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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)

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Kermie said:
(NEW) Non-Starry Crusaders
  • Also known as Crusade.
  • An opposing hero team made up of four factions: Dominion and AGL (Mentioned Below) Qsanyin, and some of the Horae Guard, who are the metahumans from up in Elysium.
  • Currently waging a PR campaign against us, saying that Valiant Silver caused the Movement.
  • Will show up on Wonderland Missions.
Members:
(This list was made by @ScorpioSting. Thanks!)

Leaders:
-Gertrude Von Goethe. Acting CEO of Powers. Almost certainly Christopher Mason/Faust in a funny hat trying to lay low.
-Jair Oliviera. Osayin's son. Yazmin/Uiara and Yara's father. Slimy and ambitious, desperate to control Osayin. Needs Yara's shares to do so.
-General Oliver Bringham. CEO of Allied Global Logistics. Former Brigadier General of the US Army.

Powers Hires:
-Anansi. Algneron, computer specialist, brainwashed/mind controlled/hypnotized.
-Ete. Lethal Anodyne addict. Transphobia makes her PR weak link. Opale can open up about her abuse to try and get her banned.
-Ronin. Absorbs combat skill of people she kills, reason why there's no yakuza in Horizon.
-Brass Shield. Power armor user, makes hard light constructs.

Horae Guard Drafts:
-Seraph. Photokinetic of some sort, can send telepathic messages, has wings.
-Sunlight Knight. Construct creator/photokinetic.
-White Hawk. Nepo baby from Elysium. Seems to be second in command, or at least in charge of the PR of Crusade. Unsure if naive and (figuratively) brainwashed, or knows what Crusade will do and just charming enough to hide it.

Global Justice Hires:
-Plasticity. Support hero.
-Perspective. Support hero.
-Joules. Coward.
-Stockpile/Valiant RWB/Valiant Justice. Algernon. Used scraps of Nora's EXCEED to build a new suit, PREVAIL. Has been fed doctored information that convinced him that Nora was tapping the Leviathan for a power source, and not The Stage. Leader. Emotionally immature and unstable.

Steps Towards Solving:
Complete Wonderland questline. Clear Valiant Silver's name.
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Kermie said:
PREVAIL
  • Also known as Valiant Red, White, and Blue. (Stupid name.)
  • Piloted by Silvio, formerly known as the Algernon Stockpile.
  • Seems to have taken bits and pieces from the original EXCEED.
  • Powers unknown, but QM has compared it as the "Vergil to EXCEED's Dante". Likely has one really good mode instead of multiple modules.
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I'm going to use this opportunity to get a read from everyone: Does White Hawk read as sincere but ignorant, or a charming facade over menace to you all?
 
Bitterman said:
"Ah, I believe that would be me."

From the private parking lot, a very nervous maître d' leads a positively skeletal man wearing a pinstripe suit into the clearing. He's carrying a briefcase and is rail thin, so skinny that his face looks like someone stretched skin over a bare skull. His hair is graying at the temples and parted to the side.

He approaches the table, taking a handkerchief out of his front pocket and wiping down the chair in front of him before sitting. As he does, you can make out a pin on his lapel in the shape of a crescent moon over a crown.

"Please, Lady Leizi. Take a seat," he says, gesturing, "I went through great pains to arrange this meeting."

You don't move. "I'm afraid you have me at a disadvantage. Just who are you?"

"Ah, how embarrassing," he says in a leathery voice, "My name is Christopher Mason. I am the chief executive officer and founder of Dominion Security Concerns. I am also known by my metahuman appellation: Faust."
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Bitterman said:
"Pleased? I'm positively energized. Worthy opponents are to be cherished, after all," he says, "Perhaps it's just a difference in philosophy. You, my dear Key, are what one might call 'eusocial'. You believe society should be organized in a strict caste system organized around the needs of the reproducer. I am a social darwinist. The strong become stronger or they are left behind."
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During my reread of the last issue 2 things stood out to me.
Firstly I am now convinced that Faust really is Moon-Over-Crown considering the pin he wears after all just because Fish has his symbol displayed in a tattoo doesn't mean every Philosopher does the same.

Secondly I wonder if calling Key 'eusocial' may have been a hint as to how she is in fact Social Butterfly.

Also what are the chances that Star's ignorant predecesor was actually Towari?
 
It actually makes sende Philosophers are pretty smart and fake names is basic but useful tactic.

Faust having different names for public and within his org helps lower the risk.

And towarri being star would make sense if Fish and Sun were the other kids who unfortunately failed to escape despite Towarri breaking their facility.

Instead the Philosopers went full mind break mode once they realized their gen were compromised.
 
Speaking of Videos.

We probably need additional proof but would making VS posthomous message to leizi public a way to if bot clear her name lessen damage to it?

Theres the risk in that it meontions ordering Prometheus activation but O dont think any details really came up.

Nota talked about the stage there and why she was using exceed despite the danger since shes the only one who can detec thow Leviathan psychic signature is changing.

Leizi might not want to though since its both partly humiliating to nora and the message was only meant for her.
 
Wing101r said:
Speaking of Videos.

We probably need additional proof but would making VS posthomous message to leizi public a way to if bot clear her name lessen damage to it?

Theres the risk in that it meontions ordering Prometheus activation but O dont think any details really came up.

Nota talked about the stage there and why she was using exceed despite the danger since shes the only one who can detec thow Leviathan psychic signature is changing.

Leizi might not want to though since its both partly humiliating to nora and the message was only meant for her.
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Nora explicitly revealed what Project Prometheus was when she described how to use EXCEED-BEYOND.
 
Reread Posthomus again and while Nora didnt talk about what Prometheus was.

She did talk about getting more goldnine from r train so yeh we cant make that video public.
 
BrainInAJar said:
Just to confirm this, we found her personal screen on her dead body?
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Her body was never recovered.

Bitterman said:
hen, King was suddenly gone. The left flank collapsed and the last time you ever saw Towarri was behind a swarm of beaks and flesh as Automne tried to keep her safe in vain. A creature that was little more than maw with hands crawling out of it dragged Uiara underneath goldnine-tainted waters. And Nora, Nora who should have never been there, might have saved you all but disappeared, surrounded by a frenzy of rampaging monsters for her trouble.
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I have a worldview that I thought of.

We know that the Philosophers have either a worldclass fleshwarper or illusionist, because Goethe is definitely Faust.

We also know that Key messes with memory and perception. She left as little of a mark as possible in the minds of Wolong and co, Anansi had her memories altered to betray New Dawn, and Fish is forced to think Hand is glorious instead of repulsive.

What if the video Uiara is Fish or Sun, made to look like Uiara, given the memories of Uiara, for the most convincing performance in the world?
 
ScorpioSting said:
We know that the Philosophers have either a worldclass fleshwarper or illusionist, because Goethe is definitely Faust.
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Now, I'm not confirming or denying either way, but why would someone go through the hassle of changing, or appearing to change, bodies instead of just hiring a yes-man from the corporate ladder who will say all the right things but obey your orders from the shadows?
 
Bitterman said:
Speaking of which, there was something about [Enhanced Strength] and [Clairvoyance] that fit together. It was missing something, but it nearly felt familiar . . .
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Ok so my first theory on what this could have been was that it would be Arc's power cause I was thinking that since it was familiar it would have be someone he's worked with a lot but then I realized what else could be more familiar to you than your own power.
 
There's this gifset from the 60s Batman TV show where Batman is asking someone if they've sold any spare submarines, and the guy looks it up and one was bought by a P. N. Guin, and then Batman goes "THE PENGUIN!"

"Gertrude von Goethe" is only marginally less on the nose than that.
 
ScorpioSting said:
There's this gifset from the 60s Batman TV show where Batman is asking someone if they've sold any spare submarines, and the guy looks it up and one was bought by a P. N. Guin, and then Batman goes "THE PENGUIN!"

"Gertrude von Goethe" is only marginally less on the nose than that.
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And naming him "Christopher" and making Scarlet Maturity's last name "Marlow" wasn't?
 
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