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Regardless of this debate though we've settled on a compromise in the collab.
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the difference in the Impactwish fight is that they didn't want either to die unless it happened naturally. Kinesis is a minor epic pawn that Sirce has decided to let us kill, with no real story arcs or plans that would be interrupted by this, unlike if Impact died.
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I guess to my mind this is not a retcon, just a different use of a power that Maill hadn't considered using in this way before. For instance Impact using her momentum powers to hold her wound shut. Was is specifically mentioned she could do that? No, but it seems obvious on reflection (just give momentum to either side and the wound closes). It isn't a retcon, nor a power change, its a use for a power that is out-of-the-box. I doubt it occurred to all of us she could use it in this way, until she did (well me at least). Heck, it never occurred to me half the things you've been doing with Mary in concert with the others. Nothing is wrong with inventing new uses for powers on the go, even if perhaps the character should have known all along. That's just how I see it, obviously you see it differently. Maybe Mary just forgot? She has a lot on her plate. As for the Metal, you can summon him I suppose, but once he has killed us all you won't have any enemies to RP against hahaha Well the Destructors are retreating after this anyway, there wouldn't be need of him.
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Chase would notice the guy you killed dying, for sure. How she'd react is up to Winter.
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yeah, this. It is awesome and terrifying, but it is cheap and op but maybe necessary in Astoria, haha.
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The forcefield question basically came about because i suggested to Mailliw "hey why not squish this guy in a force field?" and Maill said "oh, id never considered foing that before, ok" but Edge and Sirce had reservations, basically they consider that a retcon or changing his powerset, while i was under the impression Smasher could always have done that but just never has in-game because mailliw never thought of it. To me it seems inherent in forcefields that you can change their size, you know? but its up to you guys, what do you think? yeah, which is lame, but not so op in Astoria and technically he can explode people with inside forcefields, so he already has one insta-kill option.
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i like how the ponies make it look like Deathwish is the bad guy XD
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Yeah, it is quite a tense fight. tbh I'm rooting for Impact though Deathwish is on the right side, but he is sleazy as all hell. And Impact is developing in an interesting way, I think, getting worse as she uses her powers. Can't have that stopped by a little death.
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I'm really enjoying this Impact-Deathwish fight! They are both powerful but not so powerful that they can kill the other easily.
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[Spoilers]David Got Seriously Screwed [\spoliers]
Blackhoof replied to Localconfusi0n's topic in The Reckoners
I think something very bad might have happened in order to cause that trauma. Perhaps a school shooting scenario? A kid he has bullied for years comes to school with a gun and shoots people, maybe threatening or actually shooting Paul himself, and Paul realises that the kid is no longer afraid of him. He is not scared at all. He overcame his fear of his bully in a terrible, horrific way, but he did it, and that terrified Paul. -
He has been extremely lucky haha well if Glamour falls in with Taylor Swift he won't be going down the decent Epic path anytime soon
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actually that is true, he only shot him once and expected him to not be able to willfully teleport back. Unless he assumed that Oblit had wilfully teleported within the last two minutes? I'd have to reread the scene once i get my copy back to be sure. I think it does matter- his mobility is severely inhibited if he can't teleport and then be able to fight immediately. And the fact that David mentioned that one of his tactics was teleporting really close and melting you by proximity, he seems too bold for someone who is killable for two minutes after every teleportation. Either way we can work around it.
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A question I had been thinking about, that I wanted to pose for any Obliteration usage. It regards his two minute cooldown. Do we think it applies only to wilful teleportation? So for instance, say he is shot, and his PI triggers and he ports away. Two minutes later, he ports back when the timer runs out. Now, if he is shot at again in the next two minutes, can his PI still trigger? If not, then his PI seems a bit weak. Two minutes is a long time in a fight, to be completely vulnerable and killable. But if so, then shooting at him grants you two minute reprieves, but that is all, and once he comes back you can shoot at him but he will port away again. I'm just thinking that his "wilful teleportation" and his "automatic teleportation" might be similar, but not specifically the same ability activating in two different circumstances. Therefore, when David wrote that his teleportation has a two-minute cooldown, he meant the wilful teleportation, not the automatic PI teleportation. I feel like David would have commented in Firefight on such a glaring hole in his PI, before he realised that the cooldown had been removed.
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Oh dear, Impact went dark, grabbing some random callously like that love it
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Oooh a shrinking epic is interesting!
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I think it only makes sense. Unless it is explicitly stated that the forcefield is immutable once created, they should all be expandable and contractable.
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Fair point, which is why I think the powers make a copy of the alive megan to take into this world. The thing is I don't think that would ever happen, or could ever happen if the powers function in the way Megan suspects (and is scared) that they do. The power wouldn't pull a Megan from a world where Epics aren't evil, because that world diverged from this one a long time ago, not the moment Megan died. The theory of multiple universes that this power references is that every single time a decision is made, or an event occurs, a multitude of universes are created, each one containing an identical reality- with the sole exception that that one decision or event occurred a different way each time. Whenever you choose to go left, a universe is created where you went right. So when Megan shot herself with the remote-controlled gun, a universe was created where she escaped a different way, or where Prof decided to let her escape, or whatever. Or maybe earlier than that- maybe David was quicker and he got there in time to save her. Universes being created every time a single separate decision is made. So universes would be out there where she faced her fear but survived without killing herself. The powers are not stupid. What they do (assuming Megan's suspicions are correct) is that whenever she dies, they pick one of these split universes, that have just been created, where she didn't die. They don't rummage back through her timeline forever, they don't go back 13 years to a universe where Calamity created good Epics and then copy that Megan, they just simply wouldn't. You're positing a question that relies on the powers acting completely out of whack to how they have acted so far, I'm sorry to say. the point is, that yeah, if Megan was pulled from a good-Epic world, she would have no idea what is going on. therefore, current Megan couldn't have been pulled from such a world, because she knows what is going on.
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I quite like Insight very interesting power. absorb the heat from the ground? And then send it back? You'd freeze everything in an area around you (so the water would freeze) and then return it to normal temperatures by sending the heat back. There wouldn't be much heat in the ground though.
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Yeah, I think Converter is next. She turns her back then Rainmaker throws icy wind and hailstones at her.
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In terms of the Dalles, canon was always going to be bent in this RP no-one wants to only play evil psychopaths, we need some pathos and complexity in there, some goodness to corrupt for drama. But they also have the bonus of being very lucky- no indestructible Epic since Koschei has come around. Deathwish has a PI, but it could be bypassed, and his offensive powers are nonexistent. No single Epic could take over the Dalles easily. That said, canon-wise they probably would try anyway, being stupid, arrogant Epics, but canon is mutable welcome Shard! Great to have more people.I'd advise against Astoria, myself, as it is filled with the most op Epics we can think of. As was suggested earlier, I think the Dalles or Corvallis would be best for a character of that power level.
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Name: Protagonist Primary Power: Plot Shot: Able to defeat any enemy with the luckiest and most unlikely of hits/shots, if doing so at that time is dramatic enough. Secondary Power: Endless Clip: Never runs out of ammo when firing a gun, unless doing so would be dramatic. Passive: Plot Armour: Never suffers any fatal wounds, supernatural luck causing not a single bullet or blow to hit them. Also shrugs off wounds that should be incapacitating to the arms or legs. Explosions, no matter the range, only cause dirt and a few scratches. Weakness: Unconventional Author: If the Protagonist is within 100 yards of an author that has killed off main characters before, he or she loses their powers
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that's probably a side effect of being Steelheart, or possibly his super strength power. Maybe all Epics with super strength are inhumanely buff. and we don't know. I think its highly likely they are all enhanced physically and endurance-wise. Not to the level of super-strength, but a fitness boost is likely. Although whatever boost they get, it didnt protect Regalia from cancer, although likely she has it before she turned Epic.
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@Silver: Hey Silver, when do you think you can get another Converter post up?
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yeah, that makes sense.
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Stormfather would actually be a sparking cool Epic name
