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Imposter Syndrome [Worm/Celestial Forge SI]
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And then you become able to do complex mental maths in your sleep.
He and Browbeat need a Omaka or Interlude or something.
I would be rather unsurprised if Miniaturization figured out how to integrate runes into circuitry pathways to make the electrical current do funky things.
Plentimaw language shenanigans?
You know what would probably help with that? Some tools based off of Plentimaw mechanics, or as close as Briannes Miniatuization Tinkering abilities could get, for taking apart things like whatever Dauntless's power does to materials.
Relatedly I believe that the first thing that his power does to a object is to make it invincible? That could have uses.
It might be a good idea for her to make some storage furniture at some point since Colin already knows that she's at least a Tinker.
She could probably also make a bed since springs are the sort of thing that seems like a Tinker ability specialized in miniaturizing things would be good at making well. Also bed springs specifically seem like something Nevercold Brass would be wonderful for. God but wouldn't that be warm~
Also a few underground hatches would probably be a good idea. Got'a get to work using those Ex Nihilo Sieves to dig.
On one hand some of the Task mini-games can be pretty simple and on the other hand that actually sounds like a decent way to wake people up for long enough to stay up. You should copyright that idea and turn it into a App or something pronto.
This made me think about PowerWash Simulator (and also a Tumblr post about someone talking about the Mario Ding going off every time someone did a chore making things easier), which made me think about how she could probably make a small pressure washer to clean dishes with (possibly with steam and/or ultra-sonic settings), which made me think about how Brianne could probably turn pressure washing into a Task, which made me think about the potential results of completing a pressure washing Task. God but can you imagine how much she could get clean with a pressure washing Task?
That'd probably be the best way for something to qualify as a Task yeah.
That's still pretty normal for a lot of people who inherit and internalize most of their culture before being able to judge it but I can see how it happening rapidly and once you have critical thinking skills would freak a person out.
I never said that it was unreasonable. Just of questionable utility.
Or hypothetically working on a similar mechanic to Stands in general.
I think that the range of a effect is a bit arbitrary with regard to a secondary location modifying effect; there's no reason to think that the inside of the ship was anywhere near the outside of the ship at the time.
Someone like KidWin would probably feel a lot better about starting a project if he didn't need to worry about his power dropping out "half way through" if the resources themselves were expected to just reset.
I was actually thinking that Brianne could just spray-paint some censor bars onto her clone printing pods or something and then go right back to not acknowledging that skin exists.
Try saying "if some of the realities of realistic writing make it harder to write outright" out loud a few times.
Ah damn. So much for that source of passive income.
Well if you can do that then you don't need to get up for school now do you?
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I'll be honest, I added that line as I was posting the chapter because I realised "oh shit, this would make Tasks activate, uh, brain, give me a minigame!" and just wrote the first thing I thought of.
And if Brianne got Norse runes, she'd yoink Othala's name, too. Clearly, she'd need to find out a way to manipulate CF rolls to strip every member of the E88 of their cape names.
One of them tries it on a random door, and he has an anyeurism because the goddamn motherfucking spaceship is stalking him.
While I won't be giving more than one version of any given "first/second/etc free" freebie in a jump without it being purchased properly, Connections is in the Supplies: Magical: Small Scale domain. As for contradictions, there were already multiple powers from the original Worm jump in the CFv3 when you're only supposed to be able to roll one, so I'm just assuming that she can roll contradictory stuff.
Dear god. I knew about the alarm clock that you had to shoot with a laser tag-ish gun, but this is outright evil. I love it.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing...?
Honestly, if there's one fucker I never see get more than a minor role in Wormfic, it's Triumph. There's a few fics where Browbeat is the main character or a major supporting character, and he's a meme-status character at this point, but I don't think I've seen a single fic where Triumph is even 'Major Supporting Cast'. Velocity has a cool fight in that one Taylor-Lung-peggy-sue fic and Dauntless has at least notable roles in both Headspace and Pick a Card. Triumph has a whole-ass interlude, and yet? Radio silence.
Pfft. Not so much a lore thing as something Bri would be able to do.
Sure, until she has a Joe moment and builds a crazy-strong Mk II of her agility suit in a crazy-short amount of time, while he's left working at a normal pace with tools made from her innovations and not his. If the tools work and give him some breakthroughs, though, wouldn't that still sting? Like he wouldn't be able to that stuff on his own in a sensible timeframe without the help of the super-tinker (who also looks a lot like a younger version of him).
Also, tinkers can already get scans of cape powers in action. It's one of their more major aspects. He can already replicate Clockblocker's power to some degree, and I know Kid Win used scans of Dauntless' power for at least one of his guns.
"Oh Brianne, grand Celestial Forger, what are you constructing with your incredible crafting power?"
"Ikea furniture."
"...Huh?"
"Ikea furniture. Pass me the Allen wrench?"
"..."
"Done."
*Four more chests of drawers appear*
"God damn it."
Eh, no more 'questionable' than the stuff that was already in the Small Scale Supplies domains, imo. Afaik, post-jump, Connections perks don't really have any other benefit than being materials perks, which is what I'm treating them as.
From Connections: Hell, she's getting a magical metal and actual literal souls, and from Connections: The Colleges, she's getting bits and pieces of information on things she could potentially use for crafting, as well as 'annoyed pets', ie potential examples of abnormal biology. She could get a rat with the intelligence of a human, for example.
It's not big, sure, but this is a freebie. 50 CP for purchases past the first two.
Good point, though I can't imagine it'd be great for motivation to build something and have it just vanish. Then again, if he's just using the materials to goof around with, I could see him not being too cut-up about building something and having it vanish after the novelty has worn off.
My idea along those lines was to use frosted glass and put some biometric readers in there to make sure the clones are still alright.
(Funnily enough, that was going to be plot relevant in another fic I'd been writing. It hasn't got past two chapters, yet, but I am hoping to continue it.)
Ohh, right, I thought you were talking about a past comment when you said "back there".
Well, Kaiser's could be yoinked because of Armsmaster, given his Stand.
Not to mention the car. Which, now I'm imagining it becoming something like Herbie. Two honks, and it rolls right up to him.
Eh, it was more the fact that the perk specifically stated that it excluded being able to grab the other ones. Which I think is a mechanic of Fallen London more than anything. But it's been too long since I messed around with that. Because I vaguely recall there being ways to see all the content without creating another character. Outside of stuff like special events/limited time availability. Which I know even less about.
And yeah, I didn't expect more freebies given out, just a eventually roll again and it pops up.
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You know, with the shared shard between Bri and Colin, along with the perks also affecting him...
Armsmaster ends up getting more boosts to his power. Dauntless gets a little weirded out that his teammate is no longer snubbing him (as much).
Heck, I'm imagining that he already will slowly find that he's having less maintenance time. Bri's creations having new/different methods that last longer, and he incorporates some of that. Among other different little bits that add up. Total tinkering time probably isn't down, mostly because of creating new ideas. And upgrading his existing gear. So it takes a bit to notice.
"Would you believe that Ikea accidentally put in a bunch of spare parts?"
Brianna and Colin together in a scene is beautiful, like a slow motion train wreck.
Though seriously, having Armsmaster as a friend is a huge bonus, the man has an inhuman level of dedication. I think he'd be great help in sorting out what the forge gives her, and access to novel materials, tech bases, and even magic should skyrocket his own ability as the shard eats it all up and spits out even better tinkertech for him to make.
Only question is if Brianna will fess up
Though seriously, having Armsmaster as a friend is a huge bonus, the man has an inhuman level of dedication. I think he'd be great help in sorting out what the forge gives her, and access to novel materials, tech bases, and even magic should skyrocket his own ability as the shard eats it all up and spits out even better tinkertech for him to make.
Only question is if Brianna will fess up
Yeah it's got to be tricky to think of something routine enough to be a Task, assuming you're using that as the proc condition, since that's the sort of thing that you by definition don't think about.
She could combine a kitten with a storm and call it storm tiger?
Would it even be able to fit into a Warehouse? Before being properly miniaturized and/or made collapsible? Maybe some parts of it like a drop-pod or something.
Relatedly do you think that Squealer would try to steal or something at some point?
There's also alarm clocks that are intended to be thrown at things. As in being designed to survive being thrown at things and with a impact sensor that turns it off.
His powers aren't exactly notable is a big part of the problem.
Hmmm. *Looks back through Perks* Making a ship out of their effects, making them last longer then they should, and writing them on Electric Aeon come to mind. *Looks though Perks from chapter eight onwards* Modifying the Void Worlds? Genius Of The Art being familiar enough with runes, by virtue of being a genius of a Art from the world of God Of War, for the blacksmithing learned from it to be applicable to them?
If he's not comfortable using tools that incorporate other Tinkers works and/or other Parahumans effects into his equipment then that's his problem; I'm sure that there are Tinkers that specialize in incorporating other Parahumans abilities, either ones that persist or are made persistent even if they couldn't be made from scratch, into their works.
I know that there's that one Tinker that trades 3D circuit micro-processor cubes for more budget so there's no way that other Parahumans with Tinkering-relevant abilities don't do something similar. Brianne could probably register, possibly as a different body in a different city, as a Parahuman with a ability relating to locking materials in a specific condition for Tinkers to send components of a device to be assembled by.
Thinking about it I'm surprised that Particulate and Gully, or any other geokinetic really, don't do a decent amount of work together making massive amounts of ceramics.
Yeah the "lightning" from his lance inspired Win to make something like hardlight. Either ions or straight up electrons. It'd probably be a good material for Brianne to make electrical conduits for come to think of it. Would that count as being wireless?
Regardless that's the effect of a application of Dauntless's powers rather then his powers in and of themselves. It'd be like studying the powers that Othala can grant others rather then Othala herself...And now I'm thinking about interactions and/or hybridizations of those twos powers. Can you imagine Bonesaw or Queen Of Swords or some other Trump blending their powers to get a permanent effect granter? Especially since the first thing that Dauntless grants to his empowered objects is durability?
I was thinking more like one of those swiss-army houses but that could also work.
Well that would work but I feel like it working weirdly would probably be better. Both given that Fallen London is a weird place with weird "rules" and because the Fallen London text adventure has stats having to do with reputation and the Perk talks about "admirers". Off of the top of my head you could have the amount of material the Perk supplies track with a hypothetical reputation and how much a highly regarded it would be in either of the hypothetical cultures the Perk draws from.
Also yeah I can imagine both of the Colleges having a few of something like SCP-1166 laying around. Relatedly you can search the SCP Wiki by tags like "Plant" or "Animal" which could serve as inspiration for other things from the Colleges.
Depends on whether ones enjoyment comes from the having or the getting; the reason I brought up KidWin is because he'd probably enjoy the getting, or rather the making, more then the having. Besides which he could always remake anything that he found particularly promising once he made it once.
Speaking of KidWin though I wonder if he'd be able to preserve things he made from the ship by putting putting replacing the parts he took, presumably with something made from the parts he took, back into the ship once he'd made them; the ship is subject to a automatic repair and transportation effect but would it really count as repair if functionality was retained? Like replacing a light socket with a recharge station, or a long-range inductive charger or a hard-electricity battery dispenser (a la Aperture Science High Energy Pellets) or something, should still allow lights to be socketed into it or even replaced outright. That could be fun.
Smart-glass might be better so that the frosting could be dynamically selective enough to allow precision inspection with dynamic censorship...Or she could install a layer-viewing feature and avoid seeing skin entirely. Could even prank Lisa by asking if she wants to see a clone of someone muscly.
Yeah in hind-sight I could have specified better.
Well if Brianne modified it right she could probably spare one or two duplicates with auto-drive features.
Eh. It seems to be more exploiting the effect then studying it so I'm not sure whether Armsmaster would get effect bleed-through from Speciality development a la the Damsel Of Distress clones memories. Then again Clustermates tended to have contrast in their abilities more often then overlap so yeah Colin might end up with a few ways to make technology last for longer.
That being said through a way to make his workshop itself count as personal equipment, presumably a second layer of much larger armor a vehicle or something that could pack away and display arbitrary other thing like a rolodex, would probably also cut down on maintenance. Yes it's expected that you'd start with a conventional workshop like all Tinkers but he's hardly at that stage of power-ramp. Like why even have other tools when your speciality is so focused on making multi-tools? Maybe get it to semi-autonomously Tinker up arrays of tools based off of power-granting Trumps and semi-autonomous projection projecting Masters combined with a live scan, and possibly TMS, of his Corona?
Enlarging it and claiming that they got a decimal point in the wrong place would probably work better. I was going to link that giant slipper story but apparently that was a PR stunt.
Edit: Brianne and Lisa could stand to have a gun. Probably a miniaturized one for handling and whatnot but something for decent self-defense. Maybe also a taser?
Edit: you know who Brianne would probably be able to bribe pretty well? Trainwreck. His armor probably counts as "a motor vehicle", which means that Brianne probably has a affinity for it, he uses mostly, if not outright exclusively, mechanical technology, which means that blacksmithing is of pretty major use to him, and Extended Warranty means that anything that Brianne helps him make or makes for him (though I have to imagine that he'd resent something so charitable) wouldn't require upkeep. Plus there's things like Nevercold Brass, Miniaturization Tinkering, and shapeship construction intuition meaning that anything that she helps make would probably be of nigh-extreme comfort to the poor bastard.
Could even meet up with him easily enough if Brianne wanted to try using a steam engine to generate infinite energy from some Netherrack or, both more effectively and gained more easily come to think of it via some Soul Sand, and didn't want to make one from scratch when she has a Perk relating to the maintenance and modification, but not creation, of vehicles and there are a bunch of abandoned trains within literal walking distance.
Some method of recycling the water would probably be possible, and as I have learned after a bit of googling is apparently standard on steam ships, but making it double as a water purification system seems like it might be a decent secondary function. It'd probably take a bit of shenanigans, or Trainwrecks help, to make a steam engine that wouldn't have problems with contaminants though.
Brianne could probably infinitely recycle infinitely burnable fuel using a combustion engine as well but that'd presumably require drinking fuel and recondensing it to feed back into the engine after each combustion. That and exchanging air while retaining fuel. That'd probably be a pain in the ass. Maybe use a solid, as in powdered, fuel and make it magnetic? Probably easier to just use steam. Keep the fuel solid.
Edit: That and having a system that could be used for unlimited hot-water showers would probably appeal to him on a damn-near primal level given his problems with cleaning himself conventionally.
Edit: hell Brianne should probably make some modifications to her own hot-water systems using Soul Sand fire. Possibly also a water recycling system? Probably also a water recycling system.
Come to think of it would Ex Nihilo Barrels fill abnormally quickly with water in the rain? Like I feel like that could be either a game mechanic or a mod mechanic and the Perk only supports one of those. It's not like Barrels exist in Vanilla Minecraft though. Might be worth making some around places both public and private.
Also Ex Nihilo Barrels turn water and milk into slime so that might be fun. It'd be another edge-case though because on one hand IRL has slime but on the other hand a lot of things can be slime and it wouldn't be unreasonable for one of them to have those sort of properties. It'd probably be possible to refine into some decent sort of polymer though. Good for tires and shoe soles and whatnot. Might also be interesting to shove that soul from Hell into it to see what happens.
Edit: oh god Brianne would probably be able to make a lot of slime. Like I was thinking about how Brianne would have to make Wooden Barrels reassemblable or since they'd presumably pop like popcorn when Workaholic kicked in but nah that'd apply to slime as well wouldn't it?
Edit: also Barrels full of water produce moss around them. Game mechanic? Mod mechanic? Chaos either way. Also possibly a source of biomass if you can scrape it into another Barrel.
Edit: it might also make a few areas a bit more hospitable? It's at least softer then concrete so homeless people would probably appreciate it. It's also rather good as a grassless lawn so middle, or higher, class people might also appreciate it.
Edit: yeah moss growth should totally be possible to make a Ex Nihilo generation cycle out of; you start with a Barrel, some water, and some stone, and you use the Barrel and some water to make some moss and then the Barrel and some moss to make soil and then that soil to make more stone for more stone Barrels and moss growing platforms.
Relatedly it occurs to me that the ceramic Crucibles of Ex Nihilo would be ridiculously easy to make and probably highly dangerous to have. Especially for Brianne. Especially for a Brianne with Workaholic. Like I can totally see Brianne getting bored and making a lava reservoir...Wait no. Lava Fountain. Brianne could cook marshmallows over a Lava Fountain.
Thinking about it Simple Void Worlds would be pretty great for camping as long as you set up your platform correctly. Also would Blacksmithing apply to molten stone? I feel like it should at least apply to pouring molten stone because you pour metal into molds and that's a transferable skill.
Edit: you know what? Fuck molten stone. Make fountains of all sorts of molten things; molten metal; molten glass...I can't think of other things that can be molten but also a soup fountain.
Edit: molten sugar fountain~
Edit: also one of the results of sifting sand, or some material I'm mis-remembering for sand, is cocoa beans so, like, Brianne's going to end up with near industrial quantities of cocoa beans just as a byproduct of doing other shit so a chocolate fountain would probably not be a bad idea. Not like a dinky little one like they have at parties either I'm talking the sort of thing that would be described as proper architecture.
Edit: Ex Nihilo Barrels would probably be good for waste disposal purposes. Like as in human waste disposal; it should be possible to compost poop. Either that or sift it out of existence.
It might also be possible to compost plastic if plastic-eating bacteria were available.
Edit: Soulsand fiberglass, or at least glass fibers if fiberglass refers specifically to glass fibers packed hard enough to be solid, would probably burn decently hotter then even regular Soul Sand or Soul Soil. Especially with a good oxygen pump. Assuming that Nether material fires consume oxygen of course.
That being said though making perma-burning moss might also be a good way to give it a better structural-integrity-to-surface-area ratio. It might dry out even if it's not consumed by its fires though. Maybe some Magma Cream, or rather Slime combined with Blase Powder, could help to prevent that? Not only do they naturally come from Magma Cubes but they're a ingredient in fire resistance potions as well so even if proper potion-making is reliant upon Minecraft game mechanics, or possibly some other forms of potion-craft if they weren't restricted to reagents from the same setting as the Perk providing it, there's probably a Tinker thing that could be done with it.
For that matter Ghast Tears are a ingredient in regeneration potions so they might also be able to provide regeneration effects or be studied to produce something that does. It might take a Tinker with a different speciality though.
Relatedly that hovering effect that Blazes have might be worth looking into at some point. That seems like it could be Tinkered with on with less biological requirements.
Edit: Brianne could probably get some services from the Protectorate without joining or even unmasking to them by trading some materials for the services. Things like powdered metals and whatnot. Possibly also oils if only to use up all of the seeds that would be made as a product of sifting. Not sure whether it would be worth it to provide more exotic materials; Soul Sand would probably make for a decent blow-torch that would presumably not require fuel.
It would almost certainly be worth things like collaboration with another Tinker, not counting Armsmaster since she'd already have that, and people with other effects like Shadow Stalkers ability to clip objects and materials into eachother.
Edit: End Stone, which can be made in a barrel with some molten stone and Glowstone dust, apparently has among the highest Blast Resistance ratings of any block so it can probably be made into some pretty decent ceramics and, presumably thusly, composites.
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Seeing Armsmaster's helmet in person instead of in zoomed-out news photos, it looked different from the fanart. Most people drew him with a more rounded black visor, but the actual one was an opaque silver with a sharp enough V shape that it could probably break skin. The rest of the helmet was different, too - it was closer to navy blue than cobalt, and while it had silver accents, there weren't any dark panels at all.
What did the internals look like? I knew the combat prediction algorithm wasn't stored in the helmet, but I couldn't remember if it was run from the suit or an external server. The information would be displayed on the visor, and it might have an interface as well, if it wasn't elsewhere on the suit.
His armour made him stronger, more agile, and far more durable, to the point where he could keep fighting after Trainwreck slammed him into a car, as well as parkour off time-locked waves and do backflips while fighting Leviathan. There wouldn't be any artificial muscles or servos or anything in the helmet, but-
"Don't take it apart," he said, sounding faintly amused.
I flushed and put the helmet back on the table. It seemed like he'd turned it off to bring it over, since the UI was dark.
"If you joined the Protectorate, I'd be able to show you how it works in a proper workshop," he offered.
Joining the Wards would put me at risk of-
"Wait, Protectorate? Not Wards?" I asked.
"The Wards program is specifically for kids up to 17, not just people in primary or secondary schooling. You're turning 18 in a couple of weeks, right?" I was? "There wouldn't be much point in putting you into the Wards for such a short time. It'd be easier to bend the rules and make you a part-time Protectorate member right off the bat."
That was… well, it was true, but I was about the least adult-y adult I knew. Besides, as weird as it was to think about, the amount of Wards-focused fanfic far outweighed the Protectorate-focused stuff, so the idea was just a whole lot more foreign.
The ENE Wards team were thoroughly explored in a way that the ENE Protectorate team wasn't - for all people meme on Browbeat being forgotten, he was still a protagonist or major character in some fics. Triumph, on the other hand, I'd never seen outside of the most minor roles, despite having an entire interlude.
"Take your time," Armsmaster said, jolting my roomba of thought back into the right general area.
Right. Wards, Protectorate, whichever the case, I couldn't join. Heck, I couldn't even tell the truth about why I couldn't join.
I glanced down at the helmet on the table. It was off, and he wasn't wearing it. There was no lie detector in play, thank god. Despite that, coming up with a believable excuse wouldn't be easy.
Okay. Act natural. Don't exposit, that'd make it sound more like a lie - lay hints, and he'll ask for the context.
"I-" I was interrupted by more heat, scarcely a minute after the last one. It took a moment to recenter my roomba of thought again. "I already made arrangements to team up with one of my cluster-mates, and she has reasons not to join the Wards." She did, but it was because she wasn't actually a cape herself.
At 'cluster-mates', he straightened in his seat, looking as worried as he did oddly relieved.
"You're a grab-bag cape?" He asked.
I nodded, trying to put on a sincere face. "Yeah. I dunno how many people are in my cluster, though, and I'm not even sure what all my powers are."
The last part made him raise an eyebrow.
Then, after a pause, "When did you trigger?" He asked, in an odd tone of voice that made him almost seem like he didn't want to hear about it.
Uhh… "Around the middle of last week. I'd… rather not talk about it." He could be insensitive, but surely not to the point where he'd pry into trigger events?
He took a long, slow breath, started to say something, then stopped. Eventually, he settled on "How many of your cluster-mates do you know?"
Good. Pretending I'd gone through a traumatic event already felt scummy enough, and coming up with a realistic enough cluster-worthy trigger would only make that feeling worse. Besides, it'd take a level of acting I didn't have to pretend I was legitimately affected by it, let alone to consistently fake the neuroses I'd get from whatever I came up with.
Right, the question.
"I only know one of my cluster-mates at the moment. I'd tell you a cape name, but neither of us have picked one out yet."
"I got into the game early enough that-" the heat intensified. Shit shit shit. "-all I had to worry about was picking out a good codename, but I can't imagine it'd be easy trying to find one that isn't already in use."
The conversation was diverting from the dangerous topics, at the very least. Should I try to encourage that?
"How did you pick your name out, actually?" I asked.
The intense heat faded without immediate incident as he started to talk. Good enough.
"Nothing special," he said. "The PRT's branding department came up with a list of names and I rejected them all. Nearly went with their pick, Arsenal, but it was… dehumanising. It implied I was the weapon itself instead of the wielder of the weapon."
He cared about that? Well… yes, it's a thing it'd make sense to care about. Just because he's Mr Efficiency doesn't mean he's not a person, I guess.
…These characters really were people, weren't they?
He continued. "I started thinking along the lines of Quartermaster from the James Bond films, since I was still working with smaller gadgets instead of a full suit of armour at the time, and that led me to Armsmaster."
He looked focused. Tunnel visioned, and in a way that suited me.
…The thought left me uncomfortable with how manipulative it felt.
"As a kid, the fact that my first name is near the start of the alphabet and my last name is near the end made it apparent how much alphabetical ordering can influence things. In the classes where the roll was sorted by first name instead of surname, I'd generally be called on more often, I'd get tests back sooner, etcetera. When anyone looks at an alphabetical list of the top Protectorate heroes in the country, I'm second behind Alexandria."
That was 'nothing special'? Here he was, with actual logical reasons behind why he picked his name beyond just 'sounds cool and heroic'.
How many small details like that had been left out of the Parahumans series? Rather, how infinitesimally small was the fraction of details that made it into Parahumans compared to the real world here?
Anyhow. How could I keep us off-topic? If he ran late for some task or another, he'd hopefully leave without prying into anything. Unless he'd set time aside for "talk to the potential recruit". When Kid Win had gone to talk to Chariot, it was implied he'd gone in civilian clothes, since nobody recognised him as Kid Win.
Gosh, Chariot, that was a name that was easy to forget. Coil's mole in the Wards post-Leviathan, and a mobility-focused tinker. I'd want to watch out for people like that - if there was something liable to fuck me over that I wasn't already uncomfortably aware of, it was characters I had little to no information on.
Right, keeping things off-topic. The lack of medication was hitting me hard. Fuck you, malformed dopamine pathways.
"Wasn't it weird to pick a name with 'Master' in it, since that's the name of a power classification?" I asked. "Especially with one as contentious as Masters. I've been reading about the Canary trial, and it sounds like mind controllers wouldn't be something you'd want to associate yourself with."
"There's a couple of reasons," he said. "For one, I picked the name to appeal to the general public, and most people wouldn't know the PRT's power classifications other than maybe Tinker or Trump. For another, this was before the Controller classification was folded into the Master classification."
'Controller'? I cocked my head.
"So there'd be less terms to memorise and risk getting mixed up," he clarified. "Threat classifications are made to be called out on the field, so if you don't have enough time to say 'It's a mind controller!' your allies also probably wouldn't have the time to think through a list of 20-30 classifications. So, it was cut down to twelve"
Huh.
"Though, if someone couldn't externally tell what exactly the Master effect was - say, mind control vs emotional manipulation vs body puppeting - wouldn't it be easier to say 'Controller'?"
He opened his mouth to respond, then paused. "As interesting as this is to talk about, we're getting off-topic."
Shit. There goes that plan.
"Can you at least list the powers you do know you have?" He asked. "If there was a multi-trigger, that means there's going to be multiple new capes to deal with. Giving information on your powers would give us both a rough number and an idea of what each of them would be able to do."
Alright. How could I explain my powers in a way that makes me sound like an actual grab-bag?
"Uhh, I have a Tinker power as my primary one. I used it to make costumes with my partner's help." It wasn't a lie, if I stretched it. My collection of explicitly tinker-y powers was my strongest 'single power', and Lisa did give me a hand with the suits.
"Then, there's a Thinker power. I dunno exactly how it works, but it feeds me random bits of information, sometimes. Like… when you were in-" not university "-college, a lecturer mentioned Freud and the whole class burst out laughing. I don't get anything actually useful, though, not as far as I can tell."
A vague thinker power would let me pull Worm knowledge out of my ass if I ever needed to, like I had with that Freud anecdote, so I could reasonably fake it.
"I can make mouths all over my body," I continued, holding up a hand with a mouth on the palm. "They can fuse stuff together. Uh, that's how I made the metal. A bit of brass and a lit match"
The lie at the end would hold up unless he saw me trying to make more of the metal, or asked for something that'd work on the same principles. Actually trying that would probably just end up with a chunk of flammable brass instead of one that didn't seem to be cooling down.
He nodded and looked towards the piece of brass I was holding up. A mesh of green, glowing lines in the shape of an arm lifted from his real arm, palm up.
The heck?
It looked science-y, like the wireframe of a 3D model before the texture was applied. If it was tinkertech, it wasn't any I'd known he had.
Though, come to think of it, wouldn't it be strange if a top Protectorate Tinker went out and about without any sort of protection, wouldn't it? Projected arms would be just distinct enough that nobody would think to connect them to him in a worst-case scenario.
I dropped the fragment of metal into the mesh hand, careful to avoid touching it since another heat was starting. He hummed.
"A question," Armsmaster said. "Have you heard of a graphic novel series called JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken? JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, in English."
…
Huh???
Out of all the things I expected to see coming out of his mouth, that was NOT one of them. Even if Earth Bet hadn't diverged enough to prevent JoJo from being made, it only became popular outside of Japan when the anime started in 2012 - not only was it 2011, Leviathan should've prevented anime from becoming mainstream in the west a decade ago.
"Uh. Yeah? I'm, uh. Familiar."
The mesh arm lifted away from his body. More mesh phased out of his other arm, then a head and torso. A figure stepped out of him. If someone had rendered the model for a half-dragon half-knight and cut it down to the wireframe, it'd look a lot like that.
…Or, if someone had heard a description of Defiant and made a model based on what they thought he looked like.
"I call it The King," he said.
He had a fucking stand, too.
Why the hell had I not- I'd even thought about the guardian having a stand! And I'd just, what forgotten? This is why I was the worst person to get something like the Celestial Forge. Sloppy behaviour like this.
I hadn't even considered the wireframe hand might've been a stand. It was just so different from every other stand design. The closest was, what Chocolate Disco, which was a grid on the ground? Stands just didn't look like that.
Except, apparently, they did, and I was about to reap the consequences, whatever they were.
"It first manifested six days ago," he continued. "Yesterday evening, Velocity told me that it reminded him of the Stand abilities from the translations of a series he'd been reading as part of his Mandarin lessons. From all the tests I could do, it seemed to match them perfectly."
And he'd just believed his power was based on fiction? What?
"How well do you know the rules of how stands work?" He asked.
"The only ones who can see stands are other people with stands," I said, trying to put on a confident face. The more I acted like I was trying to be as truthful as I could, the more honest I'd appear. "Is that the one you're talking about?"
"Yes. As well as that-"
The heat intensified again. Chemistry knowledge hit me like a truck filled with bricks. The periodic table, the weight of one mole of any chemical I could think of, ionic and covalent bonds and how to break and reshape them…
The law of equivalent exchange. One is all and all is one.
Alchemy.
"-apparently from the game Under- are you paying attention?" Armsmaster asked.
Fuck, what could I say? It's not like I could just explain that I suddenly learned how to use alchemy circles to shape the world around me to my every whim. I was barely getting the time to process all of these.
"It's…" okay, excuses. Cluster? "Memory bleed-through. One of my cluster-mates was underwhelmed by American chocolate the first time they tried it, apparently." One of my own memories, in case he asked me to elaborate. I'd been spoiled by the quality of the chocolate back home.
He tensed, and his eyes flickered to the helmet on the table. Shit. Did I let something slip? Did I-
Oh. Right. Duh.
"Uh, nothing from after we triggered," I clarified hastily. "This won't out you to any of them. I think it's how our personality bleed-through dynamic works. We trade old memories among each other. I know my accent changed because of it."
"Right," he said. "I did think you sounded more American than it had before."
Good, that was an excuse for- wait, more American?
Actually, come to think of it, wasn't Wallis a British surname? Armsmaster had an American accent, but if his side of the family had moved to America before he was born while the original Brianne's side had stayed, that would explain it.
"Back to what I was saying before," he said. "Recently, people and objects have been manifesting around Brockton Bay, and at least one of them - 'Sans the Skeleton' - is based on fiction."
So they actually believed Sans about the magic science video game thing he'd said? Why- Oh. Right. Lie detector. Duh.
"You think one of my cluster-mates is behind it?" I asked, trying not to sound too eager about the idea. If that's what he was thinking, this disaster would be a whole lot easier for me to slip out of.
"Yes," he said. "And if you came to that conclusion, then would I be right in saying that the stands are from one of your secondary powers?"
This conversation was surreal. I was talking to actual Armsmaster, and he just name-dropped both JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Sans Undertale. What was my life, even?
"Yeah," I said. "My stand is pretty weak, and I can't actually control it. It has a foul mouth, so I asked it to keep to itself until you were gone - I didn't need its commentary on top of everything else."
Well, Aeon had hid of its own accord- wait, had it put together that Armsmaster might be able to see it? Was that why it hid? God dammit, I was slow.
He sighed. "I don't suppose it looks like a robot chameleon?"
The look on his face was just a bit too annoyed at the thought of Electric Aeon for me to hope it had stayed silent when it saw him.
"Yep," I said "It told me you saw it, but I assumed you had electrovision or something in your helmet." I paused. "Do you?"
I knew Shadow Stalker had an electrovision gadget in her mask, so- I stopped myself from reaching towards the helmet again.
"Not in this one," he answered.
Ah well. It's not like I would've been allowed to look, anyway.
He leaned forward slightly, The King standing at attention behind him. "Do you know why this ability spread to me?"
"In the-" don't call it a show, it wouldn't have the David Productions anime yet "-manga, when one person in a family gets a stand, so do some or all of their close relatives. I can only assume my power copied that part, too."
He was halfway through nodding when he froze. His hand flew to his pocket, and he pulled out a phone, already opening his contacts list. The King continued to hover over his shoulder, watching me dispassionately. The phone beeped for several seconds before the person on the other end picked up.
"Have you-" he paused, listening. "This is urgent. Have you gained any strange abilities recently?"
When the next goddamn heat, how many of these was I going to get started, I at least had the reassurance of not being in the middle of a conversation.
"..." The person on the other end of the phone was talking, but I couldn't make out any of the words.
"Shit," he said. Shit. "Do you know what it does? Is it harmful?"
"..."
Some of the tension left his body. "Good."
"..."
"Yes. I'll fill you in when you're more awake."
"..."
"..." He went silent. Whatever the other person - a relative of his, presumably - was saying, Armsmaster didn't like it.
"..."
"If you did, you would've shown it when I needed it."
"...-"
"I'll call you back later."
The heat ended without incident as he hung up. I looked away, a lump in my throat.
"However that secondary power works," he said, eyes hard, "it can permanently give at least two other people powers, at least one of which is on par with most normal, non-cluster powers, and it can do it from across the country."
"Oh," I said quietly. How was I meant to respond to that?
"If you're telling the truth about that being your secondary power, what could someone with a primary version of that power do?"
His eyes bored into me. I gulped.
A/N: Welp, that came out a few days late.
I put off editing and publishing the chapter on the day I was actually meant to release it, and my brain took that as a signal to just keep on putting it off more and more without any good or logical reason.
That was the last chapter in my backlog, so the release schedule is going to be more inconsistent than before, depending on how both my schedule and my muse play out. I still haven't been fighting the difficult-to-write bit in Chapter 13, which hadn't been helping things.
In lighter news, I got a weighted blanket from my parents and a super cool Minecraft mug from my childhood friend for my birthday yesterday. Weighted blankets are great, and if you carry the whole thing over your shoulder for a while, you feel like Piccolo removing his training weights when you put it down.
On another note, I can't remember if I've said this before, but I won't necessarily be giving every freebie in a jump to Brianne when she rolls a perk from it - it was like that with Among Us and Fallen London, and now it's like that with Generic AI. If there's only one perk from that jump in my CF, I'll just leave out the freebies I don't want in the story at all and keep the more interesting/pertinent ones in.
What did the internals look like? I knew the combat prediction algorithm wasn't stored in the helmet, but I couldn't remember if it was run from the suit or an external server. The information would be displayed on the visor, and it might have an interface as well, if it wasn't elsewhere on the suit.
His armour made him stronger, more agile, and far more durable, to the point where he could keep fighting after Trainwreck slammed him into a car, as well as parkour off time-locked waves and do backflips while fighting Leviathan. There wouldn't be any artificial muscles or servos or anything in the helmet, but-
"Don't take it apart," he said, sounding faintly amused.
I flushed and put the helmet back on the table. It seemed like he'd turned it off to bring it over, since the UI was dark.
"If you joined the Protectorate, I'd be able to show you how it works in a proper workshop," he offered.
Joining the Wards would put me at risk of-
"Wait, Protectorate? Not Wards?" I asked.
"The Wards program is specifically for kids up to 17, not just people in primary or secondary schooling. You're turning 18 in a couple of weeks, right?" I was? "There wouldn't be much point in putting you into the Wards for such a short time. It'd be easier to bend the rules and make you a part-time Protectorate member right off the bat."
That was… well, it was true, but I was about the least adult-y adult I knew. Besides, as weird as it was to think about, the amount of Wards-focused fanfic far outweighed the Protectorate-focused stuff, so the idea was just a whole lot more foreign.
The ENE Wards team were thoroughly explored in a way that the ENE Protectorate team wasn't - for all people meme on Browbeat being forgotten, he was still a protagonist or major character in some fics. Triumph, on the other hand, I'd never seen outside of the most minor roles, despite having an entire interlude.
"Take your time," Armsmaster said, jolting my roomba of thought back into the right general area.
Right. Wards, Protectorate, whichever the case, I couldn't join. Heck, I couldn't even tell the truth about why I couldn't join.
I glanced down at the helmet on the table. It was off, and he wasn't wearing it. There was no lie detector in play, thank god. Despite that, coming up with a believable excuse wouldn't be easy.
Okay. Act natural. Don't exposit, that'd make it sound more like a lie - lay hints, and he'll ask for the context.
"I-" I was interrupted by more heat, scarcely a minute after the last one. It took a moment to recenter my roomba of thought again. "I already made arrangements to team up with one of my cluster-mates, and she has reasons not to join the Wards." She did, but it was because she wasn't actually a cape herself.
At 'cluster-mates', he straightened in his seat, looking as worried as he did oddly relieved.
"You're a grab-bag cape?" He asked.
I nodded, trying to put on a sincere face. "Yeah. I dunno how many people are in my cluster, though, and I'm not even sure what all my powers are."
The last part made him raise an eyebrow.
Then, after a pause, "When did you trigger?" He asked, in an odd tone of voice that made him almost seem like he didn't want to hear about it.
Uhh… "Around the middle of last week. I'd… rather not talk about it." He could be insensitive, but surely not to the point where he'd pry into trigger events?
He took a long, slow breath, started to say something, then stopped. Eventually, he settled on "How many of your cluster-mates do you know?"
Good. Pretending I'd gone through a traumatic event already felt scummy enough, and coming up with a realistic enough cluster-worthy trigger would only make that feeling worse. Besides, it'd take a level of acting I didn't have to pretend I was legitimately affected by it, let alone to consistently fake the neuroses I'd get from whatever I came up with.
Right, the question.
"I only know one of my cluster-mates at the moment. I'd tell you a cape name, but neither of us have picked one out yet."
"I got into the game early enough that-" the heat intensified. Shit shit shit. "-all I had to worry about was picking out a good codename, but I can't imagine it'd be easy trying to find one that isn't already in use."
The conversation was diverting from the dangerous topics, at the very least. Should I try to encourage that?
"How did you pick your name out, actually?" I asked.
The intense heat faded without immediate incident as he started to talk. Good enough.
"Nothing special," he said. "The PRT's branding department came up with a list of names and I rejected them all. Nearly went with their pick, Arsenal, but it was… dehumanising. It implied I was the weapon itself instead of the wielder of the weapon."
He cared about that? Well… yes, it's a thing it'd make sense to care about. Just because he's Mr Efficiency doesn't mean he's not a person, I guess.
…These characters really were people, weren't they?
He continued. "I started thinking along the lines of Quartermaster from the James Bond films, since I was still working with smaller gadgets instead of a full suit of armour at the time, and that led me to Armsmaster."
He looked focused. Tunnel visioned, and in a way that suited me.
…The thought left me uncomfortable with how manipulative it felt.
"As a kid, the fact that my first name is near the start of the alphabet and my last name is near the end made it apparent how much alphabetical ordering can influence things. In the classes where the roll was sorted by first name instead of surname, I'd generally be called on more often, I'd get tests back sooner, etcetera. When anyone looks at an alphabetical list of the top Protectorate heroes in the country, I'm second behind Alexandria."
That was 'nothing special'? Here he was, with actual logical reasons behind why he picked his name beyond just 'sounds cool and heroic'.
How many small details like that had been left out of the Parahumans series? Rather, how infinitesimally small was the fraction of details that made it into Parahumans compared to the real world here?
Anyhow. How could I keep us off-topic? If he ran late for some task or another, he'd hopefully leave without prying into anything. Unless he'd set time aside for "talk to the potential recruit". When Kid Win had gone to talk to Chariot, it was implied he'd gone in civilian clothes, since nobody recognised him as Kid Win.
Gosh, Chariot, that was a name that was easy to forget. Coil's mole in the Wards post-Leviathan, and a mobility-focused tinker. I'd want to watch out for people like that - if there was something liable to fuck me over that I wasn't already uncomfortably aware of, it was characters I had little to no information on.
Right, keeping things off-topic. The lack of medication was hitting me hard. Fuck you, malformed dopamine pathways.
"Wasn't it weird to pick a name with 'Master' in it, since that's the name of a power classification?" I asked. "Especially with one as contentious as Masters. I've been reading about the Canary trial, and it sounds like mind controllers wouldn't be something you'd want to associate yourself with."
"There's a couple of reasons," he said. "For one, I picked the name to appeal to the general public, and most people wouldn't know the PRT's power classifications other than maybe Tinker or Trump. For another, this was before the Controller classification was folded into the Master classification."
'Controller'? I cocked my head.
"So there'd be less terms to memorise and risk getting mixed up," he clarified. "Threat classifications are made to be called out on the field, so if you don't have enough time to say 'It's a mind controller!' your allies also probably wouldn't have the time to think through a list of 20-30 classifications. So, it was cut down to twelve"
Huh.
"Though, if someone couldn't externally tell what exactly the Master effect was - say, mind control vs emotional manipulation vs body puppeting - wouldn't it be easier to say 'Controller'?"
He opened his mouth to respond, then paused. "As interesting as this is to talk about, we're getting off-topic."
Shit. There goes that plan.
"Can you at least list the powers you do know you have?" He asked. "If there was a multi-trigger, that means there's going to be multiple new capes to deal with. Giving information on your powers would give us both a rough number and an idea of what each of them would be able to do."
Alright. How could I explain my powers in a way that makes me sound like an actual grab-bag?
"Uhh, I have a Tinker power as my primary one. I used it to make costumes with my partner's help." It wasn't a lie, if I stretched it. My collection of explicitly tinker-y powers was my strongest 'single power', and Lisa did give me a hand with the suits.
"Then, there's a Thinker power. I dunno exactly how it works, but it feeds me random bits of information, sometimes. Like… when you were in-" not university "-college, a lecturer mentioned Freud and the whole class burst out laughing. I don't get anything actually useful, though, not as far as I can tell."
A vague thinker power would let me pull Worm knowledge out of my ass if I ever needed to, like I had with that Freud anecdote, so I could reasonably fake it.
"I can make mouths all over my body," I continued, holding up a hand with a mouth on the palm. "They can fuse stuff together. Uh, that's how I made the metal. A bit of brass and a lit match"
The lie at the end would hold up unless he saw me trying to make more of the metal, or asked for something that'd work on the same principles. Actually trying that would probably just end up with a chunk of flammable brass instead of one that didn't seem to be cooling down.
He nodded and looked towards the piece of brass I was holding up. A mesh of green, glowing lines in the shape of an arm lifted from his real arm, palm up.
The heck?
It looked science-y, like the wireframe of a 3D model before the texture was applied. If it was tinkertech, it wasn't any I'd known he had.
Though, come to think of it, wouldn't it be strange if a top Protectorate Tinker went out and about without any sort of protection, wouldn't it? Projected arms would be just distinct enough that nobody would think to connect them to him in a worst-case scenario.
I dropped the fragment of metal into the mesh hand, careful to avoid touching it since another heat was starting. He hummed.
"A question," Armsmaster said. "Have you heard of a graphic novel series called JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken? JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, in English."
…
Huh???
Out of all the things I expected to see coming out of his mouth, that was NOT one of them. Even if Earth Bet hadn't diverged enough to prevent JoJo from being made, it only became popular outside of Japan when the anime started in 2012 - not only was it 2011, Leviathan should've prevented anime from becoming mainstream in the west a decade ago.
"Uh. Yeah? I'm, uh. Familiar."
The mesh arm lifted away from his body. More mesh phased out of his other arm, then a head and torso. A figure stepped out of him. If someone had rendered the model for a half-dragon half-knight and cut it down to the wireframe, it'd look a lot like that.
…Or, if someone had heard a description of Defiant and made a model based on what they thought he looked like.
"I call it The King," he said.
He had a fucking stand, too.
Why the hell had I not- I'd even thought about the guardian having a stand! And I'd just, what forgotten? This is why I was the worst person to get something like the Celestial Forge. Sloppy behaviour like this.
I hadn't even considered the wireframe hand might've been a stand. It was just so different from every other stand design. The closest was, what Chocolate Disco, which was a grid on the ground? Stands just didn't look like that.
Except, apparently, they did, and I was about to reap the consequences, whatever they were.
"It first manifested six days ago," he continued. "Yesterday evening, Velocity told me that it reminded him of the Stand abilities from the translations of a series he'd been reading as part of his Mandarin lessons. From all the tests I could do, it seemed to match them perfectly."
And he'd just believed his power was based on fiction? What?
"How well do you know the rules of how stands work?" He asked.
"The only ones who can see stands are other people with stands," I said, trying to put on a confident face. The more I acted like I was trying to be as truthful as I could, the more honest I'd appear. "Is that the one you're talking about?"
"Yes. As well as that-"
The heat intensified again. Chemistry knowledge hit me like a truck filled with bricks. The periodic table, the weight of one mole of any chemical I could think of, ionic and covalent bonds and how to break and reshape them…
The law of equivalent exchange. One is all and all is one.
Alchemy.
"-apparently from the game Under- are you paying attention?" Armsmaster asked.
Fuck, what could I say? It's not like I could just explain that I suddenly learned how to use alchemy circles to shape the world around me to my every whim. I was barely getting the time to process all of these.
"It's…" okay, excuses. Cluster? "Memory bleed-through. One of my cluster-mates was underwhelmed by American chocolate the first time they tried it, apparently." One of my own memories, in case he asked me to elaborate. I'd been spoiled by the quality of the chocolate back home.
He tensed, and his eyes flickered to the helmet on the table. Shit. Did I let something slip? Did I-
Oh. Right. Duh.
"Uh, nothing from after we triggered," I clarified hastily. "This won't out you to any of them. I think it's how our personality bleed-through dynamic works. We trade old memories among each other. I know my accent changed because of it."
"Right," he said. "I did think you sounded more American than it had before."
Good, that was an excuse for- wait, more American?
Actually, come to think of it, wasn't Wallis a British surname? Armsmaster had an American accent, but if his side of the family had moved to America before he was born while the original Brianne's side had stayed, that would explain it.
"Back to what I was saying before," he said. "Recently, people and objects have been manifesting around Brockton Bay, and at least one of them - 'Sans the Skeleton' - is based on fiction."
So they actually believed Sans about the magic science video game thing he'd said? Why- Oh. Right. Lie detector. Duh.
"You think one of my cluster-mates is behind it?" I asked, trying not to sound too eager about the idea. If that's what he was thinking, this disaster would be a whole lot easier for me to slip out of.
"Yes," he said. "And if you came to that conclusion, then would I be right in saying that the stands are from one of your secondary powers?"
This conversation was surreal. I was talking to actual Armsmaster, and he just name-dropped both JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Sans Undertale. What was my life, even?
"Yeah," I said. "My stand is pretty weak, and I can't actually control it. It has a foul mouth, so I asked it to keep to itself until you were gone - I didn't need its commentary on top of everything else."
Well, Aeon had hid of its own accord- wait, had it put together that Armsmaster might be able to see it? Was that why it hid? God dammit, I was slow.
He sighed. "I don't suppose it looks like a robot chameleon?"
The look on his face was just a bit too annoyed at the thought of Electric Aeon for me to hope it had stayed silent when it saw him.
"Yep," I said "It told me you saw it, but I assumed you had electrovision or something in your helmet." I paused. "Do you?"
I knew Shadow Stalker had an electrovision gadget in her mask, so- I stopped myself from reaching towards the helmet again.
"Not in this one," he answered.
Ah well. It's not like I would've been allowed to look, anyway.
He leaned forward slightly, The King standing at attention behind him. "Do you know why this ability spread to me?"
"In the-" don't call it a show, it wouldn't have the David Productions anime yet "-manga, when one person in a family gets a stand, so do some or all of their close relatives. I can only assume my power copied that part, too."
He was halfway through nodding when he froze. His hand flew to his pocket, and he pulled out a phone, already opening his contacts list. The King continued to hover over his shoulder, watching me dispassionately. The phone beeped for several seconds before the person on the other end picked up.
"Have you-" he paused, listening. "This is urgent. Have you gained any strange abilities recently?"
When the next goddamn heat, how many of these was I going to get started, I at least had the reassurance of not being in the middle of a conversation.
"..." The person on the other end of the phone was talking, but I couldn't make out any of the words.
"Shit," he said. Shit. "Do you know what it does? Is it harmful?"
"..."
Some of the tension left his body. "Good."
"..."
"Yes. I'll fill you in when you're more awake."
"..."
"..." He went silent. Whatever the other person - a relative of his, presumably - was saying, Armsmaster didn't like it.
"..."
"If you did, you would've shown it when I needed it."
"...-"
"I'll call you back later."
The heat ended without incident as he hung up. I looked away, a lump in my throat.
"However that secondary power works," he said, eyes hard, "it can permanently give at least two other people powers, at least one of which is on par with most normal, non-cluster powers, and it can do it from across the country."
"Oh," I said quietly. How was I meant to respond to that?
"If you're telling the truth about that being your secondary power, what could someone with a primary version of that power do?"
His eyes bored into me. I gulped.
A/N: Welp, that came out a few days late.
I put off editing and publishing the chapter on the day I was actually meant to release it, and my brain took that as a signal to just keep on putting it off more and more without any good or logical reason.
That was the last chapter in my backlog, so the release schedule is going to be more inconsistent than before, depending on how both my schedule and my muse play out. I still haven't been fighting the difficult-to-write bit in Chapter 13, which hadn't been helping things.
In lighter news, I got a weighted blanket from my parents and a super cool Minecraft mug from my childhood friend for my birthday yesterday. Weighted blankets are great, and if you carry the whole thing over your shoulder for a while, you feel like Piccolo removing his training weights when you put it down.
On another note, I can't remember if I've said this before, but I won't necessarily be giving every freebie in a jump to Brianne when she rolls a perk from it - it was like that with Among Us and Fallen London, and now it's like that with Generic AI. If there's only one perk from that jump in my CF, I'll just leave out the freebies I don't want in the story at all and keep the more interesting/pertinent ones in.
7.0250 Cybernetics Workshop (200 CP) (Generic AI) (Facilities Mundane)
This is a state-of-the-art robotics and cybernetics development and production facility. It can make anything from prosthetic limbs to construction robots the size of a small building. It is staffed either by dedicated and creative organics or industrious and uncreative automata. Your choice.
Parallel Processing (0 CP)
You can split your attention into potentially dozens of separate operations. While doing so means that each process has less total resources to throw at a problem, part of your expertise is the ability to finely balance resource allotment so that nothing gets neglected. You will be able to feel when you are straining the edges of what can be done safely without endangering any process, and also feel when you are starting to reach the limit of what can be done even if you are willing to neglect those limits that you set yourself.
Re-integration (0 CP)
Seamlessly merge with forks of yourself, including taking an AI copy back into a physical body. This does not grant the ability to create forks.
Chip of Theseus (0 CP)
No matter how much you tinker with yourself, no matter how much of yourself you replace with other bits, no matter how many times you recompile your own code, you still count as yourself and your soul (if you have one) remains connected to the part of you that is you. Recompiling or rebooting yourself doesn't count as death.
21.0040 Advanced Formulae (100 CP) (Fullmetal Alchemist) (Skills: Alchemy)
Alchemy comes to you as easily as breathing does. Your greater understanding allows you to perform more complex alchemy. you can combine this with Simplified Formulae for multipurpose combat alchemy. Your alchemy will always work as intended no matter what universe you're in. Alchemy can be taught, but your students will lack a lot of the fundamentals you take for granted. It is a science after all, and science is only useful if you know what it does.
This is a state-of-the-art robotics and cybernetics development and production facility. It can make anything from prosthetic limbs to construction robots the size of a small building. It is staffed either by dedicated and creative organics or industrious and uncreative automata. Your choice.
Parallel Processing (0 CP)
You can split your attention into potentially dozens of separate operations. While doing so means that each process has less total resources to throw at a problem, part of your expertise is the ability to finely balance resource allotment so that nothing gets neglected. You will be able to feel when you are straining the edges of what can be done safely without endangering any process, and also feel when you are starting to reach the limit of what can be done even if you are willing to neglect those limits that you set yourself.
Re-integration (0 CP)
Seamlessly merge with forks of yourself, including taking an AI copy back into a physical body. This does not grant the ability to create forks.
Chip of Theseus (0 CP)
No matter how much you tinker with yourself, no matter how much of yourself you replace with other bits, no matter how many times you recompile your own code, you still count as yourself and your soul (if you have one) remains connected to the part of you that is you. Recompiling or rebooting yourself doesn't count as death.
21.0040 Advanced Formulae (100 CP) (Fullmetal Alchemist) (Skills: Alchemy)
Alchemy comes to you as easily as breathing does. Your greater understanding allows you to perform more complex alchemy. you can combine this with Simplified Formulae for multipurpose combat alchemy. Your alchemy will always work as intended no matter what universe you're in. Alchemy can be taught, but your students will lack a lot of the fundamentals you take for granted. It is a science after all, and science is only useful if you know what it does.
- Location
- USA
Marks on gloves explicitly work. That is how what's his name uses his flame control. The glove has an alchemy circle on it and has a material composition that allows it to generate a spark when he snaps his fingers.
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Worrying for the future.
- Location
- Australia
Yeah, was thinking "lots of tiny marks, so that she's not locked into one style of alchemy"
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
- Location
- 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale CA
Oh hey, Armsmaster being competent. that's cool.
Also people not letting the MC keep secrets when they don't have a really good reason to. Also cool
Also people not letting the MC keep secrets when they don't have a really good reason to. Also cool
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- They/Them
Shit, I think he's on to her.
(in other news, armsy knows about jojo huh)
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(in other news, armsy knows about jojo huh)
- Location
- Finland
I do hope Bri will be revealing the Forge and actually working through the current conundrum.
- Location
- Who knows?
Hmm, what's another cape who's King-like but isn't? A man who took a King's place, but didn't take the name?
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Technically, he doesn't get minor versions of the perks. It's more like his shard would see the tech Bri's using and think "oh, wouldn't it be cool if I added that to my techbase? Then, my more competent, well-equipped host would be able to play around with it ^v^"
He'd get the direct knowledge, but not the fiat-based stuff like Workaholic. Extended Warranty, as I've written it so far, is half-technique and half-fiat, so he'd certainly get more resistant tech, but he wouldn't be able to use Minecraft's production time increase or anything.
They're both messes in very different (and a few not-so-different) ways, and they both have serious misconceptions about the other. If Bri told the full truth and Colin was upfront with his emotions, things would work out great. But, well... you know. Ms Fretter and Mr Stoicism aren't exactly about to get there.
Honestly, if they actually put everything aside and worked together, they'd balance each other out very well. Bri brings the power, mostly, as well as metaknowledge and a bit more compassion. Armsmaster brings the experience, competence, and, if need be, ruthlessness.
I'm 80% just going off vibes for what'd count as a Task. Except, y'know, those things are so routine that they'd be easy for me to forget. Like I nearly did for the coffee-maker. And I did forget for Bri making a burger, iirc.
Now I'm imagining her posting videos of it to PHO to just tank his reputation with adorable kitten clips.
Height of a space shuttle is ~55m. Starting Space from the Personal Reality Supplement is 80x80x10m. So, really, it depends on whether I'm nice enough to give her that perk or not.
But then, there's the problem of getting it in and out...
Oh, certainly, if/when she finds out. Or if she's already found out. Or if she actually has attacked already between the end of the Armsmaster interlude and Chapter 11 and Bri just doesn't know about it.
Chariot, too, for that matter. Coil might try to get him access to the ship, drop the timeline if he thinks he got caught.
Someone get Ash Ketchum one of those.
I think that and the fact he's in a weird sort of limbo state between the Wards and the Protectorate. The extras in the Protectorate ENE are barely focused on compared to the Wards, and Triumph gets the worst of it.
Again, these are technically things Brianne might be able to do, not worldbuilding/lore reveals.
The problem that he's not willing to incorporate her stuff so much as it is that she's growing at a lightning-fast pace, enough to cleanly outstrip him, with no chance of him catching up. I'm sure he would use her techbase, but I can't imagine the whole thing wouldn't leave a bitter taste in his mouth.
He spends a whole day studying alchemy, and gets up to a journeyman's understanding of it, in part via his power. But Brianne has a master's understanding, and she just got three more perks while he was studying. Even if he did want to use her tech, he'd be endlessly playing catchup just to get a fraction of what she can do.
Even if she offered him an immortality potion, a time-dilation chamber, and access to whatever crazy facilities she rolled, and he studied each techbase Bri got until he knew it at least as well as she did, he still wouldn't be able to get the "anything you make is twice as good as it'd otherwise be".
There sure is! At least, there's definitely one in this fic
Yup.
Seems like they're made by a Protectorate tinker, not that it rules out that sort of idea entirely. I believe independent teams are allowed to collect some sort of allowance from the PRT, and I wouldn't be surprised if they'd be willing to do things like tech trades with indie heroes/teams.Sentinel 9.4 said:
I'd imagine that sort of thing would run into shards getting pissy about things along those lines like they do with matter generators. Then again, whatsisface in the Yangban (Elite? Can't remember) can use wide-scale geokinesis to make permanent cities, so who's to say.
So long as they keep doing cape stuff and only make ceramics as a side-gig, they should be fine. Shards tend to get pissy about hosts not using their powers in creative ways too, after all.
I think it was literally called 'hard electricity'. Though, it doesn't seem to show up in a quick search of Worm, so maybe my brain is just making things up.
It's meant to work post-jump in other worlds, so I'd assume it'd just boil down to a funky resource perk post-jump. Is there a chance of bleedthrough from FL still happening? ...Well. I wouldn't rule it out, though I wouldn't dive so deep into it that non-FL fans would get lost.
Aren't there canonically a bunch of sapient rats in FL? I think they're good at clockwork and stuff.
I was mostly basing it off that one line about how he finished his hoverboard by thinking about how cool it'd be to fly. Thing is, if he already made it once, it could end up being more boring to make the second time, and if there's one thing ADHD brains do an acrobatic fucking pirouette off the handle at, it's boredom and lack of dopamine.
Oh fuck, that's actually smart as hell. Yeah, that'd 100% work. And, heck, if we're talking about sockets, well, Kid Win just so happens to have a specialty that'd be pretty good with that.
Wait it was? Aww
In hindsight, I'm not surprised, since no sane human wouldn't assume the person was being serious. Still, it takes away some of the magic.
For her neutral special, she wields a gun.
Technically, in Worm, guns are seen by capes as representing intent to kill, unless the cape in question's power revolved around guns somehow (see: Miss Militia). Carrying them would be a good idea, so long as Brianne dragged Lisa to firearm safety training. They'd just have to be careful to only use them when they need to, so as not to escalate any situations. Despite what Taylor would have you believe, Escalation Ain't Great. It's cool, but it has collateral.
I was about to say that Trainwreck would get pissed off at the sleek sci-fi tinker coming around, but blacksmithing would actually be a legit way for them to connect. Trainwreck is crude and apparently pretty similar in personality to Skidmark, so I'm not sure he'd mesh so well with Shy High-School Girl and Theater Kid High School Girl. Aeon would be delighted by the fact he wears truck-nuts on his armour, though.
Oh dear god that has the chance of going very, very wrong.
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*Takes notes*
I feel like, if it occurred to Bri that she could help out like that instead of going full "fight evil!" cape like Lisa is kinda going for, she'd absolutely prefer doing charity work over fighting people, especially if she didn't have to actually do social interaction.
Oh FUCK yeah this shit goes hard.
I mean, lava is pretty commonly tied with blacksmithing in Greek myth, isn't it? I'd say that Bri would at least know techniques about how to use lava in forging other weapons and, with that, lava safety tips.
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Well, it's not like there isn't a way to 'learn' clap alchemy without waiting to roll it from the CF
I much prefer to write competent characters when they really ought to be competent - trying to write a competent PRT/Protectorate is more interesting to me than an incompetent one. I probably won't be able to accurately portray the inner workings of a big governmental organisation like that, let alone do so in a way that shows how competent they are, but I certainly plan to try, within the general bounds of canon.
(Not in a munchkin-y way, ofc - they'd still tie everything up in yellow tape and paperwork - but in a not-incompetent way.)
That would be the smartest course of action for her to take imo. She spills the beans and joins an organisation that's built to help capes manage their powers. The PRT help with any weird shit like the ship that pops up and gives her resources and mentorship, while she turns her quickly-increasing power towards heroism.
Unfortunately, her fear of being Canary'd over possessing the relative of a big-name Protectorate hero outweighs her ability to realise that, no, any logical person who knows her situation wouldn't do that to her, and the possession can't be fearmongered about in the same way Canary could.
On some level, she doesn't think anyone would really believe her about her power, too. It sounds ridiculous, because it's just so utterly out of place among other capes. More importantly in that moment, she has a tinker power that grows over time and she's talking to Armsmaster. She can't imagine he'd be happy to learn about that.
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- He, his, him, they
Wait, she would be joining the PRT in the future?
- Pronouns
- He
yeah, Bri is painful to watch.
Cluster lie will bite her sooo soo hard in the ass...
With observed desision making abilities she Should join. Only favorable perks can somewhat mitigate her headspace mess and its unlikely they roll soon. She need someone to look after her and nudge here and there. Current companions are almost worst possible matchup to her. Near useless stand and mr. lazybones are not good influences.
Cluster lie will bite her sooo soo hard in the ass...
Oh man, I'm just imagining him reading a news/information show about the SH9, and it goes "The leader of the slaughterhouse nine, Jacob."
"That isn't my name it's Jacob. No, Jacob." Just constantly trying to refer to himself as 'Jack Slash', but being unable to.
The perks I was more referring to was the ones that specifically mention family and the like. Such as the Stands.
Which is doubly hilarious, because there is a burger making task in the game. Though Bri is probably going to wonder why she had to make really strange burgers, yet still get her actual burger instead. (Such as that lettuce, onion, onion, tomato, lettuce 'burger'.)
- Pronouns
- He, his, him, they
Welp, I hope not. I would just enjoy the ride until that point, I suppose.
It's almost a shame she got an actual workshop perk. Now she won't continuously pile crafting materials in her dresser/closet. The real question though, is it still an extradimensional space or did a hightech building just appear somewhere nearby?
Well this could theoretically go badly...Then again she does have resleeving technology so she could potentially pretend to be other people. Especially if she's willing to use that brainwashing diary that she got from Fallen London. Maybe on Oni Lee?
She might be able to claim that the way that her mouths combine things does so differently over time.
She could also theoretically have things stored in different mouths to combine with materials without anybody noticing so that it looked like she was combining things that she wasn't to get effect that she can't. That might be a good way to do it.
Reading manga and calling it language lessons? God damn Velocity respect.
Okay objectively more improbable to have to add a disclaimer to your excuse to make it more acceptable, and you could have used shifting power parameters or just that you hadn't taken your meds or something, but if it works I guess that there's nothing wrong with it.
Could have claimed to have something like Roulettes "Shotgun Precognition" going on with respect to memories to explain remembering it as a show instead of a manga. If there was power kitbashing going on it'd even be supported by the ship manifesting a path-not-taken set of Armsmasters stuff.
If it's a power-granting-power being traded between people then there's no reason to believe that the effect needed to travel that far when there could very well be someone in the area that could do it instead of Brianne.
I hear that a good way to prevent that from happening is to decide when you're going to do it beforehand, as in to make a proper schedule, in order to actively avoid any thoughts about doing it at the time of feeling like it. If that's still a problem then perhaps decide where you're going to sit with the project in front of you but then only get to doing it when you start to feel like it? Like you don't need to do it but you need to have it near you at that time? Feel free to ignore me if you think that that wouldn't work or wouldn't be worth it working.
Ah that's got to feel bad; try not to feel like we're obligated to your time or anything and thus guilty about not spending it on us; if you're feeling bad because of us when you're not doing it, even if you're feeling good about actually writing it, then we're not worth it.
Like if you're experiencing executive dysfunction about doing something that you enjoy then you should totally feel guilty to yourself for neglecting yourself like that but we specifically aren't, and definitely this one sources of our enjoyment specifically isn't, worth that.
Sounds like a good time; I hope that you're enjoying yourself.
...Wait hang on; are you listing them and then deciding not to apply them or something? Because if you're not applying them then I feel like you should list them but then give them a strike-through so that we know.
Oh god that's some chaos right there. Is that going to show up randomly in the city or something? Because if there's a cybernetics/robotics research/manufacturing facility just slapped right into the city with anti-destruction and anti-theft abilities. Like they'll be throwing tanks at this motherfucker and not get anywhere.
On the bright side though those robots, assuming that they're robots, could easily get some soul, and possibly some wetware, slipped into them for extra creativity and that facility would be a good place to keep a backup body.
This will either revolutionize the experience of having ADHD or be completely unnoticeable since she's already splitting her attention in a dozen different directions.
Okay so this has some synergistic Implications going on there; among other things is how this interacts with a part of her soul literally and explicitly being detached from her right now.
Relatedly her Parallel Processing probably means that if it isn't drinking the coffee that she left it in it probably is now.
And then there's how this would interact with how she can manipulate souls.
That being said though a precision deconstruction array would probably be pretty awesome if attached to a CNC machine. Like fuck drills; shafts of discohesion made manifest is where it's at.
That being said though it would sure as hell make things like digging underground bases and constructing Void World platforms easier. Hell use the material from the former to make the latter.
You're both wrong though. First of all collapsible chakrams for transmutation-circle throwing purposes, second of all transmutation tattoos but only on her backup bodies, and third of all transmutation circles on the inside her her mouths.
Oddly I would have thought that the doubled productivity one would be the only one that he'd get fully since it can apparently be shared with anyone working on a project being overseen by the user; I'm sure that their shared Shard would be able to figure out how to make Brianne oversee what it sees of Colins projects.
Also Workaholic has some lines about how the user of it becomes better at mass-production before the lines about things made by the user multiplying.
Really? I thought that it was just Brianne not acknowledging it.
Well it has a self-repair feature so as long as you point it at the door and get it moving fast enough...
Yeah that's a bit more tricky of a problem...He could get help from other Parahumans?
Other then Bonesaw I mean...Though I guess that Amy might also count.There sure is! At least, there's definitely one in this fic
They're willing to use Tinkertech from villains. I know that they probably didn't pay for it but that'd probably change if your tech was worth a lot but still less then it'd cost to try to take it by force.
Well they can't exactly get into conflicts over resources if there's no resources.
Not more fanon that worked its way under the radar.
I'd say that there wouldn't be a chance of that in the language of The Discordance. Especially since Brianne already has some retroactive functionality Perks.
"You have rats: and some of the ratholes have been dynamited open, not gnawed. An infestation of L.B.s, aka rattus faber! Viciously intelligent rats who set traps for humans! No landlord or Constable will tangle with these." A-fuck'en-pparently.
I'm sure that if he could have started half way into half-done project he'd be able to get to the end of a entirely different one.
You know what else probably represents intent to kill? Hookwolf. Just generally all of him. Really I'm pretty sure that it'd be appropriate against more Brookton Bay Capes then not for that matter.
It'd actually probably be pretty easy to hide that you were armed make a taser with a secondary function as a glock.
Relatedly it'd probably be reasonably practical for Brianne to make bullets out of gold since they're about the same weight and she's liable to end up with a lot of it she'd otherwise have little use for.
I believe that that was primarily because he was socially isolated outside of the Merchants. Like he went straight from Case 53 squatter/Tinker to Merchant Villain with very little room in between. Not really fair to judge him based on who he'd be in those circumstances.
Take advantage of the square-cube law and flood the national cheese reserve to convert it into slime? I've got to imagine that cheese would be like concentrated milk for the purposes of slime creation.
There's also the option of using the slime generation for propulsion; you've just got to keep the binary agents separated a la glowsticks and then just have them jet off like soda rockets.
Anarchy/community activism? I bet that slime would make for a pretty decent moss growing medium like what people use for moss graffiti.
You know something that I've just remembered that goes harder? Molten salt.
Definitely proper safety procedure. It's not like there's overly much difference between the safety measures of molten materials.
Especially if you've got some disposable bodies to sacrifice.Well, it's not like there isn't a way to 'learn' clap alchemy without waiting to roll it from the CF
Ironically she'd probably have absolutely nothing to fear from the Birdcage since she's able to make backup bodies. They try to imprison her and she can just poison herself.
She really needs to make a Void World at some point...
- Location
- Finland
I wouldn't have gone with going all the way to joining PRT, also with Armsie with his helmet there the lie detector would help with the "Can't say why but can say that can't"-issue with joining.
- Location
- Who knows?
I don't know. It's definitely a possibility, but for now, she's too scared of the idea of being Canary'd to do it. Plus, joining the Protectorate would separate her from Lisa M, who's basically her only friend, depending on how Aeon or Sans would be counted.
I looked through the Generic AI document, and there doesn't seem to be any mention at all of the facilities joining the Warehouse post-jump. They seem to all be real world locations. So, well, we'll still have a while longer of no-warehouse shenanigans
Oh, yeah, it's an awful idea.
Using Ambition of the Chained on Lee, on the other hand... now that's interesting.
To be fair, Velocity is super into learning languages - he wants to travel, and learning different languages would make him a candidate for being sent on international missions iirc.
His teacher, on the other hand, is making their student read a manga they like and calling it teaching.
It wasn't just an excuse in the moment - I don't think I made it clear, but it was meant to be something she could call back to later to explain why she seems so off compared to the original Brianne. "Oh, I've just been losing my memories and getting other peoples'."
Tbf, I did try to set alarms for when I'd start working on it. I just kept hitting snooze on them, though.
Maybe I should try using the calendar next time? Idk.
Thanks, it's good for me to hear stuff like this when I'm feeling stressed about things.
I am! Weighted blankets are great.
I also had my birthday dinner last night, and we went out to this fantastic Greek restaurant. The service was crazy fast for a nice restaurant, and every single dish was just consistently amazing in a way I don't think I've seen anywhere else match.
Oh, no, every freebie I list is applied. I'm just saying that there's freebies in the jump documents I'm either ignoring or not yet taking. For example, the post-jump reward in Generic AI that gives you an AI form. Bri's not getting it yet, but she might get it later.
Have you ever opened so many tabs your browser crashed?
*Looks at my 73 tabs and sweats*
Well, at least brain-tabs would be able to get bored and shut down.
On one hand, just reshaping the thing with alchemy would be more effective than CNC carving. On the other hand, Bri could just keep the alchemy array running while the machine does all the thinky precision shaping.
That's a good point, though I feel like 'my shard is overseeing it' is one step too far removed to count.
...Huh, yeah, it could be interpreted that way.
When I read it myself, I read it like "You're good at mass production BECAUSE everything you make grows/multiplies", not "You're good at mass production AND everything you make grows/multiplies".
Nah, I just forgot about it.
...Then you wait 24 hours and hope it just repairs itself instead of respawning in the Warehouse.
Well, at least it shouldn't be too hard to make a giant door.
He could, but he'd still be playing catch-up to Bri. He still wouldn't be able to become an alchemy master in a day, and even that would require Bri having some sort of big alchemy guide he could reference. Or just her teaching him. It'd still be a serious blow to his pride, I think, even if he gets something out of it.
I was thinking more along the lines of 'people leaning heavily into making tinkertech based on other people's powers', not actually tinkering with the powers themselves. Bonesaw and Amy fit the latter, someone else fits the former.
Good point, if they're willing to keep around and use Bakuda bombs, they'd be willing to buy tech off independent heroes.
And it didn't show up in the WoG thread, so yeah, looks like I got fanon'd.
It's less about how deadly the powers are and more about the intent it shows. Hookwolf's power is turning into a living blender, so if he's going to be doing cape stuff, he's going to have to do that. Guns, on the other hand, are something capes can choose to carry. They're explicitly meant to grievously injure or kill - they represent a willing threat of violence, even if the cape in question has a power far more deadly than a gun. It's a Cops and Robbers/Unwritten Rules thing.
He was actually Coil's mole in the Merchants post-Levi. If the Undersiders hadn't recruited Taylor, Coil would've had Trainwreck join them iirc.
That sounds like it'd leave an absolute mess.
So, basically, it sounds like something Bri would make for kicks and giggles, forget about, and find again at a crucial moment.
Basically, yup.
Well, the bodies are soulless, and I think the 'human transmutation' thing is more about trying to transmute things with souls, since the alchemist can't make up the cost with anything they have.
Don't worry, the lie detector is off - Bri looked at the helmet and saw that the interface was dark, so the helmet wasn't turned on.
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Worrying for the future.
- Location
- Australia
Yeah.
exactly. it IS possible to use Part of a Soul though...
so if she can figure out how to Regenerate the missing part....
Infinite Soul stuff to use.
wonder how much she could get with it.
- Location
- Usa
Speaking of very silly omake ideas.....
Cool, I just got the warehouse perk and can have a space to put everything including my ship and everything else that has popped up over the past week.
What the hell.....the damn door can not be opened anywhere but one place....
I have a damn key that will only work in my damn under wear drawer? Some one just damn well hates me for sure. I figure out I meant to English and now my can warehouse can only be accessed by opening my under wear draw and moving my bras to the side of the drawer.....who the hell was smoking when they can up with that idea.
I have a note from the forge that says do to me picking my underwear drawer for the first place to hid things that is where it made the doorway.....
I hate my life at times....
Cool, I just got the warehouse perk and can have a space to put everything including my ship and everything else that has popped up over the past week.
What the hell.....the damn door can not be opened anywhere but one place....
I have a damn key that will only work in my damn under wear drawer? Some one just damn well hates me for sure. I figure out I meant to English and now my can warehouse can only be accessed by opening my under wear draw and moving my bras to the side of the drawer.....who the hell was smoking when they can up with that idea.
I have a note from the forge that says do to me picking my underwear drawer for the first place to hid things that is where it made the doorway.....
I hate my life at times....
- Location
- Finland
That I knew, anyways the point was that the lie detector should give some credence to Bri saying that she can't join and can't say why for maybe both of their safeties.