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Wyrm!Paul doesn't know his name. He's calling Regent "Regency" because he is wearing a "regency dress" whatever that is.
Plus he also called Grue 'Leathers'.
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Wyrm!Paul doesn't know his name. He's calling Regent "Regency" because he is wearing a "regency dress" whatever that is.
'pay'
This one did the same meditation like Lord Protector to get enlightened?
How is he powering his ring?
I think he comes frome somewhere else. He probably isn't Lord Protector, though. ...Is he?
Thank you, corrected.
It is Lord Protector, at a later point in his timeline.This one did the same meditation like Lord Protector to get enlightened?
How is he powering his ring?
So... Shouldn't Scion be showing up to kill him and steal his Power Ring about now?
Too busy being depressed, I assume.So... Shouldn't Scion be showing up to kill him and steal his Power Ring about now?
So... Shouldn't Scion be showing up to kill him and steal his Power Ring about now?
So... Shouldn't Scion be showing up to kill him and steal his Power Ring about now?
Huh, when I saw the title of the ToC, I assumed it would be D&D related. I never expected you to do a Worm SI. I'm guessing you've done a little research on it, then.A Week in the Life of
10th April 2011
23:43
I take a moment to regard the petty criminals sitting on some sort of large canine on the rooftop a short distance from me. The young woman in the dog mask.. is quietly growling. Odd. The young man in regency dress is subtly trying to nudge his hound backwards. The thickset man in leather is trying to appear completely calm while supporting the semi-conscious woman sharing his dog, wisps of the black.. material he appears able to control pooling around their feet.
Oh, that's going to flip the table. Not that I expect the other gangs will be lasting long enough to take advantage of it."Undersiders. Please may attention, for I will say this only once. I will be cleaning house in Brockton Bay. You may find legitimate employment, you may leave the city, or I will kill you. Am I understood?"
Regency looks down onto the street below, where the charred remains of Lung and the corpses of his retinue are slowly cooling.
Ah, her Shard suffered an 'Unanalysable entity, please refill cheese' error. I'm sure she'll be fine soon, though with the Thinker headache of all Thinker Headaches."Yeah, I think we got the fucking message."
Leather's head dips for a moment, then returns to facing me. "What did you do to Tats?"
"Nothing deliberate. She appears-" I scan her body. "-to.. have unusual activity in the part of her brain controlling her superhuman abilities. I could attempt to turn it off, but that probably wouldn't be healthy for her. If she collapsed when I arrived, I would suggest removing her from my presence as quickly as possible."
...Okay, he has low opinions of their threat level, I see. That's a blow to their egos."Yeah. How long you giving us?"
"I'm working from most serious to least serious. I will be checking on you shortly after Uber and Leet."
Given that they only have Oni Lee and Bakuda, neither of which would come close to threatening him? Chances are good for his success."That's.. after the Nazis and the Merchants?"
"And what's left of the Asian Bad Boys, naturally."
Pretty much a definite tell. Wonder if he could kill someone's Shard-link by 'correcting' the anomalies. Good way to deal with threats like the Siberian, at least.He snorts quietly. "Good luck with that."
"Thank you. Ah, I see that you all have the same brain abnormality. That will make this easier."
Yeah, Brockton Bay is a shithole. Blame Wildbow.No sirens, I note. A man glowing with yellow light shoots a dragon in the brain with a positron beam, and no one calls the police. Clearly, I couldn't get here soon enough.
Surprised she didn't go into total submissiveness at a superior threat. But presumably most shards will glitch out at him."So, like… Can we go?"
"Yes. Be about your business."
A series of somewhat frantic looks are exchanged between the two men, then the one in leathers carefully lays a hand on the dog girl's shoulder. She tenses, but after a moment she whistles and the canines turn away.
Ah, Power Rings are awesome... Total game-breaker. Wonder what he could do to help Dragon, if he could be bothered?I hope that they make a sensible decision.
I float downwards, yellow filaments flicking out and plugging into the phones owned by members of the fallen dragon's retinue. I doubt they have much identifying information stored on them, but I'm perfectly capable of brute forcing the records held by their service providers, bankers and.. accessing city records to locate their registered addresses, scanning their home computers and-.
Honestly, around here? You'd probably be an improvement.Why are there so many flies? And why aren't they being attracted to the corpses?
Hm.
In a city there are almost always going to be some observers. I turn slowly in the air, looking through the walls at the fears of those inside the buildings around me. Generally, I can tell how bad things are by how glad people are to see me, and from the look of things…
Mover: Yes. Man, the PRT threat ratings are going to get broken over his knee, I bet.Things aren't too bad-.
Several small flies attempt to land in my hair. A scan of the local area reveals one person with the signature brain abnormality of the local superhumans. A young woman wearing a.. ersatz costume. Nothing about her in local records. I transition to just in front of her.
Yeah, about the reaction I'd expect from Taylor 'Escalation' Hebert."May I help-"
Flying insects of many types swarm in from all directions, creating a cloud around my face as she hurriedly backs away.
I bet if he looks deeper, a certain trio might find themselves in hot water..."-you? I bear you no malice, my environmental shield is proof against insects and I can see where you are perfectly well without using my eyes. I am merely trying to ascertain your purpose here."
She's showing up rather brightly in my 'empathic vision' at the moment. She knows perfectly well that she wasn't ready for a confrontation like this, but-.
For those wondering, she can offload emotions into her bugs, as if the collected swarms were a spare brain. She also has the ability to perceive through their senses too. And YL here is probably a big, glowing yellow void in them."If you're looking for the Undersiders, they've already left."
The insects are showing up in yellow as well. Curious. Simple insects shouldn't be mentally complex enough for true fear. And if they were, they wouldn't be behaving like this.
Easy enough to do. Her figure is already pretty androgynous, besides the mane of curly brown hair.."Who are you? Are-? You a hero?"
"I would be somewhat sceptical of anyone who would describe themselves as a hero." I raise my hands to gesture to the cloud of flies. "Would you mind?"
The insects withdraw, forming a dense cloud around the young woman and settling on her body. She's trying to disguise her outline. Alright.
She would make a good pest-control service. Just order the bugs to leave. Pity about the 'Conflict Libido' thing: The shards push their users to fight in order to gain data; They also make it feel good to use their powers. Vicious circle much?"You killed Lung."
"If violence troubles you, I suggest finding a new career. There's always work for a good exterminator."
Yeah, he was an asshole. That's canon, too."Why did you kill him?"
"He was a serial murderer who runs an organisation of rapists, slavers, murderers and drug peddling thugs. Would you like to reflect upon your question?"
I'd bet cleaning up Brockton Bay takes him all of a day, depending on pushback.She just stands there for a moment.
"Look, if there's nothing else I've got a lot of people to kill-."
A good question. And one even the original writer apparently didn't ponder too much on."Are you-? Trying to be a hero? I mean, is this-? Normal?"
"How are you defining 'hero'?"
So, cleaning out North America in what, a week? Bet Cauldron's going to have kittens when they learn of this and Contessa gets a '5021: Please cheese the mustard' glitch when she goes to PtV him."How are you defining 'hero'?"
"A hero is someone who lives to improve the lives of others, rather than to improve their own. I look at the situation in Brockton Bay and I see rampant gangs and under-resourced law enforcement organisations with bad doctrine who are failing to bring the situation under control. Therefore, I will cull the criminal population until it reaches a level where civil peacekeeping becomes possible. Once I am done, I will move on to the next city and repeat the process."
Admittedly, it helps to have good examples. Something Earth-Bet is in short supply of."So you do think you're a hero."
"I'm trying to be one. Not that I want to imply that I think there's only one way to be a hero."
Part of the whole 'make people not afraid of us' thing they decided on early. Pity they can't be consistent about it."And what about the Protectorate? Do you think they're heroes?"
"Probably not. The silly costumes were the first clue. Not that there's anything wrong with being a police officer or a soldier, or that people employed in those capacities can't be heroic or be heroes."
Given the Yellow Enlightenment, both things can be true anyway. Hero and serial killer. Cruelty in the name of peace. Sinestro would applaud his logic, I think."But you wouldn't join them."
"No. They would hobble me and drag me down to their level of ineffectiveness. Though-" I smile. "-it could just be that I'm a pontificating serial killer with delusions of utility."
Ah, Armsmaster. Flanderised into an asshole by fanon. Not that far off, given what few glimpses into his mind we see.Another person with a super tumour is approaching… On a large motorcycle.
"I believe that the authorities are responding. You may wish to absent yourself."
Especially if their shards glitch out around him. Only the Endbringers and Scion would likely be a major threat, and some exotic powers..."You.. know they're.. going to arrest you?"
I smile wryly as I turn away.
"If they couldn't arrest Lung then I very much doubt that they can successfully arrest me."
Oh... sounds like somebody hasn't heard of the Boston Games. Parahuman villains love, love, love a power vacuum. Parahuman crime isn't a problem you solve by playing Whack-A-Mole, especially not in a city where the corruption is... more than a little rampant."A hero is someone who lives to improve the lives of others, rather than to improve their own. I look at the situation in Brockton Bay and I see rampant gangs and under-resourced law enforcement organisations with bad doctrine who are failing to bring the situation under control. Therefore, I will cull the criminal population until it reaches a level where civil peacekeeping becomes possible. Once I am done, I will move on to the next city and repeat the process."
Power Rings don't give a fuck about energy conservation. Not that Zion would care, since he's too busy being depressed.Seriously though, why would an Entity benefit in any way from a Power Ring?
Exotic energy generation? They've already got that.
FTL transportation and communication? Yep.
High powered scanners? Already accounted for.
They don't have any reason to even want the things.
At which point you come back and repeat the process until the local authorities can contain the situation without you.Oh... sounds like somebody hasn't heard of the Boston Games. Parahuman villains love, love, love a power vacuum. Parahuman crime isn't a problem you solve by playing Whack-A-Mole, especially not in a city where the corruption is... more than a little rampant.
I hate to tell you this, but Paul is in way way way over his head in Worm.The moment an Endbringer appears, ParaPaul will get a boost out of all that ambient fear... Now not only Cauldron will fear 'the man in yellow'
Highly unlikely, Paul is publicly swinging around one of the two things in existence that Scion actually wants.
Scion doesn't need a power ring, however he does not just need, but desperately wants, the ability to draw endless energy from the emotional spectrum.Scion doesn't even need a power ring, and even if, for some godforsaken reason, he did, I don't much like his chances against someone who can ring up the Fear Entity, which, in theory, an enlightened Lantern can do.
Indeed. Even the most 'conflict libido'-driven Cape would hopefully catch on after Lord Protector makes a few object lessons in not being assholes in one city. Probably with a "Don't make me come back here again." after the second or third time.At which point you come back and repeat the process until the local authorities can contain the situation without you.
Highly unlikely, Paul is publicly swinging around one of the two things in existence that Scion actually wants.
Scion doesn't need a power ring, however he does not just need, but desperately wants, the ability to draw endless energy from the emotional spectrum.
I hate to tell you this, but Paul is in way way way over his head in Worm.
Also it doesn't matter, played completely straight to Worm canon, there's absolutely nothing even the most wanked out version of Power Ring Paul could do to even mildly inconvenience Scion.
Hell, played completely straight to Worm canon, he wouldn't even be able to stop the Endbringers.
Seriously though, why would an Entity benefit in any way from a Power Ring?
Exotic energy generation? They've already got that.
FTL transportation and communication? Yep.
High powered scanners? Already accounted for.
They don't have any reason to even want the things.
As I remember, there was a storyline were they explained that the emotional light spectrum wasn't limitless and even though it was vast, it could be depleted (at least in thr DC universe). It was a storyline were a survivor of a previous universe, one where they used light spectrum technology and used up all the emotional light energy, tries to acquire all Emotion avatars and pierce the Source Wall.but desperately wants, the ability to draw endless energy from the emotional spectrum.
Sure, infinite energy would be something attractive for entities in general, but Zion isn't really interested in maintaining the cycle. He would be interested if he learned that white light is capable of revival, but with Eden dead, Zion is pretty purposeless.Highly unlikely, Paul is publicly swinging around one of the two things in existence that Scion actually wants.
One of the core narrative themes of the entire story of Worm is that just because you can match or beat someone in a straight fight doesn't mean they can't be a threat to you in some other way.Also it doesn't matter, played completely straight to Worm canon, there's absolutely nothing even the most wanked out version of Power Ring Paul could do to even mildly inconvenience Scion.