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Wormverse ideas, recs, and fic discussion thread 1

Lancer Fire said:
Has anyone proposed a story where Taylor (or any other character) makes contact with a creator deity and convinces them to make a new mate before Zion goes all GM on them?
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That would be suicide for every iteration of Earth and humanity.

Why would anyone ever want to do such a stupid thing?

GM was the final battle to avoid extinction by whale.

If you want to lie down and die, you don't need any God's help, and you certainly don't need to take the rest of us with you. Most of us would rather take a fighting chance at survival, thanks very much.
 
Here's a question: What if some RB decides to interfere with the Entities' shard shenanigans by causing people to get powers from RB's own verse, creating capes of its own? My thinking being Scion gets info about passengers from shards, and how to counter them (like with Sting). No information prior, no prior knowledge of how to best counter abilities, means enemy can catch Zion off-guard.
And If anyone points to PtV, I'll explain why I believe this can counter PtV in shared PM.
RB: Random Being
 
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Lancer Fire said:
Here's a question: What if some ROB decides to interfere with the Entities' shard shenanigans by causing people to get powers from ROB's own verse, creating capes of its own? My thinking being Scion gets info about passengers from shards, and how to counter them (like with Sting). No information prior, no prior knowledge of how to best counter abilities, means enemy can catch Zion off-guard.
And If anyone points to PtV, I'll explain why I believe this can counter PtV in shared PM.
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Entities are not omnipotent.

If this ROB is omnipotent -- which is what the central O usually means -- then ROB wins.

Omnipotent > not omnipotent.

Math is easy.
 
I have a alt!power for Taylor, she gets a Tinker/Trump power, she starts with very little in the way of tech and she has to 'research' her tech unlike other tinkers (they get stuff put into their heads, Taylor has a tree with descriptions of what that piece of tech does and she has to spend time looking into it). She can make a body/cat suit (think ghost suit from Starcraft) that is about as twice as effective as modern day armor and a few different weapons, some lethal some not, like a rifle that shoots electric bullets. Coming across para-humans gives her either upgrades to things she already has or whole new branches of tech to research and she knows when she comes across other para-humans, Shadowstalker would give Taylor a basic visual cloaking piece of tech and tech that would allow her to phase through stuff but she can only fit one in each suit.

Kid Win would grant Taylor a modular tech tree allowing Taylor to bring along multiple different ability modules that she can swap out so she can use both cloak and phase just not at the same time, Armsmaster would allow her to reduce the size of her tech allowing Taylor to increase the number of modules she can carry and possibly how many she can equip, Dragon would give her the ability to fuse multiple modules together while retaining full functionality with the number depending on multiple factors. Squealer would allow for vehicles and things with Bakuda giving her some exotic explosives, Mannequin gives full environmental regulation from suits to cities and Bonesaw gives cybernetic augmentation. Running into Leet grants Taylor tech that allows her to research things faster but things like that need stuff built into her base of operations, Glory Girl gives Taylor access to basic energy shields.
 
shade argost said:
I have a alt!power for Taylor, she gets a Tinker/Trump power, she starts with very little in the way of tech and she has to 'research' her tech unlike other tinkers (they get stuff put into their heads, Taylor has a tree with descriptions of what that piece of tech does and she has to spend time looking into it). She can make a body/cat suit (think ghost suit from Starcraft) that is about as twice as effective as modern day armor and a few different weapons, some lethal some not, like a rifle that shoots electric bullets. Coming across para-humans gives her either upgrades to things she already has or whole new branches of tech to research and she knows when she comes across other para-humans, Shadowstalker would give Taylor a basic visual cloaking piece of tech and tech that would allow her to phase through stuff but she can only fit one in each suit.

Kid Win would grant Taylor a modular tech tree allowing Taylor to bring along multiple different ability modules that she can swap out so she can use both cloak and phase just not at the same time, Armsmaster would allow her to reduce the size of her tech allowing Taylor to increase the number of modules she can carry and possibly how many she can equip, Dragon would give her the ability to fuse multiple modules together while retaining full functionality with the number depending on multiple factors. Squealer would allow for vehicles and things with Bakuda giving her some exotic explosives, Mannequin gives full environmental regulation from suits to cities and Bonesaw gives cybernetic augmentation. Running into Leet grants Taylor tech that allows her to research things faster but things like that need stuff built into her base of operations, Glory Girl gives Taylor access to basic energy shields.
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I would VERY much like to see this made into prose. Or whatever the proper term is.
 
TheDivineDemon said:
Question:
Would Dragon's power to copy and integrate other Tinker's work be a Tinker power or a Thinker power?
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Hotdog Vendor said:
I'd call it a Thinker power, but it would have a Tinker threat rating.
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I really see no reason not to call this straight tinker. All tinkers seem to get a certain amount of "implausible knowledge" of tech, bounded by either theme or method, and it doesn't seem like Dragon's power works radically differently--she just has a much larger scope than most people.
 
Anyone remember that Netflix original series Sense8? Well, I saw it, and enjoyed it a lot. And it got me to thinking: "What if that happened to someone in the Wormverse?"
So here's my prompt: Taylor (or even an OC) triggers and connects with seven other characters worldwide, each with something unique (one could be a parahuman Thinker with hacking affinity, another a German detective, etc.). While they all start adapting to this, Taylor is the last to clue in, believing her "power" is body-jacking instead. So the other seven are constantly thrown into situations out of their league (fighting capes, joining villains) while learning how to share their abilities together while dodging Cauldron's attention.
 
Lunatic350 said:
Why does Cauldron care?
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One of the eight got mind whammied by the Simurgh, and because Cauldron doesn't understand how the Simurgh's scream actually works they think all eight got mind whammied. Monitoring them was a side project, but the detective got curious about his stalker (a Cauldron customer working off their favor) and learned too much...
 
I could see a superhero only version of Patreon (or just one time donation system) being set up on earth bet far earlier than in real life as it fills a clear niche that superheroes would want. On the legal side we know corporate sponsored heroes and hero groups that are non-profits exist so it shouldn't be a legal problem.

Cauldron might even be the ones who set it up, maybe with some aspect of it to push the users into the protectorates grasp by pointing out how much more they could be making if they went for direct employment by the Protectorate and/or allowing them to subtly fund heroes they like. It seems like something they would do when they don't feel like kicking puppies. It could basically be the heroic branch of Numberman's operations.
 
Ganurath said:
One of the eight got mind whammied by the Simurgh, and because Cauldron doesn't understand how the Simurgh's scream actually works they think all eight got mind whammied. Monitoring them was a side project, but the detective got curious about his stalker (a Cauldron customer working off their favor) and learned too much...
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They don't do that. At all. If they did, Echidna would not have happened.
 
Lunatic350 said:
Why does Cauldron care?
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Cauldron is a Caring Conspiracy.

cyberswordsmen said:
I could see a superhero only version of Patreon (or just one time donation system) being set up on earth bet far earlier than in real life as it fills a clear niche that superheroes would want. On the legal side we know corporate sponsored heroes and hero groups that are non-profits exist so it shouldn't be a legal problem.
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Maybe this is what Richter's "Robin Hood" money-stealing AI does.

It steals money from evil people and splits it up amongst the indie heroes registered on PHOffering.net
 
I still don't get why you guys are so hung up on the donations being some online analogue, when the original team that was being discussed was formed in the 90s
 
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