[X][Mystery Girl] We should approach friendly, or at least non hostile. Talk a bit about what we are up to, and try to learn what shes up to. What she has been up to. And why she has Empire bothering her. We want to learn what her power is, and if we can trust her. Ideally we could get her on our side, in exchange for pay and or benefits. The issue is we need to make sure shes not going to go villainy. We know her face so I don't think we need to worry about an ID leak, but if we start taking hits because of her actions we have a problem. Even if we can't outright hire her or form a team, she may be willing to work with us on a case by case contractor basis. Of course, if she's some kind of villain or gang member we should nope the fuck out of there.
Idea: what if we take an iron pot, fill it with water, mix in (in decreasing order of amount and importance) silicon dust, Zinc dust, ethanol, and bone meal. Then put a huge bunch of mana into it, then onto this mana thats 90% arcane but with a smidge of silicon, chant: "kettle kettle boil and bubble, brew me up a pot of trouble, upon those by this concoction splashed, turn their hopes all into ash, curse them with eternal pain, all attempts to cure: in vain, Their screams sweet music to my ears, let all who touch them be in tears, a melting horror to behold, 'Beware' all who see them be told, None shall dare the ire of Sage, when I release this cursed plague", and while applying it back to targeting the water and stuff in the pot and mixing it with Thaum > Zinc > Zinc > Zinc > Zinc > Zinc ("Cursed One") mana. Then before it "sets" add a drop of blood. Stir thoroughly with a bone, then pour into a throwable bottle and seal it.
[x][mana]alchemy see if we can combine thing together with alchemy
[X][Mana] Leave a small bead of sea glass on the roof and wait for it to become saturated.
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure boron (used in glass making)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure beryllium (used in some copper alloys for tools).
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure Phosphorus (fertilizer)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure cadmium (fertilizer again)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure selenium (still fertilizer)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure scandium (baseball bats)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure manganese (most steel and aluminum alloys)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure niobium (steel)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure cobolt (batteries)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure lithium (also batteries)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure iodine
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure antimony (transistors)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure indium (transistors)
[X][Mana] Denature and test pure zirconium (ceramics)
Idea: what if we take an iron pot, fill it with water, mix in (in decreasing order of amount and importance) silicon dust, Zinc dust, ethanol, and bone meal. Then put a huge bunch of mana into it, then onto this mana thats 90% arcane but with a smidge of silicon, chant: "kettle kettle boil and bubble, brew me up a pot of trouble, upon those by this concoction splashed, turn their hopes all into ash, curse them with eternal pain, all attempts to cure: in vain, Their screams sweet music to my ears, let all who touch them be in tears, a melting horror to behold, 'Beware' all who see them be told, None shall dare the ire of Sage, when I release this cursed plague", and while applying it back to targeting the water and stuff in the pot and mixing it with Thaum > Zinc > Zinc > Zinc > Zinc > Zinc ("Cursed One") mana. Then before it "sets" add a drop of blood. Stir thoroughly with a bone, then pour into a throwable bottle and seal it.
Hmm, how would the PRT react if we said we realized we might be able to do "something really bad" with our power, and want their help limiting ourselves so we *cant* do it if we "get captured by a villain or something". Possibly adding that if they do that, they can leave an exception in their conditioning for doing it against endbringers only.
Hmm, how would the PRT react if we said we realized we might be able to do "something really bad" with our power, and want their help limiting ourselves so we *cant* do it if we "get captured by a villain or something". Possibly adding that if they do that, they can leave an exception in their conditioning for doing it against endbringers only.
[X][Mystery Girl] We should approach friendly, or at least non hostile. Talk a bit about what we are up to, and try to learn what shes up to. What she has been up to. And why she has Empire bothering her. We want to learn what her power is, and if we can trust her. Ideally we could get her on our side, in exchange for pay and or benefits. The issue is we need to make sure shes not going to go villainy. We know her face so I don't think we need to worry about an ID leak, but if we start taking hits because of her actions we have a problem. Even if we can't outright hire her or form a team, she may be willing to work with us on a case by case contractor basis. Of course, if she's some kind of villain or gang member we should nope the fuck out of there.
[X][Mystery Girl] Goals-figure out what gave you away, get a friendly contact on the parahuman side of BB (depending on how the meeting goes); Approach- friendly, but reserved. She thinks Taylor is a tinker, no reason to correct her that we are much more dangerous.
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
-[X][Mana] Ice+Water>Crystal Quartz>Ice+Water>our own brain to enhance it.
-[X][Mana] (Thaum > Calcium Carbonate) + (Denature) > Plant > Bread > Silicon > Plant (transmute)
-[X][Mana] try using Thaum > Timeshift Crystal > Brain enhancement on our brain,
--[X]and if that works well create a circlet full of timeshift crystal dust that will dump a large dose of the mana into our brain.
-[X][Mana] Test a piece of equipment's True Attunement (Timeshift Crystal)
-[X][Mana] Test mutating a sage plant and an aloe plant using Thaum > Kidney > Liver and Thaum > Kidney > Liver > Silicon
-[X][Mana] Using an insect, test the ability of a large dose of Thaum > Graphite > Copper to revert extreme whole-body mortal wounds if applied fast enough. This could potentially be the basis of an "extra life" device if it works.
-[X][Mana] test the result of using Skin Tone mana on a wound healed with blood mana.
-[X][Mana] try using Graviton Exchanger Mutation on a test plate of wood armor, to see if it'd let us make a much thicker armor withtoe it becoming to heavy, or even give an advantage to jumping.
[X][Mystery Girl] We should approach friendly, or at least non hostile. Talk a bit about what we are up to, and try to learn what shes up to. What she has been up to. And why she has Empire bothering her. We want to learn what her power is, and if we can trust her. Ideally we could get her on our side, in exchange for pay and or benefits. The issue is we need to make sure shes not going to go villainy. We know her face so I don't think we need to worry about an ID leak, but if we start taking hits because of her actions we have a problem. Even if we can't outright hire her or form a team, she may be willing to work with us on a case by case contractor basis. Of course, if she's some kind of villain or gang member we should nope the fuck out of there.
[X][Mystery Girl] Goals-figure out what gave you away, get a friendly contact on the parahuman side of BB (depending on how the meeting goes); Approach- friendly, but reserved. She thinks Taylor is a tinker, no reason to correct her that we are much more dangerous.
[X][Mana] Mana-Test Materials (Write-In)
-[X][Mana] Ice+Water>Crystal Quartz>Ice+Water>our own brain to enhance it.
-[X][Mana] (Thaum > Calcium Carbonate) + (Denature) > Plant > Bread > Silicon > Plant (transmute)
-[X][Mana] try using Thaum > Timeshift Crystal > Brain enhancement on our brain,
--[X]and if that works well create a circlet full of timeshift crystal dust that will dump a large dose of the mana into our brain.
-[X][Mana] Test a piece of equipment's True Attunement (Timeshift Crystal)
-[X][Mana] Test mutating a sage plant and an aloe plant using Thaum > Kidney > Liver and Thaum > Kidney > Liver > Silicon
-[X][Mana] Using an insect, test the ability of a large dose of Thaum > Graphite > Copper to revert extreme whole-body mortal wounds if applied fast enough. This could potentially be the basis of an "extra life" device if it works.
-[X][Mana] test the result of using Skin Tone mana on a wound healed with blood mana.
-[X][Mana] try using Graviton Exchanger Mutation on a test plate of wood armor, to see if it'd let us make a much thicker armor withtoe it becoming to heavy, or even give an advantage to jumping.
Dad decided to keep his little pen holster out in the open when we went to the cafe, but I also stipulated that he should wait a bit before coming in.
"It would probably be a good idea for you to be parked outside, just in case. You can keep an eye on me through the window from here without intimidating her too much. I'll make sure to tell you everything we end up discussing, alright?" I ask.
Dad nods. "Smart. Just be careful not to agree to anything unless you're absolutely sure. We don't need to get caught up in anything illegal, even by mistake," he points out, to which I nod.
For now, at least, I've got no intentions of breaking any laws. It would be too risky for me and dad, and ruin my plans to turn a fair profit as well.
I hop out of the car, giving him one last glance before walking into the cafe. It looks like one of the cheaper ones around, and nobody was really inside at this hour. Nobody except the girl I'm here to meet, at least.
She immediately smirked when we made eye contact, and I noticed how her hair was tied up in a small bun, and her clothing was nothing especially out there, unlike when I saw her at the boardwalk.
I walk over and sit down as casually as I can manage.
"It's good to see you could make it. No clue why you brought the spare, though, all things considered," she says.
Annoyed at my dad being referred to as a "spare", I clenched my hands, prepared to retort.
"After all, you could probably kill everyone in this building handily enough on your own, huh?" she continues.
I'm completely stunned at this, more than long enough for her to keep talking.
"My name is Lisa, I'm a pretty strong thinker, and I've got a gig right now relieving old rich guys of their hard-earned money, and unlike you, I'm pretty good at covering my tracks."
"It's why we're here. The guys that run this place are smart enough to stay out of earshot for a few hundred bucks, and poor enough to not afford cameras, so we can speak a bit more freely. The reason I'm offering all of this is because you're one of those special kinds of capes, and I thought I'd do my due diligence and help you out," she explains.
"What do you mean? What kind of cape do you think I am?" I ask, firmly on the backfoot.
She winks at me. "The kind that make a really big mess when they get outed, and aren't very good at not getting outed," she explains.
"Now, let me just list off a few really general things, and you just jump in if I say something you think is wrong, alright?" she asks, not actually waiting for me to answer.
"You hate how things are going for you, and when you got your powers, you decided to put em to work. You've got an urge to tinker strong enough that you have to talk yourself out of going to scrapyards, and you don't bother to do your work outside of your home because you don't want to deal with securing a safe place to do it," she goes on, listing off fingers.
"You've got a million little ideas in your head, and about half of them would get you arrested or worse, and it's awfully hard to not dismiss those ideas outright when 'they might come in handy someday'. You don't really see a problem with using your power in public, or in civilian clothes, and you're literally tinkering under the table right now," she interjects smugly, shocking me out of my distraction.
I had just been doing a few mana tests that I felt like getting out of the way to help quell my nervousness, and she somehow even picked up on that.
"Yeah, when it comes to tinkering, you've got it bad, friend. And judging from your guilty expression, and a few other tells, you're not really as surprised as you should be that I figured you out too," she continues.
This Lisa is either a really strong thinker, or I'm... More obvious than I've been hoping. She seems utterly confident that she found out 'too', rather than just being the first.
"Why tell me all of this? What are you getting out of it?" I respond. From her explaining how she apparently "relieves" people of their money, it sounds like she's at least a criminal, if not an outright villain, and yet she's making a point of warning me about all the things I've been apparently doing wrong.
"Honestly? Not much. But you're too nice to end up on the 9:00 news after you end up getting caught in your civvies and have to use one of those clever ideas you've come up with to get a nasty threat rating slapped on you. I think plenty of parahumans would agree that holding back is something you do when you've still got something left to lose. And, wouldn't you know it, you do."
She slides over a hot coffee to me, one of the two that had been left ignored on the table, and gives me a half-sympathetic look.
"Keep holding back, alright? Even if you assume the worst of me, I want to keep shopping at the boardwalk, and I can't do that if you turn it into a smoldering wreck."
I ignore the coffee, trying to address what I actually wanted to talk about, before she laid out the death spiral I was apparently slipping into right before my eyes.
"A-are you a villain?" I ask, kicking myself mentally for how stupidly I worded it.
She snorts out loud at that. "No. No warrants or anything like that. Just white-collar stuff on the side. I don't even do it in spandex," she smiles. "I'm pretty good at covering my tracks, either way. Why, you need some advice on how to get started?" she says, giving me a mischievous smile.
"No! I just need to know because I can't work with you if it'll get me in trouble, sorry," I hastily explain, getting up and preparing to leave.
"Well, after you strike it rich, I'll be sure to keep my nose clean," she begins, only for something outside to wipe the smile off of her face.
My brow furrows. "Is something wrong, Lisa?" I ask.
She answers before really thinking about whether or not she should. "Yeah, see how all the traffic outside sped up? It's the middle of May, and a bunch of people in the higher end cars are hurrying to get home, the same kind that have the higher-end phones and browse the internet while they're waiting for the street lights to change," she begins.
"They all sped up a bit to get home faster after seeing something on their phone, or getting calls from someone else, something that near-universally triggered their desire to get home to their loved ones. One car just turned to the nearest liquor store, and that guy over there just made an expression like he saw news he's never happy to see, even though he sees it often," she says, pulling out her own phone to look something up on the cafe's wifi.
I dread whatever it is she's about to say, but when she says it, It's so much worse.
I jog over to the car and thump into the seat, dad giving me a concerned look. "What's wrong? Did she give you any problems?" he asks, but I shake my head mutely.
"Leviathan just started attacking Panama city, over in Florida," I respond.
[][Endbringer] It's none of my business. Let's just go home.
(Taylor will have a harder time justifying interaction with Endbringer Attacks in the future unless they personally affect her.)
[][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
(Sage will be exposed as a healing cape/biological cape) (Unlocked due to Healing Magic Research)
(Massive Reputation Boost)
-[][Endbringer] I have a variety of Sensory and Mobility mana types. I could help with search and rescue after the fight.
(Sage will be exposed as a Grab-Bag/Trump.) (Unlocked due to high variety of different abilities)
-[][Endbringer] I have a variety of Synthesis and Transmutation Magics. I could create things to help after the fight.
(Sage will be exposed as a Tinker) (Unlocked due to Synthesis/Transmutation/Golemancy Mastery)
-[][Endbringer] (Write-In)
-[][Endbringer] I'm going to fight.
(Locked: Dad's Trust isn't high enough) (Locked: Sage is not a Hero) (Locked: Sage's resolve is too weak)
[][Endbringer] I will exploit the attack to serve my goals
(Locked: Dad's Trust isn't high enough) (Locked: Sage is not an S-Class Villain) (Locked: Sage's resolve is too weak)
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have a variety of Sensory and Mobility mana types. I could help with search and rescue after the fight.
Not even sure if Panacea has triggered yet, but I want to have a biokinetic help us with our healing spells. We should probably set up some better house defenses afterwards though. S&R or healing will let us save the most lives, and healing will likely make the PRT and other organizations much more willing to help us as a rogue.
She has. She was mentioned when we were doing research at the library. Taylor was displeased at her pay.
I want to say we would be good in search and rescue. All our abilities will come out at some point or another, Biological powers as soon as we start selling Safron. so I don't think worrying about what pepole will think we are is that big a deal.
I will say though that we could get pepole TO the proper healers and medics quickly, but there may be some who wont last that long. If we had minions this would be easier but....
I think we will be a big help in both search and rescue, and healing. Tinkering to help would be good, but by the time we get a good design up and produced... I think tinkering is best done after we have a bit more time to prep.
Im tempted to do a write in where we search, rescue, and heal. But that might stretch things to thin, and lets face it, there arent enough healers to go around for something like this.
So.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
Get your name out there, you'll get the favor of a lot of capes.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[x][endbringer] first ask lisa if shes coming, but don't try to pressure her into doing so. If she is offer her a ride with your dad.
[x][endbringer] I have a feeling convincing Danny to let us go is going to be tough so try to emphasize how you are going to stay out of the fight and use your powers to heal. Maybe through in a line about how you have a responsibility to help now that you have the power to.
[x][endbringer] heal. remember most of your stuff stains skin warn people before hand and get a skin tone mana of their skin tone before you heal them.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have a variety of Sensory and Mobility mana types. I could help with search and rescue after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] You were to late this time, but resolve to before the next attack nearby you will develop a weapon. That someone else can use while you're at a safe distance.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have more healing powers than I can even name. I could help with triage and healing after the fight.
[X][Endbringer] I want to help.
-[X][Endbringer] I have a variety of Sensory and Mobility mana types. I could help with search and rescue after the fight.
[x][endbringer] first ask lisa if shes coming, but don't try to pressure her into doing so. If she is offer her a ride with your dad.
[x][endbringer] I have a feeling convincing Danny to let us go is going to be tough so try to emphasize how you are going to stay out of the fight and use your powers to heal. Maybe through in a line about how you have a responsibility to help now that you have the power to.
[x][endbringer] heal. remember most of your stuff stains skin warn people before hand and get a skin tone mana of their skin tone before you heal them.
