OYHN:Worm edition Chapter Seven

Disclaimer: I have nothing to disclaim but my genius! And all the stuff I don't own that I'm using in this fic.

Author's Note: Sorry about the very long delay. School snow days, sickness, and supporting the wife's crochet business ate all my writing time. For another note, I love telling an out-of-sequence story, it let's me put things where they should be organically, instead of trying to shoehorn in exposition in places where/when there is no reason to, but they are important to the story.

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

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Topic: The Fall of the Empire

In: Boards Locations America Brockton Bay

Bagrat (Original Poster) (Veteran Member) (The Guy in the Know)

Posted on Feb 17th 2011:

Thanks to the BBPD and PRT leaking like a sieve, I can confirm the rumors. The Empire 88s remaining capes are either dead or fled. Video is here. Graphic content warning, as it shows most of them crushed by a tank, and Alabaster impaled with a pipe.

Video and audio were put together from security camera footage by an evidence technician in the PRT, and anonymously posted about five minutes after it was shown to Director Piggot and the Chief of Police.

Also: new guy, that's one hell of a debut.

XxVoid_CowboyxX

Replied on Feb 17th 2011:

I call bullshit. Three perfect camera angles, clear video AND AUDIO from a security camera? WTF would they even HAVE cameras in their secret meeting? And the music in the background? Turn it up. It's a little on point.

The new guy's just showing how he can totally pwn Uber and Leet at their own game, while taking out a rival gang. And rest assured, this is just the first move, there will be a gang if there isn't already, he will be seizing a bunch of the bay.

Also: kudos, keep up the good work.

RedQueensGhost

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

What was the background music?

BTW, Void, you're sounding much more coherent since Halloween.

Kid Win (verified cape) (Wards ENE)

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

'Primo Victoria' by Sabaton, it's about D-Day.

XxVoid_CowboyxX

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

See, this is his beachhead, the beginning of his invasion. I mean, this town could use some serious de-Nazification, but what is will our new Occupying Army want?

RedQueensGhost: Go into the light, Emma.

InnocentBystanderHong

Replied on Feb 17th 2011:

Holy Fuck.

I was recording a History channel show that I totally wasn't gonna use as the main source for a paper, when this happened.

See how the guy pops up in the middle of a World of Tanks commercial, looks through the screen for something, says "There you are.", disappears, and then a few seconds later one of the tanks vanishes from the picture.

So, in summary, he can use your TV like a window, a door, or a garage door to summon things from TVland through.

On an unrelated note, what are the requirements to become Amish?

Asking for a friend.

Weaver (Verified Cape)

Replied on Feb 17th 2011:

Ugh. Now I'm agreeing with Void. No way that came out of a security camera. You usually get some shitty black and white crap that barely looks like a person, not this. He planted those cameras ahead of time.

Miss Mercury (Protectorate Employee)

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

As happy as I am to see them gone, he still killed nine capes, most of whom weren't even Birdcage bound, much less kill orders. He'll probably have a kill order by the end of the week.

Count_Roll_Freako (Verified Cape)

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

Au contraire, Miss Mercury. It is I, Control Freak, maker of monsters, master of all media. Watch my next trick, where I make my kill order disappear.

You see, the thing that drives this whole game of cops and robbers, is Endbringers. The Unwritten Rules (that are written down in a surprising number of places) are all about making sure there are as many capes as possible to throw into battle against them. So, rest assured, though the Empire 88 are gone, their powers will live on, after a fashion.

Based on the two that got away, we have a few more traditional tinkertech offerings. A rapid training system in prototype that should allow one to master martial arts and similar skills that take years in a few weeks to a month from Victor. From Othala, we've derived four different formulas/serums/potions/superdrugs whatever you want to call them:

Regeneris (or Loganizer): grants regen for about half an hour, less the more healing you need. Time drops drastically if it needs to make up for missing mass.

Speedforce: Around 20 minutes of superspeed

Ironman: Approximately half an hour of invulnerability, like Regeneris, the more physics defying the feat, the shorter it lasts.

Hourman: Gives a lesser version of all the above plus superstrength for about an hour. Tank low caliber rounds, heal from larger, lift maybe a half-ton, run at around 40-50 mph. Won't regrow missing parts.

Side effects and warnings: Don't take a second dose until at least an hour after the effects of the previous one wear off. DO NOT MIX AND MATCH. Wait at least 24 hours after taking one type to take another (measured from last dose). For Hourman, wait at least 24 hours before taking another.

For what I got from the rest of them, you'll see soon.

bothad

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

What happens if you mix and match?

Count_Roll_Freako (Verified Cape)

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

Best case, all the cancer. Spontaneous combustion. Die in horrible agony, then trigger. BTW, Crash's clone, whatever you're calling yourself, it's OK, we managed to revive everybody, we understand the complete freak out, it happens alot when people have better triggers, I'm sorry, you can come home. Please, at least contact Crash.

Clockblocker (Verified cape) (Wards: ENE)

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

What with all the red flags, the illegal human experimentation, I'm guessing villain? Why? If you want territory, I'd think you'd go after the Merchants first, they are the low hanging fruit.

Count_Roll_Freako (Verified Cape)

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

Villain. You cannot make any kind of social change as a hero. As for why the Empire first, my question is why you have tolerated their continued existence for so long. For those complaining about lack of power, what I did could have been done with a perfectly regular tech bomb, made from commonly available components, from easily downloadable plans. If the moral dimension bothers you, remember, attacking people in their homes is A-OK in their book. Fun thought: by the nature of their philosophy, killing a Nazi is always self-defense.

Feychick

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

WTF?

XxVoid_CowboyxX

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

OK, I think I got this one.

Their pseudo-intellectual justification for their hate is the idea that all groups are trapped in some kind of Darwinist murderthon. All nations, all religions, all ethnic groups, all political parties, all native language groups (not kidding), every way you can tribe, against every other. Partnership and coexistence is idiocy, because all those evil others will take every opportunity to infiltrate, sabotage, sap and impurify your precious bodily fluids (not kidding about that one either).

So, by joining Nazis, you're basically running around, waving a weapon, shouting how you'll murder all you fucking (insert slur here), and should be treated as such.

Man, I wish I'd come up with this for World History.

All_Seeing_Eye

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

'Their powers will live on, after a fashion.'

You can copy and give people powers, can't you?

LilRedReapingHood

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

You might as well tell her.

Count_Roll_Freako (Verified Cape)

Replied on Feb 17th 2011

Fine, I was waiting to debut the rest of the team before letting this cat out of the bag, but yes. Before everyone starts stampeding my way with demands, there are some problems with the process. They aren't an exact copy, the powers get filtered through your subconscious and experiences, and sometimes they break apart into little sub-powers. There's a significant chance of Case 53 style mutations. Lastly, um, Babylon 5, Season 1 Episode 9, around 37:20.

WeirdAlSpankABitch (Not the performer)

Replied Feb 17th 2011

For those who can't quote chapter and verse from 20 year old TV shows, WTF?

ProfessorLiddleOlman

Replied Feb 17th 2011

To paraphrase the key passage, the main ingredient must be taken from living capes, for one to have powers, another must die.

Count_Roll_Freako (Verified Cape)

Replied Feb 17th 2011

And before anyone asks, no, you can't just bring me the corpses of your enemies, no, I won't be handing out powers to the highest bidder, no, I won't be a government executioner, and no, no one can buy borrow or steal my process anymore than they can recognize my face.

XxVoidCowboyxX

Replied Feb 17th 2011

OK, that effect is just freaky. I didn't realize he wasn't wearing a mask until it was pointed out. Now watch the video and try to imagine that he is anyone other than Control Freak.

All_Seeing_Eye

Replied Feb 17th 2011

Thanks, Void. Now I have a migraine and a nosebleed.

Ruby walked away from the workbench where she was helping Chloe put the finishing touches on the final prototype of the Techno-Wizard Phaser-Tonfa and over to where Alex and Luna were starting the Dedicated Wright Homunculi putting the golem enchantments on the Terminators that would form the rank and file of the gang. "You big fat liar." she said.

"What, you want me to admit I can just give people powers with my mind? I don't need the entire planet showing up demanding I make them omnipotent."

"We all did agree, this was the best plan available. You were manning the counter." Luna replied to her unasked question.