A method to deal with Leviathan that's completely unexpected and out of left-field?

Addy lets slip about Endbringer physiology and their cores. Lisa notices Flechette's powers, and determines the weak-spot. Addy gets into 1-v-1 combat with Leviathan, gets cocky, knocked to the floor, and about to get crushed, when *BANG!* Piggot with her service pistol: "Get away from my Ward!"
Hmm…

Taylor confiscates something hilariously dangerous that Abby really shouldn't be trusted with from her and gives it to the Next best person in authority. It just happens to be a gun given to Piggot…

:)
 
Hmm…

Taylor confiscates something hilariously dangerous that Abby really shouldn't be trusted with from her and gives it to the Next best person in authority. It just happens to be a gun given to Piggot…

:)
Hahaha, certainly a possibility — although, the one I had in mind (and tried to imply) was that Flechette had imbued the rounds in her magazine with Sting.

Trained military soldiers out front, with Capes in support roles to "boost" them, fits Piggot's mindset quite well; in her canon interlude, she isn't angry at of mistrustful of the Capes for fleeing Ellisburg, because she understands that they were ill-prepared and poorly-trained semi-civillians. She's angry at and mistrustful of the superiors and systems that put the Capes there, and made them the primary defence in Parahuman incidents. (And at Calvert, for suspicions that he ran despite his training)

(Interestingly, that's also reflected in her Protectorate team: you've got by-the-book Mr Efficient himself, Armsmaster; child-soldier turned super-soldier, Miss Militia; ex-Military, Velocity; and military-brat, Battery. The odd ones out are Assault — package-deal with Battery — and Dauntless — Brockton Bay native)
 
It's not Flechette. She was just handy as a framing device for Taylor to be introduced to more people as part of the scene. The actual shipping target is a fairly uncommon one, but I think it can work. It'll also definitely be in the background, so Addy won't realise anything is up until the lewd handholding happens.
It's the simmurgh isn't it.
Addy will turn simmy to magical girl. And simmy will flirt with taylor
 
Being new to this whole thread...

Does Leviathan need to breath air? If so then an 'Oxygen Destroyer' from Godzilla (1954) might be able to kill Leviathan.

On another note, I sort of wish Addy gets access to Ghost in the Shell so she can plug Codi in a body and can technically watch over Addy and her shenanigans.
 
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my bet Final fantasy toneberry knife maybe lvl 5 death. Doink.

She's on the D&D tech tree currently. There are several insta-death effects there of course, but the vast majority allow for a save to resist, which I imagine an endbringer can pass.

Chain casting a level drain effect is generally the most reliable way to kill something above your weight class, but all the ways I know to do that require you to actually be a high level caster, not just wand/scroll spam. Likewise there's a fun way to chain case silly amounts of unstoppable no save direct damage.

Banishment would be an extremely elegant solution, if you could pull it off.
 
It would be hilarious if she just chain cast Magic Missile.

No roll to hit. No save allowed. Just DR-bypassing Force Damage.

How many magic missiles does it take to reach an endbringer core? lick lick lick

Who does the therapists therapist go to? Can't be a pyramid because then there'd be a therapist without a therapist. Where/when does it circle back around?
And how does a therapist talk about the issues their patients deal with when they git that whole confidentiality agreement?

It's more like a network. When a therapist goes to therapy, they aren't a therapist, they're just a patient. The only important thing is that their therapist doesn't come back to them for therapy.

I'm not a therapist, I'm just a service user, so I assume they anonymise everything they have to share, but they're not there to get help with their patient's issues. They're there to deal with the emotions and thoughts that dealing with patients give them.

So less a case of "one of my patients is a biotinker" and more "I had to deal with someone so self-absorbed..."
 
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It would be hilarious if she just chain cast Magic Missile.

No roll to hit. No save allowed. Just DR-bypassing Force Damage.

I actually pair Magic Missile with "Fell Draining" metamagic, and then the metamagic feat that lowers metamagic costs to make Fell Draining cheaper. Anything that takes damage from the spell gets a negative level. Great for clearing mooks out, anything with only 1 hitdie is auto dead, some 2hd things die from the combo of damage and negative level, and it solid debuff on stronger opponents. Combine with Arcane Fusion, and Celerity to chain cast the majority of your spell pool in one turn to brutalize either one big thing, or an ungodly hoard.
 
the vast majority allow for a save to resist, which I imagine an endbringer can pass.
I have to remind you that "nat1 is always a fail no matter the bonus" is a thing. So, if Addy prepared something like hundred of scrolls with save-or-die spells, sooner or later nat 1 will be rolled on d20... Usually. I know a person with really insane luck with dices, who can, likely, shrug it off, though.
 
Blanket immunities are a thing, and i would not bet on Endbringers not having them for most things that could one shot them.
 
I have to remind you that "nat1 is always a fail no matter the bonus" is a thing. So, if Addy prepared something like hundred of scrolls with save-or-die spells, sooner or later nat 1 will be rolled on d20... Usually. I know a person with really insane luck with dices, who can, likely, shrug it off, though.

Technically an option, assuming game mechanics are modeled that closely.

However, there are also feats that prevent you from failing a save on a nat 1 if the total roll is still high enough to pass.

I feel like that's the kind of thing you'd add to your unstoppable doomsday device/combat engine. (I would anyway.)
 
Technically an option, assuming game mechanics are modeled that closely.

However, there are also feats that prevent you from failing a save on a nat 1 if the total roll is still high enough to pass.

I feel like that's the kind of thing you'd add to your unstoppable doomsday device/combat engine. (I would anyway.)
I mean, that's exactly what Legendary Resistance is for. Literally just "Oh, the Ancient Red Dragon rolled a nat 1? Nah, it succeeded on that roll."

Standard is that it can do that 3 times a day but that's not a hard rule, just the most common one. Leviathan? Yeah, I can easily see him having a couple of those.
 
I mean, that's exactly what Legendary Resistance is for. Literally just "Oh, the Ancient Red Dragon rolled a nat 1? Nah, it succeeded on that roll."

Standard is that it can do that 3 times a day but that's not a hard rule, just the most common one. Leviathan? Yeah, I can easily see him having a couple of those.

The methods of not failing a save on a natural 1 in 3.5e tend to involve turning the save into a skill... and that means that it will ALWAYS succeed on a save where the total number is high enough!
 
a black hole. Without the extreme gravitation effects of course, as otherwise we wouldn't be having this briefing right now."

I appreciated this dry explanation, and the resulting giggle-snort that it caused.

If Addy had the feather it'd be totally wind up as a decoration on either her staff or her hat.

It is both disturbing, and brilliant, how little control you seemingly have over this character… I love it.

Addy is almost certain to kick off Golden Morning in this continuity, just from saying the wrong fucking thing while in proximity to the golden boy

Probably something mundane, like asking him to just put on some pants.
 
If Cauldron managed to kidnap Addy, would they know they left her clone behind?

Can Lisa/Tattletale's ability to make Restore potions Revive Dead capes?

I just pondered them tracking down Lung's body, it is made of Glass right now, if it was made of Stone from the Paralyzing 'Volleyball', I mean hit by it, could he be restored?

What happened to Coil?
 
I decided to look up my old Arcana Evolved rule book, since it lists the spell Vitrification (which is a spell that turns a single target into glass). The results weren't good. Only two spells were listed as reversing the effect: remove malady and perfect health, both of which only exist in the Arcana Evolved magic system as far as I know. I considered recommending break enchantment, but vitrification is a 6th-level spell that cannot be reversed with dispel magic, so the spell shouldn't be reversed by break enchantment either. A wish might work, though.
 
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