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Project Prometheus would have to somehow become monetarily viable enough to make it my full time job.
So, uh, a lot?
Project Prometheus (Original Setting Superhero Quest)
So, uh, a lot?
SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
- Location
- Somewhere in the Cosmos
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- He/Him
I feel like thats a no chief. If omake points become a resource that can "buy" things other than a plus one to rolls. I fear we may open a pandoras box with it.
Omake points can buy fill ins?
What about guaranteing DNA appearing or Candidates?
Probably best left as is. (If this is taken seriously and isnt a joke).
Edit: Ask and the QM anwsers.
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ThaTrueRealmWalk
A blob of Galaxy, watching you through the Screen.
- Location
- Inside this TV
I was making a funny, but that response does actually remind me an actual question I've always wanted to ask.
Have you ever considered turning Project Prometheus into a book series? There would probably be some work to transfer it over and avoid any legal pit falls, but I'm genuinely curious if it ever crossed your mind.
And looking at how much you have written- it's around 250,000 words, comparing that to say Harry Potter's first book (77,000 Words), you would have more then enough for a first issue in a series.
Kermie
Surprisingly Not A Frog
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
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- He/She/They
Just being a realist and listing out reasons why that might not be a good idea for a sec: Finding a publisher is hard, Bitterman may not want to use his real name, people may not want to read something in the superhero genre, people may not be the biggest on the second person POV, a lot of the "punch" of the story comes from the mechanics at times.
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It's something I'd consider one day maybe, but there's a lot more involve than you'd think. Just switching from second to third person would mean re-writing everything.
Plus, there are copywrite issues given that the heroes, and many NPCs, are player created, so they'd have to be altered too.
There also the issue that the pacing in serial novels just doesn't work for published works, which is why schools teach the abridged versions of things like Great Expectations.
daedalus725
Kell of Kells, godking of Planet X
- Location
- Daedalus crater, The moon
Now I know witch fill in we must vote for
- Location
- Pindorama
Thanks to my Yu-Gi-Oh! brainrot I've turning around in my head the ideas for a Project Prometheus archetype, so here it is. You all made 20 pages as well, sheesh.
Deck
Fun facts:
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Fun facts:
- Did you know there's no actual rule that says the maximum level a monster can have is 12? They just never printed one that has it outright, but there's no limits to how high you can go with card effects, and there are archetypes that even rely on it.
- "Isn't a 4000 attack Link 1 with such a strong effect incredibly shameless?" Yes, but this complete motherfucker exists so there's precedent. One that comes to mind easy in fact, since I so hate it so much, and to defeat Konami one must think like it.
- The biggest reason for them being Pendulum Monsters, aside from the fact that it allows me to give "Normal" monsters effects, is that the ARC-V Pendulum Theme has been stuck into my head.
I disagree with this, but honestly I think you should just open a Patreon.
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Oml not a Pendulum deck, evil things those.
Kermie
Surprisingly Not A Frog
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
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- He/She/They
I think this is cool! Also, my god this would probably be overpowered along with a good enough Beyond The Pendulum setup.
Omake: Justice Unlimited - Civil War - part 2
You are Noelle Han, and your armor's on the fritz.
It had occurred to you, back when you left Justice Unlimited, that you were also leaving its mechanics and scientists. But this was built by an Algernon, and you're somewhat of a mechanic yourself, how fragile could it really be?
The answer is "quite, when you're fighting every week, and trying to repair it with stuff from the slagging Home Depot".
Money is not the problem. Mona's basically invincible against Behemoths below Named-Rank, so you've just been grinding out bounties, even bought an apartment. No, the issue is supply. Not many companies make military-grade mechanical components, and none of them sell to rookie heroes. Which, despite your power, you still are.
So you keep working with broken drones, flickering shield, and a left leg that seizes up sometimes. But you can't do anything about it.
Lately you've been investigating Shroud's threats against the Kelso family, in hopes of getting in good with Kelso-Allard. But it's slow without Leizi's sources - not to mention that odd things keep going wrong. Witnesses clamming up, evidence gone missing, even random machines that just happen to explode as you walk by. You think you know why, but you can't do anything about it.
Wasn't going rogue supposed to be about freedom?
One day though, you get a covert message from Belle Sabreuse. She wants to talk.
You weren't sure, but Mona says it's your duty to help anyone who wants to leave JU. So here you are, in a deserted park on the outskirts of the city, with Mona on overwatch, and you staring down the fencer.
She looks pale, worried. Her clothing's impeccable, but her hair is ragged. You're in your armor, praying it doesn't make some weird noise. Mona radios to say there's no-one else nearby.
"So," you begin, "a visitor from Lady Leizi. What is it?"
"I want to join you."
You fake surprise.
"You? Really? You'd barely met us before we left."
"I saw enough. And Leizi, she's become worse since you left. Worse to everyone."
"You don't push back?"
"Handyman and Silver both support her totally. I am outnumbered, I'm the newcomer. What can I do?"
"Et Châtelet? Vraiment j'ai pensé que serait elle qui aura la frouche."
"Je n'ai voulais pas elle mentionner. Elle est totalement fidèle à Leizi pour l'avoir sauvée de sa famille, et pour la symbiote. J'ai essayé de lui parler, mais elle a menacé de me dénoncer. Si vous m'acceptez, je peux essayer encore de la contacter."
You narrow your eyes for a second, then tilt your head.
"And Leizi won't come after us? Not even if we poach you?"
"You remember how many problems Justice Unlimited faces," Belle Sabreuse replies. "Demon Flamez, Anodyne, Moon River. And manpower is not a concern. What's the point of chasing you?"
"I had no idea she's so magnanimous. Maybe we could invite her for a picnic. I'll cook your grilled cheese, and you pick a wine," you snark.
Sabreuse cracks a wan smile. "I think that's still a ways off."
You approach and offer her a handshake. She takes it.
You draw your blaster-gun and hold it to her head.
"Noelle, I-"
"Wrong accent in French, you forgot to learn the Ladder dialect. She doesn't like grilled cheese, yet you let me suggest it. Your handshake's heavier than hers because of the extra density. And most of all... why the hell would she meet with us under Leizi's nose, when she could just leave first?"
Belle Sabreuse looks at you with fear, then shock, then anger, then Handyman's head.
"You got me, kid."
You press the gun harder. He doesn't react as it sinks into his clay. You reconsider and draw it back a bit.
"So what's the real reason you're here?!"
"I'll let the boss explain that," Handyman says. He slowly reaches into his body and retrieves a holo-transmitter. He sets it on the ground. The image comes to life, and it's Lady Leizi.
She flicks her eyes over to Handyman.
"Another failed impersonation, Rhys. That makes you oh-for-three."
"Only against other metas," he snaps. "Anyways, I'm the one at gunpoint here, so say what you wanted."
"Lady Leizi," you interrupt. "The hell's all this for?"
"Ah, Noelle. I know you're a busy woman, so I'll make it quick, dear. Give us back the armor."
"...Like absolute hell."
"Be reasonable, dear. We know you can't maintain it. Do you want to see Nora's last creation fall to scrap, helping no-one? We'll even give you normal armor and a gun to replace it."
"I could maintain it myself if you stopped... stopping us on the Shroud case!"
"As if. Allard may give you parts, but you barely understand what Nora did. We gave you that armor. We made you. Now it's time to repay us."
"That's not what a hero would say!"
Everyone's head snaps to see Black Swan descend. She can't cry, because her body is hardlight. But she looks like she wants to.
"I trusted you, Lady Leizi. I thought we could go our separate ways and... maybe you'd be better. But you only got worse!"
"Black Swan," Leizi replies coolly. "Someone for whom 'we made you' is even more direct. You were nothing but a peon before Justice Unlimited. Everything that empowers you to be petulant came from our lab, our research, our gifts. And now you not only leave, but try to lecture?"
"No, it came from the lab of a true hero! And that's not you anymore!"
"We saw what happened to my friends," you break in, face aflame. "You TOOK their goldnine! You left them to die!"
"We wouldn't have needed that goldnine if we weren't replacing certain losses," Leizi sneers. "And we'd have a stable supply if you'd only helped us with the R-Train."
"ENOUGH!" you shout. "We're leaving, you won't get the armor, and you can't stop us." You look back at Handyman. "And if you try anything, I know where it takes you time to regrow."
Handyman shakes his head, a cold smile with him. "I can't stop you. But he can."
There's a blur, and Black Swan is gone. Handyman whacks you with a sledgehammer hand. You go flying back and hit a set of force-fields, getting bounced around like a pinball. Your whole body hurts by the time you hear a distant crash.
The force-fields pin you down like a prison, but you blast through them with Paper. Handyman comes at you with hammers and tendrils, but you use anti-gravity to throw him up in the air, hose him down with the blaster, then Scissors and jump for the psychic blade aerial. The blades cut deep into his clay and send him sprawling into the dirt.
He's getting back up, but you're running around, looking for Silver - you know he needs line-of-sight. You don't see him on the ground, but jump to a rooftop- there he is. He frowns and tries to slow you down with force-fields. You can hear him yell something on his comm. You don't care. You fly over just as Handyman becomes a dragon, roaring up to attack you. You simply grab Doctor Silver and throw him right through, where he flies across the block and crashes into a tree. Handyman is looking down at the big hole in his chest; you move in for a Rock-powered cinderblock throw to the head. He roars, and falls to the ground with a sickening crash.
There's no time to rest. You return to Scissors and take off running, towards where the blur went.
Who the hell is fighting Mona?
---
Meanwhile, at New Dawn HQ...
"I can't let you leave, Juan. New Dawn is too weak to lose more people."
"Weak? It's stronger than ever! Right under the boot of Lady Leizi."
"You know that's not-"
"Just watch, Virginia. Opale and I are leaving tonight, and she's gonna pull some thug out her ass tomorrow to replace us."
"She can't-"
"Yes she can! Don't tell me you don't see it. How Gabe's basically her mouthpiece now. And how all these people stronger than most of the old team keep appearing? I don't know if Crusade was right, but I know something's sussy."
"And you're gonna investigate?"
"No, I'm gonna get the hell out before something goes bad."
"For the sake of New Dawn... I'm sorry, I have to stop you."
"Goddamn try it. I see you don't have your arrows."
"And you don't have a dream-item."
"Yeah, uh... I have my fists."
"So do I."
"YAAAA!"
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You are Mona Merola-Morales, and you're in one of the hardest fights of your life.
The man looks like a dark mirror of yourself. Literally, his skin is black like the night sky, with a star-patterned face like a child's drawing. He wears no uniform, simply letting his body be featureless dark.
"We don't need to kill each other," he said after tackling you. "After the armor is secured, we can part in peace."
But how could you accept that? This guy thinks he can push you around!
You quickly got up and started blasting your core. But he dodged every movement, as if he knew what you'd do. You decided to go link back up with Ellie, only for him to grab you telekinetically and smash you into the street. Concrete rains.
You go on the offence, flying under him and shooting a huge beam upwards. You see him flinch and contort his face in pain. But when you're done, he's still intact.
"You're worried about collataral," he sneers. "We can work it out."
He picks up a bus and lifts it fifty feet in the air. You can hear the people inside screaming.
"Stay or I drop it," he snaps.
Dammit, what to do? Maybe keep him talking, maybe Ellie will arrive.
"Okay, okay, you got me creep. What's your name?"
"You can call me Black Osprey. I'm your successor."
"Successor? I'm 20! I'm not retiring!"
"It's not about age. I saw more at 15 than you have now. It's about drive, it's about power. I can do everything you can, and more. I see where you aim your blows. Your movements are obvious. I control gravity in all directions at once. I'm the next phase of the Project... you were just a surprisingly-good beta test."
"You say you're so good," you affect a pout, "but you're the one holding a bus full of people hostage!"
"You forced me. I had to stop you from battling and causing more damage. All we want is the armor."
"You're the one who caused damage! I was being careful!"
"A stupid way," Black Osprey sneers. "Buildings will be rebuilt. Cars will be replaced. People will be reborn. Only institutions are fragile. Bad ones must be fought, and good ones, like Justice Unlimited, must be strengthened."
"That's totally backwards! Heroes exist for the sake of everyone, not the other way around!"
"Yet we're the ones helping everyone! We fight the biggest threats, like Monarch. All you do is hunt Behemoths and chase a single serial killer."
"Because Leizi keeps blocking us off!"
"Leizi's the one who can fix everything. She's the city's only hope."
"Now you just sound brainwashed. Did Yar- where is Yara?!"
He smiles. "She refused to take part in this. So did Chatelat. As for Belle Sabreuse, she had to stay in reserve to avoid revealing the trick, right? We let them all choose. Because we're not slavers."
"So all the men are the ones who wanted to hunt us down? Gross."
"Wha-- no, it's not a gender thing!"
"HOLD IT!" Ellie screams from below.
She's pointing her railgun right at Black Osprey's core. He raises the bus threateningly. The passengers scream.
"Scarlet Maturity will be here in two minutes!" she shouts. Then she gestures at Osprey. "And he's here to fight YOU!"
You see the man's eyes widen a bit.
"And when he does," Ellie continues, "you'll have to drop that bus. And then we'll attack you too. Do you think you can fight all three?"
There's the sound of booming leaps, slowly getting closer.
He only takes a second to consider. Then he throws the bus straight up. "CATCH!"
You act on instinct, flying straight up. Need to catch it at the height, otherwise they'll all hit the roof! The bus hangs in the air for an agonizing moment, but you manage to grab it at the right time. You slowly descend and set it down on the ground. The passengers are weeping and thanking you; some are in shock.
Ellie runs to your side. You can see her armor's dented and smoking, and the big eyebrows are broken. But you've never been so happy to see her. You wonder if you should say something, like ask how she is but in a cool way that demonstrates your positive opinion of her skill while still being warm and-
"We need to go empty the apartment and hide!" she says.
Ah, right.
You fly back to the apartment and pack all your goods, then head to Kelso-Allard. Ellie negotiates for advance access to the repair shop in exchange for Nora's notes. You can tell it pains her. It pains you too, all of it.
You do feel a bit better the next day, when Châtelet and Dreamcatcher show up to join you. You decide to hold off on a team name for now, as nobody can think of a good one.
You're in the middle of recording a video for the public when Leizi posts a bland statement announcing the split - not that the rgossip rags weren' already on it - and "wishing the best to our comrades as they go into their own work". What a load of bull! But you don't have any proof of the initial attack, and when Black Osprey is unveiled, he looks different.
But you'll find something. You can blow this thing wide open.
Just they wait.
This did not turn out as fluid as I'd hoped to make it.
I originally planned a full-team fight like in the Captain America movie. But while writing it, I figured there's basically nothing that Leizi, Chatbot and Big Saber can actually *do* against Swan & Gold. So the choice was either a) invent more random weaker heroes that joined Team Valiant Swan, b) severely weaken the Exceed armor, or c) just trim the forces down. I chose the latter. Maybe the teams will fight again in the future, but I don't really feel like writing it, someone else can if they want.
Black Osprey's build was imagined as (after being Spoonfulled to T10)
Seraph 6 + Crimson Soprano 2 + Steadfast 2 + SoldierX 1 + Daggermaw 1 + Millions Minefield 1
which resulted in
[Fundamental Force Manipulation], [Battle Precognition], [Telekinesis], Flight, Regeneration, Invulnerability
In other words, just Black Swan's build, but with Novalight swapped out for Seraph to make space, Daggermaw added for the sister synergies, and Minefield added to get to P13.
"We may have lost Black Swan, but that just makes room... for Black Swan with Ultra Instinct!"
I originally planned a full-team fight like in the Captain America movie. But while writing it, I figured there's basically nothing that Leizi, Chatbot and Big Saber can actually *do* against Swan & Gold. So the choice was either a) invent more random weaker heroes that joined Team Valiant Swan, b) severely weaken the Exceed armor, or c) just trim the forces down. I chose the latter. Maybe the teams will fight again in the future, but I don't really feel like writing it, someone else can if they want.
Black Osprey's build was imagined as (after being Spoonfulled to T10)
Seraph 6 + Crimson Soprano 2 + Steadfast 2 + SoldierX 1 + Daggermaw 1 + Millions Minefield 1
which resulted in
[Fundamental Force Manipulation], [Battle Precognition], [Telekinesis], Flight, Regeneration, Invulnerability
In other words, just Black Swan's build, but with Novalight swapped out for Seraph to make space, Daggermaw added for the sister synergies, and Minefield added to get to P13.
"We may have lost Black Swan, but that just makes room... for Black Swan with Ultra Instinct!"
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SolarGemX
The Crystalized Sun
- Location
- Somewhere in the Cosmos
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- He/Him
- Location
- Pindorama
Pendulum is the most overhated mechanic I've ever seen. It's heyday was "Tier 1 for like 3 weeks" and it's endlessly punished by Konami for the nerve, while the company pretends Extra Link was never a thing. But good luck on your own card-making endeavors.
I deliberately made the archetype with no tuners and a bunch of different levels plus the only controlling 1 of them at a time specifically to mitigate it, plus Beyond actually requires effect monsters and not just Pendulums, plus plus the TCG kind of banned all the good generic Link boss monsters; you have to make do with Unchained Abomination like it's 2019 or something. But if you have something in mind that breaks this I'm all ears.
In the OCG where Electrumite and Apollousa aren't banned this deck is quite a different story, I admit.
This is so, so, good. Just fantastic.
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Part of the issue is that I don't know if my writing is at a quality yet to ask for money, part of the issue is I do t know what rewards to offer aside from commissioning more art.
THIS RULES. And it's not far from how it would go, expect Yara would be 100% working for LL while BS has
+1!
- Location
- Florida
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Oh its far less that they're overly strong or the like. Its more that they're conceptually weird and the main style I've never really been able to understand a lot of the play patterns for. If I was talking hatred purely off being overpowered it would be links any day of the week for being far too generic as a baseline due to one of the later Master Rules.
And thanks!
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- Pindorama
There are Patreons for far worse stories, and you don't actually need to offer anything, sincerely. If you want you can make a private Discord server I suppose, but really, don't worry about it.
daedalus725
Kell of Kells, godking of Planet X
- Location
- Daedalus crater, The moon
So because my nephew got yo Gi oh cards recently I gotta ask did they make the cards smaller
Kermie
Surprisingly Not A Frog
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Maybe a Ko-Fi would work then? I'd be perfectly willing to spare, like, a one time tip of five dollars if it means we get an Ibis+Sarah commission a bit sooner.
Kermie
Surprisingly Not A Frog
- Location
- Somewhere On The Planet
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
Size wise? Nope, still standard trading card size.
Text wise? Each average yugioh card is unfortunately a paragraph or three each right now. I love the card game but man is it hard to introduce people to.
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- Pindorama
Just ask him to download Master Duel so Konami can start draining his blood as well.
ThaTrueRealmWalk
A blob of Galaxy, watching you through the Screen.
- Location
- Inside this TV
... I kinda want to see someone try to play an actual game with these cards, I mean their already on dueling book!
- Location
- Pindorama
These cards are public, so you can just search them on DB and play them yourself. If any of you want to try out the Deck just PM me and we'll make a room.
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So I was looking at the Demon Flamez bit:
Pholgiston, Phlegethon, Hotstep and Sparksurfer are he/him, and Jorogumo is she/her. What's Evard?
Pholgiston, Phlegethon, Hotstep and Sparksurfer are he/him, and Jorogumo is she/her. What's Evard?
This line goes hard fr fr. Handyman do be kind of terrifying. EDIT: I just realized it's giving Green Goblin in No Way Home vibes. I love the omake and the references to the Rock and Command and Conquer had me cracking up. I gotta ask though, which candidate ended up being Black Osprey? Is that Cain?
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Thank you!
Yes, that's why there was C&C (Cain/Kane)