I know it's EXTREMELY late to bring this up, but WHY?! What's the point learning and training all those spells if the writer basically ignores them without explicit instructions? That seems to totally invalidate the whole point. It's like writing a story about a high-level D&D wizard who only uses his at-will spells unless someone nudges him and reminds him that he has Meteor Swarm available.
We determine tactics by vote. Only in those votes does it matter which spells we use. This is not about requiring the players to remind the author about those abilities, but to put the onus on us to come up with good ways to use them. Part of the issue is also that we often omit important details in our plans or word them poorly, so the QM has to interpret what we're voting on without holding the players' hands and trying to clarify every little detail.
If you go below 200 meters there's very little light. 1000 meters and it's totally dark. The average depth of the Atlantic Ocean is over 3300 meters. Unless Taylor was on some sort of undersea ridge or mountain range, she shouldn't be able to see the bottom at all without using magic.
It's called the continental shelf, though PS has shown that it can somewhat enhance our senses when needed, too. I don't feel like looking up the depth of the continental shelf right now, but the description places the ship at that point, which really does look like a giant undersea cliff.
So... beastiality? Umm... really?
When Perfect Storm was shaping Sam's personality, he sought a replacement mother figure for Taylor, to cover some of her emotional needs as well as her physical safety.
Entirely the point.
Which makes anything like that basically illegal!
Legally speaking, even though she is a created sapient being, she qualifies in all legal matters as a human. How that will change in the upcoming years, as knowledge of familiars/GB spreads cannot be said, but at present trying to make her dating a human illegal would bring tremendous backlash from the case 53s running around, and those who support them.
I think the name is a pretty big clue!
Many people thought so. SW didn't think they were at all similar thanks to the Gaelic/Welsh(I don't recall which) word being pronounced very differently.
And 9 is also EXTREMELY high given what she's demonstrated. Purity is a Blaster 8 and she's annihilated buildings with single shots. Taylor hasn't done so yet.
Two words: homing bullets. CW's attacks at that point had not proven her dangerous enough to rate that high on pure firepower, but the sheer flexibility of the attacks and the ability to control them and even to have them keep jumping targets every time Oni Lee teleported result in a higher rating. Of course, the skills we have since added would put us over blaster 10 to 11 or 12 once they find out we can throw nukes on command. They don't know we're limited to only a few uses before we kill ourselves yet, either.
Teleportation and the ability to create a pocket reality in the form of RF, plus having supersonic flight, would allow us to jump around the world destroying whatever we wanted to, on a nearly unstoppable rampage, so, yes, we warrant a 10. Again, knowing about interdimensional travel and that we can reach other planets could bring that number up above 10, as we're kind of breaking the scale they use for these things. Parahumans in Worm have very little in the way of mover abilities compared to most other superhero settings.
And yet she got stopped cold by the Dragonslayers. Who are basically wimps in the setting. Sure, they hard-counter Dragon, but other than that they are jokes.
"Stomped on"? We didn't engage them more directly because we were still recovering from a serious concussion, learned more about what it would take to disable power armor in the future, and were surprised by them having magic at all, even if the only spell they used was a barrier. They got in, hacked the suit, and got back out quickly enough that we didn't have a chance to reassess our strategy.
That's because breaking the Endbringer Truce like that tends to get the Triumvirate stomping you to jelly. I don't know much about MS-13 by this point in the story since they've barely been involved, but this seems really stupid.
As came up over and over, the Dragonslayers entering an unoccupied building that didn't house anything cape related(though they thought otherwise), and as non-capes themselves, did not qualify as breaking the Endbringer truce.
Huh... I guess I did forget some of those details. I remembered it as her cutting holes in some buildings, but not blasting them down entirely. I guess I think of Solar Wrath as a "beam" attack, not a "blast" attack, so very directional. Whereas Purity shoots "explosive lasers" like in the movies. I guess I'm wrong on that one. Objection withdrawn, Blaster 9-10 it is. That's the kind of shit that Legend does.
As CW pointed out when RF ended and the mall was still leveled --I did not look to find the exact quote-- basically, "That building was destroyed. The mall I hit was MELTED". It wasn't just destruction, it was destruction hot enough to melt bricks, metal reinforcements, and sheetrock.
