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You come to several hours later, awoken by the sounds of talking from the common room. Most of the others are in there and talking about teenager things. Some idle conversation later and you find yourself thinking over what to do with your time today.

It is Saturday the seventeenth of April, and there is much to do.

Barnaby/Manic
Status:OK
[Need] 13/20
[Gene Fragmentation]10/60
Karma:-6
Money: 5,500 Dollars
Current power Understanding: Superhuman Gymnast and Tinker powers. Immune to poison, heightened senses.
You have ten Alloy Cards the Trickster's boots and Garb equipped. You have a Revolver and gas grenades. alongside your old knife.

Happy Zappers:Gloves that Electrocute Enemies: non lethal.
Madman's garb: heavy torso armour, full face helmet. strength enhancement
Trickster's garb, partial face mask. Lightly reinforced. dark colours for stealth. Molecular resistance field, basically mini krieg.
[Trickster's Cane]
This is a metal cane with an outer shell made of the same metal as your cards but smooth instead of sharp(obviously) it doesn't cut through things in the same way. Instead it softens whatever it hits and deforms it.
The cane also contains a directional electromagnet that allows you to recall your cards after they've been thrown, or technically anything magnetic enough for the beam to affect.

option list at hideout
Do some Tinkering
Time to play with Chemicals
Explore the City
Go perform Heroic acts
Go Do some Villainy
Food tho
Open Research Screen
New Outfit
You are at war with literally everything, make an attack.
>write in.

Gang members: 14
Grue:Darkness generator and manipulator, knows Kung Fu.
Tattletale:Sherlock Holmes on crack.
Bitch:Has dogs that she can enlarge and turn into car sized hellbeasts.
Regent:Can cause people's muscles to spasm incredibly hard, Can do "other things" but refuses. Psychopath.
Piper:Unpowered vigilante with an awesome costume. kinda fangirly.

>>2559845
>Do some Tinkering

Need to build that vehicle bay so we can build the Mobile Clinic.

We can crack open Armsy's bike before we build the van itself, but we need the bay regardless.

>>2559845
>write in.
Group meeting! We can get pizza and snacks and make a thing of it. But we should also get their opinions on what we should do next, who to attack, etc.

>>2559845
Okay yeah, backing >>2559849
A moment to relax and unwind before we attack someone or decide what to do, like fix the medkits. Asking Bitch about the dog shelter and Bruce, as well as talking to Regent about his leg or Grue about how he's doing would also be good.

>>2559849
I'll support this, if only because it makes sense.

We've been going hard for a good minute now, and we just got done with a very ironic gassing of Nazi's. We should just sit back and unwind for a second, if only to catch our bearings.

>>2559849

Yeah. I'll support this.

>>2559849
Supporting

>>2559845
>>2559849
+1

Maybe you should chill out? You've been going pretty Ham for a while now.
Writing.

>>2559849
Supporting
>>2559845
Is there a reason the Merchants aren't on the map?

>>2559865
The only real territory that the Archer's bridge Merchants have is what they're allowed to have by the other gangs due to being shitholes.

So while they may have territory nominally, if any other force in the city wanted to lay claim to it seriously then there is nothing they could do. Except maybe the old stadium but eh.

Although relaxing us cool and all we should probably start focusing on what to do. I know we are laying low for a while to let the dust settle from our bank job. But with Bakuda still on the lose and most likely in charge of the ABB we beed to get our crew geared.

>>2559870
So what we should do is absorv the merchants into our fold. I mean the guys aren't that bad, certanly better then crazy Bakuda who must be going yandere for our gas right now. And we can always use

>>2559872

Lung's still up and about last I checked, and while we put a bullet in him, Oni Lee's not dead either.

Bakuda's not in charge yet, but our gas attack has probably made Lung let her a little off the leash. We're not looking at folks with bombs surgically implanted in their heads, but we might be dealing with a bombing run in the near future.

>>2559874
>Not that bad.
Drug dealers/users. They're not someone we would want in our gang.

>>2559875
If that happens we should subject the bomb slaves to an even more horrific fate, making sure to keep them alive, then send them back Bakuda's way.
Really paint ourselves almost as a mythological figure. An utterly unpredictable bogeyman who'll either pull completely benign pranks, or commit unspeakable atrocities, seemingly based solely on what its twisted mind thinks is more funny at the time.

>>2559889
Squealer is probably the only merchant worth it to recruit, basically for her mad max invisible tanks shit, and even then it would require us to detox and rehab her.

>>2559890

The problem is those folks were either threatened into doing that, had their loved one's being threatened, or had said loved one's with bombs in their head already and were being held at metaphorical gunpoint. And it wasn't just gangsters she did this to, old men and women, young teens, hell I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few kids thrown into the mix. Even worse is the deadman's switch she had, if she goes the every bomb, every single one, goes off at once. From the ones in peoples heads to the ones under buildings (some of them hospitals and goddamn preschools) to a gigantic EMP bomb she built that took out the entire grid of the eastern seaboard.

>>2559889
We can fix then...take the drug dependecy from then.

>>2559892
Agreed

>>2559849
We should ask about his unbreakable leg kek. To be completely immature we reference his penis was the unbreakable leg

>>2559870
So we should kick out the bums and acquire Crime Alleys and Mad Manic Cars

>>2559894
Pst, hey Bakuda, a little surgery never hurt anyone right? You should know

>LaughingManic.jpg

>>2559894
What if we stole her shtick then? Bakuda commands people through fear? That means all we need to do to undermine her authority is to command more fear than her.

> Get TT to identify some of the bombers and locate their loved ones.

> Kidnap slant-eyes.

> Subject them to the most gradual, nightmarish forms of torture that we can imagine. Keep them alive through-out.

> Broadcast it everywhere.

> Offer an ultimatum: Bakuda's head by dawn or it gets worse.

>>2559907
>We should ask about his unbreakable leg kek. To be completely immature we reference his penis was the unbreakable leg

We should tell him that we are sorry he will never manage a career on the theater since he can't 'break a leg' anymore.

>>2559912

There's edge and then there's just being a dick. Torturing people who aren't even involved in the shitshow just to start a witch hunt that wouldn't even work because they'd hate you a hell of a lot more than they'd hate her is just stupid.

>>2559912
Man Bakuda will become our true rival like that. I would rather get ready to nullify her bombs.

>>2559912
Thats dumb, we should just kidnap Bakuda and turn her into our Reek.

Ya know, when the time comes.

>>2559916
It would also make us lose our good will with the civies. which we managed to get thanks our speech and actions in the bank

>>2559913
He'll also win every argument from now on as well, I mean the leg he'll be standing on now is immovable

>>2559917

We might be able to surgically remove a couple of the bombs. Studying their composition may reveal a common vulnerability between all devices that'll let us disable them?

>>2559918
> yesssd

>>2559922
Let's just jack her signal and reverse it so that /she/ blows up instead

>>2559922
You...don't know Bakuda uh? She would rather push the button and kill everyone rather then leave anyone to find about her tech (as any good tinker should do).

>>2559932
Nah. I was assuming Manic Luck takes ahold again :V

With the way 20s and 1s come up I was probably hoping it would would've been less problematic to finish the Bakuda problem

We need to bring our karma up a bit later. From what it looked like during the gang fight our karma can bring us a bonus

"Alright guys, team meeting in an hour or so. Grue can you pop out and grab us some pizza?"

"Yeah sure."

You call Piper and the actual gang members on a nearby payphone as well, making sure that everyone gets an invite to your little get together. A while later and you find yourself in the common room with the other lieutenants, eating pizza and shooting the shit.

Regent, Tattletale and Grue make up most of the conversation at first, with you and Piper laughing at jokes and making fun of Regent mostly.

"So yeah, then we tazed the hell out of Battery, you'd think with a name like that she'd be immune to electricity or something but nah."
Grue and Regent continue to tell the tale of their thrilling escape from the PRT building as you snack on some pizza.

"Then Regent broke his leg like a dumbass."

"That was Literally not my fault though. Blame the disintegration lady for dropping me on a desk." His faux offence is somewhat undercut by his giggling, and the obvious appreciation of his now unbreakable leg. "Speaking of legs, I have you to thank for this don't I boss? Thanks a ton."

"No problem. Try not to break the rest though, I don't have a million dollars to fix you with."

That gets a few more giggles as conversation pauses and your crew finishes their pizza.

You had something specific to ask, Didn't you?

>>2559950
>Where do you guys want to go from here? I've got a few plans of my own, but I'm always open to new ideas.

See what's on everybody's mind, let them feel like they have a say in their futures. We've got the Mobile Clinic idea, and we should share that with them, along with the idea of giving them gene mods, tinker weapons, and boosters for the upcoming battles.

Basically make a round table sort of thing, let the gang be ruled by something like a commitee rather than a dictatorship. That's how the other gangs got so stagnant after all, they let their 'leaders' call all the shots and now here we are running rings around the fuckers like nobody's business. If we want to get and stay on top we need to be flexible, and this is the first step.

>>2559942
Nah. -1/0/1 karma is ideal for maximum ambiguity.
Oh hang on, looks like we are at -6 at the moment? Nevermind, you are absolutely correct. Manic's karma does need to be increased a little.

>>2559950
> "So Germans and Asians working together, huh. Now all we need is for some Italians to get in on this party and we'll have ourselves an axis of villainy."

We need to shore up our defenses. Please remember that when we're upgrading

>>2559950
Who wants to poke a dragon?!

We're gunning for the Oni this time bois and gurls

Completely ridiculous idea: we nat 20 Oni Lee to defect to us

>>2559950
See what tats can do with the Nazi info.
See what the undersiders are looking for in the dark side of cape life.

>>2559950
This:>>2559954

Also tell then that we will meed to fi d other spots a group as ours need mutiple hideouts. Both to recruit goons as well as to makr move so people don't find our main hideout. Things will be more hard for us with then working so we need to get to know our area. i want everyone to work on mapping our territory and even have some of Ken's pantings in key places mostly to mark our hide outs and others to work as distractions when we move around.

>>2559963
C-Could our gang sign be the Skeleton Trumpet meme?

>>2559960
i would rather have Bakuda-chan to defect to us. If there is a person who can understand her genius it's us.

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>>2559964
Well Ken's paintings are capable inly of doing noise so i guess they could work as a alarm system? Only thing we should do is instead of just normal looking skeletons we make then like pic related.

>>2559970
The reason I suggested the Skeleton Trumpet so is that they continually trumpet when either enemies/intruders appear or when they see Armsmaster

Imagine it; an entire wall or alley or even /street/ continually trumpeting at Armsmaster all day erryday

Amsmaster will never escape the memes

>>2559978
You I like :)

>>2559950
Backing >>2559953, especially asking them what they specifically want, territory mapping, and telling them the mobile clinic idea. Also the quote in >>2559954.

Alright, I shall start writing now.

>>2559978
I don't know if Ken's painting work like thay or if he needs to be in a certain radius of it to make the paintings be living anyway that would still be a funny thing

Also posting the list for tinkering weapons ideas.

https://pastebin.com/BQNmJ6F2

I'm really sorry guys, but something fairly important just came up. I'm gonna have to call it here until tomorrow.

I need to head up to London and look after my nephew for the day.
I should be back around three or so tomorrow provided the trains are good.

>>2560010
Take care Z

>>2560010
No problem go take care of the little squirt. We will be here and so will be the thread.

>>2560010
No prob, see ya later.

>>2560010
Take care

Rolled 14 (1d20)

Rollan for Zion's day.

We should probaly Check on our family sooner or later

>>2560664
Not when we are being hunted down by literaly everyone. Once we secure our stuff and gear up our boy and girls with tinker tech we can go an check on then.

And if we even go do that we will end up bumping into someone or luring some villain/gang member to our family.

Would be pretty fun to have SS track us down and find our family as we are doing a visit

>>2560703
Reminder we need familial DNA to get enough information to fix our cells even further. Doesn't need to be much, DNA can be mass-produced and replicated ridiculously easily even in real life.

>>2560713
I'm not saying to not do it. Just to wait a little bit so we can have some more stomping power so we can handle when the gangs come after us. Our gas needs to be modified to since it won't work a second time around now that people are afraid of it and tinkers can easily build some protection agains it. We need acids, liquid Smile-X, upgrade our knife to be of the same material as our cards. Have some energy rifles for our boys and girls, gene mod Reggie and Ronnie with super steroids. Give Piper a plant regen upgrade (but not yo much or else we end up with a Ivy in our hands) and give the teen couple Alice and Ted some other kind of upgrade...if they want to that is.

>>2560751
>acids, liquid SmileX
Again, perfect for the spray flower if we can actually make it one of these timeslots.
>upgrade our knife to be of the same material as our cards
Yes, but I rather our knife stay old and trusty the way it is. Dunno.
>energy rifles for our boys and girls
Doesn't fit Joker thematic. Also you have plenty of typos every single post you make. Are you ESL or something?
>gene mod Reggie and Ronnie with super steroids
Once we get Venom, this could be good.
>plant regen upgrade
Nah. Regular regen upgrade is always a plus.
>give the teen couple Alice and Ted some other kind of upgrade
Yeah, okay.

>>2560892
I have no idea what ESL means.

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>2560477
On a nat 20 Armsmaster gets One Bad Day

>>2560920
I guess he's always having a bad day.

>>2560920
OH FUCK

>>2560920
>yfw he becomes DEFIANT waaaaaay earlier.

>>2560924
Maybe he got dumped by Dragon. After all he keeps losing his tech to Manic.

>>2560903
English Second Language. Either you're not from the US, or you're just bad at spellchecking yourself.

>>2560920
Good.

>>2560931
>yfw he does it because he wants to kick our ass

i guess he didn't liked us putting so many smiles back to the street. Some people just don't get the joke.

>>2560938
Oh yeah i'm not american.

>>2560920
one of these days arm-master is gonna fuck us up when we roll a 1.

Surprised people haven't opted to hang out with piper more yet, she did pretty well having our back in the bank heist fight. If shes up for some "improvements" then all the better.

Just finished catching up, nice read, hope to catch this in future.

>>2561055
We are trying to avoid the first girl problem. Although if you think carefully that would make Panacea the first girl in quest. But she is so garbage that anons don't even want to know about her.

Also Piper and Manic seem to have a pretty good chemestry together i just hope it won't end in tears once the endbringer or the S9 come and hit town.

>>2561080
Well first girl would be tattle or the bug one. So its not first girl, and she already seems to gel with us to some degree.

Plus im fairly certain its all going to end in tears if she and the others get identified and their familys targeted.

>>2561085
No, no Panacea was the firest girl we ever meet. We only meet Tatty and Bug after we created our Smile-X. We even Touched PanPan boob when we meet.

>>2561097
Please learn to spellcheck and proofread your posts.

>>2561102
No

>>2561097
first girl isn't always the first girl we meet, its the first girl that wants you and takes no work to get or maintain.
it just usually is cause all the waifus are perfect shits with no faults that say yes and let you stick it in their butts the first time.

>>2561097
If we get very technical, we "met" Vista before Panacea, and Rune before her, and we saw Taylor at the very first post of the quest.

>>2561151
So yeah, pipers first girl

>>2561190
There was that fight between the Empire and the PRT. I think they were trying to release Stormtiger from the PRT party van? We meet a lot of girls that day unless that's the even you are saying were we meet Vista and Rune

>>2561317
Rune was before the Stormtiger fight, we saw her through the window and didn't even fought her. Vista was the day after we fought Armsmaster the first time, on the pasta store, she got frozen by Clockblocker after we kicked his face. The PRT vs Empire fight was the day after that.
What a timeline we have.

>>2560920
We really are just making Armsmaster's life suffering, aren't we? I love it.

>>2560920
I just came back to check the thread on my phone.
Wtf guys?

...guess this is canon now.

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>>2561894

>>2560920
>>2561894
This is me The guy who apparently destroyed Arm-master's life forever. Oh god I didn't mean it I'm sooorrryyyyy ;_;

ID changed cause I'm at my Grandma's house.

>>2561055
I wanna vote for Piper because she's a gud gurl and in my top 3 waifu list in the quest but GADGETS! SCIENCE!

>>2561894
Is he going to go full villain? Will we be the batman to his joker?

>>2561894

What would qualify as a 'Bad day' scenario for Armsmaster?
The only thing that comes to my mind is the permanent death of Dragon.

>>2562352
>death of Dragon.
Do it, do it, do it!

>>2562352
My personal belief for his trigger event is a continual failure to measure up to others, maybe a sort of prodigy kid/normal kid sort of thing except he was the normal kid. Eventually this culminated in The other being publicly praised and him being denigrated or punished for not being as good . Then he triggers and gets a power about squeezing every bit of performance out of things that aren’t necessarily exceptional.

And second triggers come from similar situations.

>>2562352
He's regarded as one of the greatest Tinkers in the world and he's literally the most famous Hero right under the Triumvirate.

We've... kinda broken that image and reputation in half with absolutely no effort.

Having a literal madman run circles around you when you've faced Endbringers turns you into the largest butt of the joke in the world

So... yeah

>>2562407
So, we outshine him so much, to the point where he second triggers?

>>2562416
With /our/ luck *cough*Critsfordays*cough* I'd put even odds we cause him to /third/ trigger. Somehow. Which surprises the space whales as well

>>2560920
Let's see if I can do it again

On a nat 20 Taylor has another One Bad Day

>>2562704
Don't do it.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>2562704

>>2562732
Good job, Taylor just had the best day ever.

>>2562732

Wow. That contrast is certainly stark.

I guess having something to bond with her pops over has made all of the difference.

>>2562732
Thank you anon, for giving her a break she so richly deserved.

... please dont mean she joins the wards.

>>2562732
And for my last act of the night, Taylor finally gets a break. You're welcome.

>>2562415
I mean aren’t a S class threat?

Rolled 8 (1d20)

Rolling how Piper will managed to rape Manic because her ladyboner can't be controlled anymore.

>>2562786
>wormslut
>deserving anything good

>>2562852
I don't think we classify as a S class threat yet. Also if Armsy broke so easily he really is more our Harvey Dent rather then our Batman.

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>2562928
Supporting this roll.

Rolling to see how much we rock Piper's world

Rolled 11, 17, 15, 17, 12, 18, 14 = 104 (7d20)

>>2562928
>>2563051
Just clearing the dice pay no attention to the man behind the post

Rolled 19 (1d20)

So we are rolling for dumb shit? OK, rolling for LisaXTaylor to be canon.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>2563064
>One off
Almost...
Rolling to waifu Rebecca.

>>2563064
Damn that wasn't cannon? I dropped worm a touch before slaughterhouse 9000

>>2563067
One off

Rolled 2 (1d20)

Rolling to research Rebecca's powers and making a desintegration bomb/chemical.

>>2563067
Just one roll and I already beat all Piper's rolls, btfo.
>>2563077
Taylor is straight and Lisa doesn't feel attraction or romantic feelings. I don't blame you for dropping it, those parts kind of sucked but the last few arcs were worth it in my humble opinion.

What if we become The Human Endbringer?

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>2563089
Rolling to waifu Piper

Rolled 10, 6, 4, 3, 1, 17, 7 = 48 (7d20)

>>2563067
Rolling to see how much problems Rebecca gives us

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>2563102
From one to ten, how shitty is Piper?

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>2563105
From 1 to 10 how much of a jobber is Rebecca

>>2563115
...The dice are against me it seems.

They only want Arm-master suffering it looks like.

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>2563115
From 1 to 10 how much of a jobber is Armsmaster

THE DICE KNOW

>>2563121
Rolling to see how much the dice likes to disagree with me to watch me suffer

>>2563115
Still me btw

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>>2563138
>Mfw the dice don’t even show up

Rolled 17 (1d20)

Rolling for armsmaster luck

>>2563140
;_;

>>2563155
Tfw Leet is real

A note for future smilex:

We could create a delayed trigger version. So we can say dose a banquet with it and walk in half an hour later.

Also might be useful when combined with our painter freind, since he can have his painting shift when someone triggers it, releasing an aerosol smilex. We just have to mix our stuff into his artwork.

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"So I've been thinking, and I still don't know what you guys actually want out of this whole "joining up with me" thing. Apart from money and safety I mean, which are good reasons. But still, what do you guys want to happen after all of this?"

The assembled gang members actually look rather surprised at this, and they look between each other for a second before Tattletale answers with a grin.

"I mostly just wanted to get away from Coil, guy was a creep and tried to kill me."

Bitch's reply is shorter, Which frankly you should've expected, she's not really a talker.
"I got dogs to look after, lots of them. I need money for that."

You wait for a second, but that's it.

Regent proves to be a bit more verbose with his response, though his reasons don't get much deeper. "I mostly just follow Grue and the others, I'm kinda low maintenance."

Grue's a bit more hesitant to answer, and he quite clearly takes some time to figure out the right way of saying what he what he needs to. "I have some family I need to look after, and what I was getting from Coil kind of fell through. I wasn't going to just let him kill my team. As for joining up with you specifically? The Empire and ABB certainly aren't going to take me, and I'm not disgusting enough to join the Merchants. The city's changing, and I have to be on the winning side if I'm gonna protect what's mine."

Fair enough, very pragmatic arguments. But you can live with that.

Piper just wanted to not be kidnapped by the ABB, another very understandable goal.

You ask for suggestions, but the Undersiders explain that planning happens to be more Tattletale's thing, and so far you've been doing a good job between you two.

Some time later the pizza is finished, and the meeting draws to an end.

You have a few hours left in the day, wonder what to do now?

Barnaby/Manic
Status:Not OK
[Need] 5/20
[Gene Fragmentation]10/60
Karma:-5
Money: 5,400 Dollars
Current power Understanding: Superhuman Gymnast and Tinker powers. Immune to poison, heightened senses.
You have ten Alloy Cards the Trickster's boots and Garb equipped. You have a Revolver and gas grenades. alongside your old knife.

Happy Zappers:Gloves that Electrocute Enemies: non lethal.
Madman's garb: heavy torso armour, full face helmet. strength enhancement
Trickster's garb, partial face mask. Lightly reinforced. dark colours for stealth. Molecular resistance field, basically mini krieg.
The cane also contains a directional electromagnet that allows you to recall your cards after they've been thrown, or technically anything magnetic enough for the beam to affect.

Do some Tinkering
Time to play with Chemicals
Explore the City
Go perform Heroic acts
Go Do some Villainy
Food tho
Open Research Screen
New Outfit
>write in.

>>2563310
>do some tinkering
A new weapon to incapacitate capes

>>2563310
Time to play with Chemicals
Gotta change up our smileX to keep it useful against PRT capes. Maybe make a few other tricks too.

>>2563310
Time to play with Chemicals
GeneMod Piper she is a good girl

>>2563310
Tinkering

Time for gadgets!

>>2563310
>>2563327
Switching to Chemicals

I wanna make Grue into Grue Rider

>>2563310
>Time to play woth some chemicals
I wanna see if we can't make our own non-addictive harmless drug. Like watered down SmileX and Morphine in an asthma tube thing you know, some thing you could break out at parties and people would think you're cool for it.

Alright, >Playing with chemicals wins.

>Bring up Gene mods to your Maniacs
>Try to make drugs.
>Random tinkering.

>>2563333
Actually if we make actual healing regen smilex could we sell it (unofficially) for profit?

Like we sell it in a paper thin disguise that we say that totally isn't ours but totally is

>>2563339
oh also
>test the weird blue stuff

>>2563339
>Bring up Gene mods to your Maniacs

We give them an edge /and/ we get data! Win-win!

>>2563342
Also what's the blue stuff again?

>>2563344
You made it when you were trying to find a medical way to fix Regent. According to your power it is "Imperfect."

Apart from that you have no idea

>>2563339
>Bring up Gene mods to your Maniacs

>>2563339

What do you mean by Gene mods Zion? Can we try inducing parahuman abilities in our new pals?

>>2563339
Can we modify our smilex to have multiple transmission vectors e.g. absorbed by skin and air soluble?

>>2563347

Ooooh right. Forgot about that. Thanks

Also could we call the blue stuff The Splooge?

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Alright so I'm now caught up to the quest and I noticed from the bank heist that we're starting to get predictable with our kit, which as a character based on the joker isn't good. I know we're working with chemicals at the moment but I've thought of a couple of more straight forward weapons at the moment that people might be into. Gonna be a couple posts for pics and explanations.

First off, how about a large circular saw on a stick? it could also be an add on to Manic's cane that can come on and off, and compress down to an easy to carry side canister.

>>2563353
>>2563339
I'd second this

>>2563352
You have a big tank that you can dump people in and modify their DNA with.
You wouldn't be Triggering people (unless something went really badly wrong) but you might be able to screw with them in a way that makes them stronger, tougher or otherwise superhuman.

>>2563353
>>2563339
I'd second this

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>>2563355
Second, this was brought up before, but how about a shit ton of marbles, a mix of regular and explosive/gas carrying. can be thrown, tossed on the ground for enemies to slip on, and shit with a high powered slingshot. The slingshot could also be a one handed slingshot/crossbow hybrid.

>>2563339
gonna vote for refining the blue stuff.

>>2563357

Alright, but could we find a way to intentionally trigger them by tinkering some kind of awful pain box and stuffing them into it.
I know canonically triggering is achieved through extreme stress, and attempts to artificially induce it have been largely unsuccessful, but could we try our hand with it, and would it be possible to succeed?

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>>2563359
>>2563355
Our knife is great and all but we need something that'll really cut through the competition. I was thinking either a vibroblade or a chain blade knife. Maybe a set, with a larger machete style blade and a smaller knife on our side. A hand guard would also be a good idea, knife fights require getting close and some extra finger protection for no real cost is a boon.

>>2563339
>Bring up Gene mods to your Maniacs

>>2563355
We need to have a giant lolli pop chainsaw. Should use it to deface some statues.

>>2563364
>>2563359
>>2563355
Now, I was thinking the teeth bear traps like you guys were talking before and anons like this>>2563317
but we take one bigger one and put it on a chain, spinning and slinging it at enemies that'll take a bite on impact. Would be really damaging, and pretty cool looking.

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>>2563368
shit, forgot pic

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>>2563363
1, Gene Mods
2, Modify SmileX

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>>2563368
>>2563364
>>2563359
>>2563355
>>2563355
Next idea, one word
boomerangs, just every kind of boomerang we can think of. Blunt, sharp, explosive, homing, the sky's the limit.

>>2563355
Sounds pretty situational to me, we allready have Cards that cut anything why bother with a saw?

I'm gonna need a D20+2

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>>2563377

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>>2563377

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>>2563375
close range melee that tears right through opponents, with a big intimidation factor to it.
>>2563377

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>>2563372
First Quads and then I win a coin toss! Today is a good day

>>2563377

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>>2563377

Well, no crits yet lads.
15: Pretty gud
writing

>>2563359
Wait I just thought of something, what if the marble were really bouncy, hard rubber instead. Manic could make angled shot and hit people with ricochet shots. Maybe even hit multiple people if we line up a really good shot.

>>2563375
If anything we should find a way to increase the degree of articulation over our cards. Give ourselves to do tricks more complex than the 'Recall' function of our cane.

>>2563385
The others seem to have spent all the good rolls while you were battling your cousin atop Big Ben.

>>2563381
Dont get me wrong i like the idea, but i just cant see the Maniac going through his enemys like his namesake. And right now we would only use it on villans, unless were not in control, atleast thats what the theme has been until now. And i think were fine on intimidation for now.

>>2563395
Eh, alright I guess. still need to update our bag of tricks badly though. When people start figuring out our tricks it just makes it harder for us. I love the chemical stuff we do but we've got to build up our tech arsenal too.

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>>2563379
And our baby get even more pretty!!

>>2563396
Agreed.
But i like to keep i joker themed.
Marbels, SprayFlower, Windup teeth

>>2563386
Would be more effective in close quarter rather then in open areas. But instead of marbles make it be magic jumping beans.

>>2563396
https://pastebin.com/BQNmJ6F2

Just re posting rhw pastebin with the weapons ideas.

>>2563368
>>2563400
Guys... windup teeth bear traps that keep chomping... ON A CHAIN!

>>2563406
Sounds dumb.

>>2563410
>>2563406
I'm into it though I was the one who thought of it so of course I'd be

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>>2563410
>>2563406
>>2563400
How about pie bombs pie shaped bombs? whatever

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As you sit down to your workshop, you decide that it's not going to be long before your gas is useless, too many of the people that you're going up against have access to gas masks. You're going to have to make some adjustments.

You spend a while thinking on some ideas for your new gas, if you could make it a contact gas then they'd have to wear full chem gear in order to get around it.

Yeah that's a good idea.

You put yourself into the strange half trance that you've become so familiar with, just enough control to shape your new creation.

You make a second smaller vat of SmileX in case something goes wrong, and you begin making all sorts of adjustments. After a few hours you slip out of your power imposed fugue and inspect the results, you water it down to non-lethal levels and rub some on a passing minion, watching as he slowly starts giggling. It kind of works, but not nearly strong enough to actually be worth it in a fight. Well, you know it's possible at least.

Upgrade SmileX: 1 of ??? complete.

You head to bed afterwards, and dream of sharp things.

You awaken the next day, and after breakfast you sit down to ponder your new plans.


Sunday 17th of April.

Barnaby/Manic
Status:Not OK
[Need] 4/20
[Gene Fragmentation]10/60
Karma:-5
Money: 5,400 Dollars
Current power Understanding: Superhuman Gymnast and Tinker powers. Immune to poison, heightened senses.
You have ten Alloy Cards the Trickster's boots and Garb equipped. You have a Revolver and gas grenades. alongside your old knife.

Happy Zappers:Gloves that Electrocute Enemies: non lethal.
Madman's garb: heavy torso armour, full face helmet. strength enhancement
Trickster's garb, partial face mask. Lightly reinforced. dark colours for stealth. Molecular resistance field, basically mini krieg.
[Trickster's Cane]
This is a metal cane with an outer shell made of the same metal as your cards but smooth instead of sharp(obviously) it doesn't cut through things in the same way. Instead it softens whatever it hits and deforms it.
The cane also contains a directional electromagnet that allows you to recall your cards after they've been thrown, or technically anything magnetic enough for the beam to affect.

Do some Tinkering
Time to play with Chemicals
Explore the City
Go perform Heroic acts
Go Do some Villainy
Food tho
Open Research Screen
New Outfit

>>2563427
>Open Research Screen

Make gear to our crew. Also i would like to research Ken's power see if we can mix some of our alloy in his painting (just like they used to do with lead in the painting) to give him some attack options.

>>2563427
>Open Research Screen
Time to build up our personal arsenal

>>2563404

> Clown nose respirator: A clown nose that works like a high-quality gasmask, provided you only breathe through your nose.

> Unexpectedly-fast tiny tricycle: Reverse engineered from Armsmaster's bike, accelerates to frankly ludicrous speeds in an extremely short period of time. Nobody would suspect it.

Resilient bubble blower: Blows extremely large bubbles which are stubbornly resistant to kinetic and puncturing force. After having settled against a surface for several minutes they harden into crusty spheres. In this solid state they can be easily destroyed.

>>2563427
>Tinker

We have so much developmental and analysis shit on the backburner that we need to get to.

>>2563427
>Do some Tinkering
Get the damn disguise already so we can finish to unfuck our genetics.

>>2563427
>Do some Tinkering
Inconel card launchers for the mooks.

>>2563427
Open Research Screen

Defense upgrades or doing something with tats and the Nazi bank info

>>2563439
It's basicaly a arms race at this point. We need to have more gear but also help our crew maybe give Tatty some orders so we can focus on our tinkering/research development.

>>2563427
Explore the City

We need to know what to look at for our future plans.

Time to start delegating tasks to the rest of the team

>>2563427
>Open Research Screen

well, we appear to be tied again.

1:Research
2:Tinkering.

>>2563451
>2

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>>2563451

>>2563447
That's what research is.We look into capes and also how to upgrade both our lair and our minions gears.

Building Reinforcements: unlocks defences for the Hideout.
Machine Shop: Sometimes a tinker needs ways of going EVEN FASTER
Research Capes: May give you an idea for a new Item based on the powers of others.
Blue Stuff: What is it really?
Euclidian Nightmare Tech: Armsmaster's Speciality
Unfuck Your Genetics 4
Armsmaster's Arm counter:2

>>2563470
>Euclidian Nightmare Tech: Armsmaster's Speciality
Operation Clown Car is go

>>2563470
>Building Reinforcements: unlocks defences for the Hideout.
I want this shit to be Bakudaproof.

>>2563470
Euclidian Nightmare Tech: Armsmaster's Speciality

>>2563470
>Euclidian Nightmare Tech: Armsmaster's Speciality

>>2563475
The girl can create black hole bombs...i doubt anything we can build can resist that.

>>2563470
>Blue Stuff: What is it really?

>>2563470
>Building Reinforcements: unlocks defences for the Hideout.


You guys remember our lab can be raided and everything we researched can be stolen and copyd by other capes.

>>2563474
>>2563479
Is that the arm or the bike? Also wouldn't we need the Machine shop to build the clown car?

>>2563470
>Building Reinforcements: unlocks defences for the Hideout.

>>2563404

> Concussive balloons: Look like ordinary party balloons. However, when ruptured they will produce a shockwave of force equivalent to a concussion grenade. This effect can cascade through multiple balloons.

> Lunatic's gleam: Powerful projectors set into the eyes of Manic's mask can toggled on or off. When on, these projectors fill the eyesockets of Manic's mask with blinding pools of intense light. They serve intimidation purposes, but also stealth purposes. (Have you ever flashed yourself in the eyes with a heavy-duty torch and then tried looking around a dark room?)

> Voice projector: A Tinkerteck device installed in the mask that not only amplifies the wearer voice (or laughter), but can also 'throw' the sound. Making it seem as though the speaker is in a different location, or is somehow everywhere at once.

>>2563483
This guy has a point.
>>2563470
Changing my vote to:

>Building Reinforcements: unlocks defences for the Hideout.

>>2563485
Both I assume, they're all armmaster tech

Building reinforcements wins.
roll me D20+3

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>>2563497

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>>2563497

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>>2563497

>>2563503
IT BEGINS

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>>2563503
I was wondering where all the crits were.

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>>2563503
NOW WE ARE TALKING

>>2563503
Funniest part about this was I almost didn't vote because I'm about to go take my next final. Then I noticed the post and rolled real quick.

>>2563503

Nice

>>2563404

I've got one more idea, then I'll stop.

> Adhesive pie: Reverse engineered from PRT containment foam. This tool appears to be a typical custard cream pie, however upon crust being broken an extremely rubbery foam froths out of the pie that will cling tightly to any surface it touches. Once the adhesive sets it is extremely difficult to damage or dislodge, proving resistant to heating, freezing and cutting. However, liberally dousing the adhesive with concentrated ammonia will almost immediately dissolve the compound.

>>2563503
MANIC LUCK STRIKES AGAIN

I wonder how quests we're stealing 20s from are faring.

>>2563439
>Hi speed tricycle
I never knew I wanted this.

>>2563539
Frontier knight quest. They rolled two 1 in a row.

>>2563527
All added to the bin anon.~

https://pastebin.com/BQNmJ6F2

You sit down with the others and set to work really fortifying the chemical plant. Tattletale proves invaluable in this, pointing out likely avenues of attack and good places to put traps.

You've made some gas masks for your gang as the main defence for your base. They are used for the second phase of your plan. Should anyone attack the chem plant, you've hooked the old sprinkler system up to a vat full of gaseous and highly pressurised (but non lethal in case of misfires) Laughing Gas.

You also start creating a secret passage hidden in your workshop, it leads out into the a clear section of the destroyed Admin building and is hidden rather well, being under a significant amount of debris.

The gas masks are also useful for when your men go on missions, and should come in very handy.

It's the afternoon now and like before, Grue and Regent head out for dinner as you decide what else to do today.

Barnaby/Manic
Status:Not OK
[Need] 3/20
[Gene Fragmentation]10/60
Karma:-5
Money: 5,400 Dollars
Current power Understanding: Superhuman Gymnast and Tinker powers. Immune to poison, heightened senses.
You have ten Alloy Cards the Trickster's boots and Garb equipped. You have a Revolver and gas grenades. alongside your old knife.

Happy Zappers:Gloves that Electrocute Enemies: non lethal.
Madman's garb: heavy torso armour, full face helmet. strength enhancement
Trickster's garb, partial face mask. Lightly reinforced. dark colours for stealth. Molecular resistance field, basically mini krieg.
[Trickster's Cane]
This is a metal cane with an outer shell made of the same metal as your cards but smooth instead of sharp(obviously) it doesn't cut through things in the same way. Instead it softens whatever it hits and deforms it.
The cane also contains a directional electromagnet that allows you to recall your cards after they've been thrown, or technically anything magnetic enough for the beam to affect.

Do some Tinkering
Time to play with Chemicals
Explore the City
Go perform Heroic acts
Go Do some Villainy
Food tho
Open Research Screen
New Outfit
>write in.

>>2563586
>New Outfit
The disguiiiiiiise guuuuuuys

>>2563595
We really need to focus on information gathering + defences. We really pissed a lot of people off.

Establishing a secondary base is probably a good idea.

As is researching public perception/ PRT perception / opponent perceptions.

Give Tattletale the laptop btw

>>2563595
later we need gear!!

>>2563586

>Open Research Screen

give me my meds Doctor Manic!

>>2563603
We really do need to delegate more.

Just saying, we might get shot in the throat again and we will wish we had done the goddamn genetic research side mission.

>>2563603
What if we hired someone to create a suggestion website for Manic, and sourced information from it ?

Sitting down and grinding information/support/tools is probably a good idea for now. We just killed a ton of people. How have we not taken a look at the news regarding the slaughter we just perpetrated.

>>2563604

Support.

Later, we need to do some good/benign deeds to rebalance our Karma. Such as saving a kitten from a tree, then forcing it to wear a tiny hat and a set of boots.

>>2563620
goals before karma right now. Our opponents are acting strongly now.
We need to be both prepping for them AND figuring out what's going on against us.

>>2563586
Open Research Screen

>>2563586
>Do some Tinkering

Research wins.
Building Reinforcements: unlocks defences for the Hideout.
Machine Shop: Sometimes a tinker needs ways of going EVEN FASTER
Research Capes: May give you an idea for a new Item based on the powers of others.
Blue Stuff: What is it really?
Euclidian Nightmare Tech: Armsmaster's Speciality
Unfuck Your Genetics 4
Armsmaster's Arm counter:2

>>2563586
>Open Research Screen

>>2563644
>Blue Stuff: What is it really?

>>2563644
>Blue Stuff: What is it really?

>>2563644
If we're researching, we need the quick patch fluid more.

>>2563644
>>Blue Stuff: What is it really?
We won't always have access to Worst Girl. Best have our own medicine at the ready

>>2563644
Blue Stuff: What is it really?

>>2563644
>>>Blue Stuff: What is it really?

>>2563662
>won't always have access
>just held her hostage and threw her in the trash

Yeah it prob ain't happenin again.

If it does, she goes back in the trash.

>>2563644
>>Blue Stuff: What is it really?

>>2563671

Let's be fair, considering what Tattletale did to her an unvoluntary dumpster dive is downright tame. Besides she could use the laughs she'll get looking back at those innocent bygone days while she's drinking herself into a stupor.

Because god forbid something actually good happens in her life, the poor bastard.

What the Fuck even is this blue stuff.
D20+1

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>>2563679

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>>2563679

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>>2563679
Smurfine?

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>>2563679
Here we go!

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>>2563679

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>>2563679

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>>2563679

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>>2563679
ImaBlueAbadiBaBlueAbadida

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>>2563680

>>2563682
You son of a bitch you blocked me.

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>>2563679

9:Not so gud

Use Tattletale?
Just stab someone with it?
Just let it be?

>>2563698
>Use Tattletale?

MINION GET IN HERE, WE NEED SOME HELP WITH THE MAD SCI-, I MEAN TOTALLY LEGIT MEDICINE.

>>2563698
>Just let it be
We'll get it next time.

>>2563698
Sorry Tats, but we need you.

>Use Tattletale

>>2563698
>Use Tattletale?

TATTY GET IN HERE!!

>>2563698
Note: we need to make tattletale an assistant lab partner outfit. Like Ysma and kronk.

>>2563704
We can get it now. It will tire her bit but then again it's the afternoon so it's fine~

>inb4 Bakuda start blowinv shit up.

>>2563710

All the more reason to have bullshit medicine on hand.

>>2563707
Note to self: Acquire assistant gear to Tatty, and give her a spare gear to the lab.

>>2563707
Additional notes: we must construct SCIENCE COASTER and CROCODILE PIT

Help me Tatty
writing.

>>2563719

Only if the crocodiles are toys that look like harmless toddler toys at first and then turn into bloodthirsty killing machines.

>>2563721
see, we should've captured a gangster for medical testing.

Ain't nothing wrong with human experimentation, no siree

>>2563698
fuck, stabbing alabastard with it would have been fun.
Might have upgraded his power for all we know though

>>2563730
>alabaster gets cancer from it
>becomes deadpool-esque insane from continual eternal torture

I'm okay with this

>>2563724
Of course. we are Manic, we could hardly do it any other way. On another note, I do like how you have no complaints about the science coaster part.

>>2563739
what exactly is a science coaster?

>>2563724
totally want a piranha pit that's actually just comet fish and koi fish.


Which then has a high current go through it after a short while

>>2563707
I'm all for that, we could use a lab assistant. On that note, besides the extra street clothes to blend in to the crowd, our cape outfit could use an upgrade. We're a lot more established since we made the old straight jacket and building something stronger, while keeping and upgrading the Joker hair helmet, would certainly help to beef us up. Maybe go the way of The Batman's Joker and adopt some of the Iconic joker look? I'm thinking a heavy armored coat, with inlaid plating. Knee and elbow pads also built in for hard strikes and protection. and maybe somewhat poofy pants to keep some of that maniac manic look with an upgrade to our booster shoes. All in the iconic green and purple, shit's cash. Plus it would look better with our cane and spray flower if we ever get that.

>>2563743
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glE2EdWbmKU
This, for you see it leads to science

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>>2563753
something kind of like this, not the exact look.

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>>2563763
Maybe a heavier coat

>>2563766
So weird to see a 'normal face' version of the Joker.

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>>2563763
Wait, what about a collapsible shield?

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>>2563786
And Manic could toss it like Cap does.

>>2563788
Why not go a step further and turn our buzzer gloves into conductor gloves and steer our cards as well?

Thought on our gloves: we should give them an alternating setting so that when we zap that girl who can only block one attack, if we use two hands in quick succession of each other we can actually hit.

>>2563801
And maybe armor them up a bit and recolor it to match our costume too.

>>2563811
Do note that we arnt stronger than the average joe, nor have we been working out.

Theres only so much you can get away with on the armor and power supply department before the sheer weight starts becoming a problem. Being slowed down will get us killed since we rely on speed and gadgetry.

Not to mention armored gloves are bulky and would hamper things like our card accuracy.

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You attempt multiple times to decipher the secret of the strange blue goo, but your power seems intent on simply discarding it as useless. Some time later you throw up your hands and call in your research assistant. Striding back and forth in a huff as the smug blonde goes over your notes in her pyjamas.

"You know, if you're gonna keep calling me in here I should probably get a raise. The headaches alone are really killing me boss."

"Are you kidding? If I was paying you what you were worth I'd be bankrupt. You're going to have to survive with the medical plan.

She's smiling as she hands the now annotated notes over to you and pops a much lower dose of your pain medicine from last time, heading swiftly back towards the bedrooms. "Oh yes, slowly having your bones replaced with tinkertech through invasive surgery. My favourite."


"You're just jealous that Alec gets an awesome robot leg, next time you'll just have to try harder to be wounded.

Her only response to that is a pained grunt as she heads out the door.

Turns out your Blue GooTM is a powerful growth and cell regeneration serum, with the minor side effect of causing the subject to fall into a forty eight hour coma. Huh.


You're interrupted by a series of colossal booms from outside, a smoke cloud rising from the direction of the boardwalk as a wave of dust and ash radiates outwards.

"Shit, that's bad."

You head out into the common room and see Piper flicking through news channels. And you hear a a particularly shitty piece of news, the type of Bad News that has capital letters and you have to stop and think about.

"Videos from the scene have revealed that the Protectorate building seems to have been heavily damaged, and so far neither the Parahuman Response Task-force or the Protectorate are answering calls, this is Darren Hall of the Brockton Bulletin, and we will be right back with news as it develops." The picture is what sticks in your head, half of the Protectorate building is just blasted to pieces.

If it was that bad then you should help. There's no love lost between you and the Protectorate but whoever did this is way out of line.
Hunker down and look after your people, there's no sense in risking your lives.
There has to be some way you can turn this to your advantage, Get some Villainy done.
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