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Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)

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I don't feel like psychic-anti psychic is really useful here? Because either Arc or Wolong synergy gets us a powerful utility person, and remember: EXCEED-BEYOND was explicitly stated by Bitterman to be a psychic counter in its own right.

We can get looking into the psychic build when we power up the candidates we get from Cenotaph next turn.
 
[X] . . . if he has any insight into psychic or anti-psychic synergies?

Gameshow: Demolished. Daughter: Acquired. Great update, thank you.
Bitterman said:
I'm gonna say comic rules, so no guns unless it's the character's whole thing.

E-B's paper module has a energy blaster.

And no, E-B is the masterwork of a singular genius. You can't make any more of them. No one else knows how.
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This bit from earlier seems to contradict that. Unless the pieces of it are repairable, but not so much breakable?
Bitterman said:
"Anyway, the only way to do it is to artificially manufacture a metahuman-esque power. Which I've done by altering my own DNA. If you've initiated Project Prometheus, give the attached schematics to your head researcher. It's the formula to create what's needed for the EXCEED-BEYOND armor. It's administered the same way we would a power, but whoever takes it will lose their potential to be a metahuman—instead their "power" will be this: to be able to EXCEED-BEYOND. Make sure they know what they're giving up before you give this to them. I've also included every piece of possible documentation on how to maintain and, if necessary, rebuild the armor should it come to that. I've made it as simple as possible—might need a team to do it, but you won't need an Algernon-type."
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Come to think of it, wouldn't it be better to Spoonful John Henry twice this turn since we're making him a meta this turn, and then spoonful Ellie next turn when we give her EB?

This way he goes as high as Tolerance 7 from 5, potentially as high as Potency 10 if we reduce his potency by 3 during metahuman creation. That's a lot of flexibility for us.
 
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[X] . . . about the "familiar feeling" power synergy he identified. It's one part [Enhanced Strength], one part [Clairvoyance], but what else?
[X] Two spoonfuls
 
Idle curiosity: How many drones did Paper form have in total? They all had the ability to shoot the energy blasts and flames from them, right?

And were Scissor's blades limited to extending from the armor's wrists, or could they be summoned anywhere?
 
Derpmind said:
[X] . . . if he has any insight into psychic or anti-psychic synergies?

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This bit from earlier seems to contradict that. Unless the pieces of it are repairable, but not so much breakable?
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There's already a good explanation as to why we can only have one E-B active at a time though: it relies on Nora's DNA, so once we give it to someone (Noelle), we can't give it to anyone else until she dies.

LucidProp said:
Come to think of it, wouldn't it be better to Spoonful John Henry twice this turn since we're making him a meta this turn, and then spoonful Ellie next turn when we give her EB?

This way he goes as high as Tolerance 7 from 5, potentially as high as Potency 10 if we reduce his potency 3. That's a lot of flexibility for us.
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We can also put two people through Prometheus this turn though. We're essentially planning on boosting Noelle so that she can start using E+B immediately, since her base Tolerance stat in 9.
 
Derpmind said:
[X] . . . if he has any insight into psychic or anti-psychic synergies?

Gameshow: Demolished. Daughter: Acquired. Great update, thank you.

This bit from earlier seems to contradict that. Unless the pieces of it are repairable, but not so much breakable?
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Bitterman said:
"The bodysuit I created with the Contingency. It's made from Apiary as well and is psycho-reactive. Should also be damn hard to break, but don't push it."
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The issue isn't less the armor itself but the psycho-reactive part made with the Contingency. The armor doesn't work without it, and only Nora knew how to work the Contingency or really understood what it was.
 
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ReaperofInterest said:
We can also put two people through Prometheus this turn though. We're essentially planning on boosting Noelle so that she can start using E+B immediately, since her base Tolerance stat in 9.
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Yeah, but we can do Noelle's Spoonful + EB next turn without consequence right? It'll be ready by the time she needs to go on missions if we do both next turn.

If we don't spoonful John Henry twice this turn, we won't get the opportunity to give him another potency boost next turn since he'll be a meta before the current turn ends.
 
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LucidProp said:
Yeah, but we can do Noelle's Spoonful + EB next turn without consequence right? It'll be ready by the time she needs to go on missions if we do both next turn.
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Depends if we can double up Sugar on John knstead of it needing to br for 2 different people.

Though it would atleast let us Have an S Class and a nothet candidate with Wade Family combo depending on new candidates.
 
Kermie said:
I don't feel like psychic-anti psychic is really useful here? Because either Arc or Wolong synergy gets us a powerful utility person, and remember: EXCEED-BEYOND was explicitly stated by Bitterman to be a psychic counter in its own right.

We can get looking into the psychic build when we power up the candidates we get from Cenotaph next turn.
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My reasoning is mostly that I'm not sure we are going to be doing the half finished Wolong synergy for a bit yet is the thing. The thread seems interested in giving Yara a psychic synergy specifically and John isn't likely to have the numbers to take advantage of a new unknown synergy that gets discovered. Plus I will admit I think odds are we know a build that contains the likely final elements for it, which is dulling my immediate need for finishing it as the confirmation.

LucidProp said:
Come to think of it, wouldn't it be better to Spoonful John Henry twice this turn since we're making him a meta this turn, and then spoonful Ellie next turn when we give her EB?

This way he goes as high as Tolerance 7 from 5, potentially as high as Potency 10 if we reduce his potency 3. That's a lot of flexibility for us.
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I mean we can just spoonful and boost Ellie and just do John next turn at the start pretty easily? He won't be quite the next in the order technically but its him in prep for the mission regardless and he's stronger as a result.
 
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LucidProp said:
Yeah, but we can do Noelle's Spoonful + EB next turn without consequence right? It'll be ready by the time she needs to go on missions if we do both next turn.
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But then we'd miss out on also giving Project Prometheus to a candidate from Cenotaph. And you just know people are gonna be chomping at the bit to get their user-submitted blorbos powered up.
 
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I would just like to say that even if we are planning on making one of our Potency 10 a psychic doesn't mean we should limit ourselves from making any other psychic. Also if we start making psychics now we can find out some nice synergies we can use for our future 10.
 
Pawn Lelouch said:
I mean we can just spoonful and boost Ellie and just do John next turn at the start pretty easily? He won't be quite the next in the order technically but its him in prep for the mission regardless and he's stronger as a result.
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Wait, didn't the winning plan make John Henry a metahuman this turn? We can't spoonful him again next turn since he's already a metahuman at that point.
 
LucidProp said:
Yeah, but we can do Noelle's Spoonful + EB next turn without consequence right? It'll be ready by the time she needs to go on missions if we do both next turn.
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Technically yes, but don't forget that we're not finished with this turn yet. We've still got some stuff to do like Hero Worship, and I know that I for one would prefer we have two additional metahumans on our team as opposed to just one.

Besides, I doubt that increasing John Henry's Tolerance by 2 will lead to a much more impressive power available when compared to increasing his Tolerance by 1. He's still getting a better power either way, just not as good, in exchange for us being able to deploy a Potency 10 metahuman who's powers include power negation.

LucidProp said:
Wait, didn't the winning plan make John Henry a metahuman this turn? We can't spoonful him again next turn since he's already a metahuman at that point.
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Technically yes, but that was mostly a result of him being literally the only option we had at the time. Now we've got another option.
 
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LucidProp said:
Wait, didn't the winning plan make John Henry a metahuman this turn?
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I kinda thought the etraction mechanic changes and Noelle recruitment was offering some flexibility here but if I'm wrong on that then yeah, probably focus John down with 2 doses if possible, if 7 offers us some good build combos we can't reach otherwise.
 
LucidProp said:
Come to think of it, wouldn't it be better to Spoonful John Henry twice this turn since we're making him a meta this turn, and then spoonful Ellie next turn when we give her EB?
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I honestly hadn't considered that. Hmm. I'll tell you what, if you guys want, I'll let you do it three times with your one global action because this is my mistake. It will still be 6k though.
 
Kermie said:
But then we'd miss out on also giving Project Prometheus to a candidate from Cenotaph. And you just know people are gonna be chomping at the bit to get their user-submitted blorbos powered up.
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I mean wouldn't EB be a super neat secret weapon. Just when Crusade thinks they have the upper hand then BAM power nullified hehehehe. Rushing out EB like this feel a lil anticlimactic and well I kinda wanna see Noelle just a bit more and vibe more with the team before getting EB outright (⁠^⁠～⁠^⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ.
 
Bitterman said:
I honestly hadn't considered that. Hmm. I'll tell you what, if you guys want, I'll let you do it three times with your one global action because this is my mistake. It will still be 6k though.
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....thats tempting.... Our poor income though. Either way I need to go to sleep, so here's hoping the thread doesn't burn down while I'm gone. See ya'll tomorrow.
 
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