I'm sure that Addie will be holding both of Missys hands.
Addies brain would be filled with chip-tunes wouldn't it? Probably for the best that they didn't point more Thinkers at her brain.
I want a refund! (Tinker of Fiction Semi-SI)
Addies brain would be filled with chip-tunes wouldn't it? Probably for the best that they didn't point more Thinkers at her brain.
He still has a limited control over what type of power he gets; in the fight with Scion, he wanted a movement power or a defensive power, and he got offered various flavours thereof, many of which have flaws, issues, or drawbacks that he doesn't want to deal with. It's not completely random.
So, he could sit down in a quiet room and focus on "I need a tinker power", and get offered anything from Bakuda's bomb tinkering through to super cake-making. It's then up to him to "swipe left" until he gets a power that he thinks he can leverage into solving an issue. He might even be able to go with "I need a low-maintenance tinker power", and then spend once a fortnight or so with "I need a power to maintain this equipment". Even a Thinker power to design/build near-Tinker-tier mundane tech, like Accord does, would work.
Aminadab_Brulle
Decimus Computator
Side note, Eden's version of Alabaster's Thinker power would be ideal.
Alayne
The Reader
- Location
- Home of the Vikings
Levi broke open the sewers so they and other enhanced creatures are running across the city. She came across them in the levi fight.
Thanks must have missed that part.
- Pronouns
- Masculine
The Rats are going to be a Thing, I'm sure. The people of the city are NOT going to have a fun time in the wake of Leviathan. Hopefully people will start hunting them.
The worst part is that they're big enough to attack children. Hopefully the people can be prepared and forewarned.
Aminadab_Brulle
Decimus Computator
As if that is anything new in Brockton.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
Nah, they're too busy having territorial disputes with the (likely ADAM-effected) mutant starfish.
First, let me say that was an awesome post - loved the interaction with the triumvirate.
And this post ( guess all of them, thinking about it), reads like a stream of consciousness diary thing, so any typos can in theory be attributed to Addys ADD and ignored. But since I noticed them, here they are, for you to deal with or not as you see fit.
has >> had
also, seemingly is not needed.
lead >> led
about is unneeded
and >> an
cause >> chaos
(the second cause)
not >> now
an >> and
Good luck with the Interlude! I eagerly await!
And this post ( guess all of them, thinking about it), reads like a stream of consciousness diary thing, so any typos can in theory be attributed to Addys ADD and ignored. But since I noticed them, here they are, for you to deal with or not as you see fit.
also, seemingly is not needed.
about is unneeded
(the second cause)
probably theoretically should move between area & wasn't, though it would be less Addy that way...
dead.[space]Then
to have moles
Good luck with the Interlude! I eagerly await!
Unders
Suffers from delusions of competence
I'm using the 3.5 stuff, because it's broken but in a fun way ^.^
Very diplomatic.
(initial they're part of cauldron reveal)
I turned to Taylor and began to explain, completely ignoring the Triumvirate. "They're all part of some stupid conspiracy group. I'd call them cape illuminati except that would imply a level of competence none of them actually deserve. If I give them Leviathan they'll probably do something stupid with it."
(lead in for this part was cauldron trying to deny stuff and so addy began to list off the shit they were doing)
"Case fifty-threes. NEPEA-5. Your idiotic idea about making a parahuman army. That retarded parahuman feudalism experiment. The Nemesis program. Throwing innocent people into the Birdcage. Letting the Slaughterhouse Nine run amok." I dryly began listing off on my fingers, giving them a flat stare with glowing eyes. "I can list more if you want. Would you like it alphabetical or categorical?"
Okay that last bit was more of a bluff. I'd need Simmy's help if I wanted to dig up more dirt on them and she's still blue screening.
"What's this about them and the Slaughterhouse Nine?" Taylor asked, her voice frosty.
"They're perfectly capable of dealing with the Slaughterhouse Nine. They just choose not to because all the pain and horror that group of murderhobos cause means more trigger events for these morons to take advantage of."
"That is not the case. We can't face them. The Siberian-"
"IS A FUCKING MASTER PROJECTION!" I interrupted, doing my psionic double talk to ensure I'd be able to interupt her. The fact it gave my voice a suitably intimidating echo was just a bonus. "Path to killing the Siberian. Step one, snipe Dr William Manton's pedovan with a missile launcher before he knows you're there. Step two, eat celebratory cookies. Path Fucking Complete." I glared at them, eyes glowing a vibrant purple. "You deliberately let them run around and cause more and more suffering when you have the power to stop it. And yes, I know you guys know the Bogeyman and what her power is. I even know you've got your hooks into the chief director so the entire PRT is compromised too."
(cauldron getting defensive)
"You have no right to judge us!"
"I have every right! I have the only right! Entire worlds gone, burned. Because you morons are so enamoured with your fucking Paths instead of thinking for yourselves. You people triggered the fucking apocalypse and even then you were mostly useless. It took fucking Khepri to save your asses and turn the disorganised mob you call an army into an actual fighting force and when the dust settled you fucks shot her in the back of the head! She sacrificed everything and her reward was a bullet through the brain! Oh and even better! Khepri had to come at the problem sideways, because the whole get an army to kill him plan didn't even fucking work."
"Magpie what're you talking about?"
"These idiots got Jack Slash to talk to with Scion and send his mentally challenged ass into trying murder everyone. Because they're idiots."
(Part of a cut Eidolon is behind the Endbringers rant)
"What'd you expect, High Priest? You forced a second rate connection to a shard, what you idiots call agents, that was never meant to have a host in the first place! A shard that lets you tap into all the Thinker's undistributed shards, including her Endbringer controlling one. Each and every Endbringer death is on you, because you wanted a worthy challenge. Something worth fighting even as you drained shard after fucking shard dry of energy. You people wanted unrestricted connections to shards and now you're paying for that.
I turned to Taylor and began to explain, completely ignoring the Triumvirate. "They're all part of some stupid conspiracy group. I'd call them cape illuminati except that would imply a level of competence none of them actually deserve. If I give them Leviathan they'll probably do something stupid with it."
(lead in for this part was cauldron trying to deny stuff and so addy began to list off the shit they were doing)
"Case fifty-threes. NEPEA-5. Your idiotic idea about making a parahuman army. That retarded parahuman feudalism experiment. The Nemesis program. Throwing innocent people into the Birdcage. Letting the Slaughterhouse Nine run amok." I dryly began listing off on my fingers, giving them a flat stare with glowing eyes. "I can list more if you want. Would you like it alphabetical or categorical?"
Okay that last bit was more of a bluff. I'd need Simmy's help if I wanted to dig up more dirt on them and she's still blue screening.
"What's this about them and the Slaughterhouse Nine?" Taylor asked, her voice frosty.
"They're perfectly capable of dealing with the Slaughterhouse Nine. They just choose not to because all the pain and horror that group of murderhobos cause means more trigger events for these morons to take advantage of."
"That is not the case. We can't face them. The Siberian-"
"IS A FUCKING MASTER PROJECTION!" I interrupted, doing my psionic double talk to ensure I'd be able to interupt her. The fact it gave my voice a suitably intimidating echo was just a bonus. "Path to killing the Siberian. Step one, snipe Dr William Manton's pedovan with a missile launcher before he knows you're there. Step two, eat celebratory cookies. Path Fucking Complete." I glared at them, eyes glowing a vibrant purple. "You deliberately let them run around and cause more and more suffering when you have the power to stop it. And yes, I know you guys know the Bogeyman and what her power is. I even know you've got your hooks into the chief director so the entire PRT is compromised too."
(cauldron getting defensive)
"You have no right to judge us!"
"I have every right! I have the only right! Entire worlds gone, burned. Because you morons are so enamoured with your fucking Paths instead of thinking for yourselves. You people triggered the fucking apocalypse and even then you were mostly useless. It took fucking Khepri to save your asses and turn the disorganised mob you call an army into an actual fighting force and when the dust settled you fucks shot her in the back of the head! She sacrificed everything and her reward was a bullet through the brain! Oh and even better! Khepri had to come at the problem sideways, because the whole get an army to kill him plan didn't even fucking work."
"Magpie what're you talking about?"
"These idiots got Jack Slash to talk to with Scion and send his mentally challenged ass into trying murder everyone. Because they're idiots."
(Part of a cut Eidolon is behind the Endbringers rant)
"What'd you expect, High Priest? You forced a second rate connection to a shard, what you idiots call agents, that was never meant to have a host in the first place! A shard that lets you tap into all the Thinker's undistributed shards, including her Endbringer controlling one. Each and every Endbringer death is on you, because you wanted a worthy challenge. Something worth fighting even as you drained shard after fucking shard dry of energy. You people wanted unrestricted connections to shards and now you're paying for that.
Well this is the little girl who clone herself to make soul-powered tinkertech, shoved the braindead clone into a recycling vat headfirst and totally didn;t see anythign wrong or illogical with that course of action.
Yeah mostly Addy doesn't really care about Cauldron or their opinion since she thinks she can totally do a better job at saving and/or destroying the world than they can.
nah, the closest there is to handholding going on is the mind link thing with Simmy.
Best Host is Best Host for a reason.
But that's Noelle's thing. Addy wouldn't muscle in on her turf like that
:3
The upcoming interlude will have a PHO section.
There will be much chaos, fire and a great deal of confusion in the future.
Also Addy interacting with Skidmark, which I honestly cannot wait to post even if it won't be for ages because for some reason her accent shifts to cockney when she starts swearing like a trooper.
We get a Cauldron piece in the interlude which will shed light on them. Sadly they still have the 'we must follow the path no matter what even though that power was compromised by the enemy' idiot balls from canon, since those seem to be welded into their hands, but other than that I'm gonna try keep them idiot ball free
Yup. Addy is perfectly sane and reasonable and therefore doesn't need to see a therapist anymore.By that definition, she's actually saner than everyone else. She views death as temporary (to her it is), assholes as assholes who can't touch her (they can't), and life as about making things and having fun (which hers is). Just because everyone else is wrong about how to treat assholes who control the world, doesn't mean she has to. She knows her rights. All of this is just severe culture clash. The rest of the world just needs to catch up with her
It'd be funnier to slip scrolls of reincarnation and scrolls of animate dead into the pile of raise dead scrolls.
Nah, Addy isn't that evil.
Fortunately for him Magpie will be happy to answer his questions.
And everyone elses when she does her PHO Ask Magpie Anything thread in the interlude.
Nah he didn't, though that is a pretty cool video.
There will be loads of
Fortunately for Chevalier he can't hear powers, because yeah he probably would get blasted by some sort of ear worm if he could.
Yeah Addy is a clear case of somebody who makes wisdom their dump stat, and why you really shouldn't make it a dump stat.
Yeah Addy isn't quite aware that the him using tinker powers isn't as feasible as she thinks. Mostly though she just wants him to try use the more subtle stuff instead of the engaging in power-based dickwaving contests.
Definitely this though. Even a jetpack would give him so many more options (and it's not like he can't swap to a flight power if the jetpack is suddenly disabled or anything)
It was so fun to write. I hate to cut loads because there was no way Addy and Taylor were walking out of that room if Addy said everything she was originally going to say.
Yeah, he does have the option to outsource the tinkertech (or even regular tech). He's just too egotistical to allow it to happen.
Alabaster has a Thinker power?
During the levi fight when she needed to get a new armband off a dead hero (and the first body she found was being nommed by rats). Amusingly enough those rats are still alive because she forgot her sword has the merciful enchantment (meaning non-lethal damage)
Rats are vicious and the larger ones are the size of Alsatians/German Shephards. They're more than capable of killing adults, let alone children. The local homeless population has actually been decreasing, but that'd been attributed the merchants being merchants instead of packs of hungry giant rats.
There will be plenty memes. Honestly it's ridiculous how memeable she is. If this was IRL (and thank God it's not) she'd probably wind up with loads of the things. Cute Girl + Insane Troll Logic + Overpowered + Fuck Authority = perfect storm of memeing.
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While it was crippled it wasn't compromised.
I am pretty sure it was mostly mentioned in side material such as weaverdice, but he has a very minor thinker power based around maintaining equipment.
And for anybody claiming we don't know that, Scion's version killed Eidolon in 4 words. Cauldron used PtV constantly for 3 decades, and somehow humanity won the final battle. It wasn't compromised.
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
Oh, PTV was very compromised. The Eye was planning to take over the Shard Network and wipe out humanity from the start, the fact that it needed Zion out of the way first does not mean that it was on Humanity's side.
Same thing with canon Ziz, really. Both of them were always planning very bad things, the fact that they helped against Zion does not put them on the same side as Humanity and the Humanity-aligned shards.
...I wonder where Addy's shard falls on the spectrum. It clearly likes her, which is a good sign, but would it care about her enough to go against the network?
Same thing with canon Ziz, really. Both of them were always planning very bad things, the fact that they helped against Zion does not put them on the same side as Humanity and the Humanity-aligned shards.
...I wonder where Addy's shard falls on the spectrum. It clearly likes her, which is a good sign, but would it care about her enough to go against the network?
Wait... what? They didn't let her... oh, of course no one in the PRT with a silver of self preservation would let Magpie answer questions on PHO. However, that would not stop Addy.
And if WingedOne also starts trolling with her...
Well, consider me hyped for the next chapter.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
Addy feels a bit like Khepri in slow motion.
Because from Addy's point of view, death is an inconvenience. She doesn't understand why people are getting mad at her. To her, the option of revival is so obvious that surely other people would realize that death is not a big deal.
Is there a compiled list for me to peruse?
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I can only remember 2 off the top of my head. Accord and Coil. I didn't actually read much worm after leviathan. Much of my knowledge comes from other sources.
- Pronouns
- SL
A certain hero who died from bug drowning would beg to differ. Really, if they were willing to work with people they wouldn't have ended up getting massacred by the case-53s. They only operate from a position of power.
Garreon
Paldean Top Champion
- Location
- Mesagoza, Paldea
can we get the full cut please? I need the full thing
Now I'm imagining Addy asking, "So....how many people have you flashed that tiny thing since last we talked?" Whenever she and Eidolon coincide in the same building.
Yes she could. She is the only one capable of maintaining what she did to that Endbringer. If they try anything she will kill herself. Considering Addy already comes off as insane she may be able to bluff Alexandria.
True that.
We are talking about the situation where the perfectly pathable Skitter attempted to strong-arm the PRT and ended up killing the damaged-goods Alexandria and became a member of the Wards with everything working out for her team, correct?
ImperatorV
The Laughing One
- Location
- The Voyaging Realm
The thing about Alexandria's death is that
A) Glenn ended up using Weaver as part of his plan to reform the PRT, which worked pretty well and staved off the collapse of the PRT. Weaver only happened because of Alexandria's death.
B) Thanks to Pretender, Cauldron still got to use Alexandria for Endbringer fights and then Scion battle.
Rebecca got sold out by Contessa and Doctor Mother. Once her PRT Chief Director identity was burned, Cauldron only needed her body, and could gain something by sacrificing her. So they did. Deeply ironic, given how much of a Hard Decisions Woman she was, that she died because someone else Hard Decisions Woman'd her.
A) Glenn ended up using Weaver as part of his plan to reform the PRT, which worked pretty well and staved off the collapse of the PRT. Weaver only happened because of Alexandria's death.
B) Thanks to Pretender, Cauldron still got to use Alexandria for Endbringer fights and then Scion battle.
Rebecca got sold out by Contessa and Doctor Mother. Once her PRT Chief Director identity was burned, Cauldron only needed her body, and could gain something by sacrificing her. So they did. Deeply ironic, given how much of a Hard Decisions Woman she was, that she died because someone else Hard Decisions Woman'd her.
The_Rocketeer
(Likely friendly, but hopefully sane...)
This could possibly end up with a Brockton Bay version of Warhammer Vermintide...
Addy better build a chainsword quickly.