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>>2569415
lets see how this thread goes

>>2569415
Oh thank god. I was getting worried that, there wouldn't be a thread today

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>>2569415
LETS ROC

>>2569427
Posting the pastebin with the ideas for gadgets.

https://pastebin.com/BQNmJ6F2

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The night is quiet after the events of the day, but you sleep fitfully regardless. The city isn't safe for anyone now, neither citizens or capes. Your exhaustion clearly shows in the morning, and Piper remarks several times that you look unwell. You don't have time to waste however, one of the gangs has just shattered the law enforcement in your city and you need to find them.
Or profit off the chaos, one of the two.

Barnaby/Manic
Status:Not OK
[Need] 0/20
[Gene Fragmentation]10/60
Karma:5
Money: 5,100 Dollars [-300 daily]
Current power Understanding: Mutating body 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
Armsmaster gave you his number, maybe you should speak to him.
You should find whoever blew up like a quarter of the city.

>write in.

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.
Ken: Can create and control paintings, they can move and create noise.
Rebecca: Can disintegrate non living materials.

>>2569439
Honestly may need a pastebins for:
Existing Gear
Possible research
Characters
Goals

The time of lists is upon us

>>2569452
>Armsmaster gave you his number, maybe you should speak to him.
lets work with armsy to figure that out

>>2569452
>Armsmaster gave you his number, maybe you should speak to him.
Uh, wouldn't he be tracking the call?

Voting for
>Do some Tinkering
I say we make some of those rattling teeth traps or something.

>>2569452
May wanna boost that Money if we're doing maintenance costs.
We gave everyone a cut of the last heist

Or separate personal from slush fund. I dunno I'm just throwing shit at a wall.

>make contact with Armsmaster from a distant payphone.

Also we need to delegate some of the investigation work. Put tattle in charge of that, let her allocate what resources she needs so she doesn't put all the work on her own back.

>>2569452
Armsmaster gave you his number, maybe you should speak to him.
And while on the phone
>Play with chemicals

>>2569452
>You should find whoever blew up like a quarter of the city.
We need to find them, but only that for now.
I wanna get some tinkering done before our next encounter.

>>2569452

Delegate Tatty to:
>You should find whoever blew up like a quarter of the city.

Then while she does that we get in our shop and get to:

>Do some Tinkering

>>2569461
What are payphones?

>>2569452
Isn’t Regent a sociopath?

>>2569469
Do those still exist in the Year of Our Lord 2016?

>>2569470
right yes, i keep forgetting to edit that in my notepad.

>>2569466
I support delegating that to TT but think we should call arms and try and coordinate investigation

>>2569453
>Existing Gear
If you get the trouble to read the QM always posts a small list of our curre t gear.

>Possible research

We only see that when we open the research option.

>Characters
The QM always lets a small comment of what the important characters do and if you have doubt just check the worm wiki.

>Goals
Get money, fight the gangs and have the last laugh.

>>2569452
>You should find whoever blew up like a quarter of the city.
Also what exactly are our brothers powers?

>>2569452
>Armsmaster gave you his number, maybe you should speak to him.
Get the rest to look into our Brockton Bomber

>>2569474
They exist in the quest yes.

>>2569484
He's a Tinker who does guns.

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>>2569490
Huh.

>>2569474
We used it to call Coil. We can also buy burner phones as was discussed earlier and in Parahuman Quest.

>>2569452
>Armsmaster gave you his number, maybe you should speak to him.

>>2569435
>No elephant for scale
Huhn. I'm genuinely disappointed.

>You should find whoever blew up like a quarter of the city.

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>>2569493
Context.

>>2569496
>Thinkering
He's a Thinker and a Tinker?

>>2569498
We could just build a burned phone to. Just replace the inside of the phone we used to call Coil.

>>2569505
No i just fucked up with phone posting

Call armsy with a side of "HEY TATS. GET ON THE CASE"
writing.

>>2569507
... that kinda tech may be out of our general purview.

It's probably easier to BUY a burner phone via delegating a ganger to buy one for us.

>>2569515
True. Besides it would be easier to buy then build something like that.

Assuming we don't spend money or increase expenses, we have enough dosh to last 17 days.

>>2569542
Then we go and do the gallery job!

>>2569544
That or we ransack all the ABB operations we can find.

Yo my dudes, you know what we COULD do? We could parody that faggot Gambino's This is America, while massacring E88 and ABB thugs. Like a rap music video editing footage of shootings and car bombings with our Manic Laughter™, bringing a message to youths to fight back and join us.

This is Mania?
This is Brocton Bay?

I think there's some serious potential for royalties and recruitment here, what do you guys think?

>>2569574
Well...we still have the cooked books info...

>>2569597
For the E88 not the ABB

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You should probably get back to Armsmaster as quickly as possible, but luckily your gang happens to include a rather powerful thinker in the form of Tattletale. So you delegate the task of discovering the unknown bomber to your gang members before heading out to use one of the many payphones scattered around your industrial district.

Tattletale gives you a smug smile and salute as you head out to make your call.

"Hey Armsy! Normally you wouldn't be my type but hey, it'd be rude not to call back after a night like that. What's up buddy?"

"Manic, I want to talk about the bomber who took out the PRT. I know you have a thinker." He pauses for a moment, then sighs before continuing. "I'm no longer the leader of the Protectorate for Brockton, so technically I don't have the authority to do this but the others would never agree. Especially not Dauntless. I want to work with you, just until we get this situation over and done with. I'll be patrolling the borders of the gangs' territory. When your thinker finds whoever did this I want in, send me a message on this number."

He pauses for a few seconds longer before continuing almost sheepishly.
"Oh right, if you want my help that is."

Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though.
Nah, You stay in the boardwalk.
Write in

>>2569606
>Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though

>>2569606
if your willing to risk your rep to hang with me
it could be a right laugh

>>2569606
>Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask day though.

>>2569606
>Nah, You stay in the boardwalk.
THIS IS OUR FUN AND OUR FUN ALONE
I'm serious about the recruitment drive too my dudes, we only have like what, 19 people including us? We need money and manpower.

Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though.

>>2569606
Laugh. Just laugh for the longest time. When we stop and he tries to talk laugh again. Then eventually say maybe.

>>2569606
>Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though.

.... Colin, are you showing character development before the S9 show up?

I'M SO FUGGIN PROUD

>>2569606
>Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though.

>>2569606
this>>2569616

>>2569621
Also say we want his arm.

>>2569606
>Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though.

>>2569606
>Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though.
he was our role model and having him reformed like this would be absolutely amazing. He's practically forgiven us entirely for lopping off his arm

>>2569606
>Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though.
Thus we work to get our hooks into the local protectorate and perhaps get our greasy mitts on another tinker. And promise him ice-cream if he can get help from some of the other PRT heroes.

>>2569606
>Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though.
We'll call Armsy again once we know who and where the bomber is and talk details then.

If he wants to keep his rep intact we can't just rush the bomber at the same time.

>>2569606
Supporting:>>2569616

How’s he kno we have a thinker?

>>2569616
Actually, backing this.

>>2569633
>>2569630
>>2569622


>bring your own gas mask

If he's willing to put his reputation on the line for us, I'm willing to attempt nonlethality at least as far as the teamup goes.

We'll have to coordinate before any action though. Don't want us stepping on each others shoes.

Maybe apologise for removing his arm... Maybe. We still want more arms. Make an armsmaster arm tribute in the future.

>>2569643
Probably cause he knew the Undersiders had one and has seen us with their members a couple of times. Least ways, I'm pretty sure they knew what to categorise Tatts as

>>2569643
we've been running in public with the crew of the undersiders. even if we havent been spotted with tat, its still pretty obvious shes with us

tallying up the votes. gimme a sec.

>>2569616
>>2569648
+1
>>2569628
>>2569648
>Maybe apologise for removing his arm... Maybe. We still want more arms. Make an armsmaster arm tribute in the future.
We should strive for all of his arms, including his Useless Over-designed piece of crap Halberd.

If you're gonna risk your neck then sure.
I'll call you when I have info
writing.

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>>2569664
>>2569667
>when anons think your write is in good
everything is going according to the plan

>>2569669
>Bionicle
>remember about that quest on pc in 2000's

Goddamn I am old

>>2569669
Don't get cocky kid.


On a unrelated note what can we yse to screw up with missiles and bombs? Something to fuck up the signal to detonate a bomb? Wouldn't work with a grenade but that is something.

>>2569671

We all are. Still, those were some good times while they lasted. I think I actually had hope back then.

>>2569669
>Idontfeelsogood.meme

>>2569606
>Yeah sure dude. it's bring your own gas mask though

>>2569753
The voting is over dude.

>>2569759
that's what i get for phoneposting, oh well

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That's not quite what you expected, he's usually a bit more reluctant to get his hand dirty than that.
"Huh, okay yeah. It's your reputation man, just remember to bring a gas mask. I'll give you a call when I have something."

You hang up the phone after his grunt of acknowledgement and stand for a second or so, processing the situation. Most of you is somewhat uncomfortable working with the Protectorate, especially one you so recently chewed out on live television. There's still a tiny voice in the back of your head that's excited though, damn traitor.

You find your way back to the Hideout a while later. When you enter the main room you find Tattletale and half your gang sat around am array of whiteboards and laptops, furiously googling, watching news reports and occasionally shouting what you assume is relevant information to Tats, who is sat in the middle of the floor and tapping on her laptop furiously. It's actually kind of funny.

She looks up as you enter, face twisted in a manic grin.
"Hey boss, nothing yet, but we're getting close."

Barnaby/Manic
Status:Not OK
[Need] 7/20
[Gene Fragmentation]10/60
Karma:5
Money: 5,100 Dollars [-300 Daily]
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.


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
>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.
Ken: Can create and control paintings, they can move and create noise.
Rebecca: Can disintegrate non living materials.

>>2569669
Can we squeal like a fan girl?

We're teaming with our rolemodel.
Granted he got complacent, but this is an attempt. More than we've seen in years.

>>2569823
I want my Venom goons!

>>2569832
Oh oops I forgot to vote
>>2569823
>Time to play with Chemicals

>>2569823
>Do some Tinkering
Maybe its time for some anti-explosion protection.

>>2569823
>Time to play with Chemicals

Our Gas is known, we're gonna need a game changer if we intend to do some damage.

>>2569823
>Time to play with Chemicals

>>2569823
Call home

>>2569823
>write in: You have that blood sample from Lung AND a scale from him. Time to see what you can do and if you can replicate his regeneration powers.

>>2569823
>>Time to play with Chemicals

I wonder if we can make dna bombs that target a single person.
Could just add some lung and bakuda in it and gas it all over the city.

>>2569842
seconded

Hey Zion i did a thing for you.

https://pastebin.com/UpfAs6NT

>>2569823
>Time to play with Chemicals

>>2569851
>https://pastebin.com/UpfAs6NT
nice

>>2569842
third

But if we figure how his regeneration works... Maybe we can learn how to remove it.

I know we shouldn't kill all the cape gangsters... but manic don't know that.

>>2569823
>Do some Tinkering
Fragmentation Dice

>She looks up as you enter, face twisted in a manic grin.

Don't try to think how that is hot Manic...

>>2569823
>Do some Tinkering
Anti-splosion counter measures are go.
>>2569844
We might have the Lung but we don't even know Bakuda exists IC

sorry guys, i have college tomorrow so we'll call it here. i'll be back tomorrow.

>>2569887
K boss. See you next time

>>2569887

Alrighty, see ya tomorrow.

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>>2569887
now that [s] mata nui [/s] zion is asleep I shall be the [s]great spirit [/s] QM

>>2569939
You suck.

Learn how to spoiler.

>>2569677
>>2569671
Wait was it that one where you were a blue bionicle and you get chosen to do something over someone else? I kind of remember that from when I was a little kid. Never got too far in it because again, really little kid.

>>2569965
that would be the second Mata Nui Online Game
you are hahli and are choosen to be kohlii champion over kotu and your teammate is macku

>>2569977
I don't remember the names but the situation I definitely remember. Now I want to go play it again

>>2569985
id recommend the first one over the second
the old web site isnit still there but biomedia project has preserved all the old games

>>2569887
You are my dealer and I need my fix Zion.

>>2569842
+1

>>2569842
i like dis

Rolled 19 (1d20)

Rolling to see if we end up with a Cape who just wants a quiet life.

>>2570259
19
Nineteen
Nine teen
Nine queen

>>2570259
That's a pretty Killer roll

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>2570259
Rolling for Siberian.

Rolled 16 (1d20)

Rolling for Ken to beat Bakuda

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>2570283
Not too bad. Rolling for Rebecca to beat Bakuda.

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>>2570259
>>2570269
>>2570274
oh lawd

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>2570285
Oooff. Lets see if Giggleswitch fares better.

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>2570288
Not for a lot. Then, will Piper beat Bakuda, or die trying?

>>2570259
So Tatty?

>>2570318
Pretty sure Tatty finds us interesting and fun to work for so far, so she is probably viable.

Still hoping Piper works up the gonads to go for the gonads though.

>>2570326
If we unlock Lungs regeneration i believe Piper would be a person eager to be gene moded. If we could at least unlock a strength serum from some other cape...man now i regret not taking a sample from GG but i guess her strength comes more from her shard then genetic enhancement.

>>2570326
No, Tatty is our smarty-pants second in command. We can't hit that it'll be like sleeping with our personal assistant which is a big no-no.

Also Piper would just be weird with the hero-worship and power dynamic.

>>2570347
Joker relationships are always weird and considering we can lobotimize someone on reflex, we are never going to be on even keel with anyone, so suck it up for some happyness.

How many conversations have we actually had with Piper that weren't asking why she wanted to join or barking orders to her and our crew?

>>2570361
Very few. When asked what they want to do anons always go tinker.

We really do need more than 1 action per evening, right now we are really anti social.

Honestly I think we should have somewhere that documents every battle song that we've had

>>2570364
>Morning
>Midday
>Afternoon
>Night

>>2570364
I think we are to social. Besides us being like that is moatly so we cna get gear for our crew and us. If we didn't spended that time creating our Blue GooTM figthing Lung would have being a nigthmare.

>>2570408
>>2570396

If we had a seperate social action then ide be all for it, that way we dont miss out on character interaction.

>>2570396
Problem is most of the optio s we chose end up taking good part of our day. Such as creating our liguid smile-x or building the Gene bay.

Or like when we let the 3D printer make armor for our gang. That took the entire day, but fortunantly we could just leave the printer doing her stuff, while we went to do something else

>>2570410
That would be fine. But i guess that is what involves part of the time management the quest employes. We could socialize and help our friends and gang members witht he research. But i would rather have a gadget to nulify missiles and bombs or something we can use to buff our boys and girls that won't leave then in coma for two days.

>>2570428
Im pretty certain that allot of our tech is going to be limited somewhat by our shard jokerness, not to mention the bio focus means we will hit a wall in other areas eventually.

>>2569594
>>2569619
Guys guys, I think I solved our money problem.

We make Youtube videos a la Uber and Leet. Like, let's document our pranks and /kid friendly/ stuff and get monetized.

Because since we are now the dankest meme worldwide, there's a really high chance we're gonna regularly get millions of views.

Or or, we make kickstarters or charity funds that we actually use to help the Bay.

If use acid bombs on the boat graveyard that still counts as helping r-right?

>>2570293
Piper is a gud gurl. I wanna vote to interact with her dammit, we need socialization slots.

Like what if we introduce a mechanic where we get 1 Tinker slot and 1 social slot?

Thoughts?

>>2570326
My bro

>>2570410
+1

Idea, we make Browbeat the most popular hero in the entire Bay

>>2570559
Literally who :^)

Inb4 he triggered because of Bakuda

>>2570470
I'm all for it, if we start doing social stuff, lets try talking with Ken. I'm pretty sure he's another Parian case and he's not using his power as intended.

>>2570567
Nobody appreciates best boy in the Wards
http://worm.wikia.com/wiki/Browbeat

>>2570586
Browbeat is da strongest Stranger cape tho :V

Wait a minute, isn't regent a pretty good artist? We didn't even need that parapainter and could've kept old man

>>2570584
We can do social stuff when the immediate concerns are out of the way. That being someone blew up the goddamn PRT building.

>>2570670
The paintings can make sounds anon

My plan for the cape painter is making Skeleton Trumpets all around the PRT building and other spots so we can mock Tagg all day erryday if he comes here

So I found this quest this morning. Just caught up and I have to say its pretty fun. When are we going to talk with our brother?

>>2571045
when you stop tripfagging
probably not anytime soon. He wears a a mask as giggle switch probably.

>>2570951
Not just the building but also the main heroes head quarters. And that place is reinforced with the same metal we use in our base so...yeah.

I feel like we've gotten unnecessarily nice with Armsmaster lately.
Is it cause anons are feeling bad and guilty from his interlude?

>>2571048
I'm fairly new to this site what is tripfagging? is it the same as samefagging?

>>2571066
Well I mean you gotta remember, Armsy was our favorite hero ever before, well, he sperged out at us. Personally I think while Barnaby would be eager to team up with him, he'd still be frustrated with him not being who he thought he was.

>>2571071
It's using a name while you aren't a QM. It annoys a lot of anons.

>>2571074
But why? that doesn't seem to make any sense.

>>2571066
Playing it as Armsmaster having been Barnaby's favorite hero.

Knowing kidnappings and shit is happening isn't the same as it happening to you. And that came along with the realization that the police and PRT aren't doing anything about it. They're basically just keeping the already safe areas safe, and primarily deployed against opposing capes.

By extension, Armsmaster was also letting this happen. And instead of just talking to Barnaby after triggering, he chased him down like a criminal.

A slew of things within a week made Barnaby really really mad at the PRT, but primarily his role model Armsmaster. Manic wasn't about making statements at the very offset, he was just trying to survive. The continual BS and exposure eventually lead to the way these things are going now.

He found people who were just as scared as he was, but at the gangs. And now he's fighting back, not just for himself, but those he sees as suffering the way he had.

>>2571082
Because the whole "point" of 4chan is being an anonymous imageboard. Don't question it, it's just a "thing".

>>2570470
Adding an idea that we should bring some modified and some non modified airhorns.

Vanilla airhorn are for the memes, modified ones are sonic attacks or just a silly stting canister with acid or Manic brand containment foam iunno

>>2571082
Because the entire point of this site is that it's an anonymous chat board, and if you're using a name/trip without any actual reason pertaining to the thread, most people will assume you're either a newfag (which you've already said you were), or an attention whore.

>>2571082
Actually here, tyrone will better explain it
https://youtu.be/YgHNtzxO0y8

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I want the semi-automatic revolver pls

>>2571071
And here I was thinking that summer newfags was just a meme...

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>>2571087
>>2571093
>>2571101
>replying to someone who is obviously pretending to be retarded

>>2571136
There's always a chance that they're a newfag, anon, and I always give them one chance before I unleash the 'tism.

>>2571123
Not bad

>>2571082
Because some people get really butthurt if you have a name, even though the fact it shows everyone's unique ID makes the whole Anonymity thing kind of pointless.

Also you're not tripfagging as that requires actually using a tripcode.

>>2571154
I whished you guys stoped posting so we can have a thread that isn't flooded with 1000+ posts in less then a day.

>>2571160
I actually kinda like the bigass threads to be honest. It's kinda fun.

>>2571164
It's fun but the QM seem to have a problem posting past the bump limit and a IP can create only 5 threads at once. This here is his fourth still active thread. So unless you guys want to wait a entire week so the thread gets bumped out of the board to get a new one, you should stop making post while the QM isn't around.

>>2571170
...no, and fuck you for discouraging conversation

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>>2571170
>>2571160
Who died and made (You) janitor, bitch? We can discuss anything pertaining to the quest here.
>inb4 your logic is "Posting in thread speeds up quest death and floods the board! Stop posting in the thread!"
>"You should talk about the quest and discuss stuff on the Discord server instead!"
>completely ignoring that it is PROVEN that Discords kill discussion and constructive thought in regards to quests on /qst/
>completely ignoring that not discussing or posting in thread leads to nothing good to read for archives
>completely ignoring that we are starting to go around 3 days with the same thread without hitting bump limit now, which is a slower but more sane pace
>completely ignoring that most quests on this board have barely any players, or never even bother reaching the bump limits, for a variety of reasons (session times, active posters, etc.)

On top of this:
>whished
>stoped
>wait a entire
>stop making post
From your tendency to make other typos in your posts and not give a single fuck about fixing them (>>2569482 >>2569675 >>2570428 >>2570408), unnecessary reddit spacing (>>2569482 >>2569675 >>2570419 >>2569863) and phoneposting (>>2569510), I fucking bet real money that you're that one foreign idiot from the last thread. You of all people have no right to tell us how to post, or tell us to stop participating constructively in a quest. Fuck off with that shit. Maybe I'm being an autistic prick right now, but fuck you.

>We have shock gloves
>Upgrade them into shock gauntlets
>We BTFO'd The Hulk
>We defeated Brockton's Greatest
>We took down half the gangs on our own
>All we need nao are gems for waifus and ourselves
>We Thanos nao

>>2571370
>*We BTFO'd The Hulk Lung

Goddamit stupid hands

>>2571066

Yes, that's how the majority of /qst/ers be apparently. You stop paying attention for a couple days and suddenly you find that the thread has begun to edge back towards noblebright bullshit. Villains become antiheroes, Antiheroes become Heroes, Heroes become Shining Paragons of Virtue.

>>2571375
Some questers will jump into a quest despite it being a dedicated villian quest to try and make it nice. Best examples are funnily enough every single joker MC quest.

>>2571375
Calm down.
Barn is even written off the bat as not a true villain. This can change.

Read the OP.

Plus we've established armsmaster as barnaby's former role model. Why would he say no to help vs what's likely the abb.

He didn't hate arms, he was severely disappointed in him and the prt.

>>2571380
I think most of us would rather stick in the chaotic territory over going full villain/hero. Hell most of us even agreed to help because the end of the prt meant it would be just us and the abb and empire, who seem to be playing nice in order to deal with manic. The prt were needed to keep the field even, not out of any heroic tendencies.

>>2571395
>Perfectly Balanced
>As all things should be

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>2571401
Rolling for Infinity Gauntlet

>>2571401
The likelihood to commit benevolent deeds over malicious ones is the only thing about Manic that should be balanced.
Every other aspect of his psyche should be decidedly unbalanced.

>>2571405
You realize
1: we're only just getting back to above neutral. we went from +1 to -6 to +5 in the course of two days.

2: We aren't motivated to be at the top of the food chain for our own benefit. This can change depending on events. We perpetrated a slaughter that made S9 take notes.

We just happen to have a goal that lines up in the "anti-hero" archetype, a la Punisher. Some major villains NEED killing for the good of the city. We aren't demented enough yet to start killing civvies. The fear of that is what keeps PRT on their toes regarding Manic.

>>2571434
He didn't say we aren't doing that, just that we should continue to keep the karma balanced

I don't understand anons autistic need to adhere to some arbritrary fucking moral balance. Why not just do what we want, when we want, and fuck anybody who complain, instead of breaking out the flow chart to figure out if this action will balance out all the good/evil stuff we've done. It just baffles me that people are STILL so hung up on this

>>2571497
Because the anons on /qst/ are good people. They are such good people, that their background benevolence bleeds through into the internet, staining any thread they come into contact with with their irreproachably upstanding natures.
They walk the path of Midas. To bear the weight of overwhelming, transformative power, yet to lack the ability to command it. Forever doomed to haplessly watch as everything they touch is warped, becoming beauteous, noble, and pure.
A tragic fate to be sure, but do not cry for them.
DO NOT CRY!

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>>2571497
because each person has their own set of ideals, and they want to apply it to whatever cyoa or qst or oc, what have you.

some people want to be grimdark coldsteel, some people want to be sir chivalrous, some people want to be ‘le wacky deadpool man’. some people want to be impulsive, others cold and calculating. introvert or extrovert, male/female, murderous or pacifist, logical and illogical. You can’t please everyone.

>>2571434
>We perpetrated a slaughter that made S9 take notes.
The interlude that would've indicated that JACK SLASH (not the entire S9) had taken interest in us happened before we murdered krieg, so probably wasn't about that, seeing as we hadn't done it yet.
>>2571066
Well, he is being nicer to us, he was our childhood idol and we have slightly bigger concerns than stealing his arm, so I'm not sure why you're surprised. Anyway, we bitch slapped Lung together. That means that either one of us is going to kill the other or we're gonna be BFFS 4 lyfe.

>>2571521
imagine if jack got a hold of our inconel card? its a bladed weapon after all, that can cleave through most things easily.

>>2571521
S9 was already interested in us powerwise and our "unstable" personality.

But that slaughter was S9 levels of brutal. At least considering how the field must've looked. A bunch of corpses both nazi and ABB smiling tightly and a single man missing the back part of his skull.

>>2571518
This makes too much sense.
They always turn badboys into pussies that get attached to the first piece of ass they meet.

>>2571521
hmm funny enough he has been less of a jackass since his trigger.
We fucked with him so much he turned nice, awesome.
Did you guys know clockblocker was a white ginger?
I always thought he was a black kid.

>>2571434
Who is S9?

Allot of us havent read worm before.

>>2571562
S9 (Slaugtherhouse 9) is a rotating group of nine supervillains who roamed North-America

>>2571562

Slaughterhouse Nine.

If you've watched HxH: they're a little like the Phantom troupe.

If you've watched Naruto: They're a little like the Akatsuki.

>>2571567
>>2571568

Appreciated.

I gather its bad news if they take too keen an interest in us then.

>>2571568
Now if only they weren't try hard edgelords, or weren't protected by literal plot armor I would like them more.

>>2571571
Eh, yes and no. The only one that would give us any real trouble is creature, who becomes invulnerable to anything that doesn't instantly kill him.

>>2571578

Eh? Creature?
You mean Crawler?

>>2571578
But does he regenerate? because you can be lobotomized and then invulnerable to knifes while someone rolls your brain dead ass into a trash can before dumping it in a cement pool.

>>2571581
Yea, it's been awhile since I've read worm. Him and the Siberian now that I think about it.

>>2571582
Yeah. From what I remember it regenerates super quickly.
Basically just imagine a less indestructible SCP-682 that is covered with eyes.

>>2571588
Hm well i suppose our blue goo is the only counter we have then.

>>2571582
It has adaptive regeneration, a sufficient alpha strike to carve its head out might kill it, and that's a big might.

Aside from it the main threats are Bonesaw who is basically Biowarfare on steroids, and Siberian who was iirc is basically a living event horizon. Need to kill it's summoner to take it out, do that and it dies, but before that it's literally unstoppable.

>>2571600
Nope. An alpha strike that destroys his brain would only slow him down for a bit. He has a core that needs to be destroyed that isn't in his head, which we have no way of knowing about IC. He will be a rough fight.

I'm really not sure how it would go with bonesaw. She might not even be that interested in a fight.

>>2571600
Hmm. Which members of the S9 could we reasonably take out? Assuming a solo encounter with no preparation.

Personally, I think that Manic might be able to handle Manniquin or Jack slash. That is a very big 'might' for the latter though.

>>2571538
> S9 levels of brutal.
The S9 slaughter entire towns and do unspeakable things to the remains, such as turn them into monsters or eat them.
What we did was gruesome, but I wouldn't quite say it was worthy of the Nine

>>2571612
With Bonesaw we just need to be polite, give her some cookies and milk while we talk together about bio-tinkering.

>>2571616
Did you forget the part where it took contessa to unfuck the mind fucking jack did to her?

>>2571614
I think we could take Jack and Mannequin with a shocking amount of ease. Same with Regents sister.

>>2571614
Shatterbird, Cherish, Mannequin, and Burnscar all seem manageable at least.

Jack Slash is iffy due to his power and his manipulation skills, and I don't think Bonesaw would fight us.

>>2571612
What this anon said. I believe that Crawler was bisected vertically once. He came back shortly after, or, if that wasn't canon, Weaver said he would in the comments.

>>2571624
honestly I think that once the endbringer hits, we should up the dice to dc50 or dc100, because so far it has been a bit too easy

>>2571626
from what I remember reader Crawler has a 'core' and if that's destroyed he'll die. Course, we don't know this IC, but we could figure it out seeing as we're a clever boi

>>2571631
>too easy

I blame our stupid good luck. Even when we roll a 1 to get into a situation, we roll 18+ consistently.

>>2571614
It really all depends on the condition of the fight.

Currently I can see us taking out Jack, Mannequin, Cherish, with little to no prep and that's if Jack can't broadcast us.

We might be able to beat Siberian if we do mass gassing and unintentionally target Manton, but knowing that we always go to SmileX might mean Bonesaw may come up with counters for it.

With prep I can see us taking out Shatterbird.

Not sure how we'd do against burnscar and crawler tho.

>>2571634
We'll probably figure it out if we fought him long enough, the bright side of being a bio tinker is the longer we are in close proximity and examining someone we get lots of info on them.

>>2571626
I don't think we'd really give Jack a chance to talk. Kind of hard to manipulate someone when the don't care what you have to say and won't let you say it.

To put Crawler's powers in perspective I dug up this exert from Interlude 12 of Worm.

"Crawler was one of the two group members who had yet to rejoin the group. He was engaged with a young man with a glow that suffused his hair and emanated from his eyes and mouth. White flashes appeared with little accuracy and devastating effect, carving spherical chunks out of the brute. This only encouraged the monster, and Crawler eagerly paced closer, his wounds closing together with a startling rapidity. So few things could hurt Crawler these days that Jack rarely got to see the regeneration in full effect. Crawler’s healing powers appeared to play out in fast-forward when compared to even the regenerators who could heal wounds in seconds. Hundreds of pounds of flesh were replaced in one or two heartbeats."

If any of you are curious about what Slaughterhouse 9 is capable of, as a group, you can find a decent introduction to them here: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/07/24/interlude-12/

>>2571640
Actually that and a liberal application of tats would be really effective.

>>2571641
I expect that the second he opens his mouth we'll just start laughing and never stop. Perhaps pause to point out that Jack's an idiot and then just keep on laughing as he falls into our waiting vat of acid.

>>2571647
I think in Crawlers case it would be summed down to:

1) The core is his real body and the mass around him is just mass

or

2)Crawlers core is just a boost to his healing

In case of one not even our blue goo would stop him. In case of two our Blue Goo might effect him.

Don't know why you guys are worrying about this, OP has us win against any circumstances on a good roll, and win against any circumstances with unintended brutality on a bad roll. We win either way, and no one is going to complain about brutality against the Nine. Their human rights have been revoked.

>>2571673
Well I mean, we fail regularly on bad rolls. It's just the crits that we have to watch out for.

>>2571673
Not really. We just keep getting 20s.
Legitimately. We've had two double 20s in this quest. We'll get our comeuppance soon. He chose Worm as the setting

>>2571675
Only one I can think of is post victor snipe to neck, and we negated that with a trivial amount of mutation points.

>>2571677
People have been saying that for 7 threads, and it keeps on not happening. OP has crits be too effective. At this point I'm pretty sure we could solo the Nine, maybe even an Endbringer.

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>>2571684
>Soloing an Endbringer cause you rolled a 20

>>2571684

>trivial
>our tongue is literally a foot long
>this change is probably irreversible
>if we keep relying on mutation to survive we'll turn into an even worse genetic abomination

>solo an endbringer

Reminder that someone almost did that, then they had to up their game. I doubt anyone except Eidolon can actually kill one.

>>2571684
I still don't understand why you are upset about winning.

>>2571691
But the question is: can we control said tounge well?

>>2571695
Could always practice. I bet piper would love to be the guinea pig for that

>>2571694
its not that hes upset about winning, its merely that we win too much, to the point where it feels as though nothing really poses a challenge.
Which is boring. Its boring to read a story with a main character that always wins over and over, with seemingly no difficulty, and its boring to play that character. So far it doesnt really feel like there are stakes to any of our actions. Crit win or crit fail we still come out on top with ease. The problem isnt that we're winning, its that we're winning too easily. It doesn't feel earned.

>>2571694
Probably cause its starting to get so easy it resembles one those established setting quests where we're with the main cast and OP as fuck and fucking so many bitches its like a virgins wet dream.

Honestly though i think shits fine so far.
Feel like it'll really ramp up later when we start fighting kill order capes like the S9 or The Teeth.

>>2571701
Which i think is more a product of the sheer number of crits and less so the quest structure, considering for a failed roll one time we go shot through the throat and were forced into something we didnt at the time want.

>>2571688
Pretty likely.

>>2571691
Eidolon never managed to, but we probably will.

>>2571694
Where's the sense of achievement, if we can trivially defeat every single hero in the city at once with a single 20? If that's just how powerful we are, fine, but I don't understand why people are talking about Siberian or Crawler as if they're legitimate threats, when we'll easily stomp them. At that point who do we need to worry about? Scion, I guess. Maybe the Endbringers. Eidolon, probably not, I could see us easily beating him.

>>2571701
Why don't we wait and see how things will go against Bakuda and the endbringers first?

I mean we kinda got lucky eith our blue goo. If we didn't had that the fight would certanly be way more hard, doesn't matter how many 20's we rolled.

>>2571706
That's a lie and you know it. A twenty would have had us chuck another SmileX bomb down his throat.

>>2571701
To be fair, we've only had a handful of crit fails to effect us, and one of them shut down our chances of going straight wit the PRT more or less completely. At any rate, part of the reason we're doing so well is the sheer number of crits we roll. I reckon that with out our twin crits we could very well have lost an arm of our own against Lung, or maybe even have super-charged his regeneration, but not knocked him out.
>>2571707
I was unaware you had the power to peer into alternate Timelines. Tell me, how am I doing in the one where I married Jude Law?

>>2571707
If you think like that, then maybe this quest just isn't for you?

>>2571706
>>2571703
So the problem is the dice then? Why not just switch to d50 or d100?
Also
>get shot in the throat
>the main consequence isnt death, or lifetime maiming
>we just gotta kill someone when we didn't necessarily want to do that exact thing at that moment
thats not really a consequence anon.

And don't get me wrong, I really like the quest, I just think a difficulty up is necessary at this point.

>>2571710
>>2571712

Some people are never happy.

>>2571712
>implying that mutations aren't a consequence

uh

ok

>>2571712
I agree with you honestly, that was a very weird sequence. That said, this whole quest has been pretty railroaded, so it's more of a "strap yourself in and enjoy the ride" quest than anything else. if that's not ur bag i think >>2571710
is right

>>2571712
Well i think the quest is fine and i don't see you backing down on your opinion. So i will just disagree with you then.

>>2571709
Considering we've literally beaten Lung with that exact method before, it's a pretty reasonable assumption.

>>2571710
Yeah you're right. Shame how all the good Worm quests die out.

If you swap for bigger dice all you'd be doing is ensuring extreme outcomes occur less often than mediocre outcomes.

Why not trade for smaller dice instead? With a d10 the chance of rolling 1's and 20's in the same action is increased dramatically. This would lead to more goodnews-badnews outcomes, which seems fitting considering the setting we're in.

>>2571713
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>>2571719
Listen, I'm just leveling what I think are legitimate criticisms that if implemented, would lead to a more suspenseful and exciting experience overall. I still enjoy the quest regardless, I just think that something should be done to the difficulty to keep the stakes up.

Shits fine

how would people feel about dice vs dice though?

so now enemies can get crits and fails like us

>>2571728
>>2571725
And then people will start to complaing for changing the system or say that things are to difficult now. There isn't a win with what you guys are trying to do. What could happen it that 20's against stronger openents alow us to last longer or cause some small amount of damage to it. Maybe taking a lucky shot as a speedester leg for example?

>>2571728
I do agree with this anon, one of my problems in the quest so far has been providing the correct level of difficulty. But I’m going to up it pretty severely from here on out, I probably won’t get it perfect, but i have identified the problem.

>>2571735
Oh god please no...it makes me feel like i'm figthing the QM rather then enjoying a quest...

>>2571717
>Pretty railroaded
>plenty of choices in how we handle things

We didn't need to go on a bank heis, let alone deal with gangers the way we did.

There've been plenty of major decisions that could've drastically changed the tone of the quest ( could've been PRT associated, worked with Coil, even worked with E88 )

>>2571712
We have an indirect healing factor due to our body changing into something not human. Damage to our body leads to further fracturing.

We also had a choice of things that would happen due to the severity of the damage. We chose the Genetic fragmentation over the permanent loss of ability or tech.

It wouldn't have been fair to die from two rolls out of our control/planning. The same way a random 20 without associated planning =/= instant takeout.

DCs are adjusted based on the plan, as seen during the PRT breakout. It just so happens this quest somehow steals all the other 20s of all the other quests.

Seriously, the number of 20s that drop is bonkers. It's even more amusing considering it happens only to Manic while others fail around him.

>>2571743
Is it the fact your constant thread running has appeased the dice gods into gifting all the 20s?

Perhaps if you run today, we get more 20s from less deserving quests.

>difficulty increased against Bakuda

Welp...time to lose some limbs.Also you guys thing we should give our cape crew who doesn't have much offensive powers a power boost with our tinkering? Maybe making some armor for then?

>>2571761
Probably do better giving them some clown genetics. Though armor isnt a bad choice.

>>2571721
Sure, if you ignore the fact that we had help from Taylor 'beat Lung on her first night with only bity bugs and a little help from the siders' Hebert and that Lung was less ramped than he was at the PRT HQ when we gassed him. PRT Lung might have resisted the SmileX, as he would've been tougher. Cause, you know, that's Lung's thing. He gets stronger the longer you fight him.

>>2571768
Donät forget that in the PRT fight, Lung saw our "toss something in his gullet" tactic coming, so it probably wouldn't have worked if Regent wasn't there to make Lung's lips spasm.

So guys...should we ask Armsy if Rebecca's father (Mr.Higgs/Pauseman) is still alive?

Because i think he might have died during the attack to the Rig.

Do you think that Armsmaster told Dragon about his temporary alliance with Manic?

>>2571796
Dragon is his A.I.fu you don't lie to your waifu. And, most likely, she can easily see that we are trying to do the right thing, but in the wrong way.

>>2571796
Temporary? Armsy is going to be our best pal for life don't cha see?

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that with our kit and a couple of 20s that we can solo an Endbringer.

Like no amount of 20s should let us roflstomp those shits since last I checked we didnt have any powers that can crack through their cores, and if we injure them enough they stop sandbagging and would TPK us.

>>2571836
We most likely can't, people are just saying we can.

>>2571836
The power of neuro toxins (smilex) and super human capability with a switch blade.

>>2571839
Thats what I'm saying, like people are bitching by the fact that were rolling 20s and succeeding, but we're still in the little leagues and our successes reflects on that.

But in the bigger picture?

Against S-classes and Endbringers, a 20 should mean barely make it out alive or only lose one limb, specially against EBs

>>2571842
Unless we have Stilling or Foil we aint killing any endbringers mate. We just do not posses enough fire power, esoteric effects, or hax to crack their cores.

In all honest, the best we can do in an EB attack is to work with worst girl in the medstation to heal people.

>>2571844
At the moment sure.

>>2571844
If EB comes we will try to evacuate people and try to heal the people that get injured. Heck when EB comes knocking even Kaiser goes and try fight him supporting the heroes.

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>>2571844
I’m pretty sure that Zion said we “could” kill a EB, just that it would be exceedingly hard to do so without the two you just mentioned.

>>2571844
OP has said we can, even that we would with our typical rolls.

too be honest our rolls against lung were lucky, but the outcome didn’t seem amazing, I mean the first one caused us to successfully drug him but left us open to a pointblank fireball that we had to roll again to dodge. the lobotomy, gang massacre, speech, and brain surgeon were the most significant nat20s. I think. while disarming armsmaster, and getting throatshot were the most significant nat1s. if we rise the d20 to d50 it could at least lessen crit chance, and d20 DC can easilty translated to d50 DC (2 = 5, even DCs only, 12=30,14=35,16=40, etc)

>>2571881
Not with typical rolls, and I said that before I resolved to up the difficulty
>>2571877
This anon has the right idea.

>>2571990
>ups difficulty
>more 20s or suddenly all the 1s

We must fear the dice gods.
Session when? I need need my fix mang, got the itches.

>>2571990
Zi whatever you do, please don't change the dice system.

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>>2571990
>our power is Molecular Processing
>create a substance that turns the Bullshitanium (that the Endbringer cores are made of) into a weaker substance like glass
>coat a Flechette projectile with it
>she sends it flying
>pierces through the Endbringer into the Bullshitanium layer
>our biotinkered biochemical substance kicks in
>Leviathan shatters into shards of glass
>"And now, a truly ocean-churning dish: Leviathan on the rocks. Bon appetit!"
Thoughts, guys?

>>2572001
We'd need samples of each of the Endbringer's layers to properly figure that out among many other factors.

Plus hitting a relatively tiny core in a moving target is gonna be hard by itself

>>2572008
Also the time we would take to research without the samples. It took us what? Two days of research to figure what our Blue Goo could do and to complete it.

>>2572001
I doubt it, that sounds like nat20 endlevel chem tech. plus we don’t know much about end bringers at this point

>>2572001
Doubt it'll happen but to see everybody lose their shits all at the same time would be truly beautiful

>>2572008
so we would basically require allot of study with each individual as well as someone who was willing to let us examine them.

Well if Bonesaw likes us and hangs out, they might be up for it.

>>2572001
>>2572031
It would be glorious. The jokes funny too.

Elis - Core of Life would be a pretty good song for Manic

>>2571990
Won't flechette be there? And from the looks of it Armsmaster won't also be using this as an excuse to kill non hero capes. So tats should be able to observe from a safe(ish) range. With our molecular bullshit added into all this too we actually have a decent chance against Leviathan at least.

>>2572051
I would rather run and try to rescue as many civies as we can. But then again that is just me.

>>2572001
Also, if our powers are "make this better" and "make shit" why don't we combine the two powers to make an NZT-48 type pill to give people thinker powers

>>2572125
i think you need shard to get powers. Said that we can always gene mod someone and give the person low level cape powers.

>>2572155
Things like increasing strength, constitution, dexterity, agility, etc... can be done to upper/above human levels with our tech... probably.

Taking it to real cape levels ( above a 2-3 ) is probably out of our abilities. But we can probably make discount super soldiers... something that will make us a SUPER target for everyone if they figure out we have been doing that.

Taking it

>>2572168
We kinda can see what we did using our madman's garment. We punched fucking Lung and made him lose balance. I believe we can easily reach captain american levels of super soldiers with our goons

If we manage to do that Cauldron will either see us as a huge threat or will tey to recruit us and try to steal our gene therapy notes.

No thread today Zion? Feels weird.

>>2572008
>>2572025
>>2572031
>>2572040
>>2572125
Okay. What about a pill that gives people a temporary mutation to their respiratory systems, allowing them to breathe underwater - but with another annoying (possibly permanent) mutation alongside it? Could work to help raise survival rate in Leviathan fights?

>>2572230
Sorry, I had college and then a DnD game. I also have college tomorrow, but I'll be back by five.

>>2572242
This is me sry.

>>2572244
5 your time or 4chan time?

>>2572258
Wait I just realized that "4chan" time might change depending on where you are.
So your time or Eastern Standard time?

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>>2572238
This ain't Harry Potter mate. Besides i think any mutation we try to make will be permanent. What we could do is just copy Armsmaster minimisation tech by studying his arm and figure how to build a small breather for our goons.

>>2572263
GMT

>>2572279
you might want a Twitter or something that simplifies letting people know when things may happen / scheduling.

>>2571332
What the fuck is reddit spacing? I see this thrown around all the time and it just makes no sense. People are using spaces and new lines as a way to separate unrelated parts of their posts to make them easier to read. What about that is related to reddit at all?

>>2572518
Because on reddit, to space posts out like this example:
>one sentence
>another sentence
You have to press Enter twice. On here, pressing Enter twice gets you this:

>one sentence

>another sentence

So yeah, that's the explanation. It also looks really bad

when you have your sentences not in paragraphs like sensible formatting,

but spaced out like this, where it's more annoying to read and gets you more attention like a fucking attention whore - which people on reddit tend to be, due to inherent issues with the website as a whole. Although sometimes the issue here is that you can't always tell how your post's formatting or appearance will seem to others. You could have sentences in sensible paragraphs, but end up where each sentence is isolated like my reddit spacing example above, though this could be due to post margins and length that sentences are shown in posts before moving down to the next line.

In other words, it's all to do with post formatting.

>this quest discussion is like a parahuman shitposting board in a nutshell

>>2572571
Void Cowboy hasn't been banned yet so we good.

We should fuck The Simurgh, she'll never see it coming