About half an hour. Shards are more flexible and resilient than Devices are in this instance.
She did lose her powers, but it isn't like Dragon needs them in this situation. Reverse-engineering Thinker powers don't contribute a whole lot to an ongoing Endbringer fight.
Plenty of time to get ripped apart by Doom knockoffs, but better than I expected.
Guess we differ on how much of Dragon's AI-ness is shard-stuff. Yours is all that matters here, so I'll just let that matter drop.
I'm pretty sure it was WoG that Dragon's true classification was Thinker, not Tinker. And that is a WoG I don't have any issues with.
So long enough for everyone inside of Simurgh's range to be declared a Simurgh bomb (especially for those still in range when she first appeared).
Then may I politely suggest taking the 'X' out of the brackets?
When they've suddenly lost their powers, are surrounded by hostiles and are stuck in range of the Simurgh, they might as well be as good as dead as far as the rest of the world is concerned. Unless we get the Deus Ex Machina if Scion to combat Simurgh's Diabolos Ex Machina, we can consider this a case of Rocks Fall Everyone Dies. At least you're thorough when you invoke the trope. There's almost no way for us to deal enough damage to the Simurgh to drive her away in time, unless Rust Shooter actually works on her, in which case we're completely fucked as she stops sandbagging. BB gets written off, and anyone leaving gets shot on sight. The Protectorate and the PRT fall apart as Contessa and Number Man try to maintain them in the most "effective" way. It's not like even Cauldron would trust them after such thorough exposure to the Simurgh. One of Contessa's blind spots IS the Endbringers after all. Worldwide Endbringer fight participation drops to an all time low, especially against the Simurgh, now that it's known that she can do this sort of thing. Heck, that last one is likely to happen even if BB doesn't become a quarantine zone. Not many with powers want to experience losing them after all. I wonder what happened to Faultline's crew anyway? When your powers are part of your physical makeup, what happens when you lose them?
Shit.
Probably still some immediate deaths after that null-power wave. For example, any cape that was flying (perhaps Alexandria or Eidolon) is likely road pizza from falling out of the sky.
Well, if we are lucky, they didn't try to tank it, and they move fast enough that they could have escaped far enough to be unaffected. If they did try to tank it... Whelp.
They do that to all Simurgh quarantine zones. BB won't be special.
When you say 'them', I assume you're referring to the Triumvirate, right?
One of two things.
I expect you guys will be just as confused about what happened when this is all over as the interlude characters will be. Which, admittedly, is kind of the plan, but is still either going to be hilarious or frustrating depending on just how many complain of SoDs bring broken. That's actually the part I'm most worried about in this arc.
Yes.
She's very bad at keeping people alive then. Removing their powers, surrounding them with monsters that want to kill them, heck most of the fliers are probably already dead or crippled from the impact with the ground.
Gotta agree, this is probably going to be the single most heavy casualty EB battle with Ziz since Switzerland.
Seconding. You sure you know where you're going with this Watches? And are you sure it's a good idea to go there?
Most of the "what" questions should be answered by 3.x or the after-action report, which will come up after one or two more chapters depending on what's chosen in this vote. It's the big "why" that you won't know yet, which is intentional, though I will provide the event that sparked Ziz's reasons for her strange actions.
People have been doing that with Worm itself since Wildbow put up the first chapter, and still do that with jut about every first-person narritive on SB/SV. What did you expect we would do?
You're not convincing us this isn't a catastrophe. Berserk monsters among a population that cannot run or resist will result in massive casualties, above and beyond the Endbringer norm, among the heroes and civilians, even within the 30 mins you outlined for power loss. If the casualties are less than 40-60%, I will be extremely skeptical.
... That makes no sense.
Well, I think the issue is going to come down to what each of us means by 'they'. I refer to not just Cauldron, but high-level members of government, PRT, Protectorate, and some villains. There's probably more than a few common people put things together too. Enough people already know, is what I'm getting at.
It's possible they knew the Endbringers were going easy on everyone to a degree, but they always assumed they were doing real damage. It wasn't until Lisa, one of the very few Thinkers whose power worked on the Endbringers, said that all the damage they did was completely meaningless that they realized it might be worse than they thought.
