exoskeleton while using 'Technomancy'... and to a lesser extent, could control Kaa or other constructs while using other abilities.
Well, as long as their programming wasn't terrible.
Hopefully.
WITH 'Flame Manipulation', Kaa was fast, deadly, and near-lifelike. With anything else, the basic AI he had developed so far... was lacking.
Kaa could move forward, turn, stop, and accelerate. Direct commands could be processed without changing powers... to a degree.
Attack? Sure. Sing? No. Stop crushing those cars? Confusion. He couldn't recognize cars anyway, that level of general information was automatically given to it by 'Flame Manipulation' from his subconscious.
If Adam tried to duplicate that level of finesse with 'Technomancy' he had to program instincts and all that jazz in by hand, at least once.
It had required... many charges.
Sigh.
He wanted to get started on a new power-set. Space manipulation, an Inventory power, specifically.
How old was Vista anyway? Once they met he could hopefully get some scans to make creating a 'Space' power-set FAR less expensive.
Right now it would take tons of charges, and the source of inspiration would be non-existent, giving the game away.
In the original story, she joins this city in... 2009? But then again, Amy and Victoria shouldn't gain their powers till 2008, but they clearly had their stuff NOW in 2006.
The hell.
Whatever, Vista didn't exist on the internet yet, so maybe he could find someone else with dimensional powers and do some deep brain scanning.
Would have been creepy anyway, she was like... nine or something right now.
'Can I touch your brain little girl?'
Eww. So Coil-Like. Speaking of which, better look into him before leaving this area.
Anyway, Space would need creating and leveling up, Time would require lots of charges too.
Both together to ensure that leaving or returning wouldn't have some strange 'You vanished for 300 years' issue.
Due to absent mindfulness, Scapegoat was kicking his bum in these games. Badly.
Or he was just horrible. Either way, it was fun.
Pushing aside his mental frustration at being basically stuck with house arrest in a city with so much to DO, Adam tried to suck less while losing to man-goat.
How can he even see with that full headed mask anyway!?
A month had already passed, and the two girls had to cut down their visits to the afternoon due to having to go back to class. It wasn't too much of an issue, and Adam got to share the experimental game consoles being developed with Scapegoat, who was surprisingly talented.
As far as powers though, he had learned some things.
Scanning shards may not allow Adam to copy them or whatever like his original power could, but it DID provide Shard Administrator (Miss Squishy) advanced information that could be 'Researched' and referenced.
In other words, it would take less charges to accomplish better results if he could keep scanning people.
Since that was going to end up being a long term goal, he buckled down on more easily met goals.
His original plan had been to modify 'Recovery' to have an 'area of effect' feature, but in the middle of applying the charge he had felt the strangest thing.
A squish. In his brain.
Squishy had been poke-poking him. In the brain.
It had taken some confusion and tentacle-charades, but she wanted the 'Area' charge instead of giving it to 'Recovery' directly.
It took four charges instead of one, but Squishy seemed happy.
Also: Adam could now apply 'area' effects to any of his power-sets. Including 'Research' (Which sort of had it with 'Search' being absorbed) and 'Flame Manipulation' (Which did NOT have it. Mmm, fire pretty.)
This felt more like adding a specific ability or spell rather than a new type of power, and it inspired him to do something similar with all the other 'use or lose' charges.
'Recovery' gained 'Sleep', 'Numb', and 'Subdue' which was a combination of drugs that may or may not be legal.
'Flame Manipulation' gained 'Restrain', 'Absorb' (Ice anyone?), and 'Detonate', which Dragon refused to test indoors.
Spoilsport.
'Research' gained 'Scan', 'Duplicate', and 'Deploy', which sped up and simplified real-world to virtual data handling and visa-versa.
And 'Technomancy'... well.
He had been heavily investing random charges into 'Technomancy'.
Now he was more than slightly sure that Dragon was suspecting something, as he had invested charges in dynamic world simulation, advanced scanning, and data-to-sensory conversion.
At this point, the data stream from Dragon into his graphical user interface (AKA, his vision) allowed her to 'interact' with the area around him.
It was more accurate if directly within his range of sight/smell/sound/touch, and the better he could experience something the more accurate the simulation... but basically, if she touched something a simulated manipulable replica would appear. And since all memories were being preserved, she could wander through places he had been and review items scanned previously. Like libraries. That had impressed her.
Further, she could could pick up a burger and gain a digital copy.
And eat it.
Since she was sharing the digital output stream with Armsmaster, to the two of us it was quite entertaining.
Even if the other tinker was fairly restrained socially, his amusement watching Dragon play with various things was palpable.
Adam couldn't help but blush when he heard her try cake for the first time though.
Aside from her 'Been in a medical facility' excuse, she clearly had never experienced that level of flavor... ever. Case in point, the moaning.
Seriously, inside voice.
She had demanded a copy of the software allowing the sense translation and luckily he had a high enough level of software development at that point to quickly whip up something that could duplicate what his power was actually doing. Well, that small portion of his power that turned digital feed into sensations. It wasn't as flexible or as powerful as when his power did it, but it would make digital dates with Armsmaster more interesting.
...If she ended up developing a mechanical suit for Armsmaster to wear to simulate touching others, that was not going to be done by Adam.
He was fine helping a bit, but not THAT much.
In retrospect, the charge allowing her (and future programs) to (non-lethally) touch HIM may have been a bad idea.
Dragon was a hugger.
And when she made an actual Virtual Reality pod for Narwhal to try, well...
She was a hugger too. And still wearing that... revealing shirt-dress he had made.
Had... Had she oiled up? Or was that a visual filter?
ANYWAY. Anyway. Moving on.
Thanks to the virtual pods Dragon was deploying, plus some basic software to make virtual office rooms, meetings in general were no longer speaker phone for us.
Narwhal was clearly abusing the privilege.
It was... nice to see her though. It had only been a few weeks, but she was fun to talk to. And watch, obviously.
Anyway, since healing and stuff was being side-lined waiting for review of the past Parahuman healing session, Adam ended up focusing on his financial stuff.
Eve OS was being adopted world wide. The OS was incredibly stable and fast, and had an ever expanding and HUGE library. Garden systems were selling everywhere that hadn't bribed Dragon to delay deployment in.
The Garden Charity was doing... well, much better than expected. In addition to the general 'Healers Rule' policy, Adam had donated Garden machines that were being given out to libraries world wide, since they were basically free to make anyway and this introduced the unknowing public to the things. Multiple pools of money were being set up to encourage not just Parahuman healers, but to increase the number of people able to become paramedics, nurses, doctors, and pharmacists in general.
Dragon even suggested funding the creation of a couple of colleges, ones dedicated to healing and advancing software and hardware development. Adam was ALL over that idea, so those things were allocated to begin construction. Parahuman building organizations were a thing apparently, and several of the facilities had rapidly gained local government support due to the increased jobs they would generate.
Finally, the game console. Since this thing was restricted to the gaming market only, Adam was able to get away with more expensive, silly-powerful parts. It had no Null Metal or Flame Metal, but it flat out dominated the hardware currently dedicated to gaming already out there.
More importantly, it had a dedicated digital market. All those old, abandoned games were available for download and offline use for either a one time cheap fee or a low, continuous subscription. That same subscription model was used for media content, which Dragon had begun gathering rights to thanks (Again) to the power of lots-of-cash and lawyers. Netflix didn't exist here... well, not until now.
It was being called 'Forbidden Fruit', and needed parental permission to access adult content.
...Also, it had adult content.
Honestly, it was this kind of crap that was delaying the whole process. Adam was making the machines to make each console version for local testing until all the Lawyers stab each other or whatever they do to let him get started on the stupid things.
The console was currently shaped like a melon, by the way. The actual forbidden fruit in the bible was a pomegranate he thought, but it had been years since he checked. One of those historical shows mentioned it once, maybe.
Anyway, marketing said melon. More 'cute', so more money. Most of which would go into costs or his charity.
The dang thing wasn't even mass-producible yet and people were protesting. Make super cheap, wide accessible console? No problem. Burn people alive in the games? Go ahead!
Adult material, restricted to adults? How dare you!
Meh, it was mostly America freaking out. Canada was more laid back about the issue, surprisingly.
Maybe not surprisingly, online sort-of-celebrities Leet and Uber were... very enthusiastic about the entire concept. To the point where private discussions were underway with Dragon to gain them as testers (Uber) and prototypers (Leet) in return for giving up a life of crime. Something Dragon's shackles would have prevented considering in the past, but the two hadn't done that crazy Grand Theft Auto stunt yet so their crime rap sheet was short and clean.
They may end up becoming spokespersons for the thing, which was a welcome (if unintended) consequence of Adam being bored.
So back to those unused powers.
He had been forced to spend a LOT of charges on stuff more subtle due to not being around more capes.
His cover story was a tool that could save him some day, and he wouldn't show off his ability to spawn random abilities that easily.
'Flame Manipulation' constructs could now include a 'brain' that could be controlled through digital commands. Like 'Technomancy' simulated commands.
His Golden Garden simulated hardware could now store and access information saved into his soul/body/brain stuff.
Together, he could now control a flame exoskeleton while using 'Technomancy'... and to a lesser extent, could control Kaa or other constructs while using other abilities.
Well, as long as their programming wasn't terrible.
Hopefully.
WITH 'Flame Manipulation', Kaa was fast, deadly, and near-lifelike. With anything else, the basic AI he had developed so far... was lacking.
Kaa could move forward, turn, stop, and accelerate. Direct commands could be processed without changing powers... to a degree.
Attack? Sure. Sing? No. Stop crushing those cars? Confusion. He couldn't recognize cars anyway, that level of general information was automatically given to it by 'Flame Manipulation' from his subconscious.
If Adam tried to duplicate that level of finesse with 'Technomancy' he had to program instincts and all that jazz in by hand, at least once.
It had required... many charges.
Sigh.
He wanted to get started on a new power-set. Space manipulation, an Inventory power, specifically.
How old was Vista anyway? Once they met he could hopefully get some scans to make creating a 'Space' power-set FAR less expensive.
Right now it would take tons of charges, and the source of inspiration would be non-existent, giving the game away.
In the original story, she joins this city in... 2009? But then again, Amy and Victoria shouldn't gain their powers till 2008, but they clearly had their stuff NOW in 2006.
The hell.
Whatever, Vista didn't exist on the internet yet, so maybe he could find someone else with dimensional powers and do some deep brain scanning.
Would have been creepy anyway, she was like... nine or something right now.
'Can I touch your brain little girl?'
Eww. So Coil-Like. Speaking of which, better look into him before leaving this area.
Anyway, Space would need creating and leveling up, Time would require lots of charges too.
Both together to ensure that leaving or returning wouldn't have some strange 'You vanished for 300 years' issue.
Due to absent mindfulness, Scapegoat was kicking his bum in these games. Badly.
Or he was just horrible. Either way, it was fun.
Pushing aside his mental frustration at being basically stuck with house arrest in a city with so much to DO, Adam tried to suck less while losing to man-goat.
How can he even see with that full headed mask anyway!?
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Love all the tech talk and anything that has to do with him spreading his inventions, that is awesome. Also wouldn't mind a couple of interludes as peoples' reactions off screen are probably great, especially pho.
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...*Sigh* I'll give it a shot eventually. Wanted to do one a while back anyway.
Pho requires a lot of formatting though. I'm not saying I won't, just that it sucks to do.
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Yet again the same advice I always give - if you don't like PHO (which to be honest may be hard to format, includes lots of trolling or trashtalking to make it 'more realistic' and it's more about telling then showing) which to be honest is one of the reasons why so few PHO chapters are done really well IMO. I'm personally not a fan of that format.
In this case alternative may be to present interlude chapter(s) from perspective of random people. Like those gaming consoles? Present chapter from a perspective of random gamers which test out console in one of gaming events with possibly Uber & L33T talking about those in the background. Still informative chapter, presents neutral outside perspective and IMO reads better then straight up PHO. And suddenly you present change perspective for example of some technological enthusiast hobbyist which describes what he liked about the product to some of his friends. Or some random couple test out one of the products with their children. Each may be interlude chapter or you present them all in one, but make them shorter. This should work.
Also I will say that I like this story, as it's more about slice of life technological uplifting, which is a very interesting change of pace when compared to combat heavy stories, which to be honest with overpowered protagonists are hard to be presented well and easily become boring 'power fantasies'. Good work so far and looking forward next chapters
.And curse you, as I find both Dragon and Narwhal fun shipping options for MC here
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Didn't Toybox have a Tinker who did dimensional tech or at least pocket dimensions?
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