Vacuum the area through your method of choice, then negate gravity + suspend him (eg: Hiver) and profit?
Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)
LucidProp
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Another thing I think we can improve on is being more creative with Handyman's shapeshifting abilities. The armored form is a great start, but we can go further when specifying how he attacks, defends himself, and gets around.That was me BTW
Also were really choosing wrong targets for handyman to attack. Going for ete would have been better since she doesnt have enhanced senses.
I do think we need to take The Shroud mission next turn to hopefully give handyman some confidence.
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So I haven't noticed anyone discussing this, but we basically got confirmation that Faust used Lethal Anodyne's serums to fix up Ete and Printemps. Whether they admit it or not, they're basically slaves to Powers at this point, unless Medicant really can fix those addiction issues.
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Ooh .... i know he can make himself softer or good enough toflow aorund attacks... that are not Scarlet maturity.......... Or cushion others..... r .... He culd becme Leizi's permanent battlesuit?
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Now I'm imagining a Hero Tabloid doing one of those "X IS AN ADDICT" style photos of the two of them doping that cuts their popularity.
LucidProp
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I don't think either of them would be comfortable with that much prolonged close contact, and it'd feel wrong to use Handyman as a literal shield. Just imagine your job description involves hugging your boss! I'd be mortified in his shoes.
Stuff like letting someone hit you and hardening the clay around their fist so they're stuck? Could work!
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One of the things I'm writing in a "minor bits of training" omake is actually Leizi helping Rhys with hand to hand, including molding his body to make holes for things to go through to dodge. That's a great idea for a follow-up for that scene! Thanks!
Wed need to capture them and then have Medicant check up and see if they can heal the addiction. So something for the future.
ReaperofInterest
Herald of Disaster
We have comic book-esque super medical tech, so we don't need to worry about recovering from injuries. As long as we don't die and we don't run into anything that explicitly says it can't be recovered from, then we heal from anything.
its why I think its best to Delay Hero Worshi that Mission has high hit and while probably dont involve SM probably gonna be up against something still bullshit. Having John there with whatever support power we can give him would make things easier.
We can do Making the rounds, Silver Behemoths means theres actually something for us to do and we do need to show the people under our protection that we really are gonna protect them. Chance of goodies from the random events table is nice too.
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Another great update as always. I am thankful that the crappiest roll landed on someone who could actually survive it.
Considering the options:
[] . . . go up. You will regenerate faster outside of the Earth's atmosphere. You can survive the vacuum of space. Can he?
My hunch is that space won't hinder him too much save for maneuverability. It might be a stupid thing to infer from his aerospace pants, but I also imagine a QZ full of goldnine during the Movement is about as hostile to life as space is and he survived that. And it sounds like Black Swan will continue to engage him while in space, which risks protracting the fight to the advantage of his adaptive power.
[X] . . . go through. You have a hyper-dense core. You have enough juice for one light speed dash. Can he survive a direct hit at relativistic speeds? Let's find out.
I really doubt any option by itself will take out this bastard unless this time is the time of all times that we get incredibly lucky. But in terms of upgrades for Black Swan, I am more interested in speed. If there is one damn broken superpower when taken to an extreme, it is speed. And I don't feel I can continue on as a user of this forum if for once in my life I didn't vote for a single attack, at Sufficient Velocity.
There is a definite risk that this will feed into his regeneration, but it may also be our best shot where King and Novalight failed. King probably inflicted a continuous stream of atomic damage that he was able to regenerate past (I also had more questions about King's power but that's for another post), whereas Novalight blasts were too weak to beat the threshold of his resistance. Maybe dealing the damage as raw kinetics instead of energy in a singular instant will hurt something important before it gets to regenerate. I hope I am not falling into a rule of cool red herring here and playing into his hands, but the draw there is undeniable. Hopefully the momentum imparted to him by flying through will also launch him to space anyway.
I still feel like there is something important about his targeting of Black Swan's core that we need to collectively figure out to know the right path. Does he also exist as a core and therefore goes for the same thing he thinks would be effective on himself? And the nature of his regeneration, the pants holding together while the shirt goes away, does that truly imply tactile kinesis?
Considering the options:
[] . . . go up. You will regenerate faster outside of the Earth's atmosphere. You can survive the vacuum of space. Can he?
My hunch is that space won't hinder him too much save for maneuverability. It might be a stupid thing to infer from his aerospace pants, but I also imagine a QZ full of goldnine during the Movement is about as hostile to life as space is and he survived that. And it sounds like Black Swan will continue to engage him while in space, which risks protracting the fight to the advantage of his adaptive power.
[X] . . . go through. You have a hyper-dense core. You have enough juice for one light speed dash. Can he survive a direct hit at relativistic speeds? Let's find out.
I really doubt any option by itself will take out this bastard unless this time is the time of all times that we get incredibly lucky. But in terms of upgrades for Black Swan, I am more interested in speed. If there is one damn broken superpower when taken to an extreme, it is speed. And I don't feel I can continue on as a user of this forum if for once in my life I didn't vote for a single attack, at Sufficient Velocity.
There is a definite risk that this will feed into his regeneration, but it may also be our best shot where King and Novalight failed. King probably inflicted a continuous stream of atomic damage that he was able to regenerate past (I also had more questions about King's power but that's for another post), whereas Novalight blasts were too weak to beat the threshold of his resistance. Maybe dealing the damage as raw kinetics instead of energy in a singular instant will hurt something important before it gets to regenerate. I hope I am not falling into a rule of cool red herring here and playing into his hands, but the draw there is undeniable. Hopefully the momentum imparted to him by flying through will also launch him to space anyway.
I still feel like there is something important about his targeting of Black Swan's core that we need to collectively figure out to know the right path. Does he also exist as a core and therefore goes for the same thing he thinks would be effective on himself? And the nature of his regeneration, the pants holding together while the shirt goes away, does that truly imply tactile kinesis?
One of the goals for me when drafting plans past and future is to try to use Handyman in unconventional ways. I can't guarantee that they're the optimal ways, but I do my best
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Also I just realize QM said one option is objectively better.
Enhancing Regeneration by going to space isnt really something Swan can use aftis this fight, since once back planetside BS regen would go back to normal.
Enhacning Flight though means we get a new move we can use in a fight, whenever we need a strong attack that we dont want risk our blaster causing damage. A lightspeed bullet hitting someone is a lot less collateral than Mega Blasters. Though I could be wrong and this is actually more destructive.
Enhancing Regeneration by going to space isnt really something Swan can use aftis this fight, since once back planetside BS regen would go back to normal.
Enhacning Flight though means we get a new move we can use in a fight, whenever we need a strong attack that we dont want risk our blaster causing damage. A lightspeed bullet hitting someone is a lot less collateral than Mega Blasters. Though I could be wrong and this is actually more destructive.
I don't really think Bitterman would set up a trap option like that. He has described this as choosing between pie or cake and that either way this will upgrade Mona. Maybe Mona realizes something about how she absorbs radiation so she gets better at regeneration or something. Her getting better at regeneration will never be in doubt as long as that option wins.
Here is a relevant quote from Bitterman. Getting an upgrade is guaranteed. Winning against SM is not.
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one, great chapter. Good that Opale can be herself. Also Lezi is a badass.
Two, why do you have to give us two really cool options!
[X] . . . go up. You will regenerate faster outside of the Earth's atmosphere. You can survive the vacuum of space. Can he?
Frankly I think this is better just because getting kicked out of atmosphere is hard to deal with. Also it is my suggestion that we try to knock him on an escape orbit. I don't care how tough you are, you can't hit me from the moon.
Two, why do you have to give us two really cool options!
[X] . . . go up. You will regenerate faster outside of the Earth's atmosphere. You can survive the vacuum of space. Can he?
Frankly I think this is better just because getting kicked out of atmosphere is hard to deal with. Also it is my suggestion that we try to knock him on an escape orbit. I don't care how tough you are, you can't hit me from the moon.
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One of the goals for me when drafting plans past and future is to try to use Handyman in unconventional ways. I can't guarantee that they're the optimal ways, but I do my best
We need to Deoxys this bitch. We need a Power Form, a Speed Form, and a Defense Form, bare minimum.
I think either of these will boost abilities in normal activities too. Going by real physics, relativistic bullets are nightmarish and will cause huge amounts of collateral damage in the form of nuclear explosions and x-rays everywhere. See: Relativistic Baseball. But this being comic book physics, heroes can generally throw "light speed" punches without destroying everyone around them.
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This was an amazing chapter! Great job Bitterman!
thanks for the link man
And man this means the realivistic attack is gonna cause a massive lightshow that will probably cought everyones attention. Cause what the hell.
Edit: QM Tries to be realistic though he does go powers are weird and reacts to mindset explaining Monas fingerguns not killing. This attack though should be mona going all out so high chacne it really will create a plasma field, that she only survives by dent of her Invulnerability.
Man I'm glad both of them are already high up in the air.
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LucidProp
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I don't mean to knock your vote, but this reminded me of a scene from One Punch Man where Boros kicks Saitama hard enough to send him flying to the moon, only for Saitama to use the moon as a platform to jump right back to the earth seconds later.
This does remind me. When Leviathan first fell to the earth, isn't there a bunch of space debris made from its flesh orbiting the planet right now?
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that was against garou, Boros got taken down by just a serious punchI don't mean to knock your vote, but this reminded me of a scene from One Punch Man where Boros kicks Saitama hard enough to send him flying to the moon, only for Saitama to use the moon as a platform to jump right back to the earth seconds later.
This does remind me. When Leviathan first fell to the earth, isn't there a bunch of space debris made from its flesh orbiting the planet right now?
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She took Abigail's last name even though the wedding didn't happen yet. That's really sweet.