Ancient Legos
Chapter 03
Reactions
Welcome to the Parahumans Online message boards.
You are currently logged in, XxVoid_CowboyxX
You are viewing:
• Threads you have replied to
• AND Threads that have new replies
• OR private message conversations with new replies
• Thread OP is displayed.
• Ten posts per page
• Last ten messages in private message history.
• Threads and private messages are ordered chronologically.
Topic: (Locked) Power Ratings Now Go Up To 20
In: Boards ► Places ► North America ► United States ► Brockton Bay
Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Posted On Feb 6th 2011:
Some of my contacts in the PRT have mentioned that they might be increasing the scale of Parahuman power levels by 10 soon. This is not unprecedented, Labyrinth of Faultline's Crew is a Shaker 12, but it worries me.
What could have possibly made them officially add 10 levels to the Power Scales? They've held off on doing so their entire history. Not even Labyrinth, again someone confirmed to be officially rated Shaker 12, got them to do it.
Is it a new Parahuman? I don't know. For once, I don't have any idea. The PRT is being super hush-hush about everything involved in this.
What do you all think?
(Showing page 3 of 3)
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 6th 2011:
This is so not good. If they're raising the scales to 20, it's because they met a Cape that matches that level. I can't think of any Power Rating I'd want someone to have 20 of. Not even Brute. That's more than Alexandria.
►Valkyr (Wiki Warrior)
Replied On Feb 6th 2011:
Thanks for the heads up, Bagrat. I'll wait for the official announcement to update the Wiki though. No offense.
►Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Valkyr none taken. I hope my sources are wrong this time.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
It's spaceships. I'm calling it right now. They're gonna make all the other Tinkers look like idiots.
User has received an infraction for this post.
Void Cowboy, you know the rules. I'm not repeating them again. -TinMother
►TinMother (Moderator)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I am locking this thread to prevent unwarranted speculation before a PRT announcement, if indeed one is coming.
End of Page. 1, 2, 3
Topic: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!
In: Boards ► Places ► North America ► United States ► Brockton Bay
Bob (Original Poster) (Veteran Member)
Posted On Feb 7th 2011:
HOLY-
So THIS just appeared above the PRT building. It was accompanied by sound like thunder that vibrated my bones and a windstorm that blew people standing outside over. It lasted for 10, maybe 15 seconds? The ground was shaking too, like an earthquake. Probably from that ridiculous thunder sound.
I should know. I'm standing on the sidewalk I just ate. With my face! I also can't hear much right now, my ears leaked a little blood. My hearing better not be permanently damaged from this!
Then the Endbringer sirens fired up for a minute or so. I could only barely hear them, but I got the memo once I saw people further away from the thing start running. Once whoever runs the sirens realized the thing wasn't doing anything but sitting there in the sky, they turned them off. Looks like some people are still running to the Shelters even so.
I can't even see both ends! It's massive!
EDIT: People are saying it looks like a spaceship. Can't say I blame them.
EDIT 2: Think a Tinker is behind it? Whoever they were upping the scales for? As much as I hate to see Void Cowboy be right, I can see Tinker 20 being a spaceship builder.
(Showing page 4 of 35)
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
That is one big machine. If it even is a machine, it looks like a weird building, only flying and horizontal.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Welp. I suppose we now know the new level 20 Cape is a Tinker. Moreover we can be reasonably sure that thing showing up was unexpected given someone hit the Endbringer sirens, even temporarily.
►Winged_One (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I cannot see this spaceship you're all saying is there. What are you talking about?
►Chaosfaith (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
A FUCKING SPACESHIP?! ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW? I know Tinkers are bullshit, but GOD DAMN.
►Valkyr (Wiki Warrior)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
If that thing is what we immediately assume at first glance, Tinker 20 is underselling the new Cape.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
HAH! I told you! I told you ALL!
Finally a spaceship Tinker! It's about time a cape made something from scifi!
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
No. I refuse to live in a world where Void Cowboy called something.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
That is definitely a spaceship. A three kilometer long spaceship. Holy shit.
►L33t (Verified Cape) (Villain)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Guys, I just sent my flying camera drone up to take a look at the ship.
That thing is not a civilian ship. It has guns.
Big. Fucking. Guns.
Take a look at this, these, and those. And this area, if my Tinker senses are tingling correctly, is a series of some kind of projectile weapon deployment port.
If the Heroes have this kind of firepower now, Uber and I might switch teams.
►GstringGirl (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
O.O
End of Page. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ... 33, 34, 35
(Showing page 5 of 35)
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
...
Those cannons, and I can only describe them as cannons, have a caliber of 40 meters, or 131~ feet.
The largest gun barrel in the world, the Schwerer Gustav railway gun from Germany, only has an 80cm caliber. That's 0.8 meters. 2.6~ feet.
Holy fucking shit.
►Procto the Unfortunate Tinker (Not a tinker)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Someone must have looked at the guns on a Star Destroyer from Star Wars and decided they just weren't big enough. The ship's way smaller, but holy shit those guns.
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I have been told from on high that since the cat is clearly severely out of the bag, I am allowed to release some basic info on our new Wards member.
We are tentatively calling him Shipyard. He is a Tinker. As some have speculated, it is he who we have increased the Power Scale's maximum level for.
He is the world's first Tinker 20+. Yes. PLUS.
Why so highly rated? He creates spaceships (he says they're starships, nobody is very clear on the difference). Not builds, mind you, creates. He has some kind of secondary power which allows him to make the things he builds out of Lego (yes, you read that correctly) into real objects.
Armed objects in the shape of spaceships.
I've been cleared to reveal that because after letting it out, the higher ups are decently confident nobody is going to be stupid enough to attack or otherwise hurt him. To any villains thinking otherwise, he can summon spaceships from his pockets, spaceships which have weapons on board equivalent to small nukes.
He got our PR department, including Glenn Chambers, to capitulate to his costume idea and name. Think about that.
►Acree
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
...In the immortal words of Clockblocker, that's bullshit.
►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Yeah, that's what I said when he showed us his powers. My new teammate is bullshit personified.
►Vista (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Clock, be nice to Shipyard. He can't help his power's absurd levels of bullshit and you know it.
►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Fucking Tinkers.
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
But Kid, you are a Tinker.
►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
He summoned a shuttle bigger than a car in the Wards common room with a fling of his arm, from a Lego model. What's more, I can't understand his tech at all.
Fucking. Tinkers.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Aww, does Kid Win have Tinker envy? :)
End of Page. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ... 33, 34, 35
(Showing page 6 of 35)
►Kid Win (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shut up, AllSeeingEye, nobody asked you.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Roughly 10 minutes after the ship appeared, a white and blonde blur was seen flying towards it from the ground. I'm assuming for now it was Glory Girl, but I can't be sure.
The Cape got within a certain distance of it, passed some kind of threshold, and a glowing barrier appeared around them. It seemed to stretch around the ship in a bubble. The Cape didn't make it much farther, though, because the barrier showed up again as they fell out of it like a ragdoll and kept going towards the ground. I managed to get a video, here.
From the dust cloud I can see from my apartment, they must have hit terminal velocity before impact. I sure hope it was Glory Girl, and that whatever interfered with her flight didn't also knock out her invulnerability.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
:O IT HAS A SHIELD TOO?!
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
It's a shield. God damn it, not only is it a massive spaceship with huge guns, but it's shielded too?! And it looks like that shield interferes with Parahuman abilities, at least ones dealing with flight. Why else would Glory Girl fall? She looked unconscious too. I hope she's okay.
►Glory Girl (Verified Cape) (New Wave)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I'm fine guys, whatever hit me only turned off my flight and knocked me unconscious. Hitting the ground woke me up. I didn't get hurt though.
►GstringGirl (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Whew. That's good.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I wonder why the ship's shield stopped Glory Girl from flying. She should have just bounced off if it registered her as a threat.
►Panacea (Verified Cape) (New Wave)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Vicky's not telling the whole truth. She got bruised. Badly. I'm lucky I got to her in time.
Whoever Shipyard is, you need to apologize to Vicky.
►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Ooooh Shipyard, she's calling you out!
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Panacea I am truly sorry for your sister's injuries, but I did not make her fly up and attempt to breach the shield of my battlecruiser. Please do not allow her to do so again, I am not yet on board the ship and it's anti-intrusion systems are active.
This goes for anyone else, too. DO NOT BREACH THE SHIELD. I'm on my way to a shuttle right now so I can get on board and put it in Peace Mode.
I REPEAT: DO NOT BREACH THE SHIELD. If the ship senses too many attacks in a certain timeframe it will automatically engage Defense Mode and start wiping out threats to it or my safety.
Also I'm pretty sure Director Piggot is going to have me on monitor duty for weeks because of this.
End of Page. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ... 33, 34, 35
(Showing page 7 of 35)
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
It has a Defense Mode. Great.
Please tell me L33t's camera drone won't trigger that.
That ship's weapons probably make an Endbringer look tame. I'm also a little concerned that you described it as a 'battlecruiser' implying it is not, in fact, a dreadnought class ship.
What the hell else can you build?!
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
AllSeeingEye provided Leet keeps his drone outside the shield, he should be fine. As for what I can build; I'm going to go with not giving any more details given Vista is currently whacking me from across the shuttle. A lot.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
...You can make bigger things, can't you.
Oh god.
►L33t (Verified Cape) (Villain)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard No worries I am going to keep my drone far, far away from your ship.
Side note, how do we go joining the good guys' team?
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
L33t I'm not sure. I showed up at the PRT HQ with a cloaked shuttle and uncloaked it in front of the doors. Let's see here...
Okay, I've contacted the PRT. They should be getting in touch with you about turning yourselves in.
AllSeeingEye Shhhhhhhhh, don't get me in trouble with the Bosses.
►Brocktonite03 (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
...And somehow Shipyard makes two villains switch sides within moments of his debut. What is even going on right now?!
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
L33t I've messaged you privately about, as you said, 'joining the good guys'.
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
A much smaller dark gray ship just flew out of the PRT's garage doors, turned in the air on a dime, and flew up to the 'Battlecruiser'. It bypassed the shield without any kind of effect and flew into a large door on the bottom of the ship that opened when it approached.
I saw at least six others like it on the inside through my binoculars.
Shipyard, any comment?
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Yeah, that was my shuttle. I've landed in the hangar bay and am currently booking it to the Bridge. Hopefully I can turn the automatic defenses off because some idiot tried hitting the shuttle window with a sniper bullet or something. The ship is not happy about that.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
...God damn it, is he trying to get us all killed?!
End of Page. 1, 2, 3 ... 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ... 33, 34, 35
(Showing page 8 of 35)
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard thank you for replying. Out of curiosity, are those more 'shuttles' I saw?
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Bagrat Yeah, the Battlecruiser's main hangar fits like 30 of the things. Neat, huh?
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard Your ships are so cool! Can I get a ride in one sometime?
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Void Cowboy, that would require you telling me your identity. Right now though I need to stop browsing the forums on my phone, I've reached the Bridge.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Of course you have 30 more shuttles. I shouldn't be surprised at this bullshit anymore.
Wait, how did you get from the hangar to what I think is the Bridge?
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
AllSeeingEye The battlecruiser has a network of transport booths to many locations across the ship.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
:O
:O
O_O
YOU HAVE TELEPORTERS?!
►Winged_One (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
A hidden craft that can stop Parahuman powers?
No, this will not do.
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Winged_One ... Huh.
Gotta admit, I didn't see that one coming.
Why are you posting on the forums, Ziz, and how can you speak English?
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
OH SHIT.
...
Guys, he's not kidding.
He's not wrong.
Winged_One is the Simurgh.
FUCK.
End of Page. 1, 2, 3 ... 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ... 33, 34, 35
(Showing page 9 of 35)
►Winged_One (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Interesting, little ship builder. How have you tracked me?
►GstringGirl (Cape Groupie)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
She didn't even deny it.
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
I've alerted my superiors. This is a big problem.
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
You are not as subtle as you think you are, Endbringer. My ship's sensors cover the entire solar system and far beyond.
And don't think I can't see your real body. The Alterans were nothing if not interested in different dimensions and other realities.
►Winged_One (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Well, then. I will simply have to come deal with you.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
OH. FUCK.
►Clockblocker (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard THIS IS NOT FUNNY, MAN.
►Shipyard (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Clockblocker Sorry Clock, but it's true. My sensors show her leaving orbit right now.
I imagine Dragon is yelling at me, but I'm too integrated with the ship right now to hear her.
Welp, guess it's time to see what the might of the Alterans can do to a hyperdimensional construct.
Winged_One COME AT ME, MOTHERFUCKER!
►Winged_One (Veteran Member)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Challenge accepted.
►AllSeeingEye (The Girl in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
He just challenged an Endbringer to a fight. Directly.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
►XxVoid_CowboyxX (Verified Idiot)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Guys the Endbringer sirens just started up again. They haven't stopped.
►Aegis (Verified Cape) (Wards ENE)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
Shipyard GOD DAMN IT, SHIPYARD.
End of Page. 1, 2, 3 ... 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ... 33, 34, 35
(Showing page 10 of 35)
►Bagrat (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
What look like engines on the back of the Battlecruiser just lit up. It's starting to move upwards into the sky. I think the guns on it turned to point up too.
►Reave (Verified PRT Agent)
Replied On Feb 7th 2011:
For anyone still reading this and those who haven't gone to the Shelters, this is legit. The Simurgh is on route for Brockton Bay. Get off the forums, go to a shelter, RIGHT NOW!
"Oh shit," Greg Veder said, as he bolted out the door with his family. He didn't even log out of his PHO account.
A/N: Chapter 3! It's the gratuitous PHO interlude!
-SkyCaptain502: His power isn't necessarily more clever than he is. However, everyone in that chamber forgot an important thing; the spontaneous pressure wave. If the ship had deployed in the space with only an inch of clearance, Weldon would have been pulped. Powers are not supposed to be lethal to their owners.
-Edale: Thank you, I found it. Then I found an online one (it's called Myrddin). I used a combo of both to get this chapter done.
-humo146: Taylor isn't going to be a Wraith. I'm trying to make her a hero in this fic. Wraith are villains by vampiric necessity.
-edboy4926 (1): Thank you about the intro. It's there mostly for giving Weldon some personality, but it also has the date on it. This is kind of important in the big scheme of things. Check out the worm timeline on Timeslides for the reason why.
-edboy4926 (2): Thanks for the compliment. As for Taylor getting control of a certain mechanical race...
Stop reading my story outline! I don't know how you got access to my plans!
-suzga: Thanks! I don't have a plot beyond a basic idea that 'I want to do this!' with a whole lot of things eventually. It helps me make the humor happen if I allow the world to organically flow.
-Sable Cold: The Antarctica Stargate works perfectly fine. It received the wormhole with Sam and Jack, after all. Only the DHD was messed up, and that could easily be due to external, non-natural interference. Not to mention, Sam actually got the DHD working even then, the only reason she couldn't dial out is because she was trying to dial the same planet. I have yet to find an instance of Alteran technology that failed from wear and tear without intentional sabotage.
Also yes, the Battlecruiser is causing some... upheaval. Both with humankind and others.
-RoyalTwinFangs: I sure hope so!
-ultima-owner: More like making a TSAR Bomba look like a single ember.
-Vandenbz: He didn't really have a choice. The freakout started immediately. He's just doing damage control.
This scenario with Taylor can't actually occur. She triggered in the Locker back in January, it is currently February in the story. She will however be a hero from the very start, though, because Armsmaster is not the one who will encounter her after Lung.
This chapter should have answered that question for you. Yes, Alterans have mastered dimensional dickery. They have Drones after all, which function by phase shifting (or in other words, dimension shifting) to pierce through shields. Alteran shields cannot be pierced by them. Thus, the shields must have anti-dimensional-dickery properties. This is also why Glory Girl fell out of the sky once she went inside the shield perimeter. Her force field can possibly be generated by her biology, but her flight cannot. At least, not if it's remotely human, anyways. As for Sophia having her powers stripped, oooooh no, she's gonna get trounced with her powers. That'll make it that much better, and her having her strength but it being completely no-selled will piss her off even more.
Emma's worldview is going to be shattered in a more intellectual way.
Cauldron is probably flipping their shit right now, given the events of this chapter. Not to mention that since Alteran shields no-sell essentially all Parahuman abilities (at least those that come from their Shards' dimensional bullshit), Contessa cannot predict him while he's protected by one. Also, Doormaker likely cannot open a portal inside the shields either.
-in boring situations: Thanks, I'll try!
-jdboss1: I'm sorry, my writing style tends to be decently heavy on dialogue and only has proper combat once in a while. However, I can promise my fight scenes are worth the wait. And yeah, an Earthquake-causing air shift certainly is a nice cliffhanger.
I hope the one in this chapter is even better.
-Apperatus: You're welcome! Aye, Worm is pretty devoid of Crackfic. This is not my only story that qualifies, by the way, so if you guys want me to post another one or two, I will, I just can't say they'll be updated very quickly with my focus on Ancient Legos.
-Bob (1): No to Earth orbit. Buuuuut, as you can see in this chapter...
-Bob (2): Bob might survive. I try to take notice and reply to all reviews. I'm glad it provides the side stitches.