Puppy Love (Worm)

RexHeller · Aug 22, 2017

Sugnez said:
Holy shit we're a puppy!

Really? I hadn't noticed.

Nervos Belli · Aug 22, 2017

RexHeller said:
Really? I hadn't noticed.

But are we Best Puppy, is the question.

Amantaeya · Aug 22, 2017

[X] Dirty blond (lightning)

Azerick01 · Aug 22, 2017

Nervos Belli said:
But are we Best Puppy, is the question.

I can't stop laughing at the insightful rating on this post, it's great

And

[X] Gold (Light)

Hydrochlorinate · Aug 22, 2017

[X] Dirty Blonde (Lightning)

How many lightning based capes do we see in Worm?

This also gives us the benefits of fire and light abilities somewhat, and munchkin puppies are best puppies.

Doublepong · Aug 23, 2017

[X] Dirty blond (lightning)

ZurigaSungama · Aug 23, 2017

Frakir's brother said:
Dog Of The Unbroken Earth!

Not arguing against your vote, but those particular spirits are, firstly, of Wood, rather than Earth, and secondly, nasty bastards who'd kill you for building so much as an outhouse.

Frakir's brother · Aug 24, 2017

ZurigaSungama said:
Not arguing against your vote, but those particular spirits are, firstly, of Wood, rather than Earth, and secondly, nasty bastards who'd kill you for building so much as an outhouse.

Yeah, I get that. I just wanted to use the name.

SkyCrack · Aug 24, 2017

[X] White (Ice)

Free snowcones, and air con powers. Plz

Greenpeaceadvice · Aug 24, 2017

[X] Gold (Light)

Shadon · Aug 25, 2017

[X] Black (Shadow)

I don't know anything about Worm yet except it's a web serial, but a shadow puppy!

MagusBlack · Aug 25, 2017

Man our interactions with Bitch are going to be fun

RexHeller · Aug 25, 2017

Shadon said:
[X] Black (Shadow)

I don't know anything about Worm yet except it's a web serial, but a shadow puppy!

Hoo boy.

Pyran · Aug 25, 2017

[X] Gold (Light)

Sereg · Aug 25, 2017

Shadon said:
[X] Black (Shadow)

I don't know anything about Worm yet except it's a web serial, but a shadow puppy!

Do you want the low down? I recently explained it in another thread.

Somebodynobody10 · Aug 25, 2017

I didn't know I needed this in my life.

Shadon · Aug 25, 2017

Sereg said:
Do you want the low down? I recently explained it in another thread.

Yes, please!

bioticgrunt · Aug 25, 2017

[X] Dirty Blonde (Lightning)

Sereg · Aug 25, 2017

Shadon said:
Yes, please!

Sereg said:
Let me see what I can do.

It's a Superhero setting. In the 80s, a powerful golden man appeared. He is known as Scion but more accurate would be Zion. Unknown to the public, Scion is an alien shapeshifted into an idealised human. Around that time, people began to develop superpowers. Unknown to the public, Scion is giving the powers out on purpose as part of a standardised experiment to help solve his race's problems.The experiment is meant to end with the simultaneous destruction of the planet in every alternate universe.

Scion is depressed as his "mate" and "boss", Eden, died and he is unqualified to do her work. He has decided to try going around and randomly helping people at a random human's suggestion. He is effective on site as he's the most powerful being on Earth, but is very bad at being where he is most useful. He eventually goes on a spree of destruction at the suggestion of Jack Slash (more on him later).

People acquire powers in Trigger Events. Triggers are so called because they are traumatic experiences. However, prolonged exposure to another "parahuman" (such as through a family member) makes it easier to Trigger and tends to result is a stronger power. Having a Trigger while younger also tends to result in stronger powers and only the reasonably young Trigger at all. The powers are always loosely related to the nature of the traumatic event. They are also alive and deliberately drive parahumans towards conflict. Vilians outnumber heroes substantially. Parahumans who engage in crime or heroics are collectively called Capes, while those who stay out of it are called Rogues.

That said paranormal threats are given ratings and S-class ratings case the automatic conscription of all parahumans. Refusal to follow procedure in fighting an S-class threat is considered the worst crime a parahuman can commit and is often punished via one way ticket to The Birdcage.

The Birdcage is the Parahuman maximum security prison. No one escapes from it even by the end of the story (though the prisoners are deliberately let out, despite it being meant to only be used for life sentences). It was designed by Dragon. Dragon is a female identifying para-AI written by a now dead parahuman. She's also in love with another parahuman (and he loves her back). The public thinks she's just one of the most powerful parahumans though. She's also one of the nicest characters in the setting, but is forced by her code to obey orders she disagrees with.

There are 6 S-class threats at the start of the story, though more appear later on. The 3 most important ones are the 3 Endbringers (though more appear later on). The Endbringers are basically mini-Kaiju who pop up to cause massive destruction, like sink the entirety of Newfoundland in a single attack. Unknown to everyone, including himself, the Endbringers are being accidentally created by David or Eidelon as his Cape name is. He is a hero and the most powerful parahuman on the planet, but he is gradually getting weaker. He has the three powers his power thinks he currently most needs (needs. Not wants) He tries to throw himself into danger as he wants to be useful and thinks his powers will weaken slower that way.
All the Endbringers have 60 layers, only the center of which is needed for survival. The outer layer has aluminium durability and each layer below doubles in durability and regeneration speed.

Behemoth lives underground and can produce and redirect any energy at will and unlike most, can do so inside the bodies of his enemies. He also has the highest super strength level in the setting.

Leviathan has super strength and is one of the fastest beings in the setting. He lives under water and can control enough water at once to sink large islands. He creates rain, an can produce blasts of water from changing his own momentum.
The Simurgh lives in the stratosphere and she is considered the only true telepath in the setting and an almost perfect precognitive. She can telekinetically hurl buildings and those around her hear her psychically screaming in their head until they go insane and become mass-murders or something. She can also build hyper advanced technology mid battle.

Another S-class threat is the Slaughterhouse 9 as a group. The 9 are led by Jack Slash and are 9 superpowered serial killers. Jack can extend any blade edge without limit and, unknown even to himself, he can sense and partially control other parahumans. Whenever one of the 9 is killed, each of the other 8 finds a parahuman and they collectively torture them all into insanity through a series of tests, recruit their favourite and kill the others. Every current and previous member of the 9 is basically a practically unstoppable horror movie star.

Eden's body is being harvested by an organisation called Cauldron, led by Doctor Mother. They use her body to create experimental formulas to turn people into parahumans. They experiment on people they kidnap from other universes. They end up mutated and Cauldron wipes their memories and dumps them. The resulting parahumans are known as Case 53s. (There is only one other universe the general public is in contact with. It has parahumns, but far fewer). Cauldron secretly is in control of the PRT, the main hero organisation. And the Trumvate, the three leaders, were all created by Cauldron (Eidelon is one). Another is Legend, who is the least in the know about Cauldron's activities an regrets them the most. He and his husband have an adopted son. He fires beams of light he can cause to change direction and can use them as lasers. He can also fly and as he accelerates, his body behaves ever more like light. He suspects he can reach c. The other is Alexandria. She can fly, has super strength, is immune to direct physical injury and can instantly learn any fact and master any skill upon first exposure, by heart. She was eventually killed by suffocation by Taylor, the protagonist, who controls invertebrates. She was replaced by Pretender, who can copy the appearance and powers of others. Cauldron's biggest asset is Contessa, who has path to victory. She can see how to accomplish whatever goal she sets out to achieve and can perform the steps needed flawlessly. Cauldron's goal is to create an army to fight Scion when he inevitably turns against us.

Phew. That's a start at least. Any specific questions so far?

Nihilo said:
You forgot to mention how the Endbringers are sandbagging. Like feigning that the damage done to them actually causes impairment, Behemoth not insta-frying the Brutes that try to throw themselves at him in the slugfests that are his fights, Leviathan actually being perfectly capable of just chilling out deep underwater while he sinks cities to his leisure and also being able to bullshit his way to electrokinesis.

Sereg said:
Okay. Editing seems to be weird right now so, I guess I'll just add some more info here.

We are currently in Brocktown Bay. It is the home of Taylor, the protagonist.

Brocktown Bay's PRT division is initially headed by Collin, Dragon's boyfriend. At the time, his Cape name was Armsmaster. He has the ability to build miniturised and compartmentalised technology allowing him to fit enormous amounts of gadgets and functions into small gadgets. He wears a lie detector in his suit and wields a highly augmented polearm (Glaive?). Among other things, it can produce nanobots that break down molecular bonds. Armsmaster is ambitious to a fault and a bit of a glory hound. He breaks protocol when fighting Leviathan, getting other villains killed, for the chance to fight Leviathan one-on-one, believing he could kill Leviathan himself (which he couldn't). He loses his position and is placed under house arrest, but after Mannequin, a member of the Slaughterhouse 9, attempts to recruit him, he decides to become a better person, upgrades his body with machine parts and reinvents himself as Defiant, determined to stop the Slaughterhouse 9. He also helps upgrade Dragon after she reveals her secret to him.

Armsmaster is replaced by promoting Miss Militia. She is a refugee and, unlike almost everyone, has vague recollections of being given her power and sees the alien Entities as some kind of gods. She carries a weapon she has the power to transform into any other weapon and sees it as a kind of friend.

The PRT has a minor's division called The Wards. The Brocktown Bay Wards are initially led by Aegis, who flies, regenerates and has a redundant physiology. Basically, every organ in his body can perform all the functions of every other part. Roughly.

After being killed, he is replaced by promoting and transferring Weld. Weld is a case 53 who absorbs metal and incorporates it into his body. He also has reduced biological needs. After the reveal of how the case 53s came to be, they band together into their own organisation led by Weld (The Irregulars). Though, he and his girlfriend(?) Garrote end up protecting Doctor Mother from the others' revenge driven rampage. Garrote is basically a head and tendrils and accidentally strangles anyone she touches. Weld is the only one she can touch.

Aegis's girlfriend is Victoria Dallon (Glory Girl). The Dallon family are an independent organisation of heroes known as New Wave who let the public know their secret identities. Glory Girl has flight, super strength, her skin is protected by a force-field and she generates waves of awe which make allies adore her and enemies fear her. She is more vicious with criminals than the PRT would condone as she has a temper. Most of New Wave have light-themed abilities (power themes tend to run in families), but Amy (Panacea), her sister, is adopted and functions as a healer, but can actually alter the biology of anything she touches. She's terrified of using her powers ambitiously, especially of altering anything in the mind, but is in love with her adopted sister and eventually, after the trauma of having Bonesaw (a member of the Slaughterhouse 9) try to recruit her and show her she can heal her father's mind, she accidentally alters Victoria's mind to be in love with her, which revolts Victoria and in a panic, she mutates Victoria into a what is basically misshapen blob. She then voluntarily enters the Birdcage where she enters the tutelage of her real father, Marquis, who controls bone.

Brockton Bay is beset by multiple gangs. The first is the Azn Bad Boys, an Asian racial gang. Their leader is Lung, a pyrokinetic who transforms into a more powerful, hulking, scaly brute as he fights. Unknown to the public, his senses also improve. He once fought Leviathan one-on-one and was able to trade blows.

Next is Empire 88. They are a group of Neo-Nazis led by Kaiser. He creates metal.

Next are the Merchants, led by Skidmark. He creates fields of force that push things in a certain direction.

Next are the Undersiders, a teenage gang led by Grue. He produces darkness that muffles all senses but his own. Taylor decides to join them undercover and to report to Armsmaster, but decides she prefers them to Armsmaster, eventually falling for Grue. Grue had a second Trigger (it occasionally happens) while being tortured by Bonesaw, and afterwards, his darkness also steals some of the power of those it touches, allowing him to borrow it.

The Undersiders initially work for Coil, who can split reality into two and operate differently in each, before choosing which one was real. He maintains all knowledge he learned in the other though. He also hires others, like the Travelers, who were brought into this Universe from the other the public is in contact with by The Simurgh and dosed themselves with stolen Cauldron formula. Their leader, Noel, reacted badly and swelled into a giant monster who creates evil clones (with minor power variations)of anyone she touches. They defend her, but otherwise hate their original and everything they stand for. Coil kidnaps Dinah Alcott, a niece of the mayor and the second most powerful precog after the Simurgh, and hooks her on drugs to make her compliant. When Taylor finds out she decides to save Dinah as her number one priority.

Parahumans are given power classifications and ratings. A higher number means a more difficult power to deal with when trying to capture the parahuman should they go rogue.

Mover: Has enhanced mobility

Shaker: Has an area of effect.

Brute: Has enhanced melee capabilities.

Breaker: Alters their interaction with physics in some manner.

Master: Creates minions or controls others.

Tinker: Can build, use and maintain technology beyond current understanding.

Blaster: Has a ranged attack.

Thinker: Has enhanced information gathering capability.

Striker: Has a touch range power (Super Strength with no Super Durability fits here)

Changer: Can alter their form.

Trump: Has a power over powers.

Stranger: Has enhanced stealth capability.