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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)

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Bitterman said:
You remember Wolong privately asking you to keep an eye out for a girl named 'Noelle Han', but refusing to explain why. How will you tell him that the daughter of his departed colleague has been single-handedly waging a lonely war against a Triad surrounded by frozen monsters?
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Poor Gabriel is going to ugly cry again!
Bitterman said:
DC 5.

Stat Check: OPERATIONS 3. Lady Leizi has an OPERATIONS 5.

You rolled: 15.

15 + 1 = 16. Success!
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She doesn't get a bonus for being fluent in Chinese?
Bitterman said:
"Lady Leizi, you're too late. Crusade has already learned of all the indignities perpetrated against these poor maidens by Justice Unlimited!" he sneers in a Northern British accent, "Crusade will set your wrongs right!"
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Is he that fucking stupid, or is Crusade that desperate to grag our name through the muck?
Bitterman said:
Hmm, based on her age and the way she discusses your father . . .

"You never even met him, did you, darling?"
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This was probably one of her aides' idea, too.
Bitterman said:
She gives a high, mocking laugh. "Glory? 'Your' glory? You stood on the shoulders of giants and took their glory for your own. Now they're dead and remembered as monsters, as you soon will be."
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Funny, the public has no idea who you are, little missy.
Bitterman said:
"The heavens saw fit to grant the power to imbue objects with a dose of power shaped by a word I carve. The higher quality the material, the more I can change it and the more power it can hold. Imagine my surprise when I learned how much I could shape a shard of ice taken from the Frozen Throne."
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Okay, then why do they give the girls magical girl powers? ...Is Yellow Qilin a fan of the anime Mona and Madeline have watched? Would she have been outed if Mona was here?


[X] . . . press your luck.

I don't want contribute to Monarch's funds. Doing so at all is just asking for Bitterman to bite us in the ass for it later.

EDIT: Changed vote. I'll still think it'll bite us in the ass later.
 
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@Bitterman Ellie is stealing goldnine to supply some number of girls allied to her, right? Do we know how much goldnine they have, how long their current supply can last, and how much an ambrosia dose's worth would last them for? I ask because if we fail the check in the [] press your luck option, we'll only have the one dose from last mission in our inventory.
 
I thought this wouldn't be this contested but okay.

To me the logic is quite simple: Yellow Qilin is an unstable actor. You can't outsmart someone like that because they're capable of doing stupid things that nonetheless hurt you out of spite. In fact, this whole mission is exactly this. I don't want to give her a single extra day to come up with another idiotic scheme. She's literally contradicting herself in her gloating attempts, it's that bad. Even if we could trust her with her end of the deal we can't trust her of not making things worse anyways.

Besides, I don't like the Magical Girls remaining hostages. It's quite a bitter pill to swallow when Leizhi's trying to be more, and press your luck just seems like a return to old habits. Let's not get too clever by half by trying to play around with a madwoman, alright?
 
[X] …go loud

R-Train is locked in next turn, then. Whoever we get from Cenotaph can wait for their Ambrosia.
 
Also we need to do reality check next turn too so we can recruit Belle. We need 8 ap by t5 if we dont want to miss any of out timed actions.

Granted we can delay reality chec if the time limit there and focus ND missions and The fellowship.

Edit: Atleast if going loud somehow forces us to give away the ambrosia meant for John. Which also fucks up our plan for brining him DF.

Actually QM eould going Loud force us to give Johns ambrosia to Noelle group?
 
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Well shit.... Completely unrelated to the current discussion but I just changed my phone no less that like 3 hours ago and while setting everything I think i removed notifications from my emails, which I used to know if someome posted something here and I have no idea how to fix it. I change my email prefs in my settings but im not sure if ill receive anything yet. So I might just have made it harder for myself to know if someone posted something. Just in case I dont appear immediatly for whn a new chapter drops.
 
Derpmind said:
@Bitterman Ellie is stealing goldnine to supply some number of girls allied to her, right? Do we know how much goldnine they have, how long their current supply can last, and how much an ambrosia dose's worth would last them for? I ask because if we fail the check in the [] press your luck option, we'll only have the one dose from last mission in our inventory.
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Wing101r said:
Actually QM eould going Loud force us to give Johns ambrosia to Noelle group?
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I'll answer both questions: the implication is that if you fail the check on press your luck, you'll get barely enough to sustain Noelle's forces and nothing else—not enough that you could skim off the top for Prometheus without it making a dent. Noelle's forces are barely subsisting right now, and any extra "dose" of goldnine is one more turn they can last. You'll have a vote to decide how much to give them afterwards if you are successful.

You can give them the dose you have regardless, but it's not required. They'll have enough to last until the end of issue four without any extra from you in either Press Your Luck or Go Loud. If they don't get anyone by then, bad things will start happening.
 
So Push our luck at success gives us a safety net for taking them down apart from being able to Ambrosia Noelle or Yara fast.

BTW QM are gems implanted in the MG's body and if so couldnt we use epoxy power to remove them from the bodies?
 
Wing101r said:
Also we need to do reality check next turn too so we can recruit Belle. We need 8 ap by t5 if we dont want to miss any of out timed actions.
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We're in a weird situation honestly, we should be rocking 8 AP come next turn. Where in terms of required missions, Demon Flamez costs 1 AP and expires so we need to take it, all of Fellowship/Third Person/Shroud cost 2 AP and would have one more turn, and we have R-Train costing 2 AP and whatever AP costs exist the for the Hero Worship and Magical Girl followup actions.

Ignoring Fellowship for now as frankly we should be doing that action later on due to the very high stat checks there, we have 7 AP worth of missions + the followup recruitments. If they cost 1, then things are at least in theory easy, its just a question of if we dump Shroud or Third Person for a turn and do three 1 AP actions. If they cost 2, then things will get tricky based on what the actions end up being.
 
Honestly if epoxy power lets us speedran getting rid of the gems Id be down for giving it to John.

Hes an engineer too so it actually works well with him in being able to craft things.
 
Ah it wont work epoxy only sticks things together unless Higher potency lets just not only stick things but temove them as well epoxy power wont work.
 
What do you think GQ's power looks like in sample form? It's gotta be 6+.

I think it's Transmutation since that tag seems to imply shaping and controlling pre-existing materials. She carves characters into objects that modify their properties. Ally Empowerment, as well?
 
[X] . . . press your luck.

I've thought about it and... We do need to avoid the Mahou running out of g9. Of course..... .... This is primarily done with the calculation that YQ doesn't want any more attention either.

And Crusade has a target... Something I wonder if we can leverage.
I wonder though if we could call up Wolong Or Stockpile Aka not calling him it and get them to cooperate to hem in the Mahou Shoujo to their current area... Oh and we should probably tell Crusade that Monarch has stored Goldnine and might weaponise it
 
Its not bad plan unfortunately Crusade isnt reasonable but an org created to take down or weakean JU more than protecting people.

Its why ronin noted even if they take down GQ theyd still pin everything us our fault since the fact she used JU name to bait people is too useful for their real goals.
 
Speaking of Exceed Beyond @Bitterman
Actually isnt what makes the MGs really Qilin Power jist using FT as medium?

In that case rocks Power Null should be able to get rid of qilin power on the girls. Even if the Power Null is short range it should be able to heal any Victim thats touching E-B.

So just wait for Rocks Cooldown and keep using Power null until all victims are saved.

catlover2011 said:
Nice thing is, if noelle hops on right away, we can put her in Exceed Beyond and pick up a hero without needing to spend another dose of goldnine.
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Not gonna work btw we still need ambrosia to give someone the power to wield E-B.
 
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Wing101r said:
Its still a better lead than most. Id trust in E-B own bullshit to counter Qilins bullshit.
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In theory we could save the Magical Girls guaranteed even if we jump Qilin by a write-in to cancel John's empowerment given new circumstances and then next turn use the new ability to empower someone at the start of the turn to Spoonful+Prometheus her into E-B and have her spam the nullification power during the whole turn.

Thing is, I'm skeptical E-B's power nullifier is so unfettered as it would be necessary to have this work. I wouldn't be surprised if it was once per Issue or something like that.
 
BrainInAJar said:
In theory we could save the Magical Girls guaranteed even if we jump Qilin by a write-in to cancel John's empowerment given new circumstances and then next turn use the new ability to empower someone at the start of the turn to Spoonful+Prometheus her into E-B and have her spam the nullification power during the whole turn.

Thing is, I'm skeptical E-B's power nullifier is so unfettered as it would be necessary to have this work. I wouldn't be surprised if it was once per Issue or something like that.
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Nah mechanic wise Power Null is per combat and dynamite is per mission.

Mechanical Notes: Modules must be selected for a scene and may be changed between scenes. Using any power in blue will disable the module until the end of a combat encounter. Using module "dynamite" will disable the EXCEED-BEYOND armor until the end of the mission.
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That means we can use both Power Null and Dynamites reality warp to save the girls with E-B.

We can only go with this plan if we Push our luck and get the extra ambrosia doses though.
 
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