Project Gamer: Anime Adjacent
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MaimakteriAnn
(Verified Sleepy)
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- Enormous And Round Terran Homeworld
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- She/Her/Dr
It's basically buying time. Being in the hunt for a fed means Victor can be "under cover" for longer before anyone really questions him not finding anything. It's a bigger threat against anyone trying to help too. And it's a separate explanation when Vic turns up dead.
That's a lot of bought time.
EDUT: and it's less likely to get blamed on the Patsy Victor already sent to the hospital about it, when Victor dies turn up dead.
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In the main thread, Alchemist might mislead but he very rarely lies.
Alec, on Earth Bet, is a lying liar who lies.
It's pretty easy to tell who he respects more.
While we know that Phantoms can't use Alec's Abilities, can they use his traits? Standing on the Shoulders of Giants doesn't really make sense, but an army with perfectly times hits would be terrifying, and a dozen blind spots spread throughout a city would mess up most precogs' day.
I think that'd be a fair compromise.
Well, no. It's absolutely unfair and potentially incredibly busted.
But compared to giving them access to the Special Abilities tab? Yeah, absolutely fair.
Just remembered that you asked this!
The synergy bonus actually would have come from Prism's power, a member of the New York Protectorate branch. She can create a small handful of copies of herself which, when re-absorbed, give her a significant boost to strength and speed.
So, rather than adding a similar but different power, it would have just improved the power that Al already has.
Prism
Sam, known publicly as Prism, is the second in command of the New York Protectorate team. Although she had a high pain tolerance, she hated being injured, as it brought back memories of her trigger event.[2] After being injured by Skitter, she developed an understandable dislike of her.[3] She...
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
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- USA
Problem is, they're already mass-murdering domestic terrorists who regularly and openly do their best to kill federal agents.
I don't think fucking with the government bothers them.
esotericist
A Weary Hand
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- Lacey, WA
it's a question of which 'them' is being concerned about the feds.
kaiser? nah, no big deal.
max anders? big, big, big deal.
the e88 in worm are *very reliant* on the veil between their identities in order to maintain logistics.
It's also a matter of which department and why they might be acting. A sniper would be more something you'd see from the FBI whilst the CIA really likes their spy tactics. Feeding a 'simpleton' to Victor, someone that wouldn't look like the kind of threat he actually was, is among the things that branch would do.
Max now has to stress out over what -might- have been discovered. He's especially concerned over the possibility that the attack was on Nathan Bauerdick and not Victor in regards to MedHall's connections to the Gesselschaft being uncovered.
With that one word, Alec has probably gotten Max to start doing audits in MedHall to hunt down whatever connection the 'feds' might have made. Kaiser is going to be busy and distracted for weeks, and those are weeks where he won't be able to hit up Othala for a hit of Regen to cover the all-nighters or other issues that crop up.
Sowing confusion and turning your enemies upon each other, breaking the enemies ranks and spreading dissent among both officers and the rank and file...
That's an art that's hard to teach
Czlyydwr Llrngwl
"Sell ya a door Learn gull," Czly/Celly for short
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- Where the Beef is
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"The 🥧 Pieman," rather, as immortalized in the Simple Simon nursery rhyme Though he might be Simon himself? As far as legally admissable money goes at the moment, no, he has not any, after all
so now he can unlock a trait in something in a bit under 6 hrs from 0 to the first trait and a bit over 19 hrs from 0 to the 3rd trait not bad
Ordinary firearms aren't going to get you very far. Specifically, it will get you up to 2 on the PRT's threat scale.
Just looking at the Empire: fully half of their members (Fenja, Menja, Alabaster, Hookwolf, Krieg, and Fog) are functionally immune to small-arms, and half of the rest (Kaiser, Cricket, Stormtiger, Night) can use their powers to avoid gunfire. That leaves Othala (who can make someone bulletproof), Purity (moves well above 100mph and has a perpetual glare), Crusader (who wears armor and can "fire" from behind cover), Rune (who can turn anything around her into a floating shield), and Victor.
Czlyydwr Llrngwl
"Sell ya a door Learn gull," Czly/Celly for short
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Wait, why 600 for the first special trait when each subsequent one is at thousands? I'd expect 500 as a matter of game design, so the first and second are evenly spaced; as it is the second comes significantly quicker than the first, then the third and any subsequent ones much longer.
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
- Location
- USA
In a running firefight where they have the opportunity to prepare, sure, but the only one immune to being ganked unexpectedly is Ala-bastard, and Al already knows about him. He's kind of hard to accidentally attempt to murderize, what with being very noticeably albino.
I mean, if you literally execute them in their beds, sure. But at that point you might as well say that a 9mm is all you need to fight a tank because you can kill the crew while they're on their lunch break.
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
- Location
- USA
If you're assassinating capes, why would you do so head-on? Capes are universally dangerous. Never, ever, ever fight fair. At least when it actually matters.
Besides Lycanthromancer's counterarguments, ordinary firearms may not get you very far. Keyword: Ordinary. There is a world of difference between street-level guns which are generally chambered in common, non-restricted rounds like 9mm, 12 gauge, and 5.56mm, and a very spicy .50 BMG. I doubt most of the Empire capes can walk off anti-materiel rounds, let alone ones that have been shot from an empowered rifle after Alec upgrades it.
I think you're confused here. The argument was that an ordinary person with a firearm (or even a baseball bat) was a credible threat to most Parahumans. It seems to me like you're talking about Alec, which wasn't the point.
Likewise, you seem to be talking about Alec, or at the very someone with military-grade hardware. That isn't who the person I replied to was talking about.
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
- Location
- USA
You said they were functionally immune to small-arms fire.
The only one immune to a bullet to the brain is Alabaster, and only then if it doesn't hit his brain tumors.
The key word is "functionally".
Lycanthromancer
The Arcane Fuzz
- Location
- USA
Which does nothing if someone really wants to actually kill them, as opposed to "pistols at dawn," or whatever.
- Location
- The pits of Mania
Wasn't Othala poisoned by Alec though?
Red_Faux
私を終わらせる
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- 'Straya M8
I remember that movie. Jesus what a nostalgia trip just reading this