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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)

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Bitterman said:
It's a two hundred or so
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that would mean tleast either 50 million in Horizon or a 1 in 1000 metahuman awakening... .
In the first case it would be more people than New York City or second case 5000 metahumans in Horizon... .asuuming 1 in 100 chances oof a useful power and heroic that make 50 heroes..... Is that about right?
BrainInAJar said:
There's 40.000 Metahumans on Horizon, WTF. Even if most are low-level, that's a lot of people with powers like Mr Hunch or Millions Minefield.
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I assume it is like most people just prefer to keep their head down. And metahumans that fight end up killed a lot of the time in a world where media companies don't keep onn bringing you back.
 
You know, when Scarlet Maturity eventually gets off his leash and we have to fight him again, I wonder if this line of attack would rankle him (don't answer this one Bitterman I'm just starting a discussion):

He lucked into his power. In another timeline, he gets the Thunder Slayer's weak power, or something supportive like Chatroom. He doesn't become a conquering juggernaut with infinite strength by taking the lives of others.

It's easy to think might makes right when you lucked into power. Mona didn't luck into being a metahuman. She wasn't born fated, she became a hero by stepping up and doing the right thing.
 
ScorpioSting said:
It's easy to think might makes right when you lucked into power. Mona didn't luck into being a metahuman. She wasn't born fated, she became a hero by stepping up and doing the right thing.
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OH yeah! Love some of that reflexive talk that makes villans doubt themselves. Though, dunno about Mona, one could argue she has lucked into a high tolerance or something (still not comparable to SM of course)
 
Kermie said:
Or to put it in a funnier way…

Mona/Noelle/Max Tolerance! Candidate: You're a goofy ass motherfucker, we all know here that you just got lucky on the superpower gacha.
SM: (…fuck, they're right.)
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SM: Everyone does. Luck that allowed you to have power, a life from the many eggs and sperm, the species being human, even not dying from the sheer randomness of living that all is luck. The world doesn't inherently owe us anything for where we are anymore than it owes us or we owe it for what happened to us good or bad. We all have to deal with what we are now and have been.

I have problems with making fun of people because of their origins. But I don't think this is a good avenue of attack. If it works we tick SM off and anyone immature enough to be bothered by that is someone who will lash out .... maybe by killing the vulnerable to prove a petty point (Like say Maddie, Rhys (try again), or Leizi). If it doesn't the counterattack might cause Leizi or Mona to become..... agitated.
 
I don't really see how "you got lucky" is supposed to tick SM off. Every meta save for Promethians are a matter of luck. If anything, it'd be pretty elitist to say that considering our metas are intentionally designed to be powerful, and yet someone who got lucky like SM is still a massive threat to them.
 
Scarlet Maturity and Faust don't seem to me like real-world social darwinists to whom the bastardized evolutionary theory is just an excuse for the biases they already have, but a type that shows up in stories where it's borderline suicidal ideation; "loneliness of the strong" and all that. Weird, but I guess good for us, at least for now.
 
BrainInAJar said:
but a type that shows up in stories where it's borderline suicidal ideation
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Well, for Scarlet Maturity he can just get people to die in his place so he can be a battle-crazed thrill seeker all he wants without the actual risk of permanent death. And he even benefits from dying. Faust is a chessmaster type, so whenever he loses a match he just goes to plan his next move.

So while a fight with even odds is entertaining to them, and they can accept losses gracefully, I don't expect them to leave home without their insurance policies, or to take a fight where their neck was truly on the line for the sake of "risking it all against a worthy opponent" like some of the more zealous characters along that archetype do.
 
Suleverf said:
Well, for Scarlet Maturity he can just get people to die in his place so he can be a battle-crazed thrill seeker all he wants without the actual risk of permanent death. And he even benefits from dying. Faust is a chessmaster type, so whenever he loses a match he just goes to plan his next move.

So while a fight with even odds is entertaining to them, and they can accept losses gracefully, I don't expect them to leave home without their insurance policies, or to take a fight where their neck was truly on the line for the sake of "risking it all against a worthy opponent" like some of the more zealous characters along that archetype do.
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Scarlet Maturity wanted to fight Catch-22 despite the real risk of loss, especially since Nora won by using a hitherto-unforeseen power nullification ability. And Hand during the Philosopher's meeting took Faust's argument seriously instead of reacting like he was talking out of his ass. Not impossible they have a meltdown later about it, of course. But even in private settings they seem to be acting like that, so it's my opinion for now. The Yankee's game might change this significantly, of course.
 
I mean I can't say i don't understand SM
I mean who amongst us has not wanted to stand atop the mountain peak as the strongest being
 
Crazyone47 said:
Never. fighting is fun. Being on the peak though is unintersting.

Although personally the idea that thereyoou are on top doesn't means you are invincible . I just can't imagine unbeatability
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Fair but my brain works on disco elesim/Homer Simpson rules

The thought of [fighting being fun] gets moddifed by [winning a fight] being fun with [Crushing a fight , Crushing a weak opponent] is Fun and [Being Stronger means Stronger Fights] the thought of shaking the sky is great fun
 
Bitterman said:
Update tomorrow night. Finally happy with it! Between 6-7k words!
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I'm really looking forward to it; I'm a huge magical girl afficianado (I've watched something like 16 different series) and I'm eager to see what those mahous are like.

Also, I just got a briliant idea: animals can get metahuman powers right ? Like Quick Gorilla. What if we go find Valiant Kabuto, enhance them via A Spoonful of Sugar or have Dr. Ibis do something to their neuro-plasticity, and then give them EXCEED-BEYOND ? And then they go punch that poser Stockpile in the face before Kamen posing on his fallen body.

It might be worth to take the mission with Quick Gorilla next turn; it and the serial killer one sound like they're on a time limit...
 
StarSingerBlue said:
Also, I just got a briliant idea: animals can get metahuman powers right ? Like Quick Gorilla. What if we go find Valiant Kabuto, enhance them via A Spoonful of Sugar or have Dr. Ibis do something to their neuro-plasticity, and then give them EXCEED-BEYOND ? And then they go punch that poser Stockpile in the face before Kamen posing on his fallen body.
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I'm almost certain it's been stated that attempting to give a metahuman our Project Prometheus enhancements will just kill them outright, and EXCEED-BEYOND requires a very particular set of enhancements to wield. Even without that limitation, EXCEED-BEYOND is a 13 Potency power, which is our absolute limit; even knowing that Apiary is a 14 Potency set and thus we may be able to increase that cap through some method, just grafting it onto Kabuto is simply too big an ask.
 
StarSingerBlue said:
Also, I just got a briliant idea: animals can get metahuman powers right ? Like Quick Gorilla. What if we go find Valiant Kabuto, enhance them via A Spoonful of Sugar or have Dr. Ibis do something to their neuro-plasticity, and then give them EXCEED-BEYOND ? And then they go punch that poser Stockpile in the face before Kamen posing on his fallen body
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QUICK GORILLA is something of an anomaly. No one really understands how he has powers; he's the only non-human ever known to do so. And unfortunately, Valiant Kabuto is only two feet tall; he can't even fit in the EXCEED-BEYOND armor. :(
 
Main story known. Jack is getting handwaved for why he is the way he is. But hes also nowhere near Horizon so he is kinda irrelevant at the moment.
Edit: Although now im imagining a dog in The EB Armor, worlds cudliest/deadliest pupper. Maybe MGS:R Blade wulf look.
 
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I have some things to deal with. So I am makingit my personal headcanon there are only 2 meta animals Jack and Quick Gorilla.
 
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Jack's revival is a secondary effect of Twilight Beast's power and not his own Metahuman ability. It was mistaken as such because he has no brain or biology to examine.

There. 😑
 
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