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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)

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Ah, poor Leizi.

But I suppose in a way the reminder that Ring represents might very well help her live up to the woman who said yes…
Or it does something neat. But I suspect the former is it: that ring was probably the 'standard' way you unlock 'You can be more' for Leizi.
 
TheGrape said:
Man, I get why OOC we get rewarded with DNA Profiles and all, but it's definitely weird and kind of funny to think about in universe.

Rakeem: I've squirreled away some money, shield generators, and even a healing symbiote as my emergency stockpile. Lastly, some goldnine and the proof of my feelings.

Rakeem: Also, some random hairs and blood and other unnamed biological components of some metahumans. Have fun!
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He knew about the project and that we need DNA, he was JU inner circle

Bitterman said:
He continues, back to business. "To help you with Project Prometheus, I've hidden a cache of supplies at coordinates attached to this file including. . . the main ingredient. Just be warned—you'll need someone who's either invincible or able to level a building to get to it. I'm sorry about that. Might be difficult."
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TheGrape said:
Rakeem: Also, some random hairs and blood and other unnamed biological components of some metahumans. Have fun!
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Even worse, Rakeem must be a time traveler because some of these metahumans explicitly died during the Movement :V
Either that or some otherworldly power reached in and tampered with the contents of the ship.

Anyway, very nice to see other people's cool submissions start to show up. Kudos to Pawn Lelouch's plan, Wolong saved us from the humiliation of a wasted turn. Or at least a painful search.

[X] Power In Numbers
 
Tbf to rakeem he pribably jist hesged his bets even if those DNA samples were still alive by the time he got them having them in hand if the worst happens is still better than not having them.
 
Suleverf said:
Even worse, Rakeem must be a time traveler because some of these metahumans explicitly died during the Movement :V
Either that or some otherworldly power reached in and tampered with the contents of the ship.

Anyway, very nice to see other people's cool submissions start to show up. Kudos to Pawn Lelouch's plan, Wolong saved us from the humiliation of a wasted turn. Or at least a painful search.

[X] Power In Numbers
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View: https://youtu.be/sVgVB3qsySQ?si=8o7jfKKaowsjAhCv
 
LucidProp said:
[X] Power In Numbers

We beat Silver Rank and Gold Rank Behemoths pretty easy. Makes me wanna do Patrol and the QZ actions next turn.
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Remember, Scarlet Maturity was one of the people during the Movement killing Behemoths by the dozens, and Black Swan beat him. Without her—or that crit in HIT—that Gold-Rank would have been a lot trickier.
 
BTW its funny how Noras death message mentioned Leizi banging adamant.

Looks loke the two really did keep their relationship in the downlow unlike how everyone knew about VS and Uira breakup then kiss cycle.

Truly Leizi is an espionage master.
 
Bitterman said:
A shrill sound cuts through the air as Miss Naught blows a gym whistle she had found somewhere. She's wearing a bikini with a bullseye pattern while lazing in a deck chair with a lifeguard float across her lap. When she had heard about your expedition to find Rakeem's emergency supplies—and that it involved being out at sea with little to no expectation of danger—she had literally gotten on her hands and knees and begged to tag along. She was "making herself useful" by serving as your lifeguard.
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Oh I adore her.

Bitterman said:
The search for the Unsinkable continues well into the afternoon. The ocean floor had apparently been more altered than anyone anticipated, rendering nearly every map you had useless. If it hadn't been for Wolong, your mission may have been doomed to failure from the start.
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Okay, Wolong helped basically reduce the risk, massively glad to see that paid off.

Bitterman said:
+ 3000 Income!

+1 healing symbiote!

+3 shield generators!

+1 goldnine!
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So shield gens, a symbiote, a dose, DNA, and 4k income. Not at all bad.

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Name: Fast Track, David Rhodes
Keywords: Self-Enhancement, Ally Enhancement, Enhanced Speed
Faction: Independent hero.
Potency: 3
Creator: SaberFail
Ibis' Notes: Fast Track was a relatively unknown figure, mostly due to the fact he had only been active for a few weeks before the Movement. He could project an invisible, two-foot tall and long field around himself, which would rob anything that entered it of its "speed". The "speed" would be transferred to Fast Track, who could in turn use it to increase the speed of himself or allies and objects he could touch.
His power kept him safe from the effects of his increased movement, but nothing else. If he struck someone at sonic speeds, his hand would shatter and so forth. Hence why he mostly sped himself up to escape rather than attack.
In order to steal the speed of an object, that object had to be fully inside of the field. If any part remained outside of it of the field, then it would continue as normal. This limitation led to his death as he died during the Movement when a Behemoth ran him through with its arm—the creature was too large to fit inside the field.
There is no relationship between him and my best friend, John Henry. I checked!
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ohhhh this is actually really good if we're right on some of the self enhancement stuff needing it and enhanced speed. Gives us a non Sewer Rat low cost Self-Enhancement source and an actual low cost enhanced speed. Plus the power is really neat and would pair well with any form of invincibility (Lightstep or Steadfast probably?)

Bitterman said:
Name: Golem, Samson Road
Keywords: Elemental Manipulation, Invulnerability, Enhanced Strength
Faction: Independent
Potency: 5
Author: wing101r
Ibis' Notes: Golem's power allowed him to cover himself in an armor of earth and rocks. Doing so granted him a level of enhanced strength and invulnerability, and the more material he used in the creation of the armor the more powerful he became. He could also separate from his armor and remotely control it. While Golem could freely control any earthen material he could touch, he could not produce it ex nihilo. Thus his preference for contracts outside of Horizon proper. He died at the QZ taking down the Named-Rank Behemoth Endlessly Explosive Armordillo, sacrificing himself to use his armor to contain the explosion when it turned its entire body into a bomb.
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This feels very good with like Deadman specifically, maybe some ideas with Antaneus?

Bitterman said:
Name: Frostbite, Randolph Lindstrom
Power: Elemental Manipulation, Enhanced Strength, Invulnerability
Faction: Independent
Potency: 3
Author: ScorpioSting
Ibis's Notes: I must say, this one does not surprise me in the slightest. Frostbite was a prickly hero at the best of times. One could say he had a cold heart, even! Hahahaha!
. . .I digress. Frostbite was a cryokinetic, able to create ice with a thought. An odd facet of his power was that it was self-focused. He had quite a bit of range, but attacks had to extend out from him. For example, a ranged attack would cause a slick of ice to slide along the ground before spiking upwards. He was unable to freeze anything without some point of contact back to himself. Frostbite was also stronger than average, though nothing to write home about. He used his strength to wield a blade of ice he created as a melee weapon, and he'd often stab it into the ground to freeze things at range. He also used it to create an armor of ice around his body, which was more resistant to cold than average.
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Hm, I wonder how this would interact with Hydrocity with the self focused nature or even Umibozu due to the nature of the element. The self focused bit makes me think it might be a little dicy with how it would express with Automne?

Bitterman said:
Name: Féth Fíada, Saoirse Brennan
Power: Elemental Manipulation, Clairvoyance, Invisibility, Ally Empowerment, Mental Manipulation
Faction: Independent
Potency: 6
Author: Suleverf
Ibis' Notes: Féth Fíada was a fairly free-spirited metahuman who chose to do hero work or petty crime on a whim rather than for any specific goal. Her refusal to join any metahuman organizations or stay firmly in the civilian world was well-known, though it left her with few friends in the end.
She had fine control over fog in a wide area, though what exactly qualified had a hazy definition, including mist and even smoke at times. Ha! Get it? Hazy. Dr. Mammoth Ibis is truly a great mind and wit.
Anyway, for sunny days she was capable of generating a special fog that shrouded her and slowly filled her zone of control. Unlike natural fog controlled by her, this shroud couldn't be dissipated by external forces like strong winds or hydrokinetics.
Inside her fog, she could turn herself and others invisible to light, including infrared and radar. Scents and sounds coming from them could also be masked selectively, and other clairvoyant abilities trying to peer in the fog became fuzzy. On the flip side, she could perceive anything inside her fog, but couldn't bestow that power to allies.
It was rumored that she could also turn into mist to dodge attacks, but, as you can clearly see in this report, that is not the case. The rumors were likely the result of her most bizarre ability: she could "curse" those in her fog, causing torpor and hallucinations the longer they spent in it. It wore off outside her fog, and she mostly only cared to use it to terrorize tourists in accordance with urban myths.
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Okay this one is going to need a lot of time and thoughts put in, though I feel like the sunny days mention is making me eye up Crimson Soprano for combos.

Bitterman said:
Name: Solferina, Linh Nguyen
Power: Energy Manipulation, Ally Empowerment, Mental Manipulation
Faction: Independent
Potency: 4
Author: Kermie
Ibis' Notes: She could either weaken someone and make them depressed or apathetic, or strengthen someone and lift their spirits. If only I had gotten her expertise on my serotonin implant… ahem. These effects would be implanted based on the mood of whatever she was singing, as long as any person she was aiming to affect was within hearing distance and as long as they could understand the words. Notably, anyone who would hear her song would be affected unconditionally, so she used her services to hunt down a few Behemoths as an independent hire, and managed to get both of her kids full rides to their preferred universities before her death.
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So this seems fascinating with one or both of Nox and Eastwood, though the AOE element of it is inherently something that could hurt as well as it helps.
 
[X] Power In Numbers
-[X] Change Order
-[X] Everyone gets one shield generator each. Menagerie Witch gets the Symbiote.

Down with this, at most I might be worried about using them early but for Hero Worship we'll have the heavy hitter back, and we can just give John the Wade Family + Millions build so that he has an Invincibility source to help with not having a generator.
 
Bitterman said:
"Thanks a lot. It's nice to know there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

You hum again and, perhaps stricken by the memories this trip has evoked, you pull Miss Naught into a hug.

"Hey," she says, "I got a kid. He's eight. If anything—"

"The Apiary's doors are always open to him. And you. Always."
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...Can you imagine that we were intended to lack the AP for TWO hero team-ups instead of one, with either New Dawn or Châtelet left to suffer? Why can't we grab ALL the sympathetic characters and make them feel safe? Is that such a crime?
 
Pawn Lelouch said:
[X] Power In Numbers
-[X] Change Order
-[X] Everyone gets one shield generator each. Menagerie Witch gets the Symbiote.

Down with this, at most I might be worried about using them early but for Hero Worship we'll have the heavy hitter back, and we can just give John the Wade Family + Millions build so that he has an Invincibility source to help with not having a generator.
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Also making him a utility Hero staying out of the fight works. Like Wulong really wouldnt be in the battlefiled but helps in prepping from attack or making traps.
 
Wing101r said:
Also making him a utility Hero staying out of the fight works. Like Wulong really wouldnt be in the battlefiled but helps in prepping from attack or making traps.
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Maybe? My big issue is we're still in the buildup stage at this point and so we want some way to be able to share the injury burdens considering the Fellowship action spooks me numbers wise and we will want to be on our A game there. This also applies to the same stuff for Hero Worship this turn, if to a lesser extent.
 
Pawn Lelouch said:
Maybe? My big issue is we're still in the buildup stage at this point and so we want some way to be able to share the injury burdens considering the Fellowship action spooks me numbers wise and we will want to be on our A game there. This also applies to the same stuff for Hero Worship this turn, if to a lesser extent.
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Honestly I'm probably wrong but Trilogy showing up after Crusade and The Philosophers saying Star can now go out with both fish and sun makes me worried.

Its unlikely but I really hope Star inst Marvelous shine and the teammates arent fish and sun.
 
Bitterman said:
My goodness," you laugh, "Did I miss an entire "breakup and get-back-together" cycle? They're positivity accelerating."
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On one hand, that sounds kinda sweet. On the other hand, I'm not sure if that's a concerning statement to make about a break up and get-back together relationship. I don't have enough life experience to find out.

Edit: Also @Bitterman , is Rakeem's mother still around? Has Lady Leizi been to see her?
 
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