High Roller Dice Roller (Worm/Wiki Warrior)
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LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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Daemons are not blocked by the No Gods rule
I should clarify actually, I separate things into two mental categories for that rule: Capital G Gods and lower case g gods
Capital G Gods are the Big Guys Upstairs in my mind, so Arceus, Abeloth, the Chaos Gods, Big E (no matter what he says!), DnD Gods, FromSoft Outer Gods from BB and ER, Din, Nayru, and Farore, etc. These guys cannot be directly summoned to Earth Bet.
Lower case g gods are just superbeings that may or may not be called gods but aren't omnipotent or the Big Guy Upstairs. These are like Kratos, Thor and Zeus from GoW, Be'lakor and other assorted Chaos entities, Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, Gandalf, the Greek Gods from Hades, and more. These guys CAN be summoned, for better or worse lol
So the Morrowind Tribunal would be fine, but herma-mora or Akatosh wouldn't be then right.
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So… basically no primordials? That's still… a whole boat load of power and divine horror she's able to call up at the drop of a hat though, divine domains are bullshit in the best of times, let alone when they're attached to a rapist asshole like Zeus and Co.Daemons are not blocked by the No Gods rule
I should clarify actually, I separate things into two mental categories for that rule: Capital G Gods and lower case g gods
Capital G Gods are the Big Guys Upstairs in my mind, so Arceus, Abeloth, the Chaos Gods, Big E (no matter what he says!), DnD Gods, FromSoft Outer Gods from BB and ER, Din, Nayru, and Farore, etc. These guys cannot be directly summoned to Earth Bet.
Lower case g gods are just superbeings that may or may not be called gods but aren't omnipotent or the Big Guy Upstairs. These are like Kratos, Thor and Zeus from GoW, Be'lakor and other assorted Chaos entities, Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, Gandalf, the Greek Gods from Hades, and more. These guys CAN be summoned, for better or worse lol
… Nyx might be helpful out of that mess of a pantheon the Greeks have? Maybe?
Well, Kratos would probably be mostly helpful
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- Borderworld, Xen
Halo has some crazy shit in it, mostly from the Precursors, imagine her summoning a Star Road lol or other mega structures.
I mean except a few Daemons like Be'la most are just a small part of the gods they represent?
LunaMoth
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Fair didn't realize halo had more superweapons than the rings, honestly Halo just falls into a sci-fi genre that tends towards when a surface level glance is given, feeling very like just generic military sci-fi; honestly part of why I don't tend to like mil-sci stuff they all feel like the same thing and blur together a bit.
Very fun games though, halo 5 was one of the first fps games I ever played (tf2 was my first).
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- Borderworld, Xen
It's not meant to be a weapon to be fair lol. Neuro Physics can be crazy. Also got time travel. The Flood. Though the flood should count as a God, since it's literally made of undead precursors.
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Yeah basically as long as it's not one of the Four, the Old Ones, or one of the other assortments of deities of men, elves, orcs, etc. or similar beings, it can be summoned
LunaMoth
Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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Wouldn't that just make it a super computer hivemind thing, IDK feels like when the author is saying gods they are mostly referring to the fantasy settings on the list, the flood kinda have to work for it a little to achieve their goals since they don't really have any crazy magic and are a zombie plague.
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The dangerous part about the Flood is it only needs a single microscopic spore to survive. And once it gets going it ramps up exponentially. Take the Halo games for example, it took barely 24 hours before the UNSC and the Covenant where getting over run. The Flood can and has infected machines too. The Flood is scary yo.
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The geth aren't a spreadable condition though? Also they're sweethearts and deserve all the boops<3 so I hope she calls some
LunaMoth
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Misremembered was thinking of these guys which are spreadable I guess if you shove someone on the metal spike thing but not really...
Just wondering what some sort of chimera that has every spreadable condition in all of these wikis would look like.
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Ah, the reaper husks yeah… ummm I mean, I don't think they would play well with the bio based stuff since they're psionic and tech stuff? I think, it was never really explained wellMisremembered was thinking of these guys which are spreadable I guess if you shove someone on the metal spike thing but not really...
Just wondering what some sort of chimera that has every spreadable condition in all of these wikis would look like.
LunaMoth
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Keeping it down to objects someone can pick up.
She could get the elder scrolls... see the future and the past I guess.
Spellbreaker from skyrim would be pretty useful, "the Spellbreaker protects its wielder almost completely from any spellcaster".
The alien blaster from fallout.
Telvani Bug Musk is one time use, but would let her be extremely persuasive for a short while.
Dice 1.6: Testing Testing
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After Madison was finished letting all of her pent up emotions out, the pair took a moment to breathe. Madison washed her face, wiping away the streaky mess she had made of her makeup, and with Emma's help the two took a moment to forget about time travel and strange powers and just do makeup like normal teenage girls…or well. To forget as much as they could while Madison took the opportunity to grill Emma on exactly what else she might have changed.
"Empire?" Madison asked as she applied some mascara, to which Emma gleefully chuckled.
"They've been gone for a while now! But get this, it wasn't the PRT or anything. Nobody ever like, identified just who it was, but it's pretty well known it was just one guy, based on what the Nazis said whenever they were captured. Only time anybody saw anything was when they fought Purity, and that's just 'cause she made a massive lightshow across the whole Bay! It got so bad that a lot of the foreign Nazis showed up from what everyone heard, but joke's on them I guess, cause someone's been ripping them to shreds over there too." Emma replied.
"Huh." Well, considering the…awakening that she was apparently having recently, that was only good news for her. But still…
Madison sighed. "The Empire was doing frustratingly well before, so…you don't think…"
"That it was your 'mysterious Ben'? I mean, if he had powers…but that's…whoever he is you made someone wild appear, Maddie." Emma shrugged.
If he really was…Madison couldn't even imagine just how strong he would have to be to smash the Empire to bits like that.
The girls chatted as Emma and Madison compared timelines. The ABB and Merchants had also had a bad time now, mostly because the lack of the Empire meant the PRT was no longer spread as terribly thin as they had been, but Emma did say there were rumors that the 'Jade Blade' (the nickname given to the man by the Empire due to him apparently wielding some sort of green sword) had some scuffles with the other gangs too.
"People say he beat up Lung once, but since there wasn't a massive fire nobody's sure if that actually happened." Emma had said on the subject, as well as that the Merchants, while still around, had lost Skidmark already to the Protectorate, so most people figured it was only a matter of time before they collapsed.
Outside the city any changes Madison had accidentally made got…less clear. Madison wasn't exactly the best at keeping up with current events. She only knew the big names that everyone knew, like the S-classes or the Heartbreakers and Ash Beasts of the world, and there were only a few changes there. Madison wasn't sure whether she was relieved or disappointed that so many things had stayed the same.
The Slaughterhouse was still kicking somewhere in the US, Nilbog was still sitting in Ellisburg, and Sleeper was…doing whatever it is he did up there in the cold. Heartbreaker however had been taken in however, and his slaves had even been freed, though once again no one knew how they had done so, while the Three Blasphemies had apparently clashed with an unknown foe around the time people guessed 'The Jade Blade' had traveled to Europe, and hadn't been seen since.
The biggest shock came when Madison asked about the Endbringers however. Emma's face had lit up at the mention and she had been quick to gush about how the last three had apparently been amazing days, though her enthusiasm had died quickly once the redhead had noticed the shocked expression Madison wore.
"Uh…guessing they uh, didn't go as well for you?" Emma had said, to which Madison could only reply with an emphatic shake of her head.
Madison remembered there had been three attacks since last August. The Simurgh had hit Madison, Wisconsin in December, and that one had stuck with her and most everyone in the US with just how bad of a day it had been. Endbringers were always bad, but actually losing the entire city was always a massive blow to everyone. After the New Year, Behemoth had thrown himself at Seoul in South Korea in March, laying waste to the city, while the summer had been Leviathan's turn, the creature raising a tsunami that nearly wiped Rotterdam in the Netherlands off the map. While Madison had been the worst by far of the three, all of them had been nasty days full of destruction and death.
Yet in this new timeline, Seoul, while damaged, was nowhere near the slagheap that it had ended up before. Rotterdam wasn't just still on the map, apparently the waters hadn't even reached the city, held back by something while the heroes had laid in on Leviathan, and the reason why was still being hotly debated on and off-line. And while Madison had still been bad, the city hadn't been quarantined this time around. Instead, the Simurgh had apparently pulled some space trash from orbit and crashed it into the city, acting more like Behemoth than her usual nightmarish self. There had been damage of course, but at least this time the city could be rebuilt.
Something had changed in this timeline with these battles, and Madison didn't want to guess what that something was. The implications alone were enough of a headache, much less actually considering some random guy she'd made appear out of nowhere was some magic Endbringer-beating god. The greatest heroes in the world had been trying (and failing, though no one liked to say that part out loud) to beat back the Endbringers since before she was born. There was no way she of all people could be even tangentially responsible for them actually winning, right?
Without any idea where this 'Ben' was however, the girls could only guess at what exactly had shifted, and what may have been him instead of just butterflies due to something else changing. The conversation petered off and for a moment, Emma and Madison let themselves fully forget about time travel and whatever strange powers Madison now had.
Those same powers would not stay forgotten for long however, and soon enough the two found themselves standing back in Madison's living room, the body armor, ice gauntlets, and the jar of strange liquid (that neither of them were brave enough to investigate) arrayed on the table before them.
"So!" Emma began, a wide, excited grin on her face. "Besides the time travel and those uh…orb…things, you can just…make random stuff appear! And you don't have any control over it?"
Madison shook her head. "If I did, I wouldn't be making worm…things and birds pop up, that's for sure."
Emma quirked her head, considering Madison's words. "So you just have no control at all? I mean, most capes seem to have some uh…instinctive control over their powers, from what I've heard."
"Well not me." Madison shrugged. "I mean like, I…think I made it happen myself a few times, when I thought I was dreaming. But every other time it's happened has just been it just…happening. Whenever I got scared, or hurt, and with no warning or..or any…thing…"
Except…that wasn't quite true was it? On their walk earlier, when the body armor had appeared, she had been distracted, but there had been a sound in her ears that time.
"Or…ok so maybe there was something, when we were walking back, I thought I heard something." Madison said, before she sat down on the couch, her eyes downcast. "But do I even wanna fool around with this thing Emma, with the mess I've made already?"
Emma sat back down on the couch besides Madison, patting her on the back. "I mean…yeah, you've already done…a lot with it. But that was all for the best so far anyways, right?" Emma smirked. "And I mean, it's not like you have a choice unless you figure out how to control it, right? Not gonna do that by ignoring it, huh?"
Madison had to admit, Emma had a point, even if the smug know-it-all grin on her face made Madison's eye twitch. Sighing, the brunette stood back up.
"Alright, fine. We'll play around with it, but only until I can figure out how to make it stop just going off whenever I stub my fucking toe or something!"
Emma's smirk didn't dim at all at that, the redhead far too proud of winning the argument in Madison's opinion. She did, however, step away from Madison, getting a good distance away while the brunette prepared herself. "Just uh…just in case you make anything bigger than that worm appear, you know?"
Probably the smart idea there. Madison wished she could join her as she turned towards the center of the living room to try to do…something.
Madison closed her eyes, and focused on the memories she had of when she had used her power in the 'dream'. She remembered she hadn't done much, she had just focused, and willed something to happen…
Clack…
[4-14: Magicbone Arrow(Fletched) - Arrows whittled from bone, with added fletching to allow for further distance. The tip is daubed with a glintstone tincture, allowing them to deal magic damage. With a Power of 14, Madison summons a large bundle of about twenty-eight arrows.]
And her eyes widened as not only did a large bundle of…sticks(?) on the table, but this time she heard something! A sound, like something clattering on a table, suddenly so clear in her ears.
Emma stared with wide eyes from her cover behind the couch. "Holy shit you did it!" Stepping back out into the open, she stepped over to the table, picking up the bundle.
"Careful, Emma!" Madison shouted as she watched the redhead rifle through the bundle. "We don't even know what those do!"
Emma rolled her eyes. "Oh come on Maddie, they're just…" She pulled one out. "...glowing…bone…arrows…" Emma gently put the arrows and bag back down, pushing it away. "Ok that's…yuck."
"But I mean, you did it! Do you uh…think you can stop it too?" Emma said, turning back towards Madison.
Madison herself was unsure. Could she stop the summoning from happening? She had felt it just then, the sensation, but actually getting it to stop…there was only one way to check.
"I…ok so maybe but…I think you'll need to slap me-"
Slap!
Clack…
[18-6: Ennio Mordini - Born 2369 IC, Mordini was one of the most renowned mercenary commanders in all of Tilea during their Era of Enlightenment. In life it was said that he was blessed by both Myrmidia and Morr, and to serve under him was to know glory and cheat death. He did not, however, cheat death in the end, as in 2411 IC, while serving under Duke Fabriano of Lumbrusco, he was betrayed by the conniving duke and slain. Five years later however, in 2416 IC, Mordini would rise once again and lead a horde of skeletons, called the Nightmare Legion, against Lumbrusco and brutally murdered Fabriano before taking the city for his undead self, rumors saying he still ruled till the present day. With a Power of 6, Madison summons Mordini's bones. Fell energies still linger, yet the skeleton is not animated and his famous blade, Skabscrath, does not appear with his corpse.]
There was sudden pain alongside a clack, and Madison was staring at Emma, her cheek growing red. "I meant when I was ready Emma you-" Madison's tirade was cut short however as she watched Emma's face grow paler, staring at something behind her. Madison whipped around, and saw-
A literal skeleton lying on her living room floor. Its bones were bleached white, and for some reason it was wearing rusted chainmail armor, ripped straight from some medieval battleground.
"Motherfucker-are you kidding me?! Why?! Why even make a fucking skeleton? Does my power want the PRT to fucking arrest me?!" Madison shrieked, more frustrated than anything else.
Warily, Emma crept forward before poking the skeleton with her foot. She jumped when the bones clacked, but when nothing else happened, Emma let out a sigh of relief. "Well…I mean…at least it's not alive, right?"
"Oh yeah, I'm just a graverobber instead, that makes me feel so better." Madison snarked back. "Whatever, we can just…deal with it later, ok?"
Madison then grabbed Emma's shoulders, and forced the redhead to look her in the eyes (or as close as she could get with their height difference anyways). "Ok, Emma," Madison said through clenched teeth. "Let's try this again. This time, when I say I am ready, you're going to slap me, and I'm going to try to make my power…just fucking not. Ok?"
Emma nodded, though she couldn't stop the snort she let out at Madison trying to act so intimidating, which only earned her another glare from Madison. "Ok, ok, I get it-and I'm sorry! Just say when you're ready Maddie and I'll slap you correctly, ok?"
Madison would give the old Emma this-she probably wouldn't have been as much of a smartass as this one (she still sucked though). Putting it out of her mind however, Madison steeled herself, preparing for Emma's blow. She had felt the power activate, she knew what it was like when she made it happen and when it activated on its own, so surely…
Slap!
Madison waited for the clack, but when nothing happened, a broad grin split across her face. "Haha! I think it worked!" Yet even as she smiled, there was an inkling in the back of her mind, as if something was wrong…
[Roll Suppression Detected! The System acknowledges the inconvenience previous standards caused to desire suppression, and will thus raise the standards of the damage trigger! In exchange however, the System must activate Forced Rolls! Beginning now, the System demands that a random amount of rolls must occur per day. Otherwise, rolls will be forced through, with possibly negative effects to the world and the Roller! These measures are necessary for the continuance of Chaos! Rolls will still occur upon significant mental, emotional, and physical shock as well. Please enjoy this kind convenience, Roller!]
Suddenly there was a pressure in Madison's gut, a pulsating energy thrumming with the desire to be used, and her grin dropped. "Oh, fuck…"
Emma had been grinning as well at Madison's exclamation, but as the brunette's smile fell, so did hers, concern replacing her happiness. "Is…is something wrong Maddie?"
Madison let out a short, sarcastic laugh. "No, Emma. It's not. This stupid fucking power…it won't let me just not use it. I can feel it just…inside me, right now even." Even as she spoke, Madison could feel the energy pulsating faster, wilder, if only minutely, with every passing second. Nothing about this power had been intuitive so far, but this-Madison knew instinctively that if she tried to avoid rolling, her power was not going to appreciate that. "It wants to be used-and it won't take no for an answer either."
Emma's eyes widened. "Well, shit." She said as she sat back down on the couch. "Your power kinda sounds like an asshole, Maddie."
"Feels like one too…stupid fucking…ughhhh." Madison sunk back down onto the couch, head in her hands. "I thought at least if I could pick when it happens it'd be more convenient, but now it's just like…I either use it, or it's just…who even knows what it'll do?"
Emma was silent at that, unsure of what to say, and the two simply sat together, Madison sulking for a moment and Emma patting her on the shoulder, before, after a few moments, Madison simply threw her hands up in frustration as she stood once more.
"Ah, fucking…whatever. Fine. I'll just use this stupid power enough that it won't try and do anything itself, and that'll be the end of it."
Madison closed her eyes and once more called on her power, willing it to work once more.
Clack…
[16-2: Spiritual Threads - A technique used by Muramasa. It allows the user to create invisible spiritual threads which possess hands at their ends, and can be used to bind opponents. While invisible to the naked eye, the threads are visible through mirrors, and can dissipate if the user loses focus. With a Power of 2, Madison will be able to recognize the technique if it is ever used against her.]
And…nothing. Both girls looked around the room, confused.
"Did that even do anything Maddie?" Emma asked, and Madison wasn't sure how to answer that question. The feeling in her gut had calmed down slightly, so something had happened, but what exactly that was…she racked her brain, and Madison couldn't even find anything similar to the new instincts that had come with her ability to conjure the orbs and time travel that she had noticed upon realizing those were abilities she now had.
"I…I mean my power calmed down a bit? If the uh…other powers weren't proof that my power doesn't just make actual things appear I'd think it just was a dud." Madison shrugged. Even if it had done something, she could tell she still needed to do just a bit more before she could ignore her power for the rest of the day. Focusing once more, Madison pushed for her power to do something again…
"Hopefully something actually happens this time, huh Ems?"
Clack…
[9-6: Linda-058 - Petty Officer, First Class Linda-058, Callsign 'Sierra Phoenix', born Linda Pravdin. Pravdin is one of relatively few surviving Spartan-IIs from the UNSC's supersoldier program of the same name, and serves as the primary sniper and scout of the Spartan-II squad Blue Team. With a Power of 6, Linda is pulled from mid-operation in the midst of the Human-Covenant War, wearing damaged Mark IV MJOLNIR Powered Armor and armed with only an M6H2 Magnum, her custom sniper rifle Nornfang missing in action.]
Right in the middle of the room, a massive set of armor appeared mid-air right before Emma and Madison's eyes. Easily larger than the both of them, the armor was made of bulky and imposing plate armor, and had a distinctly futuristic appearance that immediately brought to mind Armsmaster, the famous Tinker hero of Brockton Bay.
Yet despite its impressive appearance it was obvious to the both of them that something had damaged the armor, black scorch marks and breaks in the armor's plating peppered across the figure's entire form.
As soon as it had appeared, gravity asserted control, and with a thunderous crash it fell into Madison's living room, crushing the coffee table beneath its weight. It was only once it had fallen that either girl realized that it was not simply armor that had appeared before them. As the figure's chest rose and fell, and they writhed in pain on the floor before them, it was clear that what had her power had pulled was in fact a person in high tech armor, now lying wounded on Madison's living room floor.
Emma stared, dumbstruck at the sudden appearance, while Madison could only pinch her brow, fighting off a headache.
"Me and my big fucking mouth…"
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Something something missing in action
Went over a bit more of the timeline in this one to finally start showing off more ripples than just 'Emma got some desperately needed therapy' haha
Rolls wise...well, besides the last one nothing too huge. Magicbone arrows are uh...ammunition I guess, while Ennio's like 90% dead (and Spiritual Threads was a major bust lol)
Then we come to our technical first character roll! First in the sense that Linda is the only one who's actually appeared in any interactable state for Madison anyways lol
Hope you all enjoy!
"Empire?" Madison asked as she applied some mascara, to which Emma gleefully chuckled.
"They've been gone for a while now! But get this, it wasn't the PRT or anything. Nobody ever like, identified just who it was, but it's pretty well known it was just one guy, based on what the Nazis said whenever they were captured. Only time anybody saw anything was when they fought Purity, and that's just 'cause she made a massive lightshow across the whole Bay! It got so bad that a lot of the foreign Nazis showed up from what everyone heard, but joke's on them I guess, cause someone's been ripping them to shreds over there too." Emma replied.
"Huh." Well, considering the…awakening that she was apparently having recently, that was only good news for her. But still…
Madison sighed. "The Empire was doing frustratingly well before, so…you don't think…"
"That it was your 'mysterious Ben'? I mean, if he had powers…but that's…whoever he is you made someone wild appear, Maddie." Emma shrugged.
If he really was…Madison couldn't even imagine just how strong he would have to be to smash the Empire to bits like that.
The girls chatted as Emma and Madison compared timelines. The ABB and Merchants had also had a bad time now, mostly because the lack of the Empire meant the PRT was no longer spread as terribly thin as they had been, but Emma did say there were rumors that the 'Jade Blade' (the nickname given to the man by the Empire due to him apparently wielding some sort of green sword) had some scuffles with the other gangs too.
"People say he beat up Lung once, but since there wasn't a massive fire nobody's sure if that actually happened." Emma had said on the subject, as well as that the Merchants, while still around, had lost Skidmark already to the Protectorate, so most people figured it was only a matter of time before they collapsed.
Outside the city any changes Madison had accidentally made got…less clear. Madison wasn't exactly the best at keeping up with current events. She only knew the big names that everyone knew, like the S-classes or the Heartbreakers and Ash Beasts of the world, and there were only a few changes there. Madison wasn't sure whether she was relieved or disappointed that so many things had stayed the same.
The Slaughterhouse was still kicking somewhere in the US, Nilbog was still sitting in Ellisburg, and Sleeper was…doing whatever it is he did up there in the cold. Heartbreaker however had been taken in however, and his slaves had even been freed, though once again no one knew how they had done so, while the Three Blasphemies had apparently clashed with an unknown foe around the time people guessed 'The Jade Blade' had traveled to Europe, and hadn't been seen since.
The biggest shock came when Madison asked about the Endbringers however. Emma's face had lit up at the mention and she had been quick to gush about how the last three had apparently been amazing days, though her enthusiasm had died quickly once the redhead had noticed the shocked expression Madison wore.
"Uh…guessing they uh, didn't go as well for you?" Emma had said, to which Madison could only reply with an emphatic shake of her head.
Madison remembered there had been three attacks since last August. The Simurgh had hit Madison, Wisconsin in December, and that one had stuck with her and most everyone in the US with just how bad of a day it had been. Endbringers were always bad, but actually losing the entire city was always a massive blow to everyone. After the New Year, Behemoth had thrown himself at Seoul in South Korea in March, laying waste to the city, while the summer had been Leviathan's turn, the creature raising a tsunami that nearly wiped Rotterdam in the Netherlands off the map. While Madison had been the worst by far of the three, all of them had been nasty days full of destruction and death.
Yet in this new timeline, Seoul, while damaged, was nowhere near the slagheap that it had ended up before. Rotterdam wasn't just still on the map, apparently the waters hadn't even reached the city, held back by something while the heroes had laid in on Leviathan, and the reason why was still being hotly debated on and off-line. And while Madison had still been bad, the city hadn't been quarantined this time around. Instead, the Simurgh had apparently pulled some space trash from orbit and crashed it into the city, acting more like Behemoth than her usual nightmarish self. There had been damage of course, but at least this time the city could be rebuilt.
Something had changed in this timeline with these battles, and Madison didn't want to guess what that something was. The implications alone were enough of a headache, much less actually considering some random guy she'd made appear out of nowhere was some magic Endbringer-beating god. The greatest heroes in the world had been trying (and failing, though no one liked to say that part out loud) to beat back the Endbringers since before she was born. There was no way she of all people could be even tangentially responsible for them actually winning, right?
Without any idea where this 'Ben' was however, the girls could only guess at what exactly had shifted, and what may have been him instead of just butterflies due to something else changing. The conversation petered off and for a moment, Emma and Madison let themselves fully forget about time travel and whatever strange powers Madison now had.
Those same powers would not stay forgotten for long however, and soon enough the two found themselves standing back in Madison's living room, the body armor, ice gauntlets, and the jar of strange liquid (that neither of them were brave enough to investigate) arrayed on the table before them.
"So!" Emma began, a wide, excited grin on her face. "Besides the time travel and those uh…orb…things, you can just…make random stuff appear! And you don't have any control over it?"
Madison shook her head. "If I did, I wouldn't be making worm…things and birds pop up, that's for sure."
Emma quirked her head, considering Madison's words. "So you just have no control at all? I mean, most capes seem to have some uh…instinctive control over their powers, from what I've heard."
"Well not me." Madison shrugged. "I mean like, I…think I made it happen myself a few times, when I thought I was dreaming. But every other time it's happened has just been it just…happening. Whenever I got scared, or hurt, and with no warning or..or any…thing…"
Except…that wasn't quite true was it? On their walk earlier, when the body armor had appeared, she had been distracted, but there had been a sound in her ears that time.
"Or…ok so maybe there was something, when we were walking back, I thought I heard something." Madison said, before she sat down on the couch, her eyes downcast. "But do I even wanna fool around with this thing Emma, with the mess I've made already?"
Emma sat back down on the couch besides Madison, patting her on the back. "I mean…yeah, you've already done…a lot with it. But that was all for the best so far anyways, right?" Emma smirked. "And I mean, it's not like you have a choice unless you figure out how to control it, right? Not gonna do that by ignoring it, huh?"
Madison had to admit, Emma had a point, even if the smug know-it-all grin on her face made Madison's eye twitch. Sighing, the brunette stood back up.
"Alright, fine. We'll play around with it, but only until I can figure out how to make it stop just going off whenever I stub my fucking toe or something!"
Emma's smirk didn't dim at all at that, the redhead far too proud of winning the argument in Madison's opinion. She did, however, step away from Madison, getting a good distance away while the brunette prepared herself. "Just uh…just in case you make anything bigger than that worm appear, you know?"
Probably the smart idea there. Madison wished she could join her as she turned towards the center of the living room to try to do…something.
Madison closed her eyes, and focused on the memories she had of when she had used her power in the 'dream'. She remembered she hadn't done much, she had just focused, and willed something to happen…
Clack…
[4-14: Magicbone Arrow(Fletched) - Arrows whittled from bone, with added fletching to allow for further distance. The tip is daubed with a glintstone tincture, allowing them to deal magic damage. With a Power of 14, Madison summons a large bundle of about twenty-eight arrows.]
And her eyes widened as not only did a large bundle of…sticks(?) on the table, but this time she heard something! A sound, like something clattering on a table, suddenly so clear in her ears.
Emma stared with wide eyes from her cover behind the couch. "Holy shit you did it!" Stepping back out into the open, she stepped over to the table, picking up the bundle.
"Careful, Emma!" Madison shouted as she watched the redhead rifle through the bundle. "We don't even know what those do!"
Emma rolled her eyes. "Oh come on Maddie, they're just…" She pulled one out. "...glowing…bone…arrows…" Emma gently put the arrows and bag back down, pushing it away. "Ok that's…yuck."
"But I mean, you did it! Do you uh…think you can stop it too?" Emma said, turning back towards Madison.
Madison herself was unsure. Could she stop the summoning from happening? She had felt it just then, the sensation, but actually getting it to stop…there was only one way to check.
"I…ok so maybe but…I think you'll need to slap me-"
Slap!
Clack…
[18-6: Ennio Mordini - Born 2369 IC, Mordini was one of the most renowned mercenary commanders in all of Tilea during their Era of Enlightenment. In life it was said that he was blessed by both Myrmidia and Morr, and to serve under him was to know glory and cheat death. He did not, however, cheat death in the end, as in 2411 IC, while serving under Duke Fabriano of Lumbrusco, he was betrayed by the conniving duke and slain. Five years later however, in 2416 IC, Mordini would rise once again and lead a horde of skeletons, called the Nightmare Legion, against Lumbrusco and brutally murdered Fabriano before taking the city for his undead self, rumors saying he still ruled till the present day. With a Power of 6, Madison summons Mordini's bones. Fell energies still linger, yet the skeleton is not animated and his famous blade, Skabscrath, does not appear with his corpse.]
There was sudden pain alongside a clack, and Madison was staring at Emma, her cheek growing red. "I meant when I was ready Emma you-" Madison's tirade was cut short however as she watched Emma's face grow paler, staring at something behind her. Madison whipped around, and saw-
A literal skeleton lying on her living room floor. Its bones were bleached white, and for some reason it was wearing rusted chainmail armor, ripped straight from some medieval battleground.
"Motherfucker-are you kidding me?! Why?! Why even make a fucking skeleton? Does my power want the PRT to fucking arrest me?!" Madison shrieked, more frustrated than anything else.
Warily, Emma crept forward before poking the skeleton with her foot. She jumped when the bones clacked, but when nothing else happened, Emma let out a sigh of relief. "Well…I mean…at least it's not alive, right?"
"Oh yeah, I'm just a graverobber instead, that makes me feel so better." Madison snarked back. "Whatever, we can just…deal with it later, ok?"
Madison then grabbed Emma's shoulders, and forced the redhead to look her in the eyes (or as close as she could get with their height difference anyways). "Ok, Emma," Madison said through clenched teeth. "Let's try this again. This time, when I say I am ready, you're going to slap me, and I'm going to try to make my power…just fucking not. Ok?"
Emma nodded, though she couldn't stop the snort she let out at Madison trying to act so intimidating, which only earned her another glare from Madison. "Ok, ok, I get it-and I'm sorry! Just say when you're ready Maddie and I'll slap you correctly, ok?"
Madison would give the old Emma this-she probably wouldn't have been as much of a smartass as this one (she still sucked though). Putting it out of her mind however, Madison steeled herself, preparing for Emma's blow. She had felt the power activate, she knew what it was like when she made it happen and when it activated on its own, so surely…
Slap!
Madison waited for the clack, but when nothing happened, a broad grin split across her face. "Haha! I think it worked!" Yet even as she smiled, there was an inkling in the back of her mind, as if something was wrong…
[Roll Suppression Detected! The System acknowledges the inconvenience previous standards caused to desire suppression, and will thus raise the standards of the damage trigger! In exchange however, the System must activate Forced Rolls! Beginning now, the System demands that a random amount of rolls must occur per day. Otherwise, rolls will be forced through, with possibly negative effects to the world and the Roller! These measures are necessary for the continuance of Chaos! Rolls will still occur upon significant mental, emotional, and physical shock as well. Please enjoy this kind convenience, Roller!]
Suddenly there was a pressure in Madison's gut, a pulsating energy thrumming with the desire to be used, and her grin dropped. "Oh, fuck…"
Emma had been grinning as well at Madison's exclamation, but as the brunette's smile fell, so did hers, concern replacing her happiness. "Is…is something wrong Maddie?"
Madison let out a short, sarcastic laugh. "No, Emma. It's not. This stupid fucking power…it won't let me just not use it. I can feel it just…inside me, right now even." Even as she spoke, Madison could feel the energy pulsating faster, wilder, if only minutely, with every passing second. Nothing about this power had been intuitive so far, but this-Madison knew instinctively that if she tried to avoid rolling, her power was not going to appreciate that. "It wants to be used-and it won't take no for an answer either."
Emma's eyes widened. "Well, shit." She said as she sat back down on the couch. "Your power kinda sounds like an asshole, Maddie."
"Feels like one too…stupid fucking…ughhhh." Madison sunk back down onto the couch, head in her hands. "I thought at least if I could pick when it happens it'd be more convenient, but now it's just like…I either use it, or it's just…who even knows what it'll do?"
Emma was silent at that, unsure of what to say, and the two simply sat together, Madison sulking for a moment and Emma patting her on the shoulder, before, after a few moments, Madison simply threw her hands up in frustration as she stood once more.
"Ah, fucking…whatever. Fine. I'll just use this stupid power enough that it won't try and do anything itself, and that'll be the end of it."
Madison closed her eyes and once more called on her power, willing it to work once more.
Clack…
[16-2: Spiritual Threads - A technique used by Muramasa. It allows the user to create invisible spiritual threads which possess hands at their ends, and can be used to bind opponents. While invisible to the naked eye, the threads are visible through mirrors, and can dissipate if the user loses focus. With a Power of 2, Madison will be able to recognize the technique if it is ever used against her.]
And…nothing. Both girls looked around the room, confused.
"Did that even do anything Maddie?" Emma asked, and Madison wasn't sure how to answer that question. The feeling in her gut had calmed down slightly, so something had happened, but what exactly that was…she racked her brain, and Madison couldn't even find anything similar to the new instincts that had come with her ability to conjure the orbs and time travel that she had noticed upon realizing those were abilities she now had.
"I…I mean my power calmed down a bit? If the uh…other powers weren't proof that my power doesn't just make actual things appear I'd think it just was a dud." Madison shrugged. Even if it had done something, she could tell she still needed to do just a bit more before she could ignore her power for the rest of the day. Focusing once more, Madison pushed for her power to do something again…
"Hopefully something actually happens this time, huh Ems?"
Clack…
[9-6: Linda-058 - Petty Officer, First Class Linda-058, Callsign 'Sierra Phoenix', born Linda Pravdin. Pravdin is one of relatively few surviving Spartan-IIs from the UNSC's supersoldier program of the same name, and serves as the primary sniper and scout of the Spartan-II squad Blue Team. With a Power of 6, Linda is pulled from mid-operation in the midst of the Human-Covenant War, wearing damaged Mark IV MJOLNIR Powered Armor and armed with only an M6H2 Magnum, her custom sniper rifle Nornfang missing in action.]
Right in the middle of the room, a massive set of armor appeared mid-air right before Emma and Madison's eyes. Easily larger than the both of them, the armor was made of bulky and imposing plate armor, and had a distinctly futuristic appearance that immediately brought to mind Armsmaster, the famous Tinker hero of Brockton Bay.
Yet despite its impressive appearance it was obvious to the both of them that something had damaged the armor, black scorch marks and breaks in the armor's plating peppered across the figure's entire form.
As soon as it had appeared, gravity asserted control, and with a thunderous crash it fell into Madison's living room, crushing the coffee table beneath its weight. It was only once it had fallen that either girl realized that it was not simply armor that had appeared before them. As the figure's chest rose and fell, and they writhed in pain on the floor before them, it was clear that what had her power had pulled was in fact a person in high tech armor, now lying wounded on Madison's living room floor.
Emma stared, dumbstruck at the sudden appearance, while Madison could only pinch her brow, fighting off a headache.
"Me and my big fucking mouth…"
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Something something missing in action
Went over a bit more of the timeline in this one to finally start showing off more ripples than just 'Emma got some desperately needed therapy' haha
Rolls wise...well, besides the last one nothing too huge. Magicbone arrows are uh...ammunition I guess, while Ennio's like 90% dead (and Spiritual Threads was a major bust lol)
Then we come to our technical first character roll! First in the sense that Linda is the only one who's actually appeared in any interactable state for Madison anyways lol
Hope you all enjoy!
Hell yeah Luke, kicking all sorts of ass and taking names.
Linda's gonna be pissed that she got "pulled out" mid-op lol
Linda's gonna be pissed that she got "pulled out" mid-op lol
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Just gonna say this one thing, since I said it on SB (and it was gonna be revealed eventually): Luke did not make it to the Seoul Behemoth fight
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All Ideas. No Skills. a bit hungry
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No hesitation, that felt personal, either that or emma's sadistic tendencies in the original timeline weren't all due to trauma
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Wings of Kynareth is my comfort song...
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...two dead bodies maybe then...
Did Linda land on the magic poison?
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That's probably what I would have done if she had been a 2 or a 3, this is just her pulled from some random solo op decently damaged
She did lmao
But on the plus side, khamsin requires skin contact, and idk about you but I'd risk touching Khamsin in MJOLNIR armor lmao
But that means it's broken and in their living room liable to get on someone by accident