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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)

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Bitterman said:
Oh, there would have been a way. Potency 13 is potency 13 in any form.
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Ayup okay we need Low and med tolerance to hold the Line.

But our biggest cards is that we can reliably produce Potency 13s which are basically game breakers in some way.

If we want to win against The Conspiracy we need to hit with the biggest guns that they cant prepare adequately.

They def have more numbers and resources than us
but potency 13 are have a counter equal to them or get rekt
 
Bitterman said:
Compared to you, the atoms making up the air are frozen in time. You collide with them, your speed fusing them to your core in a constant barrage of atomic fire. It would normally destroy everything around, but for you, it's just more fuel. The collisions don't slow you down—in fact, with the energy they create, you're speeding up. Your speed annihilates more atoms while speeds you up faster, creating an endless chain reaction.

A hypernovae, feeding into an unquenchable star.
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Bitterman said:
Black Swan can now freely fly at relativistic speeds!
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This is an astounding combo. Black Swan can fly fast enough to make nuclear explosions in atmosphere, which she can absorb to prevent collateral but most importantly regenerate. Unless she gets alpha-striked hard enough to put her to sleep in a single blow, there's effectively no way to attrition her endurance, her previous weakness. Because her regen also powers her ranged attacks, which are now pretty much infinite (doesn't take that long to fly up and absorb some home-made nukes).

Basically, she can now make her own fuel to power her attacks and regeneration. This is about as insane as Scarlet Maturity, only we've seen here that in a no-holds-barred cage match, Black Swan can beat SM. The only way he could beat her is if he locked her down somewhere she couldn't escape and also wasn't willing to destroy with nuclear fire, which is an insanely difficult position to put anyone in, and that's his only chance of victory. (Or call some psychics in I guess)
 
Derpmind said:
Yeah, uh. Yikes? So much yikes.

This update was really a blast to read, but. If what we've seen in only week two is normal than I think we pretty much have to munchkin this. We need more Potency 13 heroes yesterday, and if time travel is possible in this setting I mean that literally.
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Yep, time to hunt for high tolerance people and goldnine access as a result for it. Money for tolerance boosting, etc.

We're going to have to focus on making the dumbest possible builds to set ourselves up and its going to be so much fun to thread the needle.
 
Alectai said:
It's more "We are still in week two, we had an awesome fistbump moment... But it didn't really do much aside from extricate ourselves from a trap (One we knew was one and that we walked into knowingly at least), and then having the parade of People We Failed To Help at the end kind of put a damper on things.
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We beat Faust at his own game, got everyone out alive despite having Scarlet Maturity and a fully developed superhero team dropped on us, had Black Swan win against one of the strongest metas on the planet and learned his secret while also breaking the soft limit on her HIT.

If that doesn't show JU is alive and well to the world, I don't know what will.

We really only failed one person later in the update, that being Stockpile, but we knew it was going to happen when we didn't pick his mission. The rest was just a preview on our mission list, a way to show what's happening in the rest of the setting and hook us into said missions. They're downers in that they're problems we need to fix, but they're not insurmountable. I'm confident in our ability to get our wins.

Now this will sound like flattery, but I do genuinely think with how well you were able to piece together information regarding SM's powers, that the thread can tackle the problems we'll be facing quite well if we put our heads together and such!
 
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I mean it's better that we know what kind of challenges we're facing early on. This is probably the roughest part for us since we're just at the beginning part of the building up phase after such a big downfall but that just means there's nowhere else to go but up (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧
 
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I know, realistically, that the Tattoo Council were always there, and always going to be villains, but it does seem very... good for Leizi that one of her ultimate villains is a mysterious council shrouded in secrecy for an information specialist to have to piece together via detective work and investigation.
 
At least we somehow managed to hide what Project Prometheus actually is from them. Despite the fact they were regularly trying to scry us, I guess Lady Leizi's paranoia level infosec meant that the best they could get was the name, and we recovered the Apiary quickly enough that the window for them to easily learn what Project Prometheus is has closed.

They might be able to infer something eventually, but hopefully by then, we'll have solid enough footing that we'll be able to hold off against their Direct Action.
 
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Alectai said:
It's more "We are still in week two, we had an awesome fistbump moment... But it didn't really do much aside from extricate ourselves from a trap (One we knew was one and that we walked into knowingly at least), and then having the parade of People We Failed To Help at the end kind of put a damper on things.
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...I mean, Scarlet Maturity's thing sounds scary, but the realistic way to deal with him is to kill everyone he made a deal with - or as many as possible - before you kill him. That's crazy hard, but not harder than killing Black Swan would be, I can imagine some kind of voodoo curse that his everyone who made a deal with him easy enough. Unlike Alucard, his extra lives are just kinda sitting there.
 
drake_azathoth said:
...I mean, Scarlet Maturity's thing sounds scary, but the realistic way to deal with him is to kill everyone he made a deal with - or as many as possible - before you kill him. That's crazy hard, but not harder than killing Black Swan would be, I can imagine some kind of voodoo curse that his everyone who made a deal with him easy enough. Unlike Alucard, his extra lives are just kinda sitting there.
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Killing Black Swan is actually easy though? She has such a staggering weakness to Psychic nonsense that even if her body endures, you can easily break her mind with a direct attack.

And apparently, Dominion has psychics running the show.

Scarlet Maturity, meanwhile, seems to just be an immutable fixture of the setting, you can fight him, but either he beats you and takes what he wants, or you beat him and still give him what he wants because he gets stronger from dying.
 
...Thinking on it, we probably need to hard prep and do Train Kept a Rollin, sooner rather than later. The chance of an RTrain alliance and a permanent supply of goldnine is inherently better than getting a supplier of goldnine and we're probably going to be trying to blitz for the high tolerance units to get ourselves up and ready. Especially if the supplier would be costing income and we need to spend a lot of our income on boosting tolerance.
 
Alectai said:
At least we somehow managed to hide what Project Prometheus actually is from them. Despite the fact they were regularly trying to scry us, I guess Lady Leizi's paranoia level infosec meant that the best they could get was the name, and we recovered the Apiary quickly enough that the window for them to easily learn what Project Prometheus is has closed.

They might be able to infer something eventually, but hopefully by then, we'll have solid enough footing that we'll be able to hold off against their Direct Action.
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Apiary is apparently providing some psionic defense from beyond the grave, if the Discord Call and Lantern's comment was any indication?

Lantern himself was probably the 'father figure' to the daughter who was remoteviewing or dreamwalking.
 
Bitterman said:
King grows ever closer to his quarry. It seems he has help now as well.
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I don't know who King is going after, but considering it's making these hooligans nervous, I am all for our glorious nuclear liege doing his thing. Just a nice warm feeling that the strongest metahuman on the planet is, if not an ally, at least an enemy of our enemies.

There's no better schadenfreude than knowing that however screwed you may be by your foes, at least you don't have King on your ass.
 
ScorpioSting said:
I know, realistically, that the Tattoo Council were always there, and always going to be villains, but it does seem very... good for Leizi that one of her ultimate villains is a mysterious council shrouded in secrecy for an information specialist to have to piece together via detective work and investigation.
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TBF, the Tattoo Council expects a shadow conspiracy fight. Leizi's biggest advantage in this conflict isn't her own hand of cards, but rather the cards that her old team has left for her.
 
Bitterman said:
Black Swam being able to see the person spying on you also helped.
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Ah, that would have been more important, yeah.

Yeesh though, you really managed to show off how fucked JU was at the start of play, and how it took a couple actual miracles for them to get back on their feet, and how things are still unpleasant, but at least we've managed to take opportunists off the table. I can't even imagine how nasty it would have been with any other protagonist with all this shadowrun bullshit going on at every turn.
 
Alectai said:
Ah, that would have been more important, yeah.

Yeesh though, you really managed to show off how fucked JU was, and how it took a couple actual miracles for them to get back on their feet, and how things are still unpleasant, but at least we've managed to take opportunists off the table.
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Oddly enough, them not being able to see you has made they accelerate their initial plans. Originally, they were gonna stay subtle. Now, you're a free radical disrupting their equation and Hand can't psychologically handle that.
 
Derpmind said:
If this is the tutorial, that means things are only going to get worse.

I'm calibrating my planning for min-max and I think everyone else should be, too.
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Sort of Im pretty sure the tuturial was bullshit because we had to deal with all the follow up plans of the conspiracy for dealinf with the Survivors of The movement.

We failed stockpile but manage to handle their immeidate plans to deal with us. So now its a question of who manages to build the better cards when its time to show them.

Also seeing those peoole. Yeh we need a teleporter its the simpliest and fastest way to get people out when they need it.

Once weve found Yara port her to apiary and she should be sage.

Get the MGs to medicant or ibis to deal with the frozen throne curse.

Get the boy to Medicant to fix the addiction.

A teleporter really solves a lot of problems for us. Monas level up should let us deal with anyone not a psychoc atleast.
 
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ScorpioSting said:
We're going to get Pritemp's DNA, but do you think it'll just be his baseline or the SM-boosted version?
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I'd like to hope it'll be the boosted one so we get some profit out of this beyond just the reputational benefits of throwing down with one of the S-Class and coming out the victor.

Bitterman said:
Oddly enough, them not being able to see you has made they accelerate their initial plans. Originally, they were gonna stay subtle. Now, you're a free radical disrupting their equation and Hand can't psychologically handle that.
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Which means they're playing their cards as they have them, rather than waiting until they have the ideal hand.

Well, that's bad for us in the short term in that it's more Shit on our Plate, but it's good for us in the sense that at least we'll know who we're up against before they're on the verge of declaring victory.
 
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Bitterman said:
A voice echoes in the back of your mind, but, before you can understand it
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Eh? Moon Light has a Voice?

Bitterman said:
Thirteen feet tall.
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Ah, so people have killed him like 6 times or something?


Bitterman said:
Moon-over-Crown drops his grin and signs, taking out a sryinge and then injecting something—A̷̩̾͗b̷͈͖̈́̚.̵͇͙͌ ̷̱̕Ạ̷͋b̸̨̳̊͠!̶͉͍̅̔—into the port that finds its way to the girl.
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Is LA smart enough to be there, or is Moon-over-Crown Faust?

Bitterman said:
"Ah, you were watching were you?" Moon-over-Crown says, "I thought the Speaker instructed you to avoid her."
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The Speaker and the Lantern... are those the two Voices?

Bitterman said:
"They're cooperating?" Star says, "How unexpected."

"Yes," Moon-over-Crown agrees, "However, after their sacrificial dragnet of Justiciar turned up nothing but your genuinely ignorant predecessor, they're desperate. King grows ever closer to his quarry. It seems he has help now as well. The Interlocutor has grown more cunning as well—no doubt using who it took from the QZ—but it's only a matter of time before it is pinned down."
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Good, we need them to cause issues for our enemies while we ramp up as fast as we can.
(Also, dang, it seems like the Americans would have been allies against this enemy, but now that ship has sailed?)

drake_azathoth said:
That's crazy hard, but not harder than killing Black Swan would be, I can imagine some kind of voodoo curse that his everyone who made a deal with him easy enough.
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We chose to be more, so that's not happening on our end?

(Also, the Interlude is a mine of OOC information - we really should dig harder and keep it in mind for future Issues)
 
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drake_azathoth said:
...I mean, Scarlet Maturity's thing sounds scary, but the realistic way to deal with him is to kill everyone he made a deal with - or as many as possible - before you kill him. That's crazy hard, but not harder than killing Black Swan would be, I can imagine some kind of voodoo curse that his everyone who made a deal with him easy enough. Unlike Alucard, his extra lives are just kinda sitting there.
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Uhhhh how about we test EXCEED-BEYOND's power nullification mode before we do that. I would also like to point out that thanks to Faust there are some genuine heroes stuck in a contract with SM like Anansi.

Actually 🤔 since we're experimenting so much with powers what's stopping us from finding a way to snip the contracts without killing someone. We can probably do a research action on Pritemps to sniff out SM's real power.
 
drake_azathoth said:
...I mean, Scarlet Maturity's thing sounds scary, but the realistic way to deal with him is to kill everyone he made a deal with - or as many as possible - before you kill him. That's crazy hard, but not harder than killing Black Swan would be, I can imagine some kind of voodoo curse that his everyone who made a deal with him easy enough. Unlike Alucard, his extra lives are just kinda sitting there.
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Alectai said:
Killing Black Swan is actually easy though? She has such a staggering weakness to Psychic nonsense that even if her body endures, you can easily break her mind with a direct attack.

And apparently, Dominion has psychics running the show.

Scarlet Maturity, meanwhile, seems to just be an immutable fixture of the setting, you can fight him, but either he beats you and takes what he wants, or you beat him and still give him what he wants because he gets stronger from dying.
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Power Null works wonders against him I'd say. He can't pull himself together again despite his contracts because the core won't be able to enforce the energy drain. Hit him with EXCEED-BEYOND, and then biggaton him with Black Swan.

Can he Chest-Burster someone? I'd lean on saying no for now, under the assumption that the "heart"/core of his power needs energy from his contractees and if he can't call on it, he can't regenerate. Similarly, we saw how he regenerated from his core, not from the shards inside Printemps.
 
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