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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)

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Silor said:
I think all this focus on high tolerance candidates will be to our detriment. I think what's most important to a candidate is what's inside.

Justice Unlimited only had like 2 High Potency people (Towarri was only recruited after Rosemary's death) and yet they were the best superhero team of all time. I mean look at our main character Lady Leizi. She has Espionage 8 without powers and it's thanks to her that we have the best infosec of all time so please don't diss people having a high skill just because they have low Potency.

Another thing is that delaying making heroes just to get more Potential out of them means 1 less hero in the running at a time. As stated by Bitterman High Potency candidates are extremely rare. Soon we will fix our Goldnine and Income supply and I believe that perfect is the enemy of good.
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You're right. Potency isn't everything, and we should always take the opportunity to empower new heroes as soon as we get the chance. But, we're facing multiple world-ending threats, so we need to also consider the most powerful combinations we can manage, too.
 
Now I truly understand why we got away with so many cool toys in just the intro arc. We must stand against oceans of supervillain bullshit :V

Silor said:
Another thing is that delaying making heroes just to get more Potential out of them means 1 less hero in the running at a time. As stated by Bitterman High Potency candidates are extremely rare. Soon we will fix our Goldnine and Income supply and I believe that perfect is the enemy of good.
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I don't see a contradiction between the good and the perfect. The rarity of high tolerance candidates and our ability to slowly increase it each turn suggests a natural strategy that will help balance things. We take in a high tolerance candidate rarely, focus on bringing them up to 10 for some turns and plan out our next trump card (EXCEED-BEYOND or Zeno most likely). But in the mean time while they're cooking, we look at our regular recruitment pool and make more practical heroes as needed to fill in the gaps. There is a once per turn limit on creating new heroes anyway, so it's not like holding certain individuals back for spoonfuls of sugar will bottleneck our hero production.
 
Silor said:
I think all this focus on high tolerance candidates will be to our detriment. I think what's most important to a candidate is what's inside.

Justice Unlimited only had like 2 High Potency people (Towarri was only recruited after Rosemary's death) and yet they were the best superhero team of all time. I mean look at our main character Lady Leizi. She has Espionage 8 without powers and it's thanks to her that we have the best infosec of all time so please don't diss people having a high skill just because they have low Potency.

Another thing is that delaying making heroes just to get more Potential out of them means 1 less hero in the running at a time. As stated by Bitterman High Potency candidates are extremely rare. Soon we will fix our Goldnine and Income supply and I believe that perfect is the enemy of good.
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Eh we do need Lower tolerance to hold the line. And yeh whats inside is waht matters. But we have a lot of bullshit we need to deal with so counter them with our bullshit. Potency 13's are the most bullshit cards we can play against the Conspiracy, making sure we can have as many of them ready and in play when things start up again for me is just good play.

As long as we dedicate one 1 GA to slowly buff someone to 10. We should have a decent number of 13's espeicalyl with the High candidates we can get from mission line.

Also dont forget we have a Limit of number of heroes we can have active which we need bases to increase JU numbers with along with limited ambrosia supply were just slowly working on getting suppliers for.

While focusing on Potency 13 alone is a bad play, we can't actually just mass produce Low and Medium Tolerance Heroes to flood the streets.
 
LucidProp said:
When it comes to psychic shielding, getting someone like iSpy/Chatroom + Bulwark probably works? Energy shields translated to mind shields. A chatroom with a firewall basically.
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Oh yeh Good play. Chatroom is psychic powers and Bulwark barriers if we can make sure Clairvoyance and Energy Manipulation is in play with Ally empowerment good chance of making psychic defense as long as someone is connected to the network.
 
Bitterman said:
Please think about OPS guys. That's an OPS check you failed that still haunts me.
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Part of the reason I'm interested in Chatroom and Memoria is that I'm pretty sure they fall into the high Ops end of powers, which is both John's selling point and frankly only Menagerie Witch is a standout there. Lean into it and shore up what truly is our worst type with the character whose specced for it.
 
Honestly my training call for next turn is Everybody Operations Boost. Maddie could use it because she rolls it for coordinating her animal raids, and it wouldn't hurt to have Rhys and Mona be a little smarter.
 
Fish
- Not willingly working with them, is affected by Star / Hand through an 'improved' method (likely some form of brainwashing or mental alteration)
- State is deteriorating over time, not that we can do anything about it.

Star
- Female
- Is apparently responsible for Fish and Sun.
- Had a predecessor who was ignorant, who is probably now out of the picture.

Sun
- Male
- Probably toast beyond our recovery, likely requires the ultimate form of micromanagement to utilize.

Key
- Female
- Eusocial. "Society should be organized in a strict caste system organized around the needs of the reproducer"

Moon-over-Crown
- Male
- Has access to LA
- Social darwinist. "The strong become stronger or they are left behind."
- Intends to go somewhat loud, and to consolidate / ally with our opponents America & Allied Global Logistics in order to do so.
- Wants Worthy Opponents (up to a certain extent)
- Faust?

Lantern
- Female, probably young
- Impulsive, likely another of the Voices and can be detected by Black Swan / Apiary.

Speaker
- Female, Japanese; likely one of the Voices?
- OIC of the group?
- Speaks on behalf of Hand?

Hand
-'Blesses' people with something, and the method has been improved recently. (The blessing and the method may be distinct things)
- Psychologically cannot tolerate unknown factors
- Likely the 'disgusting' Voice?

Unknowns: Do they have more ways of effectively enslaving people than LA?
- They will be doing something major soon, but what?

Note: King is probably aware of something being really weird in the background, and now has help.
Interlocutor is an opponent of this group, took someone from the QZ, and apparently there was a Fill-In issue for something related?


First Interlude is likely the Magical Girls,
second Interlude is Yazi's sister,
third Interlude is likely someone recruitable with moderate stats especially if Mendicant can deal with LA's drugs (also, Monarch gang is supported / 'supported' by Powers).

@MrKermie I hope this is useful for your corkboard, but please double check before adding it in?
 
MrKermie said:
…Hand is willing to sic the entire American Government on us, and if they woke up the Leviathan once (This is speculation), they can do it again. We cannot punch through another Leviathan.
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We cannot punch through another Leviathan yet.

20-2000 vision helps in scenario 1, and does not help in scenario 2. I am pretty sure we can use like, 2 or 3 lower T candidates for all our future seeing needs instead of one 10T candidate.
 
Bitterman said:
Please think about OPS guys. There's an OPS check you failed that still haunts me.
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Yeah, Ops has been our major weakness in the rolls so far, we really need to shore that up yesterday.

Although Moon River being Ops 12 implies that she is superlative in her own field like Mona is in Hit, which means she can probably deal with any digital opposition but our mystery faction's once we manage to find her?
(Does SM has Hit 12 or 15, given the stat requirements)
 
Pawn Lelouch said:
Part of the reason I'm interested in Chatroom and Memoria is that I'm pretty sure they fall into the high Ops end of powers, which is both John's selling point and frankly only Menagerie Witch is a standout there. Lean into it and shore up what truly is our worst type with the character whose specced for it.
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My biggest problem with that really is just the fear of Lowering Teleport range. That said its true that a Chatroom+Memoria+Mr Hunch is probably more OP spec. Than a Combo with I spy.

Potato12345 said:
Yeah, Ops has been our major weakness in the rolls so far, we really need to shore that up yesterday.

Although Moon River being Ops 12 implies that she is superlative in her own field like Mona is in Hit, which means she can probably deal with any digital opposition but our mystery faction's once we manage to find her?
(Does SM has Hit 12 or 15, given the stat requirements)
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15 and probably 16 now after Mona killed him.
 
Derpmind said:
I really want our next hero to use Chatroom somehow...
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I still maintain that Bulwark/Chatroom/Steadfast is a great 7 tolerance build in this vein and has a chance for the psychic defense idea people are interested in through Bulwark + Clairvoyance. No teleporter but I do think this is arguably a more stable type of Chatroom build over a Memoria/Mr. Hunch combo one.

Though I will have some bias over having an interest in Red Huntress + Memoria assassin style build as another reason for not wanting Memoria as part of it.
 
Idly, while I can say this:

If Song Yu-Jin or Hazel get selected at some point, Yu-Jin I'd want some sort of physical set, probably relying a bit more on senses and mobility than strength or defense. He's a judo guy, and judo is about using your opponent against themselves rather than overpowering.

Hazel, definitely a psychic, support, investigative, or social power of some sort.
 
(also there's a part of me that wants Sewer Rat in Yu-Jin's combo, if only because... yeah, elderly Asian martial artist getting the Master Splinter sample would be funny, as a TMNT nerd myself)
 
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