The replicators are 100% attacking the train to get those sweet sweet resources.
They are also very smart. They have deliberately seeded the length of the tracks with highly aggressive, territorial mutated animals.
These animals will assault the train many times and inflict wear and tear, acting as disposable sh...
The three of them walked down the center of the oversized train, which had enough space in the center for two of Hardcase’s mech-suits to walk side-by side. Which was probably by design.
The construction was mind-bogglingly massive and resembled a towering apartment complex sitting on it’s side rather than a train, ...
2022-08-11 15:15:41 +0000 UTC View Post1: I knew a guy who had Tourretes (or claimed to) and the way i remember him describing it was that he could excercise a bit of control over what he did and when, but had to have some kind of outburst.
I'm also aware that he also had ADHD and speaking out of turn or blurting things might be more a symptom that, in whic...
Perry dusted his hands off, watching the voodoo doll flail as it sailed into the distance, propelled by suit-assisted strength.
Now that that stuff is taken care of, or at least put on pause, I can spend a day getting ready to go to Washington city.
Perry had a handful of priorities he wanted to get done....
2022-08-10 14:47:41 +0000 UTC View PostA: Keep the parents around as long possible. Stay light and don't get too dark with it.
B: Fighting scenes are fun but I want serious worldbuilding in Washington city to make the trip worthwhile to me as a reader.
C: Ending the arc on the mystery sphere is fine as long as A and B are followed.
So my thought was Perry goes to Washington city, does an inordinate amount of battling, (like, non-stop) and maybe the city collapses, and he escorts as many people back to Franklin city as he can on the train, and when he arrives back, Franklin city is under some kind of vantablack dome that eats all light and doesn't ...
2022-08-09 19:20:56 +0000 UTC View Post***Lu’ann Peterson***
“I guess I just feel like I don’t matter,” Eric Kole said. “All around me there’s supers doing the most amazing, earth-shaking things, and I…work in I.T., while every second of every day I could get snuffed out if a super so much as looks at me wrong. I’m in a city walled off from s...
2022-08-08 16:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's our maladjusted antagonist up to and how can we make him pursue his goal of supplanting Solaris while running up against Perry?
Perry in the immediate future is going to deal with a little bit of shenanigans around his scrapyard, then get shipped off to Washington city for his Draft (specifically, he will be gua...
“Go, go go!” Perry said, hauling open the door and shoving Breaker through before diving into the bulletproof can himself.
“It’s extra for daring escapes.” The cabbie said, angling his rear-view mirror to assess Perry, eyes narrowed.
“He’s good for it, Carl.” Tung-Stan said.
“Yeah, I’m go...
2022-08-05 15:28:16 +0000 UTC View Post***Breaker***
“Ugh,” Breaker groaned as the heavenly cold from the ice pack cooled off his throbbing head.
“Here you go, Rook.” Barrel of Monkeys asked, frowning as he slapped ten thousand in chits in Breaker’s hands.
“Where’s the rest?” Breaker asked.
“You get the rest when Monolith ...
2022-08-03 16:08:26 +0000 UTC View PostPelochard’s Symbiotic Spirit (Master Difficulty)
Create an essence-free environment with Ostoth’s draining, disposing of the clay beads in a safe area. Bottle a creature’s soul using a Gorbosh’s Acidic Curse and Pecholard’s Soul Trap.
Make sure Pecholard’s Soul Trap is modified to...
2022-08-01 16:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostIn a dozen chapters or so, Perry's probably gonna hit level 5.
I've been wanting to add the opportunity to purchase perks every five levels, allowing Perry to further customize his build. (and slow down his Attunement exponential growth)
Sadly, I'm not creative enough to come up with a huge list of perks that he ...
2022-07-30 17:49:29 +0000 UTC View PostSo I’ve been tinkering with the idea of giving Perry limited spell slots, a la D&D. How do you think they should come about and how do you feel about them?
2022-07-30 17:09:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe arms race of the soul:
Pecholard the Studious and Gadrevan the Brilliant were considered the modern masters of the Pre-Mage era. They competed to advance the field of modern wizardry.
Pecholard was business-minded and cunning, hiring other inventors and subordinating them under himself, p...
2022-07-29 17:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We were gonna do some fancy metal design for 'Industrial Strength', but while it looked really good up close, it was impossible to read in thumbnail, so we went with something simpler.
Whaddya think?
I got rid of the screaming face BC it didn't match with the redrawn, narrower damage line.
I actually have the finished copy, so no more major changes. Now I just have my resident photoshop editor tweaking colors.
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****Elliot and George****
Ellliot slowly came to, his muscles protesting as he crawled out of the dingy bed, nearly stumbling over his brother. Despite it being his turn on the bed, he’d gotten awful sleep.
“C’mon George, let’s get breakfast,” Elliot said, nudging the mutant with his talon.
Elliot ...
2022-07-26 16:32:38 +0000 UTC View Post***Chemestro***
“What’s this?” Chemestro asked, placing the vial in front of Dave the unicorn.
The leather-clad man with bushy mutton chops picked the vial up and studied it carefully. “This, my friend, is a Symbiotic Spirit. The kind people use to become mages. Looks like a lunar serpent. Especially usefu...
2022-07-25 17:19:49 +0000 UTC View PostNexus orders reparations of $16,000,000 to pay for the damage to infrastructure sustained during The Event, as well as two weeks Drafted to the defense of the wall.
If your debt is not paid within two months, Nexus will confiscate property associated with your super identity to pay it for you.
“Muahahahah!” Perry laughed maniacally as the diode on the top of areonite circuit board lit up.
“You made a light. Grats.” Heather said, standing over his shoulder.
“I made a circuit board utilizing magical materials!” Perry said. “Be impressed! This is the first step towards magically inte...
2022-07-20 19:23:08 +0000 UTC View Post
draft one included for completeness
Whaddya think? Anything need to change to make it more awesome?
I personally think his face should be tilted down a bit. He's not screaming at the sky, he's screaming at the prawn.
I also think the swords should be bigger. just grab the assets he made and dial them up a...
Twelve forty-two stood in front of a glass pane. On the other side was a man, stranger than any other man he’d seen. He didn’t have the clean look of one of the people from his books. His face was wrinkled and weathered, his clothes dirty, and he shook violently.
What is wrong with him?
“Twelve fort...
2022-07-19 16:39:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe sensation of the void outside my senses reached a peak when I opened the door, once again revealing the glowing cosmic dust of infinity beyond the doorway, where there should have been a simple bathroom.
I could feel something out there, an almost magnetic attraction that drew me to take a step forward ...
2022-07-18 21:24:28 +0000 UTC View PostSo I was thinking about giving Hardcase a slightly expanded powerset as a result of incedental contact with eldritch information.
I was thinking she could absorb a little bit of Magneton's ability to dick with magnetism and design a mech-suit that takes advantage of this. Think of a floating egg-shaped cockpit whose ar...
The easiest way to pacify this lair would be to slag the entire thing. Which would inevitably lose us valuable tech and materials.
If we call in an AI Tinker to disarm the lair, they’re gonna want a cut of the tech, and I don’t wanna share.
“Something bothering you?” Mom asked as Perry st...
2022-07-17 17:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted to peel back a little bit of the way the world actually works in Magneton's lair.
Maybe imply he got got by Solaris after kidnapping and experimenting on supers: IE. dead supers in tubes and a smudge on the floor.
Or...something. I don't have it 100% locked in yet.
What would be a cool reveal/hin...
****Hardcase****
Oh my god, I was sitting on his lap, Natalie thought, burying her face in her hands as the water trickled past her ears, carrying the sweat away with it.
“Something wrong?” Wraith asked from the other side of the shower room.
“Iwasinhislap,” Natalie muttered into her palms.<...
2022-07-15 15:57:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes, YES!” Perry checked the output of his infinite power cell.
It was basically a homemade solar panel with a homemade LED sandwiched together and surrounded by highly reflective materials to trap the light inside.
It kinda looked like a roof tile.
The LED was insanely brighter than it should’ve been...
2022-07-14 15:38:22 +0000 UTC View PostSolaris was sitting at his desk, enjoying a moment to catch his breath between public speaking and flesh-eating monsters.
You’d think I’d get over my fear of public speaking before the fear of flesh-eating monsters,He thought.
“Sir!” Harry Spills, one of his IA folk, came rushing in with a manilla...
2022-07-12 16:05:39 +0000 UTC View PostSorry I've been slow with the chapters. Got a checkup appointment this morning and a bunch of amazon related stuff the last couple weeks.
New chapter tomorrow. Probably.
NOW
Which mini arcs would you guys like to see happen? The winner is not guaranteed to happen next, I'm just evaluating their popular...
