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Hm, I do wonder if Belief has the potential to have an effect on entities with a sufficiently strong connection to The Stage. If so, that could make a Leviathan Cult potentially more dangerous than we would expect. Though nothing in the story has been shown to work like that before. And if you empower something with enough Belief, that feels like something The Hand would be actively trying to exploit.

Leviathan Cults are still fun to think about regardless! Love a zany cult.
 
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I'm Justice Unlimited's Biggest Fan! — chickenbuillon New
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    • I'm Justice Unlimited's Biggest Fan!: by chickenbouillon

    COLOSSAL TRIGGER WARNING FOR GORE

    The room was damp.

    A man is tied to a chair, struggling to escape. Rage as he might against his bindings.. he could not escape. He bites at the gag in his mouth, but it is futile. It is fastened too tightly.

    The door opens, and the man flinches. He tries to scoot away, but his current predicament makes it.. difficult.

    There is the sound of rummaging, and then the lights turn on with a click. A young boy in his late teens enters, he looks.. youthful, somehow. Black hair, black eyes, freckles dusting his cheeks.. There was something noticeably nervous about him. Like he was unsure of what to do.

    If only that was the truth.

    The boy stares at the bound man quietly, not saying anything for a second. And then he reaches forward and pulls out a.. phone? He sets up some elaborate looking equipment all about the room, before fastening the phone on the recording stand and clearing his throat.

    And then he reaches forward and rips the gag out of the man's mouth.

    The man wastes no time screaming: "What the fuck do you think you're doing to me, you crazy fucking brat?! Do you even know who I am?!" The boy stands there in silence, his formerly nervous eyes replaced by something far colder. "I do, actually." He says.

    "You're Dave Thompson. You're part of a motorbike gang.. and you go around extorting people for money." He says. The man smirks at this, perhaps under the mistaken assumption that this boy would finally realize the sheer amount of trouble he's in. "Your friends don't scare me, if that's what you're counting on." The boy speaks.

    "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?! Hey! Hey! Don't ignore me, you fuck!-" He screams, but the boy is already walking away from him and towards the camera. "Is this thing on?" He says, he clears his throat nervously, fidgeting in place for a moment.

    "Umm.. hello, everyone!" He says, waving at the camera. He does not pay attention to the man screaming in the background. "Welcome.. to the first episode of my show! I don't have a name yet.. so maybe you guys could come up with a name for it?" He says. The man continues screaming and raging in the background.

    The boy sighs and turns to the audience: "Give me a second." He turns to the raging man and flicks a hand. Nothing more. Nothing less. The man's skin starts to sizzle.

    The screams of rage are soon replaced by those of agony.

    "Ahem! Sorry about that.. I just had to quiet him down. Anyway.. I'd really like to get to the main topic now, if you guys would let me!" He says, his voice was nervous and shaky, and yet there was a noticeable undertone of mania in his tone. "Have you guys heard of Justice Unlimited?" The chat immediately lights up at that name. The visitors of this stream are lowlives and criminals themselves, and as such they are likely upset at hearing the name of a superhero team.

    "You have, right? Who in Horizon hasn't heard of them?" He says. "Anyway, I just wanted to say that I'm a.. really, really big fan of them.. so that's why I have to do this." He turns around, pushes the man closer to the camera.. and clamps his hand over the man's face.

    The man's flesh begins to boil and sizzle, before it sloughs off his skull and melts onto the floor in a puddle of blood. His skull droops onto the floor, half melted from the sheer acidic corrosion of what he has gone through. His screams dissipate into gurgles.. and then to nothing.

    "You see this man?" The boy asks: "He was a bad person. A very bad person. Racketeering.. extortion.. he did them all! So I had to get rid of him!" He says, his voice now full of barely restrained zeal. "Because it's what's good for the world! Because it's what Justice Unlimited would have wanted! For me to purge evildoers!" He says. He wipes off the blood on his pants, and quietly stares at the camera. Face downcast.

    "You're all lowlives and criminals, so I'll do this as a reminder for you. This is what you're all gonna get. This is what I'm gonna do to you. And I'm gonna do it for the sake of Justice Unlimited, because I'm a true hero of justice!" He says, his voice dreamy. His face is locked into a grin, tears streaming down his cheeks.

    "I'll see you guys next time on the next episode! Same time, same day." The boy reaches out and turns off the camera. Leaving him in silence.

    He takes a deep breath.

    For Justice Unlimited.
     
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    • I choose to believe that one could have happened before the Movement, because we have enough PR problems to deal with already to have to stop a murderous streamer who doesn't know what justice is.
     
    Is John's POV on the DF's culpability "Pholgiston is responsible for my daughter's death as their leader" or "I'm going to find which one is responsible and beat them to a pulp" or "All 6 of them are responsible"?
     
    spiderhellian said:
    I wonder if that's one of those questions even John's not sure the answer to...
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    That, pretty much.

    Also, as I write, I think I'm going to in-universe relax the "must do Third-Person/Shroud missions" given that 1) You're working much more closely with New Dawn now, and 2) You know Monarch's deal now which these missions were supposed to tease. It doesn't make sense to target these as "Anti-Monarch" missions when you know they don't work for her now.

    The missions will still be available, but this will let you do them at your leisure and let me make them smaller. Plus, I can introduce the Monarch missions that make sense at this part in the story. Sometimes you gotta roll with the punches as the story develops in ways you didn't expect.
     
    Bitterman said:
    That, pretty much.

    Also, as I write, I think I'm going to in-universe relax the "must do Third-Person/Shroud missions" given that 1) You're working much more closely with New Dawn now, and 2) You know Monarch's deal now which these missions were supposed to tease. It doesn't make sense to target these as "Anti-Monarch" missions when you know they don't work for her now.

    The missions will still be available, but this will let you do them at your leisure and let me make them smaller. Plus, I can introduce the Monarch missions that make sense at this part in the story. Sometimes you gotta roll with the punches as the story develops in ways you didn't expect.
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    Cool that means we can take Abarimon to regain OID while also not having to do another combat mission.

    Unless a new mission pops up that give OID control too.
     
    Black Swan drifts down with her hands on her hips, frowning, "Weeeeeell, you're definitely not allowed in the Apiary. Buuut, I'm kind of in the middle of an emergency meeting and I can't just leave you here . . . Umm, I guess letting you into the food court should be okay?"

    "You want me to wait around for you in a food court? Are we children at the mall?" Scarlet Maturity says, disgusted.

    "There's a Burger Burger with the impossible burger-stack challenge! You get your photo on the wall and a free t-shirt if you finish it all!"

    ". . . do they have a size 25XL?"

    "What? I don't know! I don't care! Go eat your burgers!"

    Listen, I love them, okay?
     
    But before you do, allow me to welcome you to the elite of this restaurant, Black Swan. Now you too will battle for the title of 'impossible burger eater'."

    " . . . I don't wanna?"

    "The burgers will find you even if you do not wish them to. The delicious stacks cannot bear vegetarianism. They will be plated before you in your every eating hour. You will continue to eat burgers. Or you will puke. That is the only law of this restaurant."
     
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    Bitterman said:
    Black Swan drifts down with her hands on her hips, frowning, "Weeeeeell, you're definitely not allowed in the Apiary. Buuut, I'm kind of in the middle of an emergency meeting and I can't just leave you here . . . Umm, I guess letting you into the food court should be okay?"

    "You want me to wait around for you in a food court? Are we children at the mall?" Scarlet Maturity says, disgusted.

    "There's a Burger Burger with the impossible burger-stack challenge! You get your photo on the wall and a free t-shirt if you finish it all!"

    ". . . do they have a size 25XL?"

    "What? I don't know! I don't care! Go eat your burgers!"

    Listen, I love them, okay?
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    Dammit Scarlet Maturity stop making me like you!
     
    Bitterman said:
    That, pretty much.

    Also, as I write, I think I'm going to in-universe relax the "must do Third-Person/Shroud missions" given that 1) You're working much more closely with New Dawn now, and 2) You know Monarch's deal now which these missions were supposed to tease. It doesn't make sense to target these as "Anti-Monarch" missions when you know they don't work for her now.

    The missions will still be available, but this will let you do them at your leisure and let me make them smaller. Plus, I can introduce the Monarch missions that make sense at this part in the story. Sometimes you gotta roll with the punches as the story develops in ways you didn't expect.
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    I can totally buy that.

    Crusade in this turn... a) captured some of Monarch's forces and threw them in the Brig, b) messed with us at the memorial and nearly kidnapped Princess, c) messed with us at the interviews and d) tried to kidnap Yara, to protect Osanyin's interests. They split up their attention between them and us.

    Now? Crusade has suffered very heavy blows. One of their members died (in a mission she wasn't supposed to be in), two of them (one of them very powerful) defected, and the Brig was destroyed, releasing the prisoners that had accumulated there thus far. Even if White Hawk hadn't been explicitly told to stop going against us and focus on Monarch, he would probably focus on Monarch anyway for purposes of Crusade's reputation not tanking.

    Monarch and her forces must be aware of this. They must be aware that Crusade is turning their full attention against them, and they were already waiting for the counterattack from New Dawn (before we formally allied up with them), so they'll probably try to play it a bit more defensively. And the rebellious/independent elements not formally affiliated with her (or not affiliated with her at all anymore) like Shroud and Third Person would probably be a bit cautious, I think.
     
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    Im pretty sure Shroud and 3rd Persob arent working for monarch at all which is why those mission dont count as anti monarch now.

    Basically like df they lied about joining her before splitting when they were out of wonderland.

    Edit: Atleast us taking down GDT next turn should give us good rep roll bonus since no reason not to reval the gang funding monarch.
     
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    Honestly, with us working with New Dawn even more closely now, I'd say that those New Dawn Missions floating around could be easier to do too

    Like a "New Dawn gives you (This Much) AP, but it's locked into doing these two missions, but since they don't have enough, you gotta spend 1-2 AP to allow it to move forward!" sort of deal

    Maybe, that might be dumb tho-
     
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