What makes this comedy of errors on the PRTs part even better/worse is that it can't be much more than an hour after the GG/Oni Lee fight.
Suffer No More (Cultivation, Worm)
- Thread starter Eiri Fllyn
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If I understood correctly, they think she tried to kill Glory Girl... Yeah. Shows how much due diligence they put in, namely none. Can't wait for Victoria to wake up and set the record straight. Last I checked, being scary, even with the aid of a "Parahuman" ability is not a crime. If it were Glory Girl would be racking up counts every time she used her aura on the fear setting.
Jaune Pendragon
King Of Servants
- Location
- Avalon
The only problem I have is that this doesn't update often.
So how much trouble is Dean going to be with Vicky and the PRT once this is done?
Omake: PRT Assessment 1
- Location
- Rotting in port
Just how confused do you think the PRT is right now? 
PRT - threat assessment (preliminary; requires collation, verification, and review)
Creation date: January 27 2011
Latest update: January 27 2011
Name: Nukite (PRT-assigned)
Civilian name: Unknown (suspected relation to case file #01396-2011)
Origin: Brockton Bay (suspected)
Disposition: Villain
Affiliations: ABB
Classifications:
Shaker 5 - Nukite can project a fear aura powerful enough to disable or rout most veteran agents and parahumans. The range of this ability is currently unknown, and is not dependent of line of sight.
Brute 2 - Nukite can jump to and from three story buildings with no ill effects, demonstrating both superhuman strength and resilience against falls.
Mover 4 - analysis of video evidence shows that the subject can accelerate explosively from 0 to 67mph, but it is unknown how long she can maintain this speed. Furthermore, Nukite can jump to and from the rooftop of three story buildings.
Flash update: (Striker 2) Nukite has been seen running along a storefront, (FU: and up the wall of the Brockton General Hospital). It is unknown at this time whether this ability is based on shifting her personal gravity field, adhering to the surface, or other mechanism, or if it also works on ceilings.
Flash update: Striker 4 - the subject can add biokinetic effects to her blows: on the bright side she has used them to stabilize injuries that could otherwise have been lethal on both BBPD agents and an independent parahuman hero (see BBPD case file 021829-11), on the other hand she can probably also disable or even kill her opponents with the ability.
Flash update: (Mover 6) A tentative sub-rating of Mover 6 is being added after Nukite demonstrated the ability to empower her wooden sword to fly, and used it as a hoverboard at speeds in excess of 90mph. This is independent of her primary Mover 4 ability, which she can use even without props.
Flash update: Thinker 5 - Nukite is a skilled martial artist with impossibly fast reflexes, nigh perfect proprioception and spacial awareness both of herself and her opponents bordering on prescience, to the point of dodging irregular gunfire or Dauntless' surprise attack. Any of these alone wouldn't rate more than a level 2 or 3, but all together make facing her in melee a daunting prospect even discounting her ratings as Brute or Mover, or her biokinesis.
General information: This is a preliminary threat assessment pending debriefing of the participants of the action described in BBPD case file 021829-11.
Nukite is a 5'6" female with dark brown or black curly hair tied back into a high topknot with a needle pin crossing it, with the rest flowing past the shoulders; she wears a white mascarade mask leaving only the mouth and chin exposed. Her cape costume is a set of Eastern style martial arts robes, specifically a blue and white open loose robe, with black crossed collar tight robes underneath and a taijitu yin-yang symbol on a waist fitting wrap.
The subject has been recorded repeatedly assaulting incapacitated BBPD officers and the independent hero Glory Girl following their confrontation with Oni Lee, allowing him and some unpowered ABB members to safely get away.
She is suspected to be the victim in case file #01396-2011, but this is currently highly speculative and should wait for the end of that investigation before any attempt to confirm.
Flash update: EMT first responders report that the victims of BBPD case file 021829-11 have received a degree of parahuman healing, possibly preventing some of them from dying from exsanguination, it's possible that Nukite has some biokinetic power.
Flash update: The subject was confronted by PRT forces in the vicinity of the Brockton General Hospital, where she resisted arrest and routed the PRT agents with her fear aura. During the altercation she was recorded shouting, quote, "After everything that was done to me, how can you still talk about justice! As if you people have any right to judge me, you fucking hypocrites!"
Whether this means that she no longer believes in Justice or that she refuses to accept the PRT's mandate remains to be seen.
Flash update: Nukite engaged Dauntless outside the Brockton General Hospital, dodged his attacks, ran up the bulding's external wall, entered through an open window several floors above ground level, and abducted Panacea. Last seen flying off on her own sword due NE while chased by Dauntless.
Countermeasures: Any teams engaging Nukite are advised to start practising morale-boosting repetitive chants and war cries as soon as they receive a call identifying her as an opponent, and keep chanting in unison to combat her fear aura and prevent a rout. (Suggestions: "P-R-T", "You Can't Break Us", "We Can Take You"). The COs should remind the troopers that as long as they don't break, shaking in fear while firing might randomize the projectiles' trajectories enough to spoof Nukite's combat Thinker abilities, actually improving the chances of hitting the target (see below).
{Conflicting reports, requires clarification:
(Flash update: Nukite is reported to have attempted to kill and eat the PRT agents assigned to arrest her, use of brute-rated weapons is recommended for further confrontations.)
(Flash update: Nukite is reported to be carrying a wooden sword and going so far as to give first aid to her opponents; to prevent her from changing from this demonstrated willingness to avoid fatalities the use of lethal weaponry is unadvised.)}
Keep chanting and attack in groups; terrain permitting use shoulder-to-shoulder firing lines to stiffen the troopers' resolve. Containment foam, net throwers and grenade launchers are expected to be individually too slow to hit her unless deployed as massed volley fire, aiming not only at her present position but also all around her, covering every escape route including up.
Avoid melee at all costs; if Nukite is about to reach the line do not hesitate to order the troopers to break ranks or even force her away by dropping foam grenades on your own position before she can harm anyone.
PRT - threat assessment (preliminary; requires collation, verification, and review)
Creation date: January 27 2011
Latest update: January 27 2011
Name: Nukite (PRT-assigned)
Civilian name: Unknown (suspected relation to case file #01396-2011)
Origin: Brockton Bay (suspected)
Disposition: Villain
Affiliations: ABB
Classifications:
Shaker 5 - Nukite can project a fear aura powerful enough to disable or rout most veteran agents and parahumans. The range of this ability is currently unknown, and is not dependent of line of sight.
Brute 2 - Nukite can jump to and from three story buildings with no ill effects, demonstrating both superhuman strength and resilience against falls.
Mover 4 - analysis of video evidence shows that the subject can accelerate explosively from 0 to 67mph, but it is unknown how long she can maintain this speed. Furthermore, Nukite can jump to and from the rooftop of three story buildings.
Flash update: (Striker 2) Nukite has been seen running along a storefront, (FU: and up the wall of the Brockton General Hospital). It is unknown at this time whether this ability is based on shifting her personal gravity field, adhering to the surface, or other mechanism, or if it also works on ceilings.
Flash update: Striker 4 - the subject can add biokinetic effects to her blows: on the bright side she has used them to stabilize injuries that could otherwise have been lethal on both BBPD agents and an independent parahuman hero (see BBPD case file 021829-11), on the other hand she can probably also disable or even kill her opponents with the ability.
Flash update: (Mover 6) A tentative sub-rating of Mover 6 is being added after Nukite demonstrated the ability to empower her wooden sword to fly, and used it as a hoverboard at speeds in excess of 90mph. This is independent of her primary Mover 4 ability, which she can use even without props.
Flash update: Thinker 5 - Nukite is a skilled martial artist with impossibly fast reflexes, nigh perfect proprioception and spacial awareness both of herself and her opponents bordering on prescience, to the point of dodging irregular gunfire or Dauntless' surprise attack. Any of these alone wouldn't rate more than a level 2 or 3, but all together make facing her in melee a daunting prospect even discounting her ratings as Brute or Mover, or her biokinesis.
General information: This is a preliminary threat assessment pending debriefing of the participants of the action described in BBPD case file 021829-11.
Nukite is a 5'6" female with dark brown or black curly hair tied back into a high topknot with a needle pin crossing it, with the rest flowing past the shoulders; she wears a white mascarade mask leaving only the mouth and chin exposed. Her cape costume is a set of Eastern style martial arts robes, specifically a blue and white open loose robe, with black crossed collar tight robes underneath and a taijitu yin-yang symbol on a waist fitting wrap.
The subject has been recorded repeatedly assaulting incapacitated BBPD officers and the independent hero Glory Girl following their confrontation with Oni Lee, allowing him and some unpowered ABB members to safely get away.
She is suspected to be the victim in case file #01396-2011, but this is currently highly speculative and should wait for the end of that investigation before any attempt to confirm.
Flash update: EMT first responders report that the victims of BBPD case file 021829-11 have received a degree of parahuman healing, possibly preventing some of them from dying from exsanguination, it's possible that Nukite has some biokinetic power.
Flash update: The subject was confronted by PRT forces in the vicinity of the Brockton General Hospital, where she resisted arrest and routed the PRT agents with her fear aura. During the altercation she was recorded shouting, quote, "After everything that was done to me, how can you still talk about justice! As if you people have any right to judge me, you fucking hypocrites!"
Whether this means that she no longer believes in Justice or that she refuses to accept the PRT's mandate remains to be seen.
Flash update: Nukite engaged Dauntless outside the Brockton General Hospital, dodged his attacks, ran up the bulding's external wall, entered through an open window several floors above ground level, and abducted Panacea. Last seen flying off on her own sword due NE while chased by Dauntless.
Countermeasures: Any teams engaging Nukite are advised to start practising morale-boosting repetitive chants and war cries as soon as they receive a call identifying her as an opponent, and keep chanting in unison to combat her fear aura and prevent a rout. (Suggestions: "P-R-T", "You Can't Break Us", "We Can Take You"). The COs should remind the troopers that as long as they don't break, shaking in fear while firing might randomize the projectiles' trajectories enough to spoof Nukite's combat Thinker abilities, actually improving the chances of hitting the target (see below).
{Conflicting reports, requires clarification:
(Flash update: Nukite is reported to have attempted to kill and eat the PRT agents assigned to arrest her, use of brute-rated weapons is recommended for further confrontations.)
(Flash update: Nukite is reported to be carrying a wooden sword and going so far as to give first aid to her opponents; to prevent her from changing from this demonstrated willingness to avoid fatalities the use of lethal weaponry is unadvised.)}
Keep chanting and attack in groups; terrain permitting use shoulder-to-shoulder firing lines to stiffen the troopers' resolve. Containment foam, net throwers and grenade launchers are expected to be individually too slow to hit her unless deployed as massed volley fire, aiming not only at her present position but also all around her, covering every escape route including up.
Avoid melee at all costs; if Nukite is about to reach the line do not hesitate to order the troopers to break ranks or even force her away by dropping foam grenades on your own position before she can harm anyone.
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Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
- Location
- The Land of Fire and Poison
Basically the PRT jumped to the conclusion that 'Nukite' was ABB and thus a Villain, which then biased all further opinions towards assuming the worst. Glory Girl is still unconscious and unable to set the record straight, and the people who got Killing Intent'd are gibbering messes who were literally almost scared to death so they're no help either. The PRT are panicking a bit and trying to get ahead of whatever disaster 'Nukite' is building towards; which they now believe involves 'kidnapping' Panacea, an action that is itself a massive escalation as Panacea is supposed to be Off Limits.
So the PRT troopers are shitting themselves because of Killing Intent, Dauntless is shitting himself because 'Nukite' is holding Literally The Most Important Person In The Entire City 'hostage', the PRT higher ups are shitting themselves because the ABB have a new cape out of fucking nowhere who has apparently decided to declare war on anything that gets in her way and damn the rules, unwritten or otherwise.
This is what we in the business call an industrial grade SNAFU, aka a total shitstorm, one that is most likely going to get a lot worse before it has a chance to get better. Everything the PRT see of 'Nukite' is just going to frighten them further, because even if she doesn't actually kill anyone people like Piggot and Armsmaster with his fancy data analysis will be able to recognize the nature of 'Nukite's movements; that she is a very experienced combatant who is choosing not to kill right now, but could choose otherwise at any moment.
Which means she's not a new cape, she's some kind of ABB secret weapon that has been either imported from elsewhere (unlikely, given that a cape of 'Nukite's demonstrated abilities would be noticed pretty much anywhere), or she's been kept hidden away for years, training in what were probably underground death matches and indoctrinated to serve Lung.
In short, 'Nukite' is going to look exactly like Oni Lee 2 Electric Boogaloo; a relentless, overpowered psychopath beholden only to Lung. One weaponized subordinate apparently wasn't enough for him, now there are two of them.
Cue the entire PRT and Protectorate running around with their hands in the air and screaming in horror, as Piggot flips tables so hard that her usual desk gives the Simurgh a few moments of confusion when she detects it passing nearby in low orbit.
So the PRT troopers are shitting themselves because of Killing Intent, Dauntless is shitting himself because 'Nukite' is holding Literally The Most Important Person In The Entire City 'hostage', the PRT higher ups are shitting themselves because the ABB have a new cape out of fucking nowhere who has apparently decided to declare war on anything that gets in her way and damn the rules, unwritten or otherwise.
This is what we in the business call an industrial grade SNAFU, aka a total shitstorm, one that is most likely going to get a lot worse before it has a chance to get better. Everything the PRT see of 'Nukite' is just going to frighten them further, because even if she doesn't actually kill anyone people like Piggot and Armsmaster with his fancy data analysis will be able to recognize the nature of 'Nukite's movements; that she is a very experienced combatant who is choosing not to kill right now, but could choose otherwise at any moment.
Which means she's not a new cape, she's some kind of ABB secret weapon that has been either imported from elsewhere (unlikely, given that a cape of 'Nukite's demonstrated abilities would be noticed pretty much anywhere), or she's been kept hidden away for years, training in what were probably underground death matches and indoctrinated to serve Lung.
In short, 'Nukite' is going to look exactly like Oni Lee 2 Electric Boogaloo; a relentless, overpowered psychopath beholden only to Lung. One weaponized subordinate apparently wasn't enough for him, now there are two of them.
Cue the entire PRT and Protectorate running around with their hands in the air and screaming in horror, as Piggot flips tables so hard that her usual desk gives the Simurgh a few moments of confusion when she detects it passing nearby in low orbit.
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zhuull
SB still lying to protect Racists what else is new
You're forgetting that Taylor's healing attempts are qi-embued strikes with her hands, so to the uniformed it looks like she's going around smacking the downed cops and then whaling on poor Vicki with over 100 hits since her forcefield complicated matters.fired a warning shot/bullet [and maybe describe how much it missed by/where it went].
considering Taylor's excessive response? It still sounds a bit odd even with that, and I'm not sure why.
That sounds right about par for the course. I do have to reread a few chapters to figure out what exactly they are after her for, though...
call the PRT
Okay, so the previous chapter did explain it. Wow, how narcissistic do they have to be to figure she was involved? I have to imagine there would be a ton of witnesses, unless they all figured that crapping their pants was an attack on them...
It does seem like very flimsy reasoning on their part, though. I'll be interested to see if or how this gets resolved. I can't imagine "kidnapping" Panacea helps...
Not quite on the level of a Healing Shiv, but Taylor's Comforting Slap leaves bystanders confused.
One of the few types of genre crossover that would actually lower the general competance of the PRT is with Xianxia.
Cultivation opposes heaven, and Xianxia Protagonists usually end up opposing everything - to the point of reality seeming to warp to help them establish new grudges like particularly ornery Warhammer Dwarves. It's a traditional part of the genre, since vengeance is a particularly self-destructive part of the "heroic honour code" in wuxia.
Admittedly Way of Choices is lot better than most when it comes doing this well.
Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
- Location
- The Land of Fire and Poison
They'd be finger pokes rather than slaps actually, but yes, it does basically look like she is attacking the fallen.You're forgetting that Taylor's healing attempts are qi-embued strikes with her hands, so to the uniformed it looks like she's going around smacking the downed cops and then whaling on poor Vicki with over 100 hits since her forcefield complicated matters.
Not quite on the level of a Healing Shiv, but Taylor's Comforting Slap leaves bystanders confused.
Xianxia characters also have a habit of escalating everything forever until they are dead, and often then it just turns out they were a catspaw for someone higher up the chain and the escalation continues even after death.
So it's no surprise that Taylor smoothly slotted into the 'protagonist' space when she ended up in a Xianxia setting.
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- Location
- Earth, Sol System, Virgo Supercluster, Earth-1218
Xianxia in a nutshell:
"X has offended me, I will punch him out."
"Don't punch out X, he's protected by Y who's much stronger than you"
"Fine, I will train until I can punch out Y too!"
*punches out X, and Y*
"Oh no, you've offended Z, who was allies with Y, he's even stronger!"
*Gets ass handed to them by Z*
*repeat*
...wait, where have I heard this...
Goddamn it Dragonball! YOU WERE ONE OF THE FIRST XIANXIA ALL ALONG?
Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
- Location
- The Land of Fire and Poison
The primary power source used by most of the characters is even Qi, with Literal Magic and Soul Shenanigans also showing up here and there as uncommon-but-powerful techniques usually unique to specific individuals or clans.
So, yes actually. Dragonball is in fact basically a Xianxia story.
Hell, there are even plotlines about defying the gods of the setting and punching them out. Several characters get dead and go to the afterlife before returning More Powerful Than Ever Before.
Man I didn't think of it before but Dragonball really is a Xianxia story in everything but name.
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- Location
- Israel
Notably, xianxia is what happens when you combine Journey to the West and Water Margin while butchering all their deeper themes as hard as possible. Goku is based on Sun Wukong, the secondary protagonist of JttW, so DBZ is both a xianxia itself and based on the proto-xianxia story.
Lier's 1st image is pretty close to Taylor's outfit.
some more lier pics
- Location
- Rotting in port
Lung... says he is a dragon. A divine beast.
Taylor is the reincarnation of De Luo, a cultivator.
I wonder how long it'll be before she goes out hunting down Lung for Dragon Heart Strings and liver, and maybe a tusk from which to forge a new sword...
Also, remembering what those guys in her previous life intended to do to cultivate themselves on her Perfect Yin body, she might consider going Lustrum on his crotch even worse than in canon, to use it as ingredients to make someLung Yang Dao Dai Dao pills.
Or, not as much fun, but certainly the more mod-friendly option, she might forgo the genital mutilation - not out of any morality (she is a xianxia MC), but because death is actually not the definitive cure for all ails (or indeed even a very effective therapy), so the previous trauma carried over squicking her out of the thoughts of touching some guy's junk, maybe out of sex altogether.
Optionally she could go all out in the best chuuni xianxia fashion and start harvesting Lung: insult him to his face* so hard that he turns purple and literally coughs the liver out; punch him in the mouth to pop a fang out; lope off an arm for meat, scales, claws, and some dragon blood; finally grab the loot and bail out while he's still foaming at the mouth, leaving him to regenerate for the next time.
Assuming that he, and Brockton Bay, survives the subsequent rampage, that is.
* I'm partial to Miko!Taylor's "what waterfall did you climb", I can't think of anything more pertinently insulting to Lung.
Taylor is the reincarnation of De Luo, a cultivator.
I wonder how long it'll be before she goes out hunting down Lung for Dragon Heart Strings and liver, and maybe a tusk from which to forge a new sword...
Also, remembering what those guys in her previous life intended to do to cultivate themselves on her Perfect Yin body, she might consider going Lustrum on his crotch even worse than in canon, to use it as ingredients to make some
Or, not as much fun, but certainly the more mod-friendly option, she might forgo the genital mutilation - not out of any morality (she is a xianxia MC), but because death is actually not the definitive cure for all ails (or indeed even a very effective therapy), so the previous trauma carried over squicking her out of the thoughts of touching some guy's junk, maybe out of sex altogether.
Optionally she could go all out in the best chuuni xianxia fashion and start harvesting Lung: insult him to his face* so hard that he turns purple and literally coughs the liver out; punch him in the mouth to pop a fang out; lope off an arm for meat, scales, claws, and some dragon blood; finally grab the loot and bail out while he's still foaming at the mouth, leaving him to regenerate for the next time.
Assuming that he, and Brockton Bay, survives the subsequent rampage, that is.
* I'm partial to Miko!Taylor's "what waterfall did you climb", I can't think of anything more pertinently insulting to Lung.
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Neruz
Rogue Spiderbanana
- Location
- The Land of Fire and Poison
Problem is that Lung-bits probably only have the necessary mystical 'Dragon-ness' when he's fully transformed, which is rather a lot more powerful than Taylor can safely handle right now.
On the bright side, regeneration means that when Taylor is strong enough to go dragon hunting she can farm him for materials, being careful to only harvest a certain percentage of available resources for a sustainable source of treasures.
- Location
- Not here. Maybe on SB.
I just started, but have one one thing I need to point at:
Panacea's power can tell her "Hey, that thing here is Corona Pollenia", yes. But "that thing here" often will have very little resemblance with any other Corona Pollenia.
Not like that bit really matter for the purpose of that story. But that's common mistake, and might be important later, or in the another story.
They all have unisual features in their brains, but those features often don't have any similarities.
Panacea's power can tell her "Hey, that thing here is Corona Pollenia", yes. But "that thing here" often will have very little resemblance with any other Corona Pollenia.
Not like that bit really matter for the purpose of that story. But that's common mistake, and might be important later, or in the another story.
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- Location
- Washington, USA
By definition of the words, none of what they said was wrong.
If all parahumans have a Corona, then it is common among parahumans.
If all Coronas are in the brain, then it is a brain feature.
Ergo: Common brain feature.
I was under the impression that which part of the brain the Corona is in is different for every Parahuman, along with the Corona's shape being different as well.
- Location
- Washington, USA
Well, yeah, but not all waterfalls look alike, but they're seen often enough to be a 'common water feature'.
- Pronouns
- Yes
Not just which part of the brain but even weather or not it's in the brain, as opposed to elsewhere in the body, is variable.