Wormverse ideas, recs, and fic discussion thread 1

Really like your idea, hakunoX.

I understand that he's something of a controversial writer, but who here has read Garth Ennis' Hitman?
 
Allow me to share an under explored concept I posted over at SB
I got an interesting one that no-one has done yet. What if Professor Haywire's teleporter device connected to My Hero Academia!Earth instead of the canonical Earth Aleph? Or something else among those lines. I'm thinking a first contact story of sorts where heroes from both interact with each and technology trades between both words actually happen, which further brings some more interesting ideas such as a Hero School being established in the bay or the extra amount of heroes in MHA!Earth somehow leading to a reduction in crime on Earth!Bet. You know, things like that.
 
It does manifest as a form of Technopathy, though Taylor's version of it is as I said rather pumped on Shard Power making it much more.

Since I don't like leading people on, I'll admit that it is an INCREDIBLY rare mutation known as a Discordant. Discordants are, normally, the equivalent to Blanks but against Technology. A powerful Discordant can outright kill the Machine Spirits of just about anything. Entire Manufactorums have been shutdown because of them. The really powerful ones are especially dangerous to the Mechanicus. A Mechanicus Assassin went after a Discordant once, and just exploded when they got too close to the Discordant.
Makes one wonder if the CSM Lord Discordant is a reference to this or even outright a Discordant (and demon-infused technology is enhanced by their abilities)
 
Makes one wonder if the CSM Lord Discordant is a reference to this or even outright a Discordant (and demon-infused technology is enhanced by their abilities)

I highly doubt it. The source material for the Discordant I'm using for AU Taylor is the old Dark Heresy RPG stuff, and was a very niche thing of sorts. For the sake of story, I've been expanding on it a bit to make it more workable because it was very much a sort of one-off concept that was not expanded on later. Like making Discordants like a lower-level blank in how they appear to Psykers, with very low presence in the warp and such. Mechanically, since the source of their power was never explained, I'm making Discordants a sort of Warp-Adjacent mutation. Not Psykers, but there is something they are doing that someone, somewhere, who is way smarter then anyone currently in the Imperium can probably figure out.
 
Hello everyone! I just got a interesting idea i felt nobody else has thinked about it!



Is about a Darker and Grimmer WORM:



In the years 1998 the "super hero" Scion was killed by the triumvirate; after the death of the "hero of humanity" the laws against Parahumans get even worse,going so far as giving a "new trigger" who don't join the goberment sended to prisions with inhuman sentences or the birdcage for misgivings , and in order to destroy any chance of second gen Triggers the families are send to the prisions with them, soon, at the Year 2005 the numbers of Immates of the Birdcage is over 20000, a third of them are children, and a half of them, had born in prision.



In the Year 2007, Taylor hebert and Emma barnes became immersed in a fight between the government "Hero" Alectro (OC) and the "villain" Chariot (he just broke a window by accident) when The "Hero" kills "accidentally" 20 people, Taylor, seeing one of the "hero" Lighting going to Emma push her away and Triggers with a Powerfull Trump/Breaker ability(the ability to copy the powers of Parahumans and transform then into Breaker/Changer powers), in the confusion, Chariot manage to run away and Taylor is punished for "murders" and the escape, and became the inmate 10569 of the Barahum Containment unit (the birdcage).



The story divides in 2 after that: the part of Taylor in the Birdcage (who would be a "civilization in the prision") who is taken by Gastling Uaine block (every "big" villain has a personal block where the Parahumans who they chose became their "citizens" and follow their "rules", a few examples I think a few would be would be:



  • Lustrum block (the amazon zone, principal rules: only womens, girls and Surgeon (Bonesaw would be taken to the BC before Jack had managed to conscript her) Transgender illuminated).
  • the Marquis block(I will put than both he and the BB brigade are the leaders here (Carol is not with them but the rest (including Vicky) decided than better evil know than tentative good Unknown ); name "the Brockton Zone; P.rules: no drugs or damage to children (this acts as "the nanny zone" for the recent birth ones), no rape and Zero racism)
  • the Rightfull Block (Carol and a few of the "we don't want to be with Villians) (P.rules: 0 villians or Villian friends)
  • the Dragon zone (I think this is obvious)(P.Rules: only Asians, woman serve mens)
  • the "Nazi" Zone (Allfather and Kaiser(Iron rain and Purity will escape from here to Lustrum zone)) also called "the ubermench zone" (P.rules: only "Aryan" lesser races are treated like slaves; no Gays or lesbians, you can't leave once here)
  • the Dinner (directed only by dragon, the ultimate neutral zone, where the things from outside are brough) (from here comes the Inmates)
  • and the Fairy garden (only the persons chosen by the Fairy Queen )the safest and Luxiorious zone, here comes all the Trumps Thinkers and Tinkers, the resistance zone and Taylor "home" (P.rules: you have to talk with your "Fairy" (one of the trumps there allow the shard and the person to talk and "grow" becoming more Human-like) once at day, you will follow cortesy rules and they will always treat the others as family (referring them as "brother, sister, aunt, uncle, father or mother).
Taylor here will accustom to the life in "hell" and after a few chapter, she will plan the escape and destruction of the Prision.



The second character (I fell it should be written In 2 perspectives) would be Emma Barnes who deals with the lost of her "sister" (and the implicit death of Taylor parents) and trigger with the power set of "Garou" of "one punch man", now with the help of a breaker vigilante (Sophia Hess) a rune-away Tinker (Madison clements) a pair of Child of Heartbreaker (Alec and Cherish) and a motor boat thinker, she will change the "hero" system by killing all the corruption and showing them the true monsters to the world.
I am pretty sure this already exists. Or at least, something like it. I can't find it though.
 
Hello everyone! I just got a interesting idea i felt nobody else has thinked about it!



Is about a Darker and Grimmer WORM:



In the years 1998 the "super hero" Scion was killed by the triumvirate; after the death of the "hero of humanity" the laws against Parahumans get even worse,going so far as giving a "new trigger" who don't join the goberment sended to prisions with inhuman sentences or the birdcage for misgivings , and in order to destroy any chance of second gen Triggers the families are send to the prisions with them, soon, at the Year 2005 the numbers of Immates of the Birdcage is over 20000, a third of them are children, and a half of them, had born in prision.



In the Year 2007, Taylor hebert and Emma barnes became immersed in a fight between the government "Hero" Alectro (OC) and the "villain" Chariot (he just broke a window by accident) when The "Hero" kills "accidentally" 20 people, Taylor, seeing one of the "hero" Lighting going to Emma push her away and Triggers with a Powerfull Trump/Breaker ability(the ability to copy the powers of Parahumans and transform then into Breaker/Changer powers), in the confusion, Chariot manage to run away and Taylor is punished for "murders" and the escape, and became the inmate 10569 of the Barahum Containment unit (the birdcage).



The story divides in 2 after that: the part of Taylor in the Birdcage (who would be a "civilization in the prision") who is taken by Gastling Uaine block (every "big" villain has a personal block where the Parahumans who they chose became their "citizens" and follow their "rules", a few examples I think a few would be would be:



  • Lustrum block (the amazon zone, principal rules: only womens, girls and Surgeon (Bonesaw would be taken to the BC before Jack had managed to conscript her) Transgender illuminated).
  • the Marquis block(I will put than both he and the BB brigade are the leaders here (Carol is not with them but the rest (including Vicky) decided than better evil know than tentative good Unknown ); name "the Brockton Zone; P.rules: no drugs or damage to children (this acts as "the nanny zone" for the recent birth ones), no rape and Zero racism)
  • the Rightfull Block (Carol and a few of the "we don't want to be with Villians) (P.rules: 0 villians or Villian friends)
  • the Dragon zone (I think this is obvious)(P.Rules: only Asians, woman serve mens)
  • the "Nazi" Zone (Allfather and Kaiser(Iron rain and Purity will escape from here to Lustrum zone)) also called "the ubermench zone" (P.rules: only "Aryan" lesser races are treated like slaves; no Gays or lesbians, you can't leave once here)
  • the Dinner (directed only by dragon, the ultimate neutral zone, where the things from outside are brough) (from here comes the Inmates)
  • and the Fairy garden (only the persons chosen by the Fairy Queen )the safest and Luxiorious zone, here comes all the Trumps Thinkers and Tinkers, the resistance zone and Taylor "home" (P.rules: you have to talk with your "Fairy" (one of the trumps there allow the shard and the person to talk and "grow" becoming more Human-like) once at day, you will follow cortesy rules and they will always treat the others as family (referring them as "brother, sister, aunt, uncle, father or mother).
Taylor here will accustom to the life in "hell" and after a few chapter, she will plan the escape and destruction of the Prision.



The second character (I fell it should be written In 2 perspectives) would be Emma Barnes who deals with the lost of her "sister" (and the implicit death of Taylor parents) and trigger with the power set of "Garou" of "one punch man", now with the help of a breaker vigilante (Sophia Hess) a rune-away Tinker (Madison clements) a pair of Child of Heartbreaker (Alec and Cherish) and a motor boat thinker, she will change the "hero" system by killing all the corruption and showing them the true monsters to the world.

Worm doesn't need to be darker and grimmer and this is dumb.

Sure be an ass to the parahumans, watch them break your civilization over their knee.
 
A direct shoehorn like that would be a bit jarring, especially since floor bosses would have parallels to Endbringer battles that might prevent the game from getting off the ground.
Huh. I wonder how many movies/video games/etc were aborted or heavily rewritten in December 1992, June 1996, whenever in 2003 they realized Simurgh was bad news, etc because of the Endbringers. (You know, like how terrorism and hijacking airplanes became quasi-taboo after 9/11.) Also how long it took for Endbringer attacks to be so normalized that they stopped being a consideration—ie, that it wouldn't matter that a movie about a teleporting monster was getting released right after Khonsu showed up, because everyone was numb to that kind of destruction.

and there's no reason that the characters from SAO (Abridged?) can't be imported.
Yes. I want Abridged!Kirito snarking at supervillains, it would be glorious. Also the rest of them. But the image of Abridged!Kirito mocking everyone is glorious...ooh, especially if he gets in some snark-to-snark combat with Tattletale. (Possibly kicking off when he mocks her codename?)

...come to think of it, Abridged!Asuna's trying-really-hard-not-to-be-racist-yet-completely-failing tendencies would also be funny alongside the right individuals. I'm not sure if it would be funnier to see her awkwardly flounder at Brian and Aisha, or accidentally agree with the Nazis.

-snip- My thinking is that Uber and Leet set up a bootleg Ransack server. It wouldn't only draw in the students and staff of Winslow due to fuckery with Taylor's trigger, but also the people abroad who might've been playing it. Word of mouth endorsement among the ABB might've popularized it with local gamers in their recruiting demographic, so teens looking to destress from their attention might be active, which would explain the disproportionate number of Japanese names from the canon SAO characters. It also provides an opportunity to include canon Worm characters from outside Winslow, as well. Do recall that the Simurgh attack pulled the Travelers from participating in a Ransack tournament, so the drama of Noelle finding an escape in her game avatar would be all sorts of interesting.

As for the temporal element, that could be explained as Taylor triggering as a high-tier technopath who's overwhelmed by the data until she has her... I believe the term is 1.5 trigger, where the power makes a subsequent adjustment for how terribly wrong it got it the first time around, shortly after the first time. So, while a lot of time might have passed for those sucked into the game, for everyone else it'd be... hours? Let's call it three hours, as a nod to locker fanon. Trigger event... I'm thinking Taylor getting sent to the office to find out that her schools records have all somehow been deleted, discovered when her homeroom teacher (who was also her first period teacher in canon) discovered she was no longer on her attendance list for the homeroom. Breaker/Shaker, with Thinker cognitive acceleration to cope after they escape the bootleg Ransack server.
I approve of this idea.


Not just stories they read, but stories that they liked. So, it can't be anything that'd be assigned as homework in Winslow, for association with the bullying, if nothing else.
Also because English classes are the worst way to appreciate literature. I had to write a 15-page report on East of Eden back in 10th grade, and that's put me off the idea of reading Steinbeck to this day.
Though since a decent chunk of Taylor's sophomore year was canceled due to Endbringer attack, she might not have that specific problem.

Well, off the top of my head...

1. Irene Adler

2. The Wicked Witch of the West

3. The Queen of Hearts

Actually, most of the female villains I can think of consist of fairytale witches, queens, and stepmothers.
Morgan Le Fay is the name that first popped into my head. The vampire Carmilla. How classical are we talking here?
My first thoughts were Cathy from East of Eden (I blame the book report) and Lady MacBeth from, um, MacBeth.



I've always wondered about all those fics where taylor is teleported somewhere else. Is there any that deal with the fallout of what happens back home now that she's gone. and I'm talking top billing not 1 interlude every other story arc about how things are in brockton. I'm mean main plot or b plot at the least.
I've vaguely alluded to one fanfic project I'm kinda working on, but haven't actually described it well enough to answer this question. The elevator pitch for said fic would be that Taylor goes to UA and Izuku joins the Wards after some mutual isekaitis. They both get arcs focusing on them, and eventually Tattletale and Faultline's Crew open a portal to MHA Earth so the stories can properly intersect.

One of the difficulties I realize I'll have is keeping the tone consistent before the portal is opened. For instance, according to my current outline, arcs focusing on Taylor's summer camp are going to be woven between Izuku's Slaughterhouse Nine arcs. It's good to have breather arcs between intense ones, but this is just ridiculous!
 
Worm doesn't need to be darker and grimmer and this is dumb.

Sure be an ass to the parahumans, watch them break your civilization over their knee.
Sorry to break your bubble dude but parahumans in Worm can be Weak to this; except for brutes (and this can be taken with a different methods) and very few masters ;parahuman can be taken by normal persons, they hold the number adventage (for every parahuman in worm there is at least 3000 people and at least 12 police officers/Prt agents; leaving them at a numbe disvantage of 300/1, a mob can kill them easily), its told a lot of time than if Contessa has not used her "path to victory" in order to make the Capes invaluable they would have taken a similar way to the Mutants in Marvel.



But here the Path was disrupted with Scion death, and thanks to not being the Golden Morning, Scion is seen as "the greatest hero Ever", the triumvirate at killing him, just proved to the Radicals (like Tagg, people who hate parahuman in a Racist way) than Parahuman has to be lashed; so the Laws, instead of taking the side of the Parahumans (the vigilante Act, the numerous Laws for rogues) taken the side of "humans".



Beside, is stupid think than all Parahumans are equal strong as Taylor, Alexandria or Eidolon? Those are weird cases; there are a lot like Grue (who is at best Shaker 3) Shadow Stalker (breaker 1 mover 2) or Circus (shaker 3), and those can be easily overwhelmed.



Beside, most of the captures would be new triggers who don't get ropped into the government, without time to learn how use their abilities? They are easy pickings.



I hope this has answered why I think this is possible.



So yeah, I think the scenario is possible and Smart, in fact, I going to try to make an RPG game of the idea (at least Taylor side), but if anyone wants to adopt it to make it a Fic just talk to me.

Edit: if you are going to say "unwritten rules", here the goberment want them "in prision, our side or death", they will not care of the UR; in fact, in this story, in order to avoid New Wave to take a hold (NW in this scenario could have destroyed all this rules the Autoritarian goberment has set: here the Capes would take the consecuence of their acts making the rules who where "used to control the monster" useless, a lot like the racial first protests would have put a danger to their holds) they would have arrested them by the assault home wreak and murder attempt of the LaVere family.
 
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Incorrect.

Just about any S-classer is well and truly beyond a normal human.

Heck you don't even have to be S-class a strong thinker with time and motivation could easily make the government collapse, shatter economy, or any number of other awful things.
 
(for every parahuman in worm there is at least 3000 people and at least 12 police officers/Prt agents; leaving them at a numbe disvantage of 300/1, a mob can kill them easily),

Well, except for the whole identifying them first parts.

And in many cases such as Movers catching them.

And any half-decent Blaster could easily defend themselves via a chokepoint.

A Tinker could, in fact, do all three things with armor, a motive system, and a weapon. Not even a good Tinker, early Kid Win's already pulled off two of those.

This is the Spherical Cow In A Frictionless Vacuum school of thinking about combat which holds that Panthers will always beat Shermans and is about as valid as a three dollar bill.
 
Incorrect.

Just about any S-classer is well and truly beyond a normal human.

Heck you don't even have to be S-class a strong thinker with time and motivation could easily make the government collapse, shatter economy, or any number of other awful things.

How many S-class A-class or eneven B-Class exist in Worm?



In ratio: for every 20 capes 5 are B-class 3 are A-class and 0.3 is S-class, the rest are C or minor.

And about thinkers: I remind you than thinkers Tinkers and Trump are the most rare classes of Parahumans and even them possess the same ration up there.



And I not negating that, just than here Thinkers are caught easily anyway: here they are being hunted by a goberment who will put them in the same state of Dinah in Canon.

Well, except for the whole identifying them first parts.

And in many cases such as Movers catching them.

And any half-decent Blaster could easily defend themselves via a chokepoint.

A Tinker could, in fact, do all three things with armor, a motive system, and a weapon. Not even a good Tinker, early Kid Win's already pulled off two of those.

This is the Spherical Cow In A Frictionless Vacuum school of thinking about combat which holds that Panthers will always beat Shermans and is about as valid as a three dollar bill.
Movers: traps can be made

Blasters: just tire them, those abilities cost; and even those who possess this ratings are not that strong, I mean see the ratios up there.

Strikers: just surround him/her and use a inmovilazer

Shakers: force them to over use their powers (vista and Laberinth in Canon has show than if they use to much their power they start brain bleeding(nose bleeds))

Breaker: find the weakness, all breaker states possess one.

Changer: don't allow to change/force them to change back.

Tinkers: those are the only ones I accept would be hardest to cacht/kill, but if they are not prepared by the first contact, they are done.

Masters/strangers: follow the protocols/ overpass the minions(master)/use cameras and remote weapons(strangers)

Trumps: those would be bought or directly killed.

Brute: the ones I feel would be the hardest to counter, but with specialized Equipment…



That is without counting in the own Goberment Capes (capes who are on the goberment Leash).

A-Class.
S-Class just means "potential for exponential growth", and isn't necesarrily very powerful beyond that.
That is what I been trying to say, and beside: who says all capes are Inhumanly strong?



A lot of them should be pretty weak, after all not all can be Taylor's or Eidolon's
 
How many S-class A-class or eneven B-Class exist in Worm?



In ratio: for every 20 capes 5 are B-class 3 are A-class and 0.3 is S-class, the rest are C or minor.

"Even one of these could do unparalleled damage to the system and several working in concert, but there's only a little over one per hundred parahumans so it's not like that would ever happen."

C'mon man, sure they could lock up most parahumans but the fact is the system wouldn't last long because it really only does take a handful of s-class to tear it all down. That's not even taking into account the parahuman army somebody like Jack Slash could accumulate if parahumans started seeing him/her as a liberator figure.
 
"Even one of these could do unparalleled damage to the system and several working in concert, but there's only a little over one per hundred parahumans so it's not like that would ever happen."

C'mon man, sure they could lock up most parahumans but the fact is the system wouldn't last long because it really only does take a handful of s-class to tear it all down. That's not even taking into account the parahuman army somebody like Jack Slash could accumulate if parahumans started seeing him/her as a liberator figure.
Part of the joke of the story is seeing how Taylor become that.



And maybe you don't hear me well: the S-class threats are killed at the spot, the rest are sended to the Birdcage, Taylor is the only S-class who is in the Birdcage (Beside GU); and about Masters who control persons/influence persons? The Thinkers on the hand of the Goberment evaluate the Parahuman who are sended to the Bird Cage (Taylor has a little luck here) to see what one can suffer "accidents" in the way.
 
That is what I been trying to say, and beside: who says all capes are Inhumanly strong?
A lot of them should be pretty weak, after all not all can be Taylor's or Eidolon's
On the other hand A-Class threats are potentially continental-scale threats while A-Class that also qualify as S-Class are planetary-scale threats.

Also I think it was somewhere between twelve and twenty publicly known A-Class threats that were active throughout Worm's plot;
Including each of the Endbringers, Sleeper, the Three Blasphemies, Ash Beast, Nilbog, the Slaughterhouse Nine as a whole, and the Machine Army.
And about a half-dozen more that were kept secret to prevent mass panic.
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Also Echidna, but she was only recognized as such posthumously so I'm not sure if she counts.
 
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On the other hand A-Class threats are potentially continental-scale threats while A-Class that also qualify as S-Class are planetary-scale threats.

Also I think it was somewhere between twelve and twenty publicly known A-Class threats that were active throughout Worm's plot;
Including each of the Endbringers, Sleeper, the Three Blasphemies, Ash Beast, Nilbog, the Slaughterhouse Nine as a whole, and the Machine Army.
Plus about a half-dozen more that were kept secret to prevent mass panic.
Are killed or where sended to the Cage before they get traction; maybe you don't get one fact I feel it was obvious:



But here the Government is actively and directly searching for new triggers, so a lot of those A class? They were sended to the Cage or are under the Government control; a few of the persons there literally could not get strong enough to be a A threat now because they lack the resourses (and want to live: if they had used their powers inside they would die after all)



On one note I feel I forgot to add:



Eidolon died here battling Scion, and when he died the EB deactivated, because here there where not a Secondary shard net where to get their orders, here all the controlers are Dead.
 
Are killed or where sended to the Cage before they get traction; maybe you don't get one fact I feel it was obvious:
Okay.

How do you stop Ash Beast? You don't, he just explodes anything in his way throughout the entire timeline.
How do you stop Sleeper? You don't, he eats your entire country and you feel thankful that he stopped there.
How do you stop any of the Endbringers? You don't, you alienated everyone that could do so much as slow them down.
How do you stop the Three Blasphemies? You don't, without the coverage provided by groups like the Protectorate and Cauldron there are Ten of them.

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It should be noted that the Blasphemies aren't human in origin, they are the result of Shard-fuckery making multiple beings that "coincidentally" happen to be exactly the same despite having been created in wildly different manners/locations.
They appear to serve a similar function to the Endbringers.
 
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Depends on the processes used to lock up all the parahumans. That is to say, how every single country on the planet pulls that off. Especially the third world countries.
Ummm, not sure how that applies?
My point is that without parahumans, you no longer have anyone capable of resisting endbringers.
No tinker tech weapons, no predictions on where they appear, no people protecting shelters, etc...

Eidolon died here battling Scion, and when he died the EB deactivated, because here there where not a Secondary shard net where to get their orders, here all the controlers are Dead.
And nobody seems take notice how Endbringers are gone at the same time as Scion?
 
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Movers: traps can be made

This one's a good example of everything wrong with this line of thought. "traps can be made" is vague to the point of uselessness, and depends on the cape conniving at their own destruction. The other side gets a vote, you know? All of these just assume some kind of perfect response that won't ever happen.

And more than that, even actual military units will break at surprisingly low casualty figures. 20% is usually enough to make them back off and rethink. A crowd is not going to beat a blaster to death. They'll run away well before that.
 
Ummm, not sure how that applies?
My point is that without parahumans, you no longer have anyone capable of resisting endbringers.
No tinker tech weapons, no predictions on where they appear, no people protecting shelters, etc...
If the parahumans are being detained, the Endbringers stage breakouts to create what a society that locks them up would call a disaster. If they're being killed, the Endbringers would inflict tragedies that cause key figures to trigger.

The Endbringers are called such because that is what they are understood to be by the ignorant. The Entities gave them an imperative to perpetuate the conflicts that generate data. Eidolon gave them a compulsion to oppose him. So, removing parahumans would change the behavior of the Endbringers.
 
If the parahumans are being detained, the Endbringers stage breakouts to create what a society that locks them up would call a disaster. If they're being killed, the Endbringers would inflict tragedies that cause key figures to trigger.
The Endbringers are called such because that is what they are understood to be by the ignorant. The Entities gave them an imperative to perpetuate the conflicts that generate data. Eidolon gave them a compulsion to oppose him. So, removing parahumans would change the behavior of the Endbringers.
Also, as evidenced by the Blasphemies, if the Endbringers are indisposed then the Shards will come up with something else to amuse themselves.

Also also, to remind everyone of something important;
Threat levelEstimation
1
  • Poses a threat only just above human norms, an unexceptional individual may be able to cope with the ability or walk away unharmed from an altercation where the abilities in question were leveraged.
  • The ability should be assumed to be a non-threat and need not be identified if other matters prove more pressing.
2
  • An alert, exceptional, well equipped, or trained individual should be able to answer or address the ability in question, but it can prove problematic.
  • Team members are reminded of standard countermeasures and should put these measures in effect when there are no pressing other matters.
3
  • Civilians, even alert or fit civilians, will not be able to handle the ability or abilities in question.
  • Several trained individuals may be required to deal with the situation.
  • Care should be taken to remove civilians from the area and discourage them from participating.
4
  • One full squad of trained operatives should be able to deal with this situation alone, but exceptional circumstance, context and environment may bias things one way or the other.
5
  • Additional countermeasures come into effect.
  • A typical parahuman or one parahuman assisting a squad of operatives should be able to deal with the power in question.
  • Operatives can engage until assistance arrives.
6
  • A typical trained parahuman or one parahuman assisting a squad of operatives should be able to deal with the power in question.
  • Operatives should postpone engagement.
  • Parahumans and operatives should assume that traditional actions are going to be met by a complication.
  • Acquiring further intel is recommended where possible, but not mandated.
7
  • Parahumans should engage in pairs or trios at a minimum, two fully equipped squads should be deployed.
  • Acquiring further intel is mandated, all acting parties should shift to the defensive or delay until intel can be acquired.
8
  • Evacuation of civilians should take priority for all squad members.
  • Engaging should be avoided outside of specific missions and tasks.
  • Parahumans should engage only when supported by their team to ensure a minimum of complications or danger.
9
  • Assume extreme complications, with standard tactics not applying, or the power in question having an additional factor that exaggerates its effect.
  • Parahumans and PRT should evacuate where possible, and should only engage when a specific mission and strategy has been outlined.
  • Major countermeasures should take effect.
10+
  • In the event of a serious confrontation, additional teams or specific high-rated individuals should be called in to manage the crisis.
15+
  • Planet level-threat
  • Functional loss of humanity in the host
In this proposed AU the rating would mean something like this;
Without kill-teams literally everywhere on the planet then anyone 4 or above gets away and manages to establish themselves.
Anyone 6 or above probably requires open and immediate military intervention.
Anyone 7-10 requires nuking the site, and even then that won't work on some of the potential targets.
A single 15 means the planetary population dies.
 
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There's this plot that keeps coming up in superhero comics of a badass normal, or a police/military made of normals, just taking out all the superheroes.
Batman and Punisher probably the best known examples.
Two things that usually comes up in these stories, is that the whole thing either demands complete element of surprise, or the supers being complete incompetent morons.
 
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