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Welcome to Young Justice: Meta Human Slave Quest.


You are Joseph Mercer. From a young age you excelled academically, to the point where the school curriculum was often too easy for you, and ultimately as a preteen you skipped a few grades and went to high school early. You continued to excel, and even as an underage freshmen took advance courses such as AP Biology. Unfortunately, your nature as a Nerd and your relative youth compared to your classmates made it hard to make friends, and by your second year of high school at the age of fourteen you had ended up as a solitary wallflower. Feeling bad for yourself and with your self confidence at an all time low, you responded to a self help advertisement online. This proved to be a horrible mistake.

When you got to the address from the add you were kidnapped by Meta-human traffickers and experimented on, gaining the power to control and manipulate your flesh. You were then implanted with a control device and thrown into some sort of super villain school with a number of other kidnapped teenagers.

Currently you are undergoing your first lesson in using your powers with your shape-shifting teacher, and are about to attempt to manipulate your skeletal structure.

Previous thread. http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/3514945/
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You nod to let him know you understand his instructions, and grab the jug of water and the nearest bottle of pills and start stuffing your face with eggs and dietary supplements. Then, you get to work. Before you start however he whips out a tape measure and records the length and dimensions of each finger.

“It’s important to have a reference when you’re working under controlled conditions. Hopefully we won’t need them, but it’s better to have them and not need them rather than need them and not have them” He tells you as he records the numbers. “When you do it on the fly you have to eyeball it, but when you can it’s best to be clinical. Remember, precision is key to our work.”

Once he’s done he gives you the go ahead to start, and you get to work on your fingers like he had suggested. You think back to your anatomy classes and you imagine the bones. You picture the cartilaginous segments that allow for growth and feel for them with the awareness of your body given to you by your powers until you find them, and you order them to grow and lengthen your bones. As they expand you will materials into the new growth forcing it to ossify as it grows.

Larson watches you closely as you work, commenting on the growth of your fingers and making sure you keep it even. You add maybe half an inch to their length, and then he orders you to try reversing it and shrinking them back down.

Reversing it is harder, you start by trying to break down the ossified material, but experience pain when you try that so you cut that out real quick. After a moments contemplation you have an idea and order your bones to compress in on themselves and try to shrink them down by making them more dense. Packing the same amount of material in as the larger bones down into a smaller space.

It’s uncomfortable, there’s a sensation of pressure and your hands feel stiff while the change is ongoing, but it works. You manage to shrink your fingers back down to their original proportions. Then Larson orders you to grow em back out and shrink them again. You do this for about an hour, maybe an hour and a half.
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>>3529465

In the beginning it’s slow going, it takes minutes to grow out the bones and shrink them back down. It’s a lot harder to manipulate bone than it was to manipulate muscle and flesh, but you can do it, and as Larson makes you do it over and over you begin to get faster at it. By the time the kitchen staff arrive with two whole cooked turkeys you’ve got it down to about half a minute all together between the extension time and then the time to shrink them back down.

You’ve been choking down supplements and eggs the whole time, actually to be more accurate you finished the eggs about an hour in and started on the sausages. Most of what you’ve been using has actually been the stuff from the dietary supplements you’ve been downing by the handful. You’re pretty sure if a doctor was here they’d tell you not to do that, but it’s working so far. While some of the material from the eggs and sausages has been used, both for the cartilage growth and as fuel for the reactions, most of it is just getting distributed or being used to make storage for the excess nutrients from the pills.

You experiment with trying to compress your flesh as well as your bones to keep the new mass from being readily apparent. While the flesh had been faster to respond to your mental commands than the bones, the bones are oddly enough easier to compress. Still, you manage to force your body to comply with your wishes after a bit of practice. It feels kinda like flexing everything all at once. There’s a sensation of tightness and effort from head to toe. It isn’t exactly uncomfortable but it’s certainly distracting. You have to focus on it at first, but after a while you find yourself just kind of maintaining it without thinking while you focus on your bones.

You decide that what your teacher doesn’t know won’t hurt him. If he thinks you’re burning everything he’s feeding you powering the use of your powers on your fingers you aren’t going to clue him in on the fact that you’re managing to store a good bit of it for later use. He told you himself that keeping some secrets to yourself is smart after all. He’d probably approve.

After the turkeys are delivered he tells you to stop for a moment. He goes and grabs another jug of water, sets the roasted birds in front of you and pulls out a few more bottles of supplements.

“Alright” He says as he sets them in front of you “How do you feel kid?”

“Good” you say, flexing your fingers “I think I’m getting the hang of it.”

“Sure looks like it kid.” He says with a smirk. “You pick things up fast and you don’t bitch. That’s good, very good.”

“Now” He says “Take a break for a minute, use the facilities if you need to, and then come back here. When you get back we are going to start the next step.”
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>>3529470

“Thank you sir” You say and you get up and stretch. As you stretch you think about what you’ve seen your teacher do, turning his hand into a damn working dinosaur head and mimicking Lex Luthor. You’ve got a long way to go. Though that thought does bring up a question you’d had.

“Sir, You mentioned that copying someones look took a lot of time and effort right?” You ask him.

“He looks at you with a somewhat bemused look. “Yeah, why are you asking? I told you to hold off on that till your ready.”

“Of course” You reply quickly “I was just wondering Sir.... well, why are you so good at copying Mr. Luthor’s face.”

He looks at you for a minute and then throws back his head and laughs. “Worried I’ve been using his face for nefarious purposes? Defaming him maybe?” He says with a smirk. “Ha, I wish. No, he hired me on as a body double to attend some meetings for him while he was collaborating with the Reach to take over the planet.”

….What?

“To quote dome-head. ‘While it is necessary that I appear to attend these meetings for the sake of maintaining our business relationship with these aliens until we are ready to make our move, to place myself at risk by going in person would be imbecilic.’ He had a telepath hook us up to each other and I went as his mouthpiece. Damn good money too, hazard pay you know?”

Seriously, What?

“But that’s a story for another time” He says as he chuckles a bit more. “Don’t want to smash all of your illusions about society all at once. Go take a walk kid, hit the head, and then come back.


You nod, and then go take care the necessities. When you’re ready you head back in. When you walk through the door he’s munching on one of the turkey legs. He gestures for you to sit down next to him.
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>>3529476

“Alright” He says after swallowing. He pushes one of the turkeys up to you. “Next step. Lie down on your back. We’re going to start working on other bones besides your hands. Rather than trying to grow everything at once and overwhelm you, we’re going to practice one section at a time so you get used to working with them, and then combine it all.”

You lie down on your back and start repeating the process you’d just done with your fingers on other bone groups. Your arms, your legs, your ribs cage. Your spine. It takes hours, cycling through one section at a time. After each section Larson has you get up, walk around and stretch out. Take a short break, and then you lie back down and start on the next section.

You go through both of the turkeys, and the next turkey they send up after those. You burn a lot of it. Doing larger body parts is a lot more energy intensive. As you grow the bones you have to grow the muscles to match, and then when you’re done you have to compress the lot. Slowly but surely you feel yourself getting heavier, denser. You feel like your body is more solid than it had been. Your original size is accompanied by a faint sensation of pressure and tightness, and expansion feels like your pushing against a wall and slowly forcing it back.

You’ve been at it for hours. The light filtering in through the windows is tinted orange from the setting of the sun and the fluorescent lights have come on, when Larson claps his hands together.

“Alright, it’s time.” He says. “Time to put it all together kid. Lie down on your back and do the lot, all at once. Go slow though, you don’t want to rush it and botch something. Speed will come later, for now focus on not making mistakes.”

Lying down you focus. By now the sensation of manipulating your bones is much more familiar to you then it had been this morning. You focus, and then you start to grow. Your limbs lengthen, your rib cage swells and your shoulders broaden. It takes a few minutes, but when you’re done you feel good.

You sit up and look at your hands, they’re as big as plates. You could probably palm someones skull in one hand easily. Larson whistles and then holds out a hand to help you to your feet. You take his arm and let him pull you up. Once you’re standing you realize that you’re actually taller than him now. Not by much, but he has to tilt his head up slightly to look you in the eye and give you a smile. You smile back.

“Good job kid.” He says “Damn good job. Now, go ahead and walk.”
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>>3529484

Flush with confidence you take your first steps...and nearly fall flat on your face. Larson chuckles behind you as you stumble to catch yourself.

“Did better than I did the first time I tried to mimic a T-rex.” he says as he chuckles. “Everyone thinks I was trying to crush Robot man with my bulk, truth is I just tripped. Least you didn’t land on your face. Here, lean on me.”

He walks up next to you and extends an arm, and using him as a crutch, you stumble around the room. After a few laps you are able to release your grip on him and walk on your own, and after a few more he urges you into a slow jog for a bit before telling you to stop.

“Alright, that’s enough for today” He says. “Shrink back down.”

You concentrate and start compacting yourself, feeling the sensation of pressure build as you shrink back down. It’s quicker than growing had been, it takes a lot less mental effort to make your body return back to it’s original proportions than it did to force it to grow. It feels natural.

“Well kid I don’t know about you, but I’m bushed.” Your teacher says as he makes his way over to the pile of stuff he had been retrieving jugs of water from throughout the day. “Wonder what time it is.”

He pulls out a watch and looks at it and then curses. “Shit.”

He turns around to face you and says “Well kid, we went a bit over time. Dinner is almost over. Headmistress probably won’t be happy, but don’t you worry about that I’ll take care of it. I can get something delivered to your room if you want to go rest, you’re probably exhausted.”

What do you do?

>You are exhausted, though not necessarily hungry, going back to your room and vegging out sounds great.

>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

>You are pretty tired, but you don’t want to waste the time vegging and you don’t really feel like seeing anyone. Maybe you could see if there’s a library and do some research or pleasure reading.

>Write in.
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>>3529485

That's fucking awesome anon. Thank you.

Now, If you all will give me a minute, I need to type up some mechanical stuff. There's some information that needs to be imparted regarding the fruits of our day of labor.
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>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
So wait, are we physically stronger now in our smaller form?
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>>3529497
+1
that's what it sounds like
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>>3529490
>You are exhausted, though not necessarily hungry, going back to your room and vegging out sounds great.
Library option is tempting, but it's no use trying to research when tired.

Speaking of, it's almost 3 a.m for me, I gotta crash. Thanks for running E-16!


>>3529485
Daaaamn. Nice work anon, very nice.
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>>3529497

That's going to come up in a bit, but you've just consumed like three turkeys worth of biomass not including the eggs and sausages and Incorporated a good chunk of it into yourself. It may not seem like a lot compared to the kind of gains people have been talking about while discussing eating whole cattle and whatnot, but it isn't anything to sneeze at either.
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>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
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>>3529503

Go sleep man, thank you for being here.
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>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
I like this guy. Gonna be a real shame when we inevitably have to go up against him.

Also when we go full 7 feet, is everything proportional? By everything, I of course mean... everything. Shit should be like a dream come true for a 14 year old nerd.
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>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
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>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
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>>3529485
That's pretty good anon.
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>>3529512
>Look down at our foot long cock
>"Huh, it didn't grow with me."
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>>3529504
Did we eat the bones too? Powdered bone broth soup aint half bad....

>>3529497
I think we are denser, so we probably have more damage resistance and stronger bones by default.
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>>3529526
Based. Gotta wait til we hit the shower rooms to say that.
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>>3529485
can i save this, this is some real good work
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>>3529546
Of course anon.
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>>3529550
kind of want to keep it as a possible future look/persona for us so what program did you use and how did you keep the style the same?
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>>3529555
I normally use GIMP 2.
There's quite a few different methods I used.
At the end I added some noise to it to make it fit the original style a little better.
For the armour I just copied some of the texture and edited it slightly before pasting it over where the spikes were.
I used the smudge tool a little too much in some places, it works pretty well when combined with a half transparent brush.
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>>3529568
i am a msp user so i had one third of a idea what you did
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>>3529568
can you make like a under jaw for this? its supposed to be like a skull but a biohazard symbol and i did not make it i just have it in my folders and this could be like our symbol
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>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
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>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
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>>3529490
>>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.

Super villain name, Biohazard? Bioshock?
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>>3529615
Plasmid?
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>>3529615
We aren't decided on our path yet.
I think Ouroboros is a good villain name and Synthesis is a good hero name
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>>3529615
super villain?
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>>3529615
Someone suggested Taxon last thread, that one's cool. Rolls well off the tongue.
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>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
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>>3529597
>>3529615
>>3529617
>>3529626
>>3529619
a biohazard like symbol would work for us
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>>3529615
Biohazard isn’t bad, leans towards the villain side, but will work as a antihero or hero name too. Support.
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>>3529638
How, though? Mercer may have been an inspiration but we're straight up cellular manipulation. The only thing that's really similar is the ability to consume, but even that's not really connected to a bio hazard symbol.
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>>3529638
But are we even going to use a soopa suit? Don't we want to be sneaky and/or turn into a monster?
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>>3529626
Nvm, I’ll switch to supporting this. Much more versatile and fits what our ultimate power set will most likely end up looking like.
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Alright, mechanics blurb incoming. Buckle up.

Due to the nature of our powers I’ve decided that I will need to add a few mechanics to represent them and make training with your power worthwhile without just throwing power dice at you. That, and I think it will be fun and add a bit more depth to your decisions in combat. Therefore, we are introducing two new mechanics for your use. The first is Forms.

Through rigorous training you have created

Form: Big guy (1)

Forms can be assumed through a successful powers roll. While in a form it adds dice equal to it’s quality to applicable rolls. These dice can stack with both your cliché dice, and your power dice for applicable rolls. Forms may subtract dice from rolls they are unsuited too. For instance certain forms may be bad for sneaking around, while other’s may not be useful for a fight.

You remain in a Form until you either voluntarily leave it, or take damage equal to it’s quality, which forces you to abandon the form.

Form: Big guy is currently quality 1. Spending time in this form and practicing with it to familiarize yourself with the new form will increase it’s quality.

The second mechanic is Combat tricks. Combat tricks are practiced actions that can allow you to get an edge in a fight. An example of a basic combat trick would be to grow yourself a small bone blade to shank someone with. An advanced example would be turning your hand into the head of a dinosaur to bite someone. These represent combat applications of your power that you have practiced before hand, rather than on the fly creative uses of your power.

A combat trick has limited uses, equal to its quality. Therefore, if it’s quality is 1, it can only be used once in a fight.

A combat trick functions as a pump for a single dice roll, increasing your dice pool by a set amount. However unlike a pump, use of a combat trick does not cause you to take damage.

1/2
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>>3529653
if we can change pigments we can put it on our skin and remove it if we want
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>>3529657

The advancement of your forms and combat tricks will directly effect the advancement of your powers. Your number of power dice will increase when the combined quality of your forms and combat tricks reach a predetermined threshold. For example if you have a form of quality 2 and a combat trick of quality 2 the combined total would be 4.

The threshold for your first increase in your power dice will be a combined number of 5, at which point your number of power dice will go up from 3 to 4. You are currently at 1/5 for upgrading your power dice.

No pool can go over 6 dice, however in the instance of your powers when it has reached 6 dice it will be possible to continue to progress. In the event that your powers pool is at size 6 and you earn an increase, the number of dice in your pool will be reduced to 5, but the size of the dice will be increased.

For example if you have 6d6 and you earn an increase you would then go to 5d8. If you get to 6d8 and then increase it further you would go to 5d10, and so on and so forth.

If you have any questions or objections please let me know. I’m going to be putting together a paste bin of the mechanics for easy reference, and will put a character sheet together. There should be no further mechanics introduced after this unless absolutely necessary to represent an evolution of our powers that can not be represented with what we have already.

I’m going to go eat, and then when I get back I’ll call the vote and get writing. Probably be 40 minutes to an hour.
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>>3529657
>take damage equal to it’s quality, which forces you to abandon the form.
Hmm, I don't know about this. We're shifting our body, are we not? Why would taking damage force us to revert back? Unless it's from losing biomass and not having enough to sustain it, but surely we can still maintain it as much as we can (e.g. big guy form but an arm's gone).
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>>3529672
good questions we dont revert if we dont decide to revert
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>>3529679
or atleast it seems like that
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>>3529615
I'd think it depends on if our character picks his name, or HIVE assigns it. I like biohazard and ouroboros for the first, or If it's the second one, what about parasyte or maybe krieg?
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>>3529672
This is true, but on the flip side forms would need to have other limitations to replace that. Ive thought of two possible alternatives to simply reverting:

1) every action while in a form, roll a d6, where dc == (8-(quality))/2 rounded up. Moderate Success means nothing happens, major success(6, or DC+4 whichever is lower ) means success with a benefit. minor failure means a minor malfunction, major failure(1 or DC--3, whoever is higher) means a major consequence.
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>Based on the mc from prototype
>In DC where the most heroes names end in -man
>Not going for the most universe appropriate name
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>>3529704
Meatman.
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>>3529700
>damn my fingers

2) Forms have significant drawbacks that accumulate over time and can only be fixed by reverting back to normalize. For example, using Bane Mode could create micro-fractures in the bone, which lead to braking more bones in combat. This would leave the exact consequences up to the op and less to the die.
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>>3529623
well obviously were not gonna stay villains but for the meantime, until we can free terra and friends we ain't going nowhere.
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>>3529704
Well Bio-Man sounds like we work in sewage.
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>>3529704
ok meat-a-man
ham-man
biomorph-man
morph-man
bio-man
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>>3529700
>>3529708
1 holds the same problem for me as reverting due to taking damage: it's as if we're going through a temporary transformation rather than actually changing our body's shape. Maintaining our current form shouldn't take concentration because it's just the form that we're at - we've already forgotten stuff like our claw and teeth before. I do see it as a natural consequence of taking on an uncomfortable form though, like when we were shifting our flesh before.

I think 2 is something that will actually just happen naturally whenever we make new forms. Right now Big Guy mode is just... a big guy, so no drawbacks.
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>>3529707
>>3529718
>>3529720
I can't tell if I'm getting fucked with or not.
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>>3529597
Maybe?
What do you guys think?
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>>3529731
Glowing Red version
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>>3529731
>>3529733

ok you do good quality stuff
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Looks like an undead anteater skull.
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>>3529731
It gives me jellyfish vibes more than skull.The shape of the top kinda reminds me of a Metroid. Mostly though, it's the jaw part, feels too long.
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Okay, I'm back.

>>3529728
>>3529700
>>3529672

Alright, I hear what you are saying and I get where you are coming from. So, lets work this out.

I want to keep the mechanics fairly simple to keep things from gumming up under the need for multiple rolls to resolve a single action. I'd like to stick to things that either add or subtract from your pool of dice, and simple dc checks. Keep things streamlined y'know?

What I've realized is ultimately it doesn't really mater from a mechanical stand point if you technically stay in the form, if you take damage your dice pool is going to go down. So we'll just apply damage to powers and cliches like normal, and you can leave the damage to the form as the last one to go, unless you want to drop it earlier, but dropping it will be your choice unless you literally get absolutely smashed down to the last dice.

The weakness, or drawback to a form, will be the time spent assuming it. To assume a form there will be a DC check. If you pass the check, you assume the form without getting caught flat footed while changing. If you fail the check, then you still manage to assume the form, but they get you while you are changing. The higher the quality of the form the lower the Dc. So basically you take a round to try and assume the form. If you succeed you just increased your dice pool. If you fail you take some damage, which may or may not even out with your new gains. Amount of damage to be determined by how badly you fail the check.

How's that sound? I feel like it's pretty consistent with what's been established so far.
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>>3529708
>>3529700
>>3529657
I don't really like the idea of having to revert or having downsides to being in a form.
Like the other anon said, we're changing our body. We should stay in it until we decide to change it again. Being reverted back on taking damage doesn't make any sense to me.
I don't see why we need a mechanical method to encourage us back into our original form - it should be a narrative thing, if we want to stay in a new form 24/7 then so be it, that is our new body.
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>>3529742
I feel like that’s more of a positive than a drawback though. An abstract skull is way better for a career in villainy, especially one that can easily be confused for a jellyfish.
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>>3529757
*heroism, not villainyz
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>>3529752

This is of course assuming you are trying to shift during an active combat situation. You're not going to get btfo lying in your bed just shifting.
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>>3529657
Could you explain the dice again please? What the booklet you are using called?
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>>3529752
>The weakness, or drawback to a form, will be the time spent assuming it
That makes a lot more sense to me.
If we get practiced then we can jump to a torm in a flash but if it's a new form then we need to get lucky ... and the newer or more complicated the form the more thought we need to put into it to shift in time
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>>3529752
Sounds pretty good, a compromise between mechanics and lore. But that brings up another question: how will a non-cliche buff work? Will form powers always slot into cliches? Will a form that doesn’t align with a cliche automatically get slotted into power? For example, if we make a form that can move really fast, would that still add a dice to the power pool? Would a form that increases our brainpower increase our nerd pool?
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Honestly I think another system would fit our character better.
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>>3529764

No problem.

So basically your character is described by a series of Cliche's.

Ours currently are

Wallflower (4)
Nerd (4)
Hacker (2)

and power dice (3)

When you try to do something appropriate to a cliche, like a nerd knowing trivia, you roll the dice pool for that Cliche. Dice are d6 unless specifically stated otherwise. You add up what you rolled, so if I rolled 3 dice and they came up 1 2 and 3, i'd have rolled a total of 6.

When you are doing a skill check you are trying to beat a set number, a DC. So something easy might be DC 5, something hard would be more like 10+. If the combined total of your dice is higher than the dc you succeed.

In combat you and your opponent both roll the dice appropriate to what you are trying to do. Whoever rolls the higher total wins the combat round. The looser takes damage, which is represented by loosing a dice from the cliche they were using.

We can stack our power dice with an appropriate cliche for an action that uses both our powers and one of our cliche.

A pump is when you push yourself beyond your limits knowing it will hurt you. This adds a number of dice to your pool for a single roll. So If I had a cliche of 4 and I pumped it for 2, then I'd roll 6 dice. But, after that your cliche takes damage equal to the number it was pumped by.

That's it.
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>>3529752
I definitely like this method more than before.

>>3529757
Fair point, though I'm not sure about a jellyfish being our symbol regardless. I guess if we're also abstract in it's meaning? Like the many tentacles representing all our many forms.

>>3529759
Oh yeah, much better than the other one.
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>>3529490
>You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went.
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Well I've opened up a real can of worms here.


>>3529768

When you are in a form, that form will act like a cliche and provides dice appropriate for things that form would be good at. So big guy is good at big guy things, like hitting stuff or being scary. If you make a big brain form it will be good for big brain things, like solving problems. Big guy will give no dice for solving problems, and big brain isn't going to help you hit things harder. For all intents and purposes they are cliche's that describe your character only while you are in that form. I hope that addresses your question.

>>3529774

There may well be anon. There may well be. When it comes right down to it no form of abstraction is perfect. I picked something I felt would work for me, for the purposes of running this quest. Something simple and quick. Now I've fucked up and complicated things a bit, but I still think it's pretty simple and I still think it will work well for my purposes with this quest. I wanted something between the extremes of just rolling d100 with a dc, because that wasn't quite meaty enough for me, and some of the more complex systems I've seen used here on quest with multiple different stats and damage mechanics. I thought this would hit just about right where I wanted it. I didn't quite envision how the quest would evolve, and it looks like I got a little over enthusiastic and in trying to evolve with it I may have made a mistake, but honestly I think that >>3529752 will work pretty well.


I'll be honest, I don't want to switch systems. I'm sorry if it isn't to everyone's liking, but it works for me. I hope it can work for all of you as well, but I have no desire to try and learn a new system and re-stat our boi. Not at this point. I just want to explore a collaborative story with you all and play in the young justice/DC universe sand box a bit, not do more book keeping.


Now, I'm going to get back to writing, and I'm going to try and get the next write up done for tonight and then I'm hitting the hay. If you wish to further discuss mechanics feel free to do so, but I probably won't be responding to any further mechanical inquiries until tomorrow.
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>>3529857
this is actually a fun idea for a system
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>>3529756
Maybe it should be we take damage only we we won't have enough energy stores for the revert. So we either stay in our form until we do or we revert back at a cost to our heath, which makes some sense...

Perhaps the damage comes from our flesh being turn and shifted around by the musculature changes, since flesh is attached to bone...
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>>3529763
so rapidly changing or shifting can cause damage? I can live with that.
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>>3529873
same and it makes some sense
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>>3529857
I like something a nit more developed than just 'roll1d100'. This system sounds pretty elegant to me, not tok complicated but not too simple either.
Same with the test to change form quickly
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While going and resting is tempting, you want to know how Tara and Caitlin and the rest of the gangs first days went more. You might have missed most of dinner, but you could probably catch the tail end of it and see your new...friends? Acquaintances? Fellow kidnapees? You aren’t quite certain what you are, you haven’t known them very long and you wouldn’t want to presume, but you’d like to think of them as friends.

“I think I’ll head down to dinner anyway” You tell your teacher. “Maybe relax in the common area with some other students I met yesterday.”

“Alright, have fun kid.” Larson tells you as he waves you towards the door. “Go on ahead, I’ll tidy up. See you in a few days for your next lesson.”

He then turns and starts picking up the bottles and plates and stacking them onto one of the empty trolleys. With that clear dismissal, you figure it’s alright to leave. You hop on down the stairs and make your way to the cafeteria. Despite your late arrival there’s still a good number of people there.

Looking around the room, you can see that cliques are already forming. It seems that teenagers will be teenagers, even if they're at super villain academy rather than in a normal high school. The white haired Gothamite is sitting at the same table he was last night on the opposite side of the room. In addition to the redhead and the blonde you can see he’s been joined by a pair of older boys, a smaller one with dirty blonde hair and pretty fit one with black hair.

There’s also two smaller groups sitting towards the middle of the room. One is made up of the large pacific islander, a short Caucasian kid with broad shoulders and thick mutton-chop sideburns, and the tall black kid you could have sworn was stretching yesterday. The other is made up of an Asian girl with long hair that’s either been bleached to a bronzy color or who’s been mutated a bit by her meta-gene, a tall black haired guy with a hook nose and his hair shaved close to his skull, and a short Hispanic kid.
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>>3530013

Then, there’s a few kids who are sitting alone. There’s the silver haired girl who had done the whole floating resonating voice thing sitting off in the corner away from everyone else, a petite girl with a pixie cut that has a purple streak dyed in it, and the old woman whom you can now see clearly and confirm is in fact an older woman. Though she looks younger than she had. Still someones grandma, but you could have sworn she was more decrepit than that yesterday. But to be fair you did only really see her from behind a few times and hadn't really payed her any attention other than that.

Finally, there’s your group, sitting at the same table you had occupied the last few meal period. Your table now you guess.

As you step in the door Liz sees you and nudges Tara, who turns and waves at you with a smile and gestures for you to come over. You wave back, but looking at them, you notice something. It’s not odd per-see, but there is a very obviously empty space at the table. Caitlin isn’t with them.

>What do you do

>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.

>Head straight over to them and ask how their days went. Caitlin probably just ducked out early, not a big deal.

>Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the petite girl with the purple streak in her hair, you know how it is to be alone and it sucks. Maybe she’d like some company

> Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the silver haired girl. She may have been creepy, but it was probably a misunderstanding and no one should be isolated.

>Tell you’re friends you’ll be there in a moment and go talk to the old woman. You have no idea what she’s doing here, and you kinda want to know.

>Write in.
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>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.
She clearly wasn't in a good state the last time we saw her.
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>>3530016
>>Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the petite girl with the purple streak in her hair, you know how it is to be alone and it sucks. Maybe she’d like some company
>> Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the silver haired girl. She may have been creepy, but it was probably a misunderstanding and no one should be isolated.
One of these two. More allies is always good.
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>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.

Talking to the psychic is tempting, but doesn’t feel at all like what a teenager would do. Maybe once we get something to eat and we’ll swing by and check up on her.
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>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.
Actually, changing to this.
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>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.
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>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.
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>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask how their days went. Caitlin probably just ducked out early, not a big deal.
She's probably either still with her teacher, or recovering from whatever her training was.
If she's still missing tomorrow, then it's time to worry.
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>>3530016
> Call out to your friends you’ll be there in a second and try approaching the silver haired girl. She may have been creepy, but it was probably a misunderstanding and no one should be isolated
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>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask how their days went. Bring up Caitlin if they don't mention her during the conversation.
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>>3530016
>>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.
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>>3529857
>big brain form
YES
>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is
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>>3530461
>mfw that the way to get psychics powers
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>>3530485
You didn't post a face.
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Okay, this is gonna sound pedantic but...
How do our current clothes respond to our transformation? I don't think E-16 touched on that particular point when writing our first shift into Big Guy.
Unless HIVE has us dressed in some sorta clothes with bullshit-tier stretching capabilites I'm picturing a seven-foot us with a comically ill-fitting outfit.
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>>3530488
HE HAS NO FACE
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>>3530032
support
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>>3530301
Support
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>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.
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>>3529759
I tink anons want a biohazard symbol that resembles a skull a little more, like pic related.
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>>3530648
Oooohhh! I don't know about other Anons but to me, that's a villain symbol if I've ever seen one.
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>>3530655
A biohazard symbol is villanous on itself and quest has been torn between being a hero or being a magneto-like antihero , that's why I support Biohazard as a villain name, Ouroboros as an antihero name and Shynthesis as a hero name. Remember that our name should be connected to our powers but never reveal entirely what we can do, not every enemy is an idiot.
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>>3530648
YES YES thats the one i have been searching for i could not find it thank you anon
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>>3530648
Yeah, no, I don’t think this fits our (current) ethos at all. Maybe if we turn into a full blown villain one day but not otherwise. This just screams malevolent.
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>>3530720
remember we are a shapeshifter if we dont have several identities we are not doing it right
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>>3530737
Having a villain identity is also called "being a villain."
You can't just go for both and not expect to eventually be caught out.
>>3530648
That's far too fucking evil for James. As a villain sure but I want to go down the Anti-Hero/Liberator or the Hero route unless something terrible happens that changes our mindset in character.
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>>3530016
>Head straight over to them and ask them where the missing girl is.
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>>3530762
Unless we scape soon, I see Joe/James/Whatever posing as a villain to please H.I.V.E. until he figures how to fuck themup.
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Alright I'm back. Give me just a minute, and we will get the next write up done.
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>>3530800

voting closed by the way. Good to see you all, hope everyone is doing well.
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>>3530798
Honestly escape by ourselves should be pretty easy if we can get the implant out.
Then we can just swim away by developing gills or fins or some shit.
But I don't want to go the solo escape route unless we absolutely have to, even if we could just get the Justice League to fix everything or whatever.
Posing as a villain might work too.
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>>3530762
I also support Liberator Anti-Hero path, like Magneto but without the terrorism and racism or the inhumans but open to everyone who wants to join.
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>>3530817
I personally want to scape with every other kid they have trapped in here, that would not only give us a small army of metahuman allies, also fame as Justice League promising future recruit for hero path, powerful Metahuman concerned with other safety as Liberator path or fucking dangerous and competent monster as villain (if we eat everyone in the facility). Whatever we do, let's take samples from everyone, maybe create microneedles and give hanshakes like a madman or bite enemies and succ (nonlethal takedown or let them dry, you choose). Also scan your own brain to make sure we know if we've been fucked by the "psychologist" in any way that is not regular conditioning.
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>>3530914
Microneedles the funny thing with that it matches the abstract biohazard skull jellyfish
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>>3530016

You head straight over to the table where your friends are sitting. You’ve been eating all day anyway, and you don’t know if the cooks will give you anything if you ask this late in the dinner period, so you don’t bother trying to get any food.

“Hey guys” you say as you plop down onto your spot on the tables bench. “Where’s Caitlin? She get held up by her teacher too?”

“Ah no” Says Ralph as he shakes his head slowly. “She didn’t, got pulled out right before the end of class actually. The headmistress sent someone to take her to the psychiatrist. Reckon she’s still with em probably.”

“Might be a good thing.” Says Liz in a considering manner as she taps her chin with her fork. “Big reds been kind of out of it y’know? The psychiatrist could be helpful.”

“Might be where they do the brainwashing too” drawls Ralph with a scowl “I don’t think they got our best interest at heart darlin.”

Out of the corner of your eye you notice Tara look down at her plate. You can’t see her expression because of the curtain of her hair which has fallen across her face, but you can see her white knuckle grip on her utensils.

“So” You say, perhaps a little too loudly cutting off Liz’s response. “How were your classes? Mine was actually pretty okay. How about you Tara?”

She peeks over at you. You notice her eyes are a little bit watery, but she blinks away the moisture and gives you a small smile. “I was given several large blocks of stone and told to move them. Lift them, stack them. It was difficult, but boring.”

“Ugh tell me about it.” groans Liz as she slumps down onto the table. “So boring. Hit that target, now hit that one without shocking the first one. Higher amperage, lower amperage. Adjust the voltage. Here, feed lighting into this battery! It was so tedious.”

“Lightning?” You ask with a raised eyebrow. You never actually asked her what her powers were come to think of it.

“Yeah” She says as she lifts up a hand and it crackles with electricity as power arcs between her fingers. “Did I not show you?”

“I guess I forgot to ask.” You say. “How about you Ralph?”

“Got a video chat lecture from Poison Ivy.” He replies with a bemused expression. “She spent most of the morning lecturing me on our responsibilities to the environment and the evils of pollution and deforestation, then we got around to growing some big ol vines and tested how many I could control at once. Hard capped out at four for now, but she said that was pretty good for my first day and that I would soon be ready to ‘fight for the future of plants everywhere.' not quite sure what to make of it t'be honest."
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>>3531079

“Poison Ivy?” Tara replies. “I know of her. She was involved in the injustice league yes?”

“Did Markovia get caught up in that?” You ask, trying to think back to the Injustice leagues attack a few years back. You don’t think they did.

“No” She replies “But Perdita mentioned it at Tea on occasion.”

Perdita...oh right. The Queen of Vlatava.

“So, what was your lesson like James?” Tara asks you as she looks at you expectantly, and Liz and Ralph lean in with interest.

“Learned to grow my bones.” You say. “Took a lot of practice but here, watch this.”

You look around to make sure no one is watching, and shield your hand with your body to block line of sight just in case. Then you lay your hand down on the table and start growing it to about the size it is when you’re in your seven foot tall form, and then shrink it back down.

“Cool.” says Ralph and Tara claps her hands a bit.

“Yeah, nice parlor trick” Says the older blue sitting next to you with a sinful little smile as she leans back and raises an eyebrow at you. “The question is can you do that little growing display anywhere?”

It takes you a second to understand what she’s getting at, and then you flush in embarrassment. You hadn’t really considered that, but now that you think about it….

Liz cackles at your red face and Ralph chokes on his drink and starts coughing, as Tara looks back and forth between you and the blue girl with visible confusion on her face.

“I do not understand” Tara says “What is the joke?”

“That isn’t important” You splutter as you try to get the conversation back to a less uncomfortable topic. “So, what’s everyone’s hobbies?”

Fortunately they go for it. Dinner period ends as you exchange small talk and move yourselves out to the common room. Ralph reminisces about hiking near his home in the mountains, and laments that he doesn’t have his dulcimer. This kicks off a small good natured argument with Liz about music, who insists that ‘twangy country shit’ has nothing on synth. Tara stays pretty quiet. She mentions her brothers a few times, but seems uncomfortable when asked for details about her life. Neither of the other two make any references, oblique or otherwise, to her being royalty. You wonder if maybe they don’t know.

Maybe they didn’t watch the news, or they might have been taken before she was. After all Tara was taken several days before you were, and yet you both ended up here. Who knows how long ago they got snatched. It’s not something you’ve talked with about them. They haven’t asked you, and you haven’t asked them. It’s like there’s a silent agreement not to go there. You do wonder though.
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Time passes and eventually free period ends and it’s time for you all to troop back to your dorms, and still no sign of Caitlin. You wave good bye to the girls and head off with Ralph. You go back to your room and start preparing for bed, which is when you make a discovery.

You have abs now!

You knew that you were growing your muscles while you were growing your bones, kind of had to for things to work, and you’d made your new form buff while you were at it, because why not, but you hadn’t considered quite what condensing all of that back down to shrink would do. You look ripped, like there are steel cords running under your skin. You poke at your stomach. Rock hard.

Man, this is awesome. Best side effect ever. All the gains, years working in the gym not necessary. Suck it Jerome, so damn proud of your muscles and your achievements on the football field, well whose ripped now Jerome! This guy! This is great, this is….this is a clearly visible indicator of how much your powers are changing your body. One the faculty can observe easily.

Shit. This could be evidence that you can store a good bit of what your teacher was feeding you, that you don’t ‘have’ to be eating in order to change. It might be a bit of a leap of logic, but it's possible they could connect the dots. Slowly accumulating enough mass to work with unbeknownst to your kidnappers seemed like a good way to start stacking the deck in your favor, but it’s no good if it gives up the goose.

Fortunately, your ‘uniforms are really baggy and loose, and stretchy too as you discovered when you grew. As long as you are wearing it you really can’t tell much bellow the neck. You’ll just have to be careful and hopefully think of something down the line. Maybe if they see it they’ll just think you were using your powers to make yourself look better for vanity reasons. Actually, that’s probably a good excuse. Alright, maybe this isn’t such a big deal, but you’re definitely going to have to keep an eye out for this sort of thing. You can’t afford slip ups.

Lying down in your bed, you slip into an exhausted dreamless sleep.

The following morning you get cleaned up, dressed, and head to the cafeteria for breakfast. You look over at your table, and see Caitlin talking animatedly with Tara and Liz with a large smile on her face, gesturing animatedly with her hands to illustrate whatever it is she is saying to them. It’s a massive shift from how reserved she had been the first dinner, or at breakfast yesterday.

“Well now” Says Ralph as he slips up besides you. “That there looks like some mighty effective therapy.”

What do you do?

>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more

>Best not to pry, if it comes up it comes up, but you’ll leave that up to her.

>Best to avoid the issue, steer the conversation away from the topic by speculating on today's lessons.

>Write in.
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Be back in a few hours, two to three.
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>>3531095
>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more
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>>3531095
>Best not to pry, if it comes up it comes up, but you’ll leave that up to her
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>>3531095
>>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more
has anyone ever noticed it looks kind of better without male nipples even if it looks less human https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlNDv8lV77c
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>>3531095
Wait, we are still 14 right? Our age hasn't been retconned was it?

>Talk smack about the headmistress and the guards. It could be a good laugh, and if Caitlin responds strangely then we know she's brainwashed.

Also anons. We need to run before any more of us have therapy sessions.

Eig, on the next night would it be possible for us to, or at least try to, work out roughly where we are via the stars? Would that fit with our cliche?
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>>3531116
Supporting this write-in.

>Would that fit with our cliche?
Pretty sure it would, but I think we'd need to read up on... (navigation? astrology?) - first. James/JJ is a biology nerd, after all.
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>>3531116
Support.
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>>3531116
>>3531095
Sure, this
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>>3531116
support, also first learn biology, then eat a few migrating birds and replicate their orientation sense (or read about them and justify it as solving the equilibrium problem in future warforms, birds have an incredible resistence to getting sick while doing werid manouvers while flying)
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>>3531178
We ate turkeys didn't we? do they have the migratory deal?
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>>3531271
No, they don't. We'd have to catch a seagull or some shit.
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>>3531095
>Eat breakfast.
Why didn't we try t oat least eat a little bit or have food sent to our room? That probably raises red flags, and there could be camera's in our rooms too.
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>>3531095
what else i vote on try to eat some food
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>>3531095
>>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more
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>>3531095
>>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more
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>>3531289
Then they alredy know about us being on peak human shape from one training session. If they know about every external effect of our powers, then we should focus on things with little external impact, like making our organism the most efficient and effective we can: when muscles are required to work harder than they're used to or in a different way, it's believed to cause microscopic damage to the muscle fibres, resulting in muscle soreness or stiffness. Solve this by using local regen, which combined with a better waste management and oxigen/nutrient transport, will increasing our stamina. Create new bones, tendons and muscles in our base form, rearrange our joints for maximum flexibility and mobility, get rid of all useless parts, change the internal structure of our body to be a "natural" superhuman (something like Captain America but better).
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Alright, gonna be a bit longer than I'd expected. Just got news a friends having some issues, so I'm going to be held up. Just letting you all know, I don't think I will be back in an hour.
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>>3531379
Hope everything's okay.
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>>3531379
I hope everyone's okay Eig.
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>>3531374
Well we missed dinner which probably raises eyebrows to anyone seriously observing us. They might decide to cut back on our food to better control us in difficult situations or as disciplinary measures if we are shoved in confinement or something to that effect.
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>>3531389
We were training.
If anyone gets shouted at for that it's AVM-Man.
And we were literally eating there to fuel our powers.
If they are observing us they will probably just discount it as a 14 year old nerd wastefully giving himself muscles with his power.
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>>3531400
No I mean after the training, we didn't eat more food to fuel us so to keep up the image of how energy intensive we want them to think, so they can probably better gauge our "fuel tank" so to speak. I'm assuming they have low level mooks or goons watching our every move and reporting back anything of note or discrepancies.
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>>3531095
dont forget to eat as much as you can you must keep the facade up
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>>3531406
probably a way to keep it up but this is most likley a stupid idea is to grow larger with time like the mutation is trying to reach a "base form" growing larger but skinnier more compact so we have a excuse for our diet they dont want to risk starving there growing mutant supersoldier to death we are still a growing child of 14 summers and winters think of it as super puberty
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>>3531439
I don't want to limit our size just keep up a image of how much energy or feed we need to fight or make transformations, as I feel that keeping that closer to our chest would be beneficial. I don't mind if we bulk up a bit and put on some fat I think we should definitely do that.
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>>3531476
what? please explain? what did you think i meant?
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>>3531483
>most likley a stupid idea is to grow larger with time
I dunno. I reread this twice and I still feel retarded.
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Things are going to be okay, but I'm needed here for a bit. Emotional support and all that.


>>3531116

Yes, you are still 14. No retcon. Just ripped. I had abbs when I was 14, figure it ain't odd that your character would. My apologies if I confused you.

And yes, reading some star charts and figuring things out is well within your cliche nerd.
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>>3531491
my idea is too instead of compacting we expand under the guise of a "base form"
>>3531476
and how the heck did you get this idea"I don't want to limit our size" its the opposite we grow larger, keep looking skinny making them think our "base form"
that our kind of normal body is growing larger in some weird superpowered puberty
this way they dont think we are bullshitting about our energy needs and stuff this way we can eat as much food as we can and continue bulking up
fuck my grammar is just bad and my punctuation is even worse and i am ranty like a god damn old man, that dont remember how to use a with the rotating dial tv thing so you cant sit in the sofa FUCK i actually cant remember how to use one
>>3531510
i have never seen a 14 year old with abs thats not the weird record holder for youngest strongest person thing
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>>3531476
Getting fat is the opposite of what we should do: Fat means that we are storing mass or that our body can't process all the food we have eaten. If hive sees Mercer with a little overweight, they'll limit the food either because they think we want reserves to escape or because we don't need more food to shapeshift. We should make them think that, as long as we aren't using our powers, we eat only a little more than a regular kid, that way we explain not eating dinner today. We could also pretend that our powers are immature because we are a 14 years old, so they will fully develop as time passes, requiring more biomass.
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>>3531510
>And yes, reading some star charts and figuring things out is well within your cliche nerd.
I underestimated how much of a nerd James is
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>>3531095
>>3531526
Oh and I'll support >>3531116 if vote isn't closed yet
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>>3531526
never underestimate a nerd we know things like a human is one of the creatures with the biggest dicks for our bodily size and that we mated for size instead of most other traits
and how to make napalm and things like blackpowder with eggshells or rockets out of sugar when i think of it way too many things that could be used to hurt people bodily lots of things how to burn down buildings and people in a alleyway with chemicals and how ot build a nuclear reactor in a garage from old glowing clocks
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>>3531546
ok why do i know how to make explosives out of the metal out the parts of a engine in kitches fans?
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>>3531526
>I underestimated how much of a nerd James is
Our nerd stat is 4 out of a maximum of 6 anon, our nerd sight allows us to perceive the world in strange ways.
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I can imagine Mercer fighting capes alredy.
Random cape: HAHAHAHA, you are only a kid, what are you going to do.
M: BY THE POWER OF WIKIPEDIA, I HAVE THE POWEEEEER.
>He goes Max level Big Guy Mode.
>He only wears pic related.
>Everyone in his team facepalms.
>Some people in the enemy team facepalms.
>Queen Bee facepalms.
>The guy that bought us as a partner looks at the contract: No refounds. He facepalms.
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>>3531589
Hey don't shittalk He-Man, he kicks the everloving shit out of Superman every time there's a crossover.
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>>3531512
>"base form"
Yeah I'm down with that.

>>3531512
>rotating dial tv thing
What?

>>3531514
I was thinking more alone the lines of compressed "fat" or muscle that is shaped to look like fat. I'm certain we need some fat anyways because its easier to convert than muscle, but if density of fat and muscle is the only argument, why can't we compress the fat and packed it just as tightly as we do to muscle?
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>>3531597
You don't understand how much I want to go full Freeza on almost any possible opponent.
>"THIS ISN'T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!"
>forms get bigger and bigger up to final form which is just a small streamlined Kryptonian/Martian/Metahuman/whatever hybrid
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>>3531621
we could do that i would see it as a thing a unsocial young nerd would do thats the mc and it would be pretty funny to read
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>>3531621
Why do we need to transform when we can just compress a springy loaded limb and extend it at will? It would cost us less energy and burn less body "mana". Course the setback is, it would be harder to make out something we need specifically. Trade off customized weapon for a specific need for more universal one like a bone blade that we can pop out at will or a stretching tentacle limb that is all coiled up.
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>>3531883
For the style points.
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>>3531889
We'll get a skateboard.
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>>3531883
Mechanics wise, because forms give us bonus dice. Why would we not transform? Especially when what you talked about sounds like a Combat Trick, which means they can work very well together.
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>>3531920
We can do both can we not? I want to be able to conserve our energy use until we really need it, our battle with that muscle meta human whats his name? Mammath? Really shows we need to have better reserves and use our power more carefully and intelligently.
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>>3531095
>>Suspiciously effective. Go ask Caitlin about last night and try to learn more
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>>3531937
Yeah we can do both, which is why they work very well together. Remember that for Mammoth, we were at our most unprepared: just found out our powers and had no extra biomass, scraping for every bit we could muster. Don't think we'll reach that state again anytime if we can help it.

Still not sure if shifting stuff around and transforming expends any actual energy. We've gotten hungry before but we were exerting ourselves physically and using everything for biomass anyway. Would we be able to shift mass we already have freely?
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Well, I'm finally home.

I'm going to get some sleep, and then I will update first thing tomorrow when I wake up, and will try to dedicate some more time to this tomorrow. I should be pretty free, so we'll see about doing some shorter voting periods and more updates than usual.

I'm sorry not much got done today, but real life takes priority. Voting is still open. Looks like we have a tie at the moment based on the count I did while contemplating staying up to write. We'll see what it looks like in a few hours.

>>3531381
>>3531384

Thank you for your support.

>>3531512

I suppose I should clarify that when I say abs I mean visible abdominal muscles and not necessarily a full 6 pack. Active life style and and a good diet for low body fat percentage and it ain't that hard.

>>3531995

Shifting mass you already have isn't completely free. There is some cost, but it's negligible really unless you're trying to make really big changes.


See you all in a few hours.
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>>3532485
Wolverine claws when
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>>3532521
Whenever we want actually. Minus the adamantium anyway. They sound like a good combat trick to learn.
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>>3532615
Without the adamantium we probably wouldn't be able to make full size wolverine talons - they'd be too fragile and likely to snap. We could definitely make some bone spikes maybe 5'' long or so.
Then once we get a bit more experienced start incorporating biometals into them a la limpet teeth or deep-sea snails. That'd allow us to extend the talons another couple of inches and maybe shape them more like knives than spikes.
Another trick once we've got the skill would be to line the spikes with nematocysts. One strike to deliver a bolus of neurotoxins and then we just stay out of reach until they drop dead. Even if they're too strong to be killed by one dose or we're in too much of a rush to wait the minute or two it would take for them to lose consciousness ... well they'll lose control of whatever limb we punch almost straight away and that'd make the rest of the fight a damn sight easier.
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>>3531589
We are going to wear lots of straps or latex lots of latex
A stupid idea so when people hire us we give them a cataloug for our personas and pretend they are there own person or they can like order what they want for a job like how our doom patrol villain teacher is kind of like a actor
>>3532615
There is a reason why horns and bones are round
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>>3532831
<We give them a catalog with many personas.
>They choose the horny maiden.
>Nope.
Also yes, lots of shapeshifted latex (unless we go for the totally normal civilian clothes).
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>>3532926
There is going to be much leather
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Did not expect to oversleep that much.

Okay, I have one thing, just one thing to attend to real quick, that will take me about 2 hours, and then I've got nothing else for the rest of the day.

So, I'm going to go take care of this, and then I'm all yours for the evening. Eight hours or so of my undivided attention. Looking forward to seeing how far we get.
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We should have a Danny Devito-esque form.
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I am sorry about the delays, but I swear I'll make it up to you all.
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>>3533031
Don’t worry about it, we appreciate that you keep in touch
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>>3533031
you keep in touch with us then most do with there parents
also have a kermit as thanks for keeping in touch
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We could use some of the spare time to decide what to do next, make something that resembles a plan at least. We can't bruteforce our way out right now, and staying without measures to counter the brainwashing is a no.
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>>3533031
No apologies, only punishment. Execution is the only option.
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>>3533057
I don't think we can counter the brainwashing without figuring out how exactly it's done and actually being able to manipulate our brain. We've got too little experience. Gotta find that sweet spot where we've stayed around enough to have the experience but just before we're full HIVE
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>>3533088
>I don't think we can counter the brainwashing without figuring out how exactly it's done
I PRAY it's the more mundane kind of brainwashing and not the "forced psionic laundry day in our head" kind!
The way I see it, HIVE using mundane brainwashing would mean that we potentially wouldn't have to rush escaping so much.
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Alright, calling the vote, and writing.
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>>3533242
If they use chemicals and conditioning via shocks and subliminal images or that kind of shit we could deal with it easily, the only problem would be faking it's effects to avoid getting a visit from Psimon. We could observe and replicate a mix of what we see in others after they visit the psychiatrist (the problem is if they reach a supposed high level of loyalty and ask us to kill another student/innocent as a trial). When we get psy dna and a decent understanding of psy powers, we disagree with one of Headbitchstress orders/suggestion and get a delivery of fresh Psimon ready to get lobotomized.
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>>3532831
careful now someone might freak out at the thought of latex clad fetish villains!
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>>3533451
we could make our skin leather like to mimic clothes in some way
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>>3533479
Why not go nude and have a freaky bad ass bone Armour meat suit that doesn't give us hot or cold sensations?
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>>3533497
>Why not go nude and have a freaky badass..
>Why not go nude.
No but seriously, the good thing about being a shapeshifter is that we can wear whatever we want, whenever we want.
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>>3533515
the question is if we can make the clothes and make them convincing, leather would be the easiest due to it being made out of skin already
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>>3533515
Won't it be time consuming to get all the little details and texture of inorganic clothes correctly? What if we need to take off our hat or jacket in public like a restaurant?
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>>3533541
I was just going to mention leather.... But doesn't it undergo a chemical treatment then drying?
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>>3533541
>wearing skin made out of human leather
Slow down there leatherface.
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How does Mercer in the games actually do his clothes? Maybe we can replicate that.
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>>3533558
It could be leather from anything.
Could be crocodile skin if we want.
Spider Silk will probably be our go-to for clothing though
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>>3533563
He just eats people and steals their character model.
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>>3533558
did you forgot our power we just make our own outer layer look like leather
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Suspiciously effective therapy, you think to yourself as you get in line to grab breakfast, loading your plate high. It’s omelets today. You tell the cook to throw in everything, all the veggies and meat options and extra cheese, and then ask for two of them. Then you look back over at your friends.

Now you aren’t a therapist yourself, and you’ve never been to therapy, but you were under the impression that it takes time. It could be you’re just being paranoid, and that Caitlin was just feeling a bit out of it and all she needed was some rest, but her sudden change of demeanor right after her “therapy” session sure doesn’t feel like coincidence.

As you approach the table you contemplate how to go about it. You decide you won’t just straight up ask, at least not immediately. You’ll test the waters a bit first. See if there are any other changes besides the smile, a new outlook on life here at the H.I.V.E. maybe. You decide to start by making some unkind comments about the guards and the staff, see how she reacts. If she jumps down your throat defending them, then you’ll know for sure something is wrong. If she doesn’t, then you’ll ask outright.

“Hey James, hey Ralph” says Caitlin with a sunny smile as the two of you sit down at the table.

“Pleasure to see you to darlin” replies Ralph with his own grin.

“Hi Caitlin, Tara, Liz” You say with a smile and a nod for each as you sit down and then apply yourself to your first omelet, waiting for the right moment to enact your plan.

After a few minutes when the introductions are done and there’s a lull in the conversation you point over at one of the guards in the corner. Ever since that first night in addition to the guy on the catwalk they’ve had one or two on the ground floor as well.

“So” you say as you gesture at the uniformed man “Where do you think they get those guys? Put out an add online maybe? Jackbooted thugs wanted, must be comfortable with the kidnapping and imprisonment of minors?”

Liz snorts and Tara looks at you with wide eyes, glancing around nervously as if to make sure no one heard, while Ralph just sighs. You’re focused on Caitlin’s reaction though. Caitlin brings a finger up to her chin and adopts a thoughtful expression.

“Maybe they train them in house.” She says. “I don’t think they’re PMC. At least, I’d like to hope they aren’t PMC, but I suppose they could be. If they aren’t, there is a large population of ex-criminals who often have difficulty finding lucrative employment. Perhaps they recruit and train them. Or they might just hire active criminals depending on their connections with organized crime. Of course this is assuming they hire out of the United States. If they recruit internationally, which they likely do, that opens up numerous possibilities...”
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>>3533558
I'm glad moralfags are on edge, but seriously, relax man, the edgenons in this quest seem more focused on utilitarianism than pure evilness.
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She trails off and then blushes and looks at you all sheepishly “Sorry, I think out loud sometimes. Mama always told me it was a bad habit.”

Well, that was not the response you were expecting. Still, she didn’t defend them. That’s probably a good sign. Maybe they didn’t mess with her head, or if they did perhaps they need more time before it shows results.

“S’fine darlin” says Ralph, and then he asks “PMC?”

“Private military contractors” Says Caitlin as she tucks a strand of hair behind her head. “My father was one after his term of service ended.”

Things quiet down again after Liz makes a joke about what kind of qualifications you would put in an internet add for jackbooted thugs that falls a bit flat, and you wait a little longer before you move on to the next part of your plan to figure out what’s going on. Beating around the bush didn’t quite hit on anything, so you’ll just ask outright.

“Hey Caitlin” You say as you look over at her. “Forgive me for prying, and if you want me to drop it tell me and I will, but I was worried last night when we didn’t see you at all during free period. Was everything alright?”

“Oh” She says “Yeah, everything was fine. I was just talking with Doctor Wax. I’m sorry if I worried you, but it was fine. Really. Doctor Wax just helped me come to terms with a small accident that occurred when my powers were activated.”

Her eyes glaze over just a bit as she speaks, and her smile seems kind of stiff.

“Accident?” Asks Tara as she looks over at Caitlin with concern “Were you hurt?”

“Oh no” says Caitlin cheerily. “I wasn’t harmed at all. When I came to after the procedure I was naked on a table and my measurements were being taken by a scientist and it startled me. Startled him as well, I wasn’t supposed to be awake yet I think.In any case, I slapped him as hard as I could, and his head sort of just popped.”

She tells you this with a sort of unnatural mechanical cheer, as if accidentally killing a man is no big deal, and she has no issues with it.

“Doctor Wax helped me to understand it wasn’t my fault.” She says, still smiling. “He really is a very nice man.”

Tara is white faced and looks horrified, and Liz and Ralph are staring at Caitlin in shock.

What do you do?

>Ask Caitlin if she’d grab you some fruit, try to get her away from the table so you can talk to the others.

>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.

>Continue your line of inquiry and ask Caitlin about this “Doctor Wax”

>Write in.
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Voting will be open about an hour, forty five minutes or less if we get enough to establish a clear majority quickly, and then I'll start the next write up.
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>>3533600
>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.
I see, very cool!
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>>3533595
yeah i am not into that evil for evil crap i am not even into evil its more about having a practical and pragmatic attitude
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>>3533600
>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.
Right. Definite brainwashing. We need to gtfo fast.
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>>3533600
>>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.
Hmmm. Headfuckery, trauma, or traumatised headfuckery?
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>>3533623
like they would only use one
so why not all?
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>>3533600
>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.
>"I see, that's very cool Caitlin but second opinions should always be sought after."
>"Anyway, my instructor told me that Lex Luthor is evil and tried to take over the world with aliens!"
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>>3533600
I also vote to ask when everyone's earliest scheduled therapy session is.
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>>3533600
>>3533628
Supporting.

Well alright then. Brainwashing confirmed, just not to as large an extent as I thought. Starting it off slow, likely can't turn the students into murderbots right off the bat. Certainly can make them comfortable with killing, or at least accidental killing.
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>>3533623
>>3533627
I dunno... hard to tell from just the little Caitlin said. Might not be anything too heavy-handed at this point, maybe this "Doctor Wax" just... expedited the healing from trauma? At least it's good her memories aren't altered.

In any case, this just confirms that HIVE is going kinda slow and steady on the brainwashing.
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>>3533600
>Take Tara’s hand to try and calm her down and hope you can shut up the other two with your eyes and act as if nothing is going on while changing the conversation topic.
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>>3533635
Even if you expedite the healing and rationalize the murder, it isn’t “normal” for someone to shrug off inflicting severe trauma to someone else
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>Doctor Wax
I might have found our man.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Agent_Wax_(Wildstorm_Universe)
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>>3533600
>>Continue your line of inquiry and ask Caitlin about this “Doctor Wax”
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>>3533646
>rationalize the murder
It was an accident. She didn't kill the guy on purpose.
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>>3533648
>The mental pushes are temporary along with the fact those affected can remember they've been hypnotized and must be constantly exerted to have long-term effects.
Huh. If they're the same guy (and the powers are the same), then this means if we get away in time the effects could fade and Caitlin goes back to normal.
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>>3533654
Anon do you understand how murder works and the traumatic effects it has on humans?
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>>3533654
Then it's manslaughter, that's not the point.
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>>3533664
It still isn't murder, dude. In fact, it's most likely even more traumatic for her because she never intended to actually kill anyone.
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>>3533648
Ha, okay. This guy being on base isn't TOO bad, going by a cursory look into his powerset.

Shit will hit the fan if any of the Fearsome Five or HIVE's head honcho you-know-who show up though.
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>>3533600
I say we stock up on food, eggs and whatever doesn't go off, immediately. Practice exerting control on others as soon as possible, and practice with our powers during lights off to boost our power dice! The food is to hide our practice.. hopefully.
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>>3533674
>Spoiler
You mean the Queen? If Kane is here then the Queen's not involved, I don't think. Probably will be after a while, though.
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Right, seems like they didn't implant loyalty, but did rip out her PTSD. Unless she actually asked for them to do that, I am horrified. And we can't exactly trust her word on that.

If we copy an organism's traits, does it scale up to our size, or is it diminished somewhat? For instance, there's a mite that can run 322 body lengths per second, and if it was human sized that would be 1,300 mph (2,100 km/h), slightly past the speed of sound. So if we eat one could we mimic it to move at supersonic speeds, or just very, very fast.

Also I made a pastebin wishlist with animals with useful traits. There's no animals with for us to get mobility from because that depends on whether or not their traits scale up, I'll repost it depending on what the answer is.
https://pastebin.com/AU9cWSTU
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>>3533703
>Also I made a pastebin wishlist with animals with useful traits.
Anon.. holy shit, I appreciate it!
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>>3533703
some tricks just dont work when teh size is changed
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>>3533703
I would imagine that it could be faster or slower, considering there would be less surface area to volume, meaning less air resistance, proportionally. But it also means that we need more structure to support it and more heat venting due to the vastly increased volume to surface area ratio. (Also strange stuff starts happening at such small scales, dunno if there's a special effect it exploits.)
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>>3533664
Anon do you understand how manslaughter works and the traumatic effects it has on humans?

>>3533665
It is the point Im making. If he only gotten rid of the feeling of guilt from her traumatizing memory it's not that bad. If he make her feel good about murder it's very bad. What's yours point?
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>>3533703
This is good shit anon. For now, we should probably focus on stuff that doesn't have a visible indicator, like the dolphin eyes.
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>>3533595
I'm just joking around. I actually am one of the edgeanons. I legit want to eat people.
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>>3533706
Eh, Most of this stuff I already did for another thing where the protagonist has animal shifting. Speaking of which, new pastebin because I didn't fully remove that character's name.
https://pastebin.com/L80b33XQ
>>3533712
There are totally exploits and smaller sizes. That mite would shatter it's limbs from the force before flaying itself from the wind if it moved at supersonic speeds at human sizes. There's a reason that if you start measuring speed by body lengths per intervals of time insects start winning everything instead of cheetahs and peregrine falcons.
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If Wax makes Mercer fine with killing/using his powers in a more violent way, I'm going to laugh so hard I'll wake up the neighbours. That's just like splitting your group into the creepy forest where a lot of people were brutally devoured yesterday, then covering yourself in steak juice to disguise your human smell and start screaming and moving your torch to scare any possible monster.
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>>3533703
We could go for the thing Salmon have
>Salmon and some other freshwater fish have an enzyme that switches their visual systems to activate infrared seeing
Don't need to morph our eyes constantly like this
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Well, Looks like there's a pretty clear majority. Calling the vote and getting to work.

>>3533648

...I give up. I'm never going to slip anything past you all no matter how obscure the character I pick is. Seriously, I went with a minor character from a comic that wasn't even really DC, and whom I only remembered because he creeped the shit out of me at the time and I found him abhorrent, and ya'll figure it out in like ten minutes.

Damn google, I thought for sure that would take you all a while. Still, this at least gave me a good image to work with for him since I don't have those issues any more, or a means to scan them if I did for that matter.

He shan't be exactly the same. I'm taking some artistic liberties to make him fit how I want, but yeah, you're right. That is indeed the character.

>>3533703

Damn anon. Nice.
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>>3533703
the only reason some some tricks work is the stuff that happen when stuff are small like a mite if you copy how it moves to human size and you are X times bigger then a mite then the stuff you are made of need to also be X times more durable/elastic and even then we are not acounting for gravity and air-friction
like how a bee is just the perfect size for it to fly

those water bugs that glide on teh water surface cna only do that due to water tension

but some other stuff is perfect that can be guided with by us and adapted most bug trick really depend on there size and volume
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>>3533754
the most important thing is to be inspired by other animals and copy paste some so we can improve or atleast mimic it at a bigger scale
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>>3533751
Always happens in established settings, at least it you use canon characters. I always use a bunch of OC. Also disallow metagaming.
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>>3533754
Luckily this is comic land so some tricks might work regardless.
Superman is apparently solar powered after all yet has billions times more power than he should have.
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>>3533751
To be fair, you did give a name. If you go to the DC wiki, look at the category page for "Mind Control," you get only one result from ctrl+f "wax."
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>>3533754
>>3533757
but hey this is comic book land
>>3533759
most of the times its some magic crap or some other dimension it takes energy from
>>3533759
but remember we are talking about copying small bugs and animals as normal ones and so its best to copy a small bit and then improve it with our smarts.
Remember that the only reason why nature is this good is that they have tried billions and upon trillions of times, even then remember nature is not about survival of the fittest its about survival of the good enough its about living and reproducing and not using up more energy then needed to do it.
we dont have those limits and we can do with way faster with imagination and the human knowlage of the world we are like the eloin musk and einstein of evolution
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>>3533751
I agree with you, he is a murderer and a reincident rapist, like really reincident, also now works brainwashing kids into weapons. If we're going to eat someone's brain to get psy power is this guy. Even if heronons win the vote and only take a sample, he needs to die horribly (or get a perma lobotomy).
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>>3533751
All he had to do was a simple google search.

Super power quests tend to get metagamed hard.
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>>3533800
But won't we become murdery rapey? What if we somehow end up having to battle for control of our own mind or body?
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>>3533819
i think we dont need to copy his brain completly if we did we would just erase ourself just compare it to ours to look for weird meta stuff
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>>3533814
Let's try not to metagame at least.
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>>3533751
What if all the people had alias instead of their villain's or actual names? Then we can be left figuring out who they are based on their powers or descriptions and not really being told the answer unless we find out more about that particular persons background or history? It'd be like a game of clue or detective.

An excuse could be given that their real names are not provide due to company policy and to protect themselves from any backlash or something.
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>>3533842
I try not to, that's why I haven't advocated or joined in on going full Alex Mercer ...... Yet.
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>>3533819
>>3533824
We would just study how his metagen affects his brain to give him his powers and replicate said mutation inside our brain or a secondary brain to make sure we don't go full asshole.
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>>3533861
Or this could just be an alternate DC universe with different names.
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>>3533874
Like Batman and Manbat just switched names?
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>>3533874
Nah, I prefer the "hide your name to make sure they can't track you" stuff, but I'm Ok with giving us a description or a part of the villain's name, it's fun to guess who wants to kill us.
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>>3533600

Ok, they definitely messed with her head. That is not a normal reaction to killing someone.

You grab Tara’s hand under the table and squeeze lightly, shooting her a small smile before looking over at the other two, trying to communicate with them using your eyes to shut up and not draw attention.

“That is interesting Caitlin.” You say, “The doctor sounds very good at his job. I wonder when the rest of us will be meeting him. Does anyone have a session scheduled?”

“There wasn’t anything on my paper about therapy” Says Liz in a slightly strained voice.

“Me neither” Replies Ralph.

You look over at Tara and she just shakes her head no. Now that you think about it you don’t recall seeing anything on your schedule about a therapy session, so maybe none of the rest of you are meeting with him this week.

“They aren’t regularly scheduled yet” Caitlin pipes up. “I didn’t have the appointment on my schedule before either. Doctor Wax told me that for now he’s scheduling his meetings with students on a case by case basis, and that once he has a better understanding of our needs he’ll be working out a more regular schedule.”

Okay, crap. So you could just get called away to meet with this Wax guy any time. That’s problematic. In more important news your hand is starting to hurt from Tara’s death grip and Ralph is looking greener than usual. Time to change the subject before this gets any worse. You’ve found out what you needed to know.

“Hey guys guess what?” You say with forced enthusiasm. “My instructor told me the craziest thing yesterday. He told me that Lex Luthor’s evil and was working with the Reach to take over the planet. Isn’t that nuts?”
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>>3533938

“That is nuts” replies Ralph, latching onto the conversation. “I mean, sure he had that partnership with them for the whole Lexcorp Farms thing, but that doesn’t mean he knew what they were planning. He was just trying to make progress towards ending world hunger.”

“I don’t know” Says Liz. “He’s a politician now. There’s no such thing as a clean politician, just one’s with better PR than the others.”

“Mama says Papa believed you should never trust anyone who makes more in a month than you do in a year.” Caitlin chimes in with her two cents.

“Mr. Luthor is a great man” insists Tara as she looks you in the eye “He brokered the peace in Rhelasia, ending a senseless war that had gone on for generations. A bad man wouldn’t do this.”

“Hey I’m just telling you what my instructor told me” You say “No need to get up in arms over it.”

“He probably just helped the Rhelasians to boost his image.” interjects Liz “And everyone knows how much he’s outsourced over there. It’s not like he didn’t profit off of it. No such thing as a politician who cares about people, they only care about what people can do for them.”

“That is not a fair thing to say.” Tara insists. “My p-..my countries monarchs love their people very much. They work hard for the Markovian people.”

Liz smirks somewhat condescendingly, and you can just see her gearing up to knock some naivety out of the younger girl. Only she isn’t just going to be talking down about someones world view if she does, she’s going to be badmouthing Tara’s parents.

Your desperate attempt to steer things away from sensitive topics is starting to hit on sensitive topics. Great.


What do you do?

>Grab Tara and leave for class, get out before things escalate. You don’t know how to fix this, so you’ll run. Sure breakfast period isn’t over, but you can just tell them you want to make sure you aren't late or something….

>Just let things play out, you aren’t good with people you might just make it worse if you try to interfere. For all you know it’ll be fine and you’re worrying to much, maybe you’re misreading Liz’s intentions...

>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...

>Write in
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>>3533947
>Grab Tara and leave for class, get out before things escalate. You don’t know how to fix this, so you’ll run. Sure breakfast period isn’t over, but you can just tell them you want to make sure you aren't late or something….
Oh boy. Time to be a hero.
Also Eig, could we have a list of everyone's powers? As in the powers we know? Sort of having a lapse of memory here.
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>>3533947
>>Just let things play out, you aren’t good with people you might just make it worse if you try to interfere. For all you know it’ll be fine and you’re worrying to much, maybe you’re misreading Liz’s intentions...
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Half an hour, maybe forty five minutes, and then vote will be called and I'll get started on the next bit.

>>3533758
>>3533764
>>3533814
>>3533861

I mean I'm not really unhappy about it. I figured you all would figure it out, I just figured it would take longer. I hadn't really thought 'Wax' was a whole lot to go off of, but it looks like I was wrong.

I know that whenever I introduce a character and start giving names and more than cursory explanations you'll peg who they are sooner or later, and I'm fine with that. It really isn't a big deal. I actually like seeing you figuring it out, I was just hoping this one would be more of a puzzle.

Just have to be more cryptic if I want to stump you all I guess, but that really isn't a huge priority for me.

As for Meta gaming, well honestly I expect it. There isn't really much I can do to stop it, and since Meta gaming requires you all to converse with each other, and I want you to converse with each other and for there to be discussion, I honestly kind of want some good natured meta gaming. Like the list of animals thing. That was cool.

I might throw in an OC here and there as necessary, but where I can I like to use existing characters. For instance every single teenager here at HIVE with you is based on comic book characters.

>>3533955

Sure anon, one moment.
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>>3533947
>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...

Our harems falling apart before it’s even begun...
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>>3533947
>>Just let things play out, you aren’t good with people you might just make it worse if you try to interfere. For all you know it’ll be fine and you’re worrying to much, maybe you’re misreading Liz’s intentions...
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>>3533947
>>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...
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>>3533947
>Grab Tara and leave for class, get out before things escalate. You don’t know how to fix this, so you’ll run. Sure breakfast period isn’t over, but you can just tell them you want to make sure you aren't late or something….
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>>3533955

Okay, so what you know so far.

Tara- has told you she is a geokinetic

Ralph- has told you his lesson consisted of a video conference with poison ivy and controlling some giant vines

Liz- Has shown you her power by arcing electricity between her fingers.

Caitlin- Has just told you how she "popped" a guys head by slapping him.

White haired kid -you saw frost gathering when he was squaring up with Caitlin during the argument in the first dinner hour.

Silver haired girl - Floated, had her hair turn weightless and her eyes turn into black pits, and somehow knew Caitlin had killed someone

The Black Kid - You're pretty sure you've seen him changing heights out of the corner of your eye.

Doctor Wax- was clearly able to alter Caitlin's mental state.

Larson- Turned his hand into a fucking Velociraptor.

Mammoth- was huge and deformed, but incredibly fast and strong.

Psimon- weaponized a children's game as his preferred method of controlling people.

I'm pretty sure that all the instances of Meta-human ability we've encountered so far.
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>>3533947
>>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...
Panic! Gotta try to diffuse it somehow! Uh, er...
>So, Liz, it turns out I really can grow myself anywhere!
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>>3533982
>Silver haired girl
We should really figure out what exactly her power is. If it's some extrasensory type thing where she reads people's secrets or something, could be useful in escaping if we need to find something.
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>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...
>So... do you guys like Bionicles?
First step to diffuse: make their focus change.
>No one? Well, there is something you like?, I like an anime called Berserker, someone knows it?
Second step: weird them out so they forget about the previous coversation.
>...I also like horror films, new, classic, I love them all. Oh, and drawing animals and plants, it was useful for biology and I could go to the park all day.
Step three: Make the conversation a little less scary so they join.
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>>3533986
Anon no, they don't serve pasta today.
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>>3533982
Thanks Eig! Awesome that you included the teachers as well!
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>>3533994
With our power we can make as much spaghetti to spill as we want!
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>>3533947
>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...
Oh god how do we fix this.
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Now that I think about it, we could strike out as independent if push comes to shove, being somewhat as an identityless nomad.
>Become an untraceable thief and mercenary, changing our identity every job.
>Have Homunculi act as stand in replacements for a portfolio of identities to use.
>League can't do shit since they can't find us since we are a needle in a 7 billion haystack.
>With enough preparation, can evade facial recognition, dna tests, iris tests, mannerisms, and much more.
>As it stands, with enough training, we could infiltrate any organization, even the league.
Perhaps our powerset has a slight proclivity towards crime and plotting...
Of course, this is if we go full merc mode, we also could prove ourselves a useful asset to an organization, netting us much protection as we become very valuable.
Anon would be a cool underground name...
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>>3533967
>>3533977
>>3533986
>>3533991
Hell, if we're going down this path I just want to check if you all really want to hint at Tera's regalty? Personally I'd love to keep it under wraps if they don't know.
Plus it's not really our secret to tell.
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>>3533947
>>Try to diffuse things a bit before someone ends up insulted, no idea how but you gotta try, and then clue in Liz and Ralph if they don’t already know. They’re going to find out sooner or latter...
>>3533991
>>3533986
support
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>>3534007
We could always bring up our cool new powers and bring up what we'll use them for when we've completed our courses.
Should give us some insight into our comrades in chains and change the subject.
Again.
Poor Tara.
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>>3534007
Nope, if she doesn't want to tell everyone her secret, we should respect it (and if she wants, she'll do it wwhen she feels ready).
As a side note: Are people waifuing Tera or we'll wait to see who else appears.
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Well I'm calling the vote.

Also holy shit my sides. Give me a minute.
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>>3534006
>>League can't do shit since they can't find us since we are a needle in a 7 billion haystack.
I have a feeling magic bullshit courtesy of Justice League Dark could find us. I like the idea of being a meta liberator, though, which would benefit greatly from good relations with the League.

>>3534007
I think they'll find out eventually but for the sake of what little control Tara has in her life right now, it's probably best to let her be the one to do it.

>>3534016
That's cute as fuck

>>3534023
I may have a bias thanks to growing up with Teen Titans but I certainly wouldn't mind her. Not really into going after anyone right now, though. Survival and escape is top priority.
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>>3534020
Do not talk about our powers EVER, and if we do, make it seem like we are a dumbass 14 year that would use his shapeshifting to change the size of his dick, get abs and a hot bod, be taller and have weird eye colors because we think is cool.
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

Looks like the consensus is to try and intervene, and we have two write in's here, both equally supported and either of which is way funnier than what I had planned if you picked this option.

So lets see what happens. 1 for a dick joke, 2 for revealing some of our power level
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>>3534023
I'm all for waifuing her.
Also we get to be a prince if we marry her and that's rad as fuck.
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>>3534039
Metahuman-friendly nation is a go.
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>>3534038
>tfw the dice gods side with you
Is this what it feels like? Incredible.
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>>3534038
>
thank god for not revealing our power like a even bigger social retard
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>>3534043
Mix of Doctor Doom and Magneto with more heroic tendencies and less random bouts of antagonising cosmic entities and attempting genocide?
I could deal with that.
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>>3534046
Power level, anon, not power. It would've been us going full NERD.
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>>3534047
Ok, but we keep this.
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>>3534067
yes we enter everything but a door we are not a peasant we are a macho man pic related
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>>3534067
Doom is secretly a massive fucking nerd and the only reason he isn't bullied is because of his near unrivalled understanding of both magic and technology.
Doom is such a cool antagonist.
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>>3534067
Oh, yes. We can't be the ruler of a nation, have superpowers, and NOT be a glorious ham putting our utmost effort in being as theatrical and dramatic as possible.

I hope our first instance can be when we've crushed HIVE and announce our plan of a Metahuman Nation.
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>>3534081
THATS THE SPIRIT ULTRA JOHN
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>>3534081
Should we get a Doom style metal mask?
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>>3534091
With a body like this?
>>3534075
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>>3533986
Supporting this. Flirt with her, and ask if she wants to try it out sometime. Maybe change the length of our nose to prove our point.
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>>3534091
Hmm, not sure about a metal mask but definitely a Doom-style cloak! We can give magnificent speeches as it flutters on the wind behind us.
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>>3534106
Lead lined mask could be helpful for dealing with xray vision bullshit.
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>>3534110
Would we actually need to worry about x-rays? Mind-reading or other psychic bullshit definitely, not sure about x-ray vision.
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>>3533947

Shit, this is bad. This is really bad. If this goes down like you fear it will it’s going to poison the group dynamic. You’ve seen enough television to know how this goes. People say stupid shit and then the friend group splinters and someone ends up plotting murder. That may be television drama exaggeration at play, but you’re in super villain high school. That makes murder plots one hundred times more plausible. At least. Caitlin is already acting like a sociopath, who knows what’s next.

Shit, Liz is opening her mouth. You need to do something now before she says something that ruins everything, you don’t want your friend group to fall apart. You just got them, and they’re one of the few comforts you have in this place.

So you blurt out the first thing to come to your panicked mind.

“Hey Liz” You say, cutting her off to catch her attention. “You remember that question you asked me last night?”

She turns and looks at you, a mildly confused expression overtaking the smug look she had a moment ago.

“Well I checked” You deadpan as you look her square in the eye. “And I can in fact grow anywhere

You maintain eye contact and wait. It takes a second, and then she turns purple and Ralph’s jaw drops. You can’t really see Tara or Caitlin’s expressions. That may be a blessing.
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>>3534117
It would let us change our face without Superman or other bullshit heroes/villains instantly realizing our power includes face swapping.
Also lets us have any face we want behind the mask.
Also it protects our face and brain.
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>>3534125

Holy fuck what did you just do? Oh shit, what do you do now? Okay, it’s okay, just move on like nothing happened. Yeah, that’s the best thing to do.

“So what classes does everyone have today again?” You ask abruptly as you turn away from Liz, breaking eye contact. “Caitlin, what classes do you have today?”

“Uh, Asset preservation in 2-B” replies Caitlin. It takes her a second to deal with the sudden change in topic, and you can see that she’s slightly pink. “How about you?”

“I have Acquisitions in 2-A” You reply after glancing at your schedule.

“Really?” Asks Tara “Then we will be sharing the class, I have Acquisitions as well.”

“2-B” says Ralph.

“Looks like I’m the odd girl out” says Liz. “I’ve got electronic warfare in 2-D”

Okay, this is working. Good. It’s just like those self help books said. Confidence is key, just fake it till you make it, and all that other trite bullshit.

“We should probably get going.” Says Caitlin eyeing the clock. There’s still some time left in the breakfast period, but not much. “We wouldn’t want to be late.”

“That sounds like a great idea.” You say. “Tara, why don’t you go ahead and grab us seats, I’m just going to grab some fruit real quick and then I’ll join you. You want anything?”

“An orange maybe.” She replies with a smile. “I will see you in class.”

She stands up and starts to head off, and Caitlin joins her, but before Liz can get up you reach out and touch her shoulder.

“Liz, a moment please.” You say. She stops, as does Ralph. He seems to be watching almost expectantly with a small smile on his face. Bastard probably wishes he had some popcorn.

“Uh listen James I’m flattered and all” The older girl says with a slight purple tinge to her cheeks “But I was just messing with you last night. I’m not-”

“I don’t think Tara would appreciate it if you insulted the Markovian royal family.” You interrupt her. “She seems to really love her country. Please don’t.”

“Uh yeah sure.” She says as her eyebrows approach her hairline and the tinge of purple leaves her cheeks. “I’ll keep that in mind.”

Then she smirks at you again, the same wicked smirk she’d sported last night before making her innuendo.

“Soo, looking out for Tara are we?” She sing songs. “Does little Joey have a crush? Is it the accent that gets you hard or those big innocent doe eyes?”

What do you do?

>”We should get to class.” Ignore it. Just ignore it and leave, and she’ll stop thinking it’s fun to tease you and give up.

>”Why, are you jealous?” Waggle your eyebrows and return fire. If she’s going to mess with you you’ll screw with her right back!

>”What, No!” Deny deny deny, seriously you gotta nip this in the bud fast.

>Write in.
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>>3534081
Yes! YES!! Our Meta-Brothers and sisters cry out for more than just tolerance of their being, but for a celebration of their existence! No longer shall we fight their wars, no longer shall we be a resource to exploit! We shall never again suffer under the oppression of Homo-Sapien! Long Live the Meta-Liberation Front!

Though we should think up first A. how to escape from here and B. what the hell kind of nation would we create and lead. Constitutional Monarchy with us as King, maybe? With a parlement and a bill of rights, emphasising the recognition of Meta-Humans and their families as citizens by our nation, barring criminals? As much as I love my meta-brothers and sisters I just don't trust a democracy to run smoothly, given there'll always be that one dick who thinks he should be in charge cause "hurr durr me stronkest". Best to nip that in the bud I feel. Oh and names! Metatopia? Metapolis if we're a city state?

>>3534091
>>3534106
Eeeh I feel the mask would be redundant goven we can change our whole face. Hell we can switch hair color, eye color, even race and gender. Plus without the mask the cloak feels weird. Maybe a helm or some other type of head piece?
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>>3534129
>”Why, are you jealous?” Waggle your eyebrows and return fire. If she’s going to mess with you you’ll screw with her right back!

And with that, the Waifu Wars begin. Plus Tara will be an excellent asset, handing her back to the Markovian Royal Family would have them firmly in our debt, enough that we might get some land out of it to start our Meta-Utopia!
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>>3534129
>”Why, are you jealous?” Waggle your eyebrows and return fire. If she’s going to mess with you you’ll screw with her right back!
Behold the power of a man who's already spilled his spaghetti and has nothing to lose.
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Half an hour to forty minutes for the vote and then I'm calling it and writing.
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>>3534125
>she turns purple
OH HOW THE TABLES HAVE TURNED

>>3534129
>”Why, are you jealous?” Waggle your eyebrows and return fire. If she’s going to mess with you you’ll screw with her right back!
INTENSIFY TABLE TURNING

>>3534128
>It would let us change our face without Superman or other bullshit heroes/villains instantly realizing our power includes face swapping.
I think we'd have to try hard to not let the League find out about our powers if we go full liberator route. It might be that it'll be known that the nation's ruler is a shapeshifter. Could be useful if we end up keeping things a secret though.

>Also lets us have any face we want behind the mask.
I mean, we could do that anyway, even if we didn't have the mask.

>Also it protects our face and brain.
You mean from head damage in general? Cause I'm not against a mask per se, just not sure about the usefulness of lead lining.
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>>3534148
It only has to be a thin layer to block it, and it also helps with lying when you've got assholes trained to read facial cues perfectly.
I don't trust Superman not to pull that shit off.
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>>3534129
>”Why, are you jealous?” Waggle your eyebrows and return fire. If she’s going to mess with you you’ll screw with her right back!

Harem, harem, harem
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>>3534129
>>”We should get to class.” Ignore it. Just ignore it and leave, and she’ll stop thinking it’s fun to tease you and give up.
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>>3534151
Also, lol at how not-a-wallflower we’re acting right now.
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>>3534153
You know he's about to surprise us with a disadvantaged roll as compensation for our madlad like behavior.

>>3534131
>”Why, are you jealous?” Waggle your eyebrows and return fire. If she’s going to mess with you you’ll screw with her right back!
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>>3534131
>Name
Metatopia might be laying it on thick but could be very good if we actually mean a utopia for metahumans. If we go for Tara, it could just still be Markovia.

>Maybe a helm or some other type of head piece?
Well, if we're a monarch, a crown?

>>3534150
Hmm, if we're skilled enough, I think we can just prevent ourselves from physically reacting. We've still got plenty of time for headwear, though. Wouldn't hurt to have it lead lined but I really want something against psychic shit.

>>3534153
Big dick changes everything
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>>3534129
>>”Why, are you jealous?” Waggle your eyebrows and return fire. If she’s going to mess with you you’ll screw with her right back!
*Enhance the bulge for maximum spaghetti
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>>3534153
We got Superpowers.
It's a typical mindset change.
Because hey, we have fuckin superpowers.
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>>3534129
>>3534152
Maybe add a bit explaining ourselves
"Is just that she has a harder time dealing with the situation, I assume because she might have been a bit sheltered."
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>>3534162
Alternatively
"CAN'T READ MY FACIAL CUES IF I REMOVE MY FACE!"
An anti psychic crown would be nice.
We could also change our accent to match the Markovian one with enough practice.
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>>3534129
>”Why, are you jealous?” Waggle your eyebrows and return fire. If she’s going to mess with you you’ll screw with her right back!

At some point we need to remove the skin of our face and use and move all the veins and muscle fibers there as tentacles. As an intimidation tactic.

Do some nightmarish stuff and no one will fuck with you.
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Rolled 2, 3, 2 = 7 (3d6)

Well alright then. Calling the vote.


>>3534139
>>3534142
>>3534148
>>3534151
>>3534165
>>3534197

Mad lads

>>3534152
>>3534169

The voice of reason.


Give me 2d6 real quick anons, best out of the first three to be taken.
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Rolled 3, 5 = 8 (2d6)

>>3534197
>Halloween at HIVE
>James kneeling down looking at the ground
>"Hey James, you okay?"
>"Yeah, sorry, just lost something."
>turn around
>"My face, that is."
I see now, the true purpose of this power is pulling off sick pranks.

>>3534209
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Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d6)

>>3534209
Welp
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Rolled 1, 6 = 7 (2d6)

>>3534209
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>>3534218
>>3534214
>>3534213

Well alright then. Writing.
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>>3534162
Well it wouldn't be fucking around, the whole concept would be totally new. A tride and true utopia for Metas and their families, with jobs assigned to the meta according to their power and skills. Alternatively just regular ass life if you DON'T want to use your powers, though lessons in control would be mandatory, since this new nation would work like others, but be founded on the principles of bettering Meta-Human living.

Crown would actually be pretty cool! Y'all think we could go full Manchester Black and give ourselves psychic tumors in our galaxy brains? Maybe the crown can be made of bio-metal!

>>3534153
Big dick and abs will change a man anon. Get in on this planning too, we're gonna have to bust out of here sooner rather than later. The big obstacle are thise fuckin chips so either we remove them or figure out a way to snag the remotes from our handlers...
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Rolled 4, 2 = 6 (2d6)

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>>3534213
I wouldn't want to punch a guy with his insides out
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>>3534162
>but I really want something against psychic shit.
Well, psychics don't work on robots so presumably any sufficiently different brain structure would be immune to psychics.
The problem is finding something like that. Since robots are the only known example and it works across multiple different planetary origins we'd basically need to find a lifeform that wasn't carbon-based or an animal, or grow our brain around a mechanical backup processor to zap us if someone tries mind controlling us.
Hopefully Ralph can make intelligent plant life and doesn't mind us eating them because I don't remember telepathy working on plants in Young Justice. so we could just eat them and grow a few plant-based lobes to our brain as an emergency override.
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>>3534221
Manchester Black is actually an excellent point.
His power comes directly from that little organ thing.
If we can copy anyone's power it might be his, and that makes us a very high level telepath too.

As for our chips I say we poison the asshole with the control box.
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>>3534236
I'd imagine not being able to psychic plants would be more due to unfamiliarity than impossibility, which would still be useful.
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>>3534221
Are there even enough metahumans out there, particularly those that would be interested in joining us, that we could form our own fully independent nation? I've been thinking about this and it's possible that it would be more of a community than a nation.

Also Manchester Black definitely sounds like someone we can copy but to actually get him first is the problem. ...Maybe just wait for Superman to kick his ass.
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>>3534220
Hey Monitor, I'm enjoying this quest a lot so far.
There's a comic about bodily manipulation called The Strange Talent of Luther Strode. I think it would serve as a decent fuel for your creative fire.
Best regards.
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>>3534291
Also Manchester Black is a Martian Manhunter tier telepath so copying his brain growth will really boost us.
Full on King of Markovia route would probably be fun.
Also if we're legally the ruler/married to the ruler of a country the league can fuck off.
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>>3534221
Well ok, I can help. If I know my laws of narrative(and I do), the macguffin always has a way to stop the ticking clock. Well, the obvious shiny object here is the father box, so I’m willing to bet it has a failsafe to cause the chips to extract themselves. So all we need to do is take a father box without anybody noticing.

How we do that, of course, is another question entirely.
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>>3534323
Steel is strong. But flesh is so much stronger. Hell we could end up looking like pic related if we want. Would be dope.

>>3534291
Well I say "nation", really the size of the territory would match to fit the population. Show says there's somewhere between 150k-160k meta humans being traficked, that's like, a City-State? Medium city at least.

What are the chances HIVE actually HIRES Black I wonder?

>>3534362
Well alright, first order of business, incapacitate the nigga with the father box, instruct father box to deactivate the chips and rally our Meta-Brothers and Sisters. We get closer to our Metatopia every second brothers...
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>>3534393
The first problem with a Meta Utopia is
Well...
We've got to convince all the upstarts that we should be the leader
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>>3534393
Out of those 150-160k, we still have to account for those who would just want to go back home. Then beyond those, we have to consider those who would not want us to lead. This is a point where being a wallflower really messes with our plans. If I'm reading the rolls we just did correctly, then we had to roll a 2d6 for a barely suggestive comeback.

As for hiring Black, that'd be HIVE just asking to get taken over.
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>>3534129

A few days ago you probably would have stuttered out a denial or run. You aren’t exactly used to talking with good looking girls, and Liz is fairly attractive. You’re even less used to being teased like this. But it’s been a long few days. You’ve been kidnapped, drowned in chemicals, thrown into a pit and forced to struggle for your continued well being, and started learning to warp your flesh according to your will. At this point getting teased or dealing with people laughing at you seems so much smaller than it had before. It really doesn’t take too much effort to keep your cool.

So no, you won’t run or freak out, but you aren’t quite sure what to do either. After all, you aren’t exactly used to socializing like this. You know you need to do something, and without your own experience to draw on, you think of books you’ve read and shows you’ve seen. The protagonist always seems to know what to do and it works out. They may be works of fiction, but even fables often have small kernels of truth and wisdom right? You’re mind spins through your Rolodex of bold socially savvy characters trying to determine what they would do, and it fires out a solution.

“Why, are you jealous?” you reply to her with a waggle of your eyebrows. If she’s going to tease you, you have to tease her back. That’s how this works you think. It’s like a contest, and whoever gets embarrassed first looses. Probably.

“You aren’t worth getting jealous over, little boy” She fires back at you with a smirk.

Little boy is quite literally the least accurate description you could apply to me.” You respond quickly. Is it clever? You have no idea, but you know if you stop to think you loose. Quick response matters.

Off to the side Ralph clears his throat loudly. “As fascinating as it is to watch yawl flirt.” He drawls “I’m pretty sure we should get to class.”

The sound of his voice breaks your concentration. “Right” You say “I should get going.”

As you make your way over to grab some fruit, making sure to grab an orange in addition to your own selections, Liz calls at your back “Yeah, you should go. Wouldn’t want to keep your blonde angel waiting right?”

You just know she’s got a shit eating grin on her face right now. But Ralph is right, you really do need to get to class. You’ll let her have this round, but you’ll win the war.
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>>3534445

When you arrive in 2-A Tara gestures for you to sit down next to her in the seat she saved for you. You look around the classroom. There are three other students besides you and Tara. There’s the black kid, the older fit boy with the black hair that you’d seen sitting with the Gothamite who called you the next coming of Killer Croc, and the girl with the purple streaks in her hair who had been sitting alone.

At the front of the room, standing next to a projector screen, is a tall woman in a black dress. Her raven hair is sleek and reaches just past her shoulders and her skin is incredibly pale. As you sit down she purses a pair of rather generous lips painted with dark red lipstick and looks at the clock.

“Cutting it rather close Mr. Mercer” She tells you. Her voice is smooth as silk and she speaks with a cultured accent. She sounds like old money. The kind of accent you get from etiquette lessons as a kid. “Do try to be earlier for our next session. I do not like to be made to wait.”

“You will refer to me as Ma’am” She says as she addresses the class, looking away from you. “I will not tolerate back chat, nor any manner of shenanigans. You will pay attention, and you will give me your best effort, or there will be consequences. Am I understood?”

There are murmurs of assent from the other teenagers in the classroom and she nods her head sharply.

“Excellent.” She says. “Then let us begin. Tell me children, what do you think the most important aspect you would need for a successful heist is?”

Well, that confirms your suspicious as to the nature of this class. Acquisitions was a likely enough euphemism for theft after all, but there’s something different about being casually asked about your opinion on how to steal something.

She looks at you and the others expectantly as you sit there quietly. “Come now children, no need to be shy. I won’t punish you if you are wrong. What do you suspect the most important aspect of a successful heist is?”

“Skill?” says the boy with the black hair tentatively at first, and then with more confidence as he keeps speaking. “You have to be able to get past the security measures, and that takes skill.”

“Skill” She says slowly, and hums. “Yes, skill is important. You do need to be able to circumvent their security measures after all, and that does often require no small amount of skill. It is this line of thought that holds up that home wrecking whore Kyle as the greatest thief alive.”

Her fast twists slightly at this, as if she had bit down on a lemon or something similarly bitter.
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“While a passable answer I would contend that skill is not the most important aspect of a successful heist.” she tells you all as her face smooths back out. “Rather, the most important aspect of a successful heist is one’s preparations. One’s plan. If you know what their security measures are, and can therefore make adequate preparations to circumvent them, you are far far more likely to succeed than if you relied on skill alone.”

“Always remember children that the true master thief is a master planner” She tells you. “Not just a limber contortionist or a skilled safe cracker. When you have completed my course you will be more than just safe crackers and infiltrators, you will be master planners, and therefore masterful thieves.”

What follows are hours of lecture on planning. Lectures on blue prints, on identifying potential points of entry on a variety of buildings, on learning how to figure out camera arcs and time blind spots in their coverage, all with visual aids and in many cases scaled down replicas that the teacher has you gather around in the front of the classroom.

Intellectually the challenges she poses are quite fascinating. How do you get over the wall? All of the conventional entrances are guarded by armed men and covered by cameras, how do you get in? There are three cameras in the hallway spaced out at five meter intervals, each camera makes a sweep of 90 degrees and covers a section of the hall, how do you get past them? The cameras are fish eye lenses with a near 360 degree field of view, what do you do?

It reminds you of some of your favorite heist movies, like oceans 11 or the Italian Job. Sadly, it’s a lot less fun and a lot more complicated than the movies make it out to be. There’s a lot of tedium involved from what little you can gather, since you have to account for all kinds of small details, but it’s still pretty cool.
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>>3534462

Then about midway through the day the lectures end and she leads you all outside, where there’s something of an obstacle course that has been erected. She forbids you use of your meta powers, and then you are set to acting out the scenarios you had discussed in the class room. Climbing over walls, dashing to avoid the sweep of red lights representing cameras. It’s all really quite intensive. You do alright since you can kinda cheat by using your powers on the down low, but Tara struggles and you have to help her in a few sections. You can tell she really isn’t used to this level of activity.

By the end of the day when your teacher informs you all that the lesson is done and that you are free to go to dinner you are tired, but you can’t deny it’s been an informative experience.

What do you do?

>Try and reach out to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair and invite her to eat with you and your group instead of sitting alone, and then try to rope her into socializing with the rest of you for free period. More friends can only be a good thing.


>Eat your dinner quickly and then say good bye to your friends see about finding a library and if they have any medical texts. If you want to remove the control implant you’ll need better understanding of the nervous system than you have.

>Eat your dinner quickly, maybe see if they’ll let you take something with you, and then go to your room and practice with your powers. As Larson put it, you’re survival may ultimately depend on your power, so you should practice.

>Write in
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>>3534468
>Eat your dinner quickly and then say good bye to your friends see about finding a library and if they have any medical texts. If you want to remove the control implant you’ll need better understanding of the nervous system than you have.

The mind orders. The flesh obeys.
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>>3534468
>Try and reach out to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair and invite her to eat with you and your group instead of sitting alone, and then try to rope her into socializing with the rest of you for free period. More friends can only be a good thing.
Join our merry band.
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>>3534468
>Eat your dinner quickly and then say good bye to your friends see about finding a library and if they have any medical texts. If you want to remove the control implant you’ll need better understanding of the nervous system than you have.
Why would she have us not use our meta powers? Seems dumb since it would never happen in a real heist.
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>>3534468
>Eat your dinner quickly and then say good bye to your friends see about finding a library and if they have any medical texts. If you want to remove the control implant you’ll need better understanding of the nervous system than you have.

Unfortunately, unless we want to wait until the last moment to escape, right before they call us for some brainwashing. We need to get ready for it now. Don't have time to make friends.
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>>3534456
Is our name literally Alex Mercer in canon? I thought we had a different name, but ok.
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>>3534445
Well shit, keep this up and maybe our boy'll be a dashing rogue by the time we break out.

>>3534468
>Try and reach out to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair and invite her to eat with you and your group instead of sitting alone, and then try to rope her into socializing with the rest of you for free period. More friends can only be a good thing.
It'll be harder to introduce people to the group as dynamics form and we should have as many hands for the escape as possible. Do this early, that way we can leave the socializing to the rest of the group while we study on our own later on.
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>>3534476
Because knowing how to function without your cheat skill is step 1 in how not to get assblasted when things go wrong.
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>>3534476
If we can do a heist without our powers, then being able to use powers in a heist would make it alot easier.
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>>3534482
Joseph Mercer, prefers James. So technically we have the names of both Prototype protags.
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>>3534456

*her face.

I really need to do something about this. Even with proof reading I keep making slips like this. It's getting damn irritating.

Voting to close in thirty minutes, and then we'll do one last write up for the night.

>>3534323

Thank you for the suggested reading material. I'll give it a look. I'm glad you are enjoying the quest, and will do my best in the hope that you and everyone else can continue to do so.

>>3534153

I'm bad at wallflower mentality, my apologies if this is interfering with immersion.

>>3534482

Joseph Mercer.
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>>3534482
Name's Joseph "James" Mercer.
James being the protagonist of Prototype 2.
Huh.
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>>3534468
>>Eat your dinner quickly and then say good bye to your friends see about finding a library and if they have any medical texts. If you want to remove the control implant you’ll need better understanding of the nervous system than you have.
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>>3534468
>>Try and reach out to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair and invite her to eat with you and your group instead of sitting alone, and then try to rope her into socializing with the rest of you for free period. More friends can only be a good thing.
If we want to get everyone out we'll probably have to fight our way out. So we better be acquainted with as many people as we can.
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>>3534491

huh, did not know that. I've never played prototype. I picked Joseph for the jojo reference since anons had wanted the pillar men as one of their inspirations.

Incidentally I've never seen jojo either.
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>Eat your dinner quickly, maybe see if they’ll let you take something with you, and then go to your room and practice with your powers. As Larson put it, you’re survival may ultimately depend on your power, so you should practice.
Train E V E R Y D A Y
100x10 finger stretches
6x15 Size Changes
20x5 Density Changes
10x3 Streching crunches
4x5 "Skycraper" push ups
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EAT, TRAIN, SLEEP, EAT, TRAIN, SLEEP...
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>>3534492
>I'm bad at wallflower mentality, my apologies if this is interfering with immersion.
You actually justified it pretty well, not to mention that it's making use of the Nerd cliche, desperately acting exactly like all the characters he's read/watched/played would.
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>>3534492
It's fine, we're just acting how any teenager would if he got a Superpower that lets him do cool shit like Joseph.
Massive ego boost.
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>>3534493
We don't talk about prototype 2.
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>>3534492
Wallflowers are wallflowers due to not fitting in, doesn't mean being shy or anxious all the time.
If I didn't have my gang of weird friends back in high I would have probably spent it alone.
James is a flower due to his foot in mouth tendencies and torrential outpour of pasta from his pockets.
So far your characterization of James is good in that regard.
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Now really quick, just gotta put something out there, cause it's important to have all the information.

Some anons have mentioned using Tara to get an in with Markovia. This is certainly possible, but is unlikely to end with you as King of Markovia, as she has two older brothers who are ahead of her in the line of succession. So unless something happens to them, you aren't going to be ending up as King, or more likely the royal consort. Now I mean anything is possible, but that's something to keep in mind.

I am not saying this to shit on the idea of pursuing that possibility. I'm just putting that out there so anons understand all the relevant information.
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>>3534511
And then Alex Mercer was evil because fuck you.
I don't know what the fuck they were thinking.
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>>3534468
>Try and reach out to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair and invite her to eat with you and your group instead of sitting alone, and then try to rope her into socializing with the rest of you for free period. More friends can only be a good thing.

I think there are two factions of students forming. Our friends and the kids that hate us. I REALLY want to study anatomy but more friends means more safety.

At least until we can turn into a mass of tentacles and gore that terrifies and rips apart our enemies. Until then, friends.
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Alright, ten minutes and then the votes getting called. Last call for votes.
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>>3534514
They could be a problem.
Ah well, we'll just see what happens.
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>>3534518
>Try and reach out to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair and invite her to eat with you and your group instead of sitting alone, and then try to rope her into socializing with the rest of you for free period. More friends can only be a good thing.
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>>3534514
>Unless something happens to them

Oh, I get it. "Accidents" happen. Accidents involving tentacles and teeth.

But if we end up in that route, I'm happy with being the husband of a princess. You have all the benefits of royalty with 0 responsibility ruling a country.
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>>3534514
At least we can still make the nation more metahuman-friendly. I doubt they'd be huge dicks toward the people that saved the princess... and the princess herself. If we form a separate, independent nation, it also helps to reach legitimacy if another recognizes it.

And at the end of the day... we're only 14. Building and running a nation is not quite something we're prepared for just yet.
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>>3534514
What about working for her as her bodyguard ?
That'll get our boye a sweet job, nice pay and a home
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>>3534535
Why not just marry her then?
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>>3534468
>Eat your dinner quickly and then say good bye to your friends see about finding a library and if they have any medical texts. If you want to remove the control implant you’ll need better understanding of the nervous system than you have.
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>>3534541
I dunno anon, maybe because that doesn't always work out?
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>>3534541
Cause our boye must be free
That and I wish the waifuing would be lessened for at least a while. We're still in a teenage evil army camp
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>>3534541
We already held hands...
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>>3534468
>>Eat your dinner quickly and then say good bye to your friends see about finding a library and if they have any medical texts. If you want to remove the control implant you’ll need better understanding of the nervous system than you have.
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>>3534546
>>3534548
Yes but I want to be a prince. Being a bodyguard is lame.
>>3534549
Ah shit. It's already over.
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Well, that's the end of the vote.

Now I'm going to need you all to roll me nerd (4d6) real quick, and I need to make some rolls of my own.
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Rolled 5, 5, 4, 4 = 18 (4d6)

>>3534555
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Rolled 6, 2, 4, 2 = 14 (4d6)

>>3534555
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Rolled 2, 3, 4, 6 = 15 (4d6)

>>3534555
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Rolled 4, 6, 2, 6, 6 = 24 (5d6)

>>3534558
>>3534559
>>3534560

Thank you, that will do nicely. Don't worry, these aren't opposed to your rolls. Just background processes.
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>>3534562

oof. Well, them's the breaks.
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>>3534562
You tell us not to worry but those three 6s are worrying.
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even the most subtle of movements can lead to deadly conclusions
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>>3534568
PANIC TIME
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>>3534554
Princes are lame, bodyguards are cool. Hell they can even be sent on mission-
>>3534549
O-oh...
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Rolled 3, 3, 4, 2 = 12 (4d6)

>>3534577
>>3534549
>>3534554

I feel like I'm missing a joke here.


Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
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>>3534587
Handholding is often joked to be super sexual and romantic for reasons no man can explain.
It's just sort of happened.
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Ah I see, it's Japan's fault.
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>>3534602
It was all because of Japan!
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>>3534468

As you make your way to the cafeteria with Tara you start to plan. When you probed the control device you failed. If you are going to circumvent it then you are going to need much more knowledge about how the nervous system functions, and you aren’t arrogant enough to think that learning about the intricacies of your nervous system will be easy or fast.

If you’re going to learn what you need to learn in time to get yourself out of here, you are going to need to get to work now. It’s been nice to talk with your new friends in the evenings, but other than the free time you were given at night you aren’t sure when you’ll have the opportunity to do the study you’ll need to do, so socialization will have to take a back seat tonight as you get an idea of how much you’ll need to do.

You grab your dinner and then start powering through it as soon as you sit down. Fortunately tonight none of your group seem to be missing. You keep one ear open to the conversation going on at your table, but other than agreeing at the appropriate times by nodding your head you let the conversation flow around you without participating. The topic seems to be music again. Caitlin is trying to convince the others that classical music isn’t boring, with some support from Tara. Who is really advocating opera rather than pure orchestral music, but still there seems to be some overlap between their tastes. Ralph and Liz seem rather unconvinced however.

As you stuff your face, it’s chicken roast and grilled vegetables this evening, you look out at the other inhabitants of the cafeteria. It’s immediately apparent that the group sitting at the opposite side of the room is bigger than it was before.

The Gothamite and his group have been joined by the grandma and the tall kid with the shaved head who had been sitting with the Asian girl and the Hispanic kid before, though the smaller boy who had been part of the Gothamite's group before is missing.

The Asian girl and the Hispanic kid have fallen in with the black kid’s group, and the silver haired girl and the girl with the purple streaks in her hair are still sitting off alone.
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>>3534739

After you finish your meal you turn to the others and tell them “I’m going to head off early today.”

“Are you feeling alright?” Asks Ralph as the others look at you with concerned expressions. “You’ve been awfully quiet.”

“I’m fine” You reply with a smile. “I’m sorry if I worried you, just a lot on my mind. And I’m tired I guess. I was going to see about getting myself a book and chilling for a while.”

“That does sound nice” Caitlin says with a nod. “I wonder what kind of selection we have access to.”

“Well, there’s only one way to find out.” You say as you stand up, and then you approach one of the guards in the corner. They never exactly told you who to talk to if you had questions, so approaching the guard is the best thing you can think of since you don’t see the headmistress or any of the teachers around.

You walk towards him slowly with your hands up in what you hope is a non-threatening manner, but he still stiffens up when you approach and one of his hands drops down to rest on the butt of the pistol he has at his hip.

“Can I help you.” He says in a somewhat hostile manner.

“I hope so” You say. “I was hoping to get some reading material. Is there a library I could use?”

“One moment.” He says and then he tilts his head slightly to speak while pressing at something on the side of his helmet. “This is Johanson. I have a student requesting reading material.”

He keeps the hand not on the but of his gun up to his ear and then listens to something you can’t hear, before telling you. “There isn’t a library, but you can have a tablet delivered to your room which has a large number of texts downloaded onto it. If you want anything that’s not on the tablet, then you’ll need to get permission from a teacher or the headmistress.”

“That sounds fine.” You say. Actually that is less than ideal, but there isn’t much you can do about it. “Could I get one delivered please?”

“Of course” He says “Just tell me your name and I’ll radio in to have someone send it along.”

“Joseph Mercer” You tell him, and he nods.

“You’ll have it in a few minutes.” He tells you. “Just go to your room and wait.”
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>>3534742

So you go, and before long there’s a knock on your door and a member of the staff in their ubiquitous uniform gives you a tablet. You check to see if it’s connected to any networks, and find that it isn’t, at least as far as you can tell. You’d need to conduct a far more thorough investigation of the devices hardware and software to be sure, and it might be beyond your means to determine with certainty.

In any case, you have it, and time is wasting. You check the database. There are indeed a large number of books downloaded to the tablet. Thousands it looks like at a glance based on what you see in the directory. After a quick search you find a few hundred or so medical texts. Further searches narrow that down to about half a dozen books dedicated to neurology that look promising.

You crack open the first one and get to work. It’s dense stuff, filled with medical jargon you don’t understand. You have to flip back and forth to reference texts and a medical dictionary that you found in order to start making headway, but make headway you do. It helps that you can compare what you read with what you feel through your new senses as you look at your nerves and poke at some of the peripheral strands out in your fingers and toes. You get through the introductory chapters and have started diving into the real meat of it when the voice of the headmistress comes over the intercom announcing lights out.

You’ve got a long way to go, but already you are feeling more confident in your eventual ability to figure something out. But that raises the question, if you are able to get your control device out, what are you going to do about your friends?

You put away the tablet, which does in fact continue to function after lights out, and lay down to rest. That the tablet kept working is good you think, means they aren’t controlling it remotely. Maybe. They could also be trying to make you think they weren’t in control of it. They could be monitoring everything you look at, but they would have kept track of what you were reading if it were physical books anyway. You decide not to worry about it right now and go to sleep.

Morning comes all to soon as you are awakened by the alarm going off over the intercom. It's time to get up and start the day.

What is your plan for breakfast?

>Talk to your friends and ask them about how their classes were yesterday.

>Try to talk to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair. Use yesterdays shared class as an icebreaker

>Try to talk to the Silver haired girl.

>Bring the tablet with you, keep studying.

>Write in.
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>>3534746
Let's keep studying and go full nerd.
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>>3534746
>>Try to talk to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair. Use yesterdays shared class as an icebreaker
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>>3534746
>>Try to talk to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair. Use yesterdays shared class as an icebreaker

The chances of them monitoring what we study on the tablet is near 100%, so we should probably make a token effort to pretend to read stuff that doesn't look as suspicious, along with our actual research. Try to obfuscate our intentions a little.
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>>3534746
>Talk to your friends and ask them about how their classes were yesterday.
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Now, really quick, before I pop off to bed. Few mechanical things.

Regarding the advancement of your nerd dice, that will advance when you've completed a set number of successful evenings of study. The success of an evenings study will be determined by a roll of your nerd dice. Breakfasts and dinners spent studying at the expense of other possibilities will count for half of an evening session. The target number is rather large, as you are already quite advanced in the nerd cliche, and may take some time to reach.

You can choose to try and rush through these as quickly as possible if you were so inclined, however if you do so you will be neglecting other opportunities, and may find certain paths being closed to you. Your choices will always have consequences.

If you have questions regarding this, as always feel free to ask, and I will respond as best I can.


See you all in the morning.
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>Bring the tablet with you, keep studying.
>mfw we escape and become a doctor instead, living a comfy high class life.

Real talk though, if we can work well with nerves, we can do some cool somewhat freaky stuff like grow eyes or create reflex loops that would bypass the need for us to process danger, for example, dodging bullets becomes much more possible when your body instinctively knows when to dodge. (Allows us to, in a sense, program our body to react in certain ways to stimuli without our processing of it.)
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>>3534746
>>Try to talk to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair. Use yesterdays shared class as an icebreaker

>the smaller boy who had been part of the Gothamite's group before is missing
Guessing based on the rolls that he's dead, injured, or getting Wax'd.
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>>3534746
>Try to talk to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair. Use yesterdays shared class as an icebreaker
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>>3534746
>Try to talk to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair. Use yesterdays shared class as an icebreaker
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>>3534746
>Try to talk to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair. Use yesterdays shared class as an icebreaker
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>>3534493
I prefer Alex James Mercer.

>>3534511
What? You must be confused there was only Infamous 2 that came out, Prototype never had a sequel.
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>>3534746
>Bring the tablet with you, keep studying.
Considering we're under TIMED conditions, where we don't know how long we've got, we should study as much as we can at first.

Also.
>Voting to stock up on food.
>Voting to practice our powers after lights out.
>Voting to be a nerd and locate where we are via the stars.
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>>3534746
>Try to talk to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair. Use yesterdays shared class as an icebreaker
No one should be alone in this situation but maybe someone else from our clique would be better at approaching her?

Also we should think that there is possibility that one of us is ONE OF THEM.
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>>3534746
>Try to talk to the Silver haired girl.
Shes a psychic mind reader right? Having one on our side would be useful and may even help us resist, undo, or even prevent mental tampering.
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>>3534878
Why don't we sit next to them and get to know them both, see if we can bring both of them over to our table at the same time.
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>>3534842
It has a sequel
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>>3534909
What are you talking about. There's only one game in the series. A great game. Yup. No other.
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>>3534782
Something we should do when we're advanced enough is replace the myelin on our nerves with a better insulator. That would greatly increase the speed of our thoughts.
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G'day Anons, what's going in this thre-
>So much spaghetti
>the waifu wars begin
>All this far-future planning
Goddamn timezones and the need for sleep preventing me from catching all this live.

>>3534513
>James is a flower due to his foot in mouth tendencies and torrential outpour of pasta from his pockets.
Hey, the pasta outpour is only a problem if we let it stay at the level of common homecooked pasta!

>>3534602
>>3534666
>See pic attached
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>>3534955
>the waifu wars begin
There can't be a waifu war when there's only one contender.

Agreeing with you on the time zones. There aren't many quests active when myself and the other brit/euroanons are awake.
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>>3534959
>Agreeing with you on the time zones. There aren't many quests active when myself and the other brit/euroanons are awake.

Just do what I do. Fuck your sleeping schedule.
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>>3534961
>Just do what I do. Fuck your sleeping schedule.
I already do so anon. Been sleeping at 4-5am the past four days, and wake up around midday. Thank god for weekends.
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>>3534959
If you're considering Tara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3elwDp1tC0

She's shit no matter what universe she's in. At best she's a good friend, at worst a means to an end to establishing our meta-utopia. Sure the only other options are Caitlin and Liz who, despite saying she's "not interested" and was "just joking", seems to be very fixated on our dick that can change size and shape for maximum mating presses. and I feel your pain anon. Greenwich time a bitch and a half.

>>3534910
Hey, Prototype 2 isn't the worst thing. I'd argue it actually expands on the gameplay but leaves a bit lacking the narrative department, especially with cutscenes looking like a bad noir movie. Other than that it has all the charm of Prototype 1 with some added features and polish!

>>3534746
>Try to talk to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair. Use yesterdays shared class as an icebreaker

Honestly I want to talk to that silver-haired chick, the one who did all the floating and spooked Caitlyn. She could be VERY useful in the future.
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>>3534978
I would rather do without waifus. The choosing will only cause disharmony and having one makes Jim too human.
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>>3534978
Bet you liked battlefield V.

Pee2 killed the franchise, a few game trinkets isn't worth losing hat could have been as successful as infamous 2.
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>>3534980
But anon think of the powers our babies could have. Think of the EUGENICS! We could be an inhuman bastard by virtue of having children, not out of love, but out of our want to see the meta-race grow ever more powerful under us!
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>>3534982
How dare you. You know my mother was Battlefield V.

And besides, it really isn't that bad. Sure it's not InFamous levels of Narrative and Gameplay, but it's servicable and fun. Hell, Prototype 1 was just as much if not MORE of an edge fest, which is what made it fun. It revels in its mediocrity, and if it can own it, then all the better!
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>>3534983
>EUGENICS
Calm down there Endeavor
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>>3534978
>she's shit no matter the universe.
She hasn't had the horrible stuff that turns her unstable happen to her yet.
Also we both know that no matter the universe statement is bullshit.
Fuckin evil Supermen and good Jokers exist in some of them.
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>>3534987
Was your mother Europe? That explains all the holes from the pounding she got in the last two wars.

You can have good game play mechanics in principle and still fail hard if one or more of the crucial aspects of your game does not hold up to snuff. Just look at Mass Effect 3 end or the spinoff Andromeda.
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>>3534996
And I never said you couldn't, just that you don't need one or the other to be fun. Prototype 2 exemplifies this through its fun gameplay, but shite story. I'm just saying I liked the gameplay, despite the shit story.

I don't know why you seem to not like this opinion, enough so as to miss my JonTron reference
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>>3535005
The gameplay is ok but kinda gets repetitive, didn't they remove fast and heavy attacks for no reason?
That's a shitty change.
The game never explains why Mercer became evil.
Iirc a comic does.
It's because a girl tries to shoot him and rob him.
That's it.
Anyway, solo breakout to get backup, team breakout or takeover?
the Terra waifu train will not be stopped
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>>3535005
>New 1ID post.
Put on a dam tripcode, you IP skipping fag.

Anyways.

Sometimes other glaring issues or aspects of a game can ruin the rest of it despite being fun in other ways.

Never watched Jon Tron, heard of him but no idea about aside from him being a youtoober and voicing a game, and something about nazis?

>>3535008
I thought it was something about Mexicans destroying his faith in humanity or something.

They made the comics AFTER the game I believe, to try and explain away the character 360 moonwalk.
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>>3535012
Honestly they could've just made the Mercer in Prototype 2 a fake Mercer that split from the real one or some shit and it would've been better written.
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>Remove fast and heavy attacks
Nigga wha? You mean like, in the regular combat or the combats involving powers? Cause in the regular combat, yeah they did remove heavy attacks, but they removed it for a reason since play involving powers took precident over just wailing on people with fists. Aside from that they kept and in some cases expanded upon the powers hoping people would have more fun with them.

And yeah sure character development takes a backseat, something something virus cult new human race, but hey look you can make a spider-web out of people's guts!

>>3535012
Make me.

As for JonTron, it's a touching success story, evolving from just another AVGN knock-off into his own distinct brand that outlived the site that had been hosting him, greatly improving his production value along the way.

As for the Nazi thing, he said not to let in a load of immigrants all willy nilly, amd that doing so would alter politics according to the whims of these new immigrants, who don't always share the same views as the regular citizens.

Look at this man. Does this look like the face if a Nazi to you?
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>>3534978
>>3534993
If we are going to start a waifu war, we should do it in a civilizated way. Post a pic of each waifu and why do you think is good. Then wait for someone to make an argument against your post and answer said person (politely).
I personally think we should focus on improving and escaping first, but starting the bases of a friendship/relationship with Tara, Liz or any other girl before they get brainwashed could be vital in the future.
>Talk to both the purple haired and the silver haired lady. If we can't take both, talk to the silver haired one (we need decent psy powers and defenses before meeting Wax, which considering our powerset and our reading material could be sooner than we expect).
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>>3535026
*civilized
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>>3535026
*civilized way
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>>3534980
eeh, Terra seems like the shoe-in already because of plenty of factors, kinda like X-23 in the Homeless Mutant Quest years ago.
Terra has:
>Established fanbase
>Blessing of the First Girl
>Cute
>Has that must protecc quality
>MC will spent lots of time with her because they're both in the same shitty situation
The only disharmony comes from anons wanting to waifu ASAP and anons that don't want waifus. There's more warring going on between moralfagging anons and anons that use "muh pragmatism/Powerlevel" to justify their desire to eat people, be villains or even literally wearing people's faces in the case of that one guy. Forget waifus, the war and shitstorms this quest will have will come from this, which is way more volatile than any waifu war.
Also
>having one makes Jim too human.
>He doesn't want to be a real human bean https://youtu.be/BHgYtKkSEDA
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>>3535032
>doesn't want
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Oh shit Tara's uncle hasn't killed her parents yet, we could save them.
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>>3535022
Its just stupid opening the borders so anyone can get in and decide the countries fate and people had been arguing for and against voting with no ID so those illegal aliens can vote and give support its like having no ip and spamming votes
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>>3535032
Are you talking about me i just said we could skip the clothing issue and mimic leather and stuff with our outer layer
Then anon goes something like this
>calm down leather face
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>>3535045
Honestly, if it was up to me I would add the requirement of having a high-school diploma or equivalent.
>Must be at least 18 years of age
>Must be a resident or landowner
>Must have finished high school
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>>3535041
We could.
We just gotta get the hell out of here first.
We could become the Hero of Markovia.
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>>3535041
>>3535058
Assuming Tara's uncle hasn't already set his plans well into motion - Tara's been missing from home about 5 days, after all.
Markovia's ruling family may well already be dead by the time we bust out of this HIVE facility and get back into civilization, and then there's the problem of the fucking control chips.

I honestly think that we need to get in touch with the Justice League somehow when/if we manage to escape - I can't think of any other trustworthy organization that would have the necessary equipment/skill to remove the chips. Contacting the League depends entirely on if James can figure out how to remove or hack the chips in the other's necks by himself.
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>>3535073
If we get our chip out we can just start injecting every staff member with paralytic venom.
Get the control box and saving everyone is very easy, hopefully.
At least we can immediately try to call the League for help if we solo takeover.
Removing others chips is reliant on our ability to affect other people.
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>>3535079
And if paralitic venom doesn't work on the enemy metas, we could use a big ol boneblade.
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>>3535083
IT IS THE BONEBLADE
Killing is something that while I don't want to do commonly, may be required for our escape.
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Well, looks like we have a clear majority on the vote. Calling it and writing.
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Rolled 2 (1d6)

Hold up just a moment.
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>>3535133

well okay then, looks like you're doing this solo.

Can anyone whose around give me 2d6 real quick please.
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Rolled 1, 5 = 6 (2d6)

>>3535136
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Rolled 1, 5 = 6 (2d6)

>>3535136
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Rolled 5, 2 = 7 (2d6)

>>3535136
Here you go boss.
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>>3535137
>>3535138
>>3535139

Thanks.
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>>3535073
>I honestly think that we need to get in touch with the Justice League somehow when/if we manage to escape
I'm not being very serious here but how about we store as much mass as we can, go into the courtyard, shift our head/mouth, vocal cords and lungs to be as big as we can make them and still be functional then scream "Superman save us!" while also going https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq_r19xoKJE and making as much sound as possible?
Hopefully we won't get shot/Fatherbox'd to death before he gets here. Then again maybe this is too meta? How much do in-universe people know about Superman's hearing? Something to keep in the backpocket if we don't manage anything else before we start getting Wax'd.

>>3535048
I just did a cursory glance of the posts, my bad, the point still stands going by the previous thread as well though, I'm pretty sure what's going to cause shitstorms and arguments to come isn't going to be waifu wars.
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>>3535168
>How much do in-universe people know about Superman's hearing?
I'm pretty sure everyone knows about the Daily Planet's magic Superman summoning watch. I think they should also know about his improved hearing range.
We could also shift our pitch so we scream at a frequency much higher than what typical humans can hear. I suppose we have to make sure that there are no super sense villains or dog-humans in this facility.
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>>3535168
>Hopefully we won't get shot/Fatherbox'd to death before he gets here
I think if he actually took it seriously, he could get here before anyone realized we did anything. The problem is that we'd be risking everything on the chance that he actually hears us, took us seriously, and isn't busy with some other shit.

I have a feeling people in-universe just think "yeah he probably can" when talking about Superman.
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>>3535178
>>3535179
James is a massive Nerd so we can maybe attempt the good ol ...---... sequence as our call.
Make it a higher frequency than humans can hear and see if it works.
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>>3535188
I have a feeling they'd count on some of the metahumans they have to be able to communicate like that and have some way of countering or sensing it. Huge risk. Could be good for if we have confirmation otherwise or just have nothing to lose from doing so.
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>>3535198
We could just make the equivalent of white noise at a higher frequency that gets progressively louder during lunch where everyone's there. If someone reacts, we know who and how much it affects them.
As for faculty/defense measures, if we do it long enough they'll probably jump on our ass, at which point we could play the innocent card and say we were just screwing around and figuring out the things we can shift and how they feel and act during stress testing, maybe throw in a reference to Black Canary so we sound like just an eager student doing extracurriculars, it plays with our Nerd cliché, I'm pretty sure they know we skipped grades, but whether we were a highly competent hard-worker or just a genius, that's doubtful.
If nothing happens for a couple of days which would be enough to drive someone mad with the sound, then it's safe to assume they can't pick it up and we can start Morse coding SOS or something.
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>>3535217
would also be a good exercise working on the lungs ribs and abominal muscles we could do some cool shit with this if we do this right we can shatter glass and make people feel sick
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>>3535288
If we strenghten our vocal chords and other sound related parts, we could not anly make sonic attacks, we could also hide the mesage behind every sonic attack and point some towards Metropolis at regular intervals. As a plus, if we study where we are and where Metropolis/The Justice Hall is, we can give them an our position (If we can justify knowing it with our nerd cliche or find a way to learn it without raising alarms).
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>>3535032
But what about a girl so fit she can pop a mans head off?
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>>3535343
The waifu wars have started. Remember, post pic of your waifu and explanation of why she's the best.
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>>3535343
Brutish, terrible name. NotAWaifu/qt3.14
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>>3535343
Too late, she's been brainwashed by Agent Wax. Now we can only try to mitigate her.
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>>3535362
James, because he can be any waifu
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As you get up and get ready for the day you decide to yourself that you’re going to approach the girl with the purple streak in her hair this morning and try to get her to come sit with your friends. Sitting alone sucks ass, you know this from personal experience, and it has to be even worse in a situation like this. So you’ll reach out to her. As long as she isn’t a total bitch she’ll probably get along with the others fine.

Fortunately you have yesterdays shared class experience to use as an icebreaker. According to the sociology books you’ve read sharing in an experience predisposes people to think of others as members of their in group, particularly if that experience involves overcoming or facing hardship. Come to think of it that may be why your group is gelling so quickly despite have some very different interests. Shared adversity really does wonders for social cohesion.

Anyway, you just gotta walk up, introduce yourself, and invite her over. That should be easy. Then you just gotta pass the baton on to the rest of the group, who are much better at socialization than you are.

You make your way to the cafeteria and look around for her. You see her sitting down with her tray alone again. Perfect. Time to initiate the plan.

“Slice of life sitcom knowledge don’t fail me now” you think as you walk over to her and pause by her table.

“Hey” you say with a smile. Alright, contact initiated. Now you just gotta introduce yourself and refer to your shared experience. Start with a complement. Everyone loves complements. Nothing like stroking the ego a bit to butter someone up. “I’m James, nice job yesterday in class.”

“Thanks” She says. It’s the first time you’ve heard her talk, she stayed pretty quiet yesterday. She has kind of a husky voice, which is surprising considering how petite she is. You would have expected something higher pitched. “You did pretty well yourself.”

Mutual complements achieved, second wave preparing for firing run. Stay on target.

...maybe you should pick a better metaphor, that didn’t work so well for those guys. No wait, no time to think about that, focus on the conversation.

“Thanks” You reply with a smile. You gesture over at your friends sitting at your table with your head and say “Hey listen, I was wondering, you wanna come sit with us?”

She leans forward towards you across the table and smiles as she plops her chin down on her palm. “So this is where you invite me to join your gang huh?”

Shit, you really should have picked a better metaphor. Boogies on your six! Gotta shake em.

“Uh” you say intelligently. It’s no good, you can’t maneuver!

“No offense kid” She says “but this whole sit across the room from each other and stare thing you and those other guys have going on, it feels like when rival neighborhoods start tagging each other’s turf you know?”
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>>3535073
Wait, wasn't Tara missing a good five YEARS in the show before her uncle put shit in motion? Like, I remember something about her parents pouring in a load of reslurces into finding her for a long ass time...
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Well shit, looks like the bombing run failed.

“Buuut” She says as her grin gets a bit bigger as if she’s enjoying something. Maybe she can see your internal suffering. “I’ll probably get sucked in eventually anyway, and I’d rather wear your colors. That other guy seems like an asshole. So yeah, lets go meet the gang.”

Wait what? Success? Eh, you’ll take it.

“Great” You say with some forced cheer. “Come on, let me introduce you, uh...”

Aaand you never got her name. Damn it, that’s important. How could you forget that step?

“Roxy” She tells you as she stands up and grabs her tray. “I’m Roxy.”

“Well then come on and let me introduce you to the gang Roxy.” You say as you lead her over to the group.

“Hey guys” You call out as the two of you approach your friends. “This is Roxy, she was in class with me and Tara yesterday. She’ll be joining us this morning.”

“Pleasure to meet you Roxy” Says Caitlin as she pats the seat next to her. “Here, sit down.”

“Don’t mind if I do” says Roxy as she takes a seat next to the much larger girl. “So, you all know my name now, how about some introductions?”

Everyone exchanges their names as you dig into your breakfast sandwiches and congratulate yourself on a successful plan. While the girls are all introducing themselves Ralph looks over at you, glances at the new addition to your table, and then gives you a discreet thumbs up by crossing his arms so that his left arm is underneath his right arm, and when he raises his left thumb it’s blocked from the girls line of sight by his limbs. He also shoots you a little grin, flashing you his wood grained teeth. No idea what that’s about.

“Love the hair” you hear Roxy tell Liz.

“Thanks, you too.” Comes the reply from the blue girl.

The two of them kinda click after that. They discover they have a mutual love of dancing and underage clubbing and the rest as they say, is history.

After breakfast you head off to class. Tara isn’t with you today, but Caitlin is. Your class for the day “Interpersonal relations” is in 4-A. When you get there you find a large open space. The flooring is covered in some sort of mats, and there’s a variety of punching bags and some human shaped dummies in the corner.

In the center of the room a man is sitting with his back to you. He looks short, if he was standing he’d maybe be 5’6 at best, but he has broad shoulders. He’s shirtless, wearing only loose white pants. He’s kinda swarthy, sorta Mediterranean looking. There’s also two staff waiting by the side with a pair of bows. And arrows, real arrows, you can see the glint of metal at the tips.

Okay, you’ve seen enough martial arts movies to know where this is going. Holy shit, you get to learn Kung-Fu! Or Karate, or something. Is he gonna be a Mr. Miyagi kind of guy, or is he gonna be more Cobra Kai?
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>>3535435

When the hour strikes and it’s time for class to start he turns and stands sinuously to look at you all. You and Caitlin have been joined by the kid with mutton-chops, the pacific islander girl, and the Hispanic kid.

“Draw” the man barks at the men on the sidelines startling you. They pull back their bows to full draw and aim at the man in the white pants, and then they loose.

As soon as you hear the twang of the bowstrings the man starts moving, his center of gravity drops as he lowers his hips and he spins towards the two men with the bows. His hands move faster than you can see and then he and the two men on the side of the room freeze. You can see he’s holding the arrows. He literally snatched them out of the air.

You called it, that was totally something out of a wuxia film, only it actually happened.

“You will call me Sensei” the man says as he dismisses the bowmen with a nod and turns to face you and the other students. “If you waste my time I will break you.”

He says it very calmly, but punctuates his statement by snapping the arrows he’s holding in his fist right as he says ‘break’. Definitely more Cobra Kai than Mr. Miyagi, but you are at villain school so that makes sense.

“Now, remove your shoes and GET OVER HERE” He starts out speaking in that same soft tone he’d been using, but then he bellows the last command. Holy shit you did not expect him to be that loud all of a sudden.
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>>3535443

Then the torture begins. Stances. So many stances. Feet here, move this way, bend your knees, shift your weight. Hands up. Make a fist. That is not a fist, this is a fist. Palm strike, make sure to keep your fingers tight and curled back so you don’t break them. Do it again, and again. Hundreds of repetitions of just foot work or forming your hands correctly. Take a break, but it’s not really a break get your elbows up, me and some goons are going to beat you with sticks now. Breaks done, knife and ridge hand. Hit this, we’re going to break your fingers intentionally now so you can do these strikes. Don’t worry, the Father Box will fix it.

You didn’t need the Father Box personally, not that you told him that, but holy shit this guy is a sadist. You do it right or he smacks you around until it’s right. You’re pretty sure that’s poor teaching technique and is in fact counter productive, but you aren’t going to tell him that. He doesn’t scream, much. He’s very calm most of the time, rather soft spoken actually, and then suddenly something flips a switch and he’s shouting at all of you to move.

The only reason you aren’t a mass of bruises and micro-fractures at the end of the day is the liberal application of some sort of red ray from the Father box that stimulates healing. It does nothing for pain though. In fact your pretty sure it makes the pain worse.

You also have the advantage of manipulating your bodies processes to help you recover faster from the exertion. The others look even more ragged than you do, and you're pretty sure you're a mess.

What is your plan for the evening

>Socialize, there’s a new member of the group that you need to make sure remains a member of the group, and should probably find out about.

>Practice with your powers, tomorrow is going to be your class with Larson, maybe you can impress him with your initiative if you show up with something new.

>Study, that implant isn’t going to remove itself and you don’t know how many more sessions with the little screaming maniac in white pants you can take.

>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends.

>Write in.
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>>3535424

Two years. She had been missing for two years at the time of the first episode.
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See you all in a few hours, I've got plans for the afternoon so I'm going to be a while, might not be back until this evening. I'll keep you posted over my phone.
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>>3535459
>>Practice with your powers, tomorrow is going to be your class with Larson, maybe you can impress him with your initiative if you show up with something new.
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>>3535459
>Socialize, there’s a new member of the group that you need to make sure remains a member of the group, and should probably find out about.
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>>3535459
>>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends.
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>>3535459
>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends.
We need to know where we are before we can plan anything.
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>>3535459
>Recruit white haired girl

Purple make it all click, this dual group thing is going to get nasty soon, and if this is going to be a turf war, the other side cannot be allowed to get a psychic on their side. Our priority should be to recruit or contain the silver haired girl.
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>>3535479
Switch to
>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends.

GALAXY BRAIN MODE
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>>3535459
>>Socialize, there’s a new member of the group that you need to make sure remains a member of the group, and should probably find out about.
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>>3535459
>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends.
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>>3535459
>Study, that implant isn’t going to remove itself and you don’t know how many more sessions with the little screaming maniac in white pants you can take.


>>3535424
I checked the previous thread;
>Sitting across from you is Tara Markov, only daughter of the King and Queen of the sovereign nation of Markovia, who has been missing for 4 days.
Now, I have no idea how the timeline goes in Young Justice goes so I made the assumption that Tara's uncle wouldn't waste time. Guess we'll see when we get away from HIVE's immediate grasp one way or the other.

Speaking of, assuming Anon consensus and events cause us to seek out help from the League, how would be go about contacting the JL?
I guess the morse code at high frequency and hope Supes hears it is one way, but that's not exactly a reliable way to go about it methinks. I don't suppose it'd be as easy as looking up the phone number to the Hall of Justice and calling?
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>>3535459
>Practice with your powers, tomorrow is going to be your class with Larson, maybe you can impress him with your initiative if you show up with something new.
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>>3535459
>>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends.
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>>3535459
>>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends.
Let's try to get the gist of where we are before we can move to other stages of a breakout plan.
IIRC you can only figure out longitude with the North Star. For Latitude you need the sun. I think anyway, too lazy to check.
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>>3535459
>Study, that implant isn’t going to remove itself and you don’t know how many more sessions with the little screaming maniac in white pants you can take.

Break the chains!
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>>3535572
remember they monitor us
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>>3535459
>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends
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>>3535459
>>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends
do a natural wiki dive so they dont know what you are doing just look up general info about stars and constealtions
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>>3535459
>>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends
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>>3535648
We don't have internet, just the thousands of books downloaded directly on the pad.
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>>3535459
add mass to our brain for maximum memehood and
>Try to figure out where you are, go out into the courtyard and look at constellations to compare with stuff on your tablet. Justify it as stargazing with your friends.
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Gonna be a few more hours everyone. Hope you are all having a good day.
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>>3536037
Day's been alright Eig, working working working
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>>3535572
Also for navigation lots of creatures have an inbuilt magnetic compass. The 3 easiest for us to find would be bees, ants, and termites. Eat one of those and we can grow one to know where north and south are.
And ants should be pretty easily found.
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>>3536095
Birds too
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>>3536295
Yes, but eating a fresh bird’s brain and eyes is harder than finding an ant wandering around since ants are everywhere and much easier to catch.
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>>3535459
>>Socialize, there’s a new member of the group that you need to make sure remains a member of the group, and should probably find out about
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>>3536301
You can scarf them down, bite their head off. It's not outside the realm of possibility.
Besides, I think we would benefit more from sampling a nervous system more complex than say, bees and ants.
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>>3536095
>bees
Fuck HIVE.
We should try shifting our hair colour as a neat party trick.
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>>3536322
I doubt James is at the stage where he'd be able to stomach a live/raw bird. Ants are small enough that he can just think of some good memories and swallow in one bite. We can make our way up the food chain. It'd be a lot easier to catch an ant than a bird, too.

I'm gonna laugh my ass off if AVM man has us eat live animals anyway to accommodate for scenarios in which we need biomass on the fly.
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>>3536368
he lusted after the rarer meats, raw animals aren't as far. Especially since cooking is meant to increase caloric content for the ones who don't have an eldritch meta stomach, I doubt any run of the mill pathogens will bother our boye.
If anything, cellular machinery that hasn't been wrecked to shit and proteins that haven't been denatured might be more readily usable?
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>>3536368
>>3536377
Pretty much this. When you cook something, it destroys a good ammount of the proteins and DNA I think. We should start eating raw ants, insects and plants (we can get them in our stargazing trip, also, if we find something else like shells I vote for eating)
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>>3536377
He went all wild cause he was hungry, since by that point he'd used up everything he had and only filled up on half an MRE. I don't think we'll get the return of that James while he's so well-fed.

You have a point about raw being better. We should try to actually experiment with this during dinner, see how big the difference is.
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Some ideas to quick and easy modifications.
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>>3536384
The sooner we find a pearl oyster the sooner we unlock infinite money.
Just generate pearls at will.
Though Tara can probably use her powers to find gems too.
Easy moneyyyyy.
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>>3536386
Those are pretty neat.
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>>3536389
We start up a jewelry company to fund our shenanigans. It's perfect.
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>>3536389
>>3536430
Precious gem stones would be a good export for our Meta City-State. That and banking. The Caman Islands do it all the time, imagine the lods o' emone we'd get from super-brained meta bankers.

>>3536386
>>3536322
>>3536368
While these are all cool ideas, y'all, we need extra bio-mass to do fucking anything. I see a lot of ideas for eating insects and birds and stuff but we're gonna need a more filling source if we want to tap into our true power. Sure we can copy things from the stuff we eat but we need to eat more in order to readily use any of it, like flight if we eat birds! I'm not advocating for eating niggas but I'm also not seeing any way out aside from giving into our primal urges. Either that speaks to my limited imagination or the QM's excellent narrative skills. I'm gonna choose the latter, since I believe the other available powers in the first thread would have equal drawbacks...

Also, I doubt James is so much of a pussy that he can't eat an unproccessed bird. Just stick a needle through its head or snap its neck. Voila. Problem solved, you pansy city slickers.
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Alright works done, barbecue's over, lets do this.

Calling the vote and writing.
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>>3536576

Always forget to put this thing back on.
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>>3536550
Primal Urges being eating animals and not eating people.
eating people is like the opposite of a primal urge.
Also we can make a crown for ourself out of solid pearl if we decide to go for our own nation
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>>3536550
Eating more shit and getting more biomass is already a priority, that's been something we've been doing ever since AVM man gave us extra food. The question is what other abilities we can develop because there's no point in amassing more biomass if we can't do anything with them to help us escape.

Also, remember that we can recycle biomass real easily. OP said shifting biomass doesn't take up much energy unless it's big changes so we can also keep ourselves up and running going through multiple "abilities" even if we don't have a kaiju's worth of biomass.

As for the bird, the solution you posed is just a method of killing one, which isn't the problem. It's actually eating a raw bird that's the problem. I'm sure James'll do it eventually, whether it'll be soon or later remains to be seen. AVM man will likely want us to develop animal type forms at some point, so it might be out of our hand anyway.
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>>3536617
Remember, AVM doesn’t know we can eat to learn forms. He might show us a bird to mimic one, but he won’t make us eat one(probably)
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>>3536658
I know, I talked about a possible "eat live animals mid-combat" scenario before, my point was more that we'd learn to be a bird regardless. Although I wonder how thorough it'd be, whether we'd just make a really basic bird form that allows for flight if we'd actually replicate the magnetic compass anons were talking about. No idea how hard AVM man goes with his forms.
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>>3536584
I had barbecue chicken what did you have
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I honestly don't want to use shapeshifting as our main use of t he power. Maybe some useful parts from other animals but I would prefer to turn into some kind of lovercraftian horror mid-battle.

Supers are though people, but even them will flinch when a creature made of tentacles and teeth is using its own guts to attack.
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>>3536684
edgy and pointless and ineffective.
AVM man already said how difficult it can be to fight in an unfamiliar form and you want to fight as a writhing mass of tentacles.
It's easier if we keep a human form.
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aaaand I just remembered that Miss Martian has a Bio-Ship the Team use for transport.

So that's a goal.
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>>3536684
I really don't see the appeal of being a flesh smoothie. Kars and Mercer are our supposed inspiration and they are very badass while staying human-like.
I'd be okay with a more Venom-like form, that's both slick and menacing.
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>>3536695
I get where you're coming from but the point of AVM man's speech was that we should practice our forms before using them in operation. Even a writhing mass of tentacles can be effective if we actually take the time to practice.

Our power practically screams versatility. We're the perfect swiss army knife, capable of overcoming any situation with multiple forms. Keeping only a human one limits us severely. We should be whatever shape will help us.
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>>3536695
He has a point, we should invest in some totally different forms, though not for combat. For example a form with thin tendrils would be very useful for sensing in dark spaces or underwater, and a thin slime type form would be good for decentralizing our bodies for avoiding detection or sensing.
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>>3536723
sure, but for actual combat it's really the best if we maintain an actual human form so we can put our martial arts training to use.
Also Mercer's armoured form is cool and I kinda want to take something like that form for combat.
Or at least combat where we need to be serious.
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>>3536728
>Also Mercer's armoured form is cool and I kinda want to take something like that form for combat.
Oh hell yeah, I want this shit. No idea what the hell it's actually made of and I don't think the games ever explained but I'm sure we can make it durable enough for our purpose.
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>>3535459

You stumble your way into the cafeteria and grab a tray pilled high with food .You didn’t even have to ask, they just gave you a triple portion tonight. They’re learning. You wait for Caitlin to grab her tray, and then with food attended to you decide to look around the room as is becoming your habit. Thing’s look pretty much how they had at breakfast. Silver haired girl is sitting off alone, there’s the smaller third group off to the side and the Gothamite’s group is the same as it had been.

Then you look over to your friend group. Good news, Roxy is sitting with them right next to Liz, so she hasn’t split off alone again. Bad news, Liz is practically snarling and is clearly trying to kill whoever she is staring at over on the other side of the room with her eyes. Worse news, Tara isn’t with them. You hurry over to the table to figure out what’s going on, and Caitlin seems to have the same Idea since she beats you there. Must have been the longer legs.

“Liz what’s wrong?” She asks as she moves to the girls other side opposite Roxanne, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder. “And where’s Tara? Didn’t you have class together today?”

“You see the skin head over there.” She says and points at the tall guy with the shaved head who’d recently joined the other group. “Son of a bitch got Tara in trouble, she’s meeting with the psychiatrist for anger and sensitivity counseling.”

“What?” Caitlin asks, clearly shocked. “How? Tara’s so sweet, how on earth did that happen.”

“So class is wrapping up and our teacher is putting away his materials right?” Liz says. “And it’s been kind of stressful, cause the guy’s been talking to us about learning our target’s patterns and how to avoid getting fingered for killing someone right? Like, ‘these are the most common methods used by forensic scientists, this is how you avoid detection’ and shit right? I don’t know about everyone else, but I was freaked the fuck out, and I think Tara was as well.”

“And then that fucker” She says and jabs a finger at the tall kid with the shaved head “he starts whispering all kinds of sick shit to Tara. Something about how everyone knows Markovian girls open their legs just like their Monarchs open their borders, and Tara slaps him and starts crying and screaming something about Vlatavan pigs and then everything went to shit.”

“The old man who was teaching us wasn’t happy” She continues, still glaring across the room. “I shit you not, he pulled a pistol on us and told us all to calm down before he sent us to medical. Skinhead over there starts whining how “I am done nothing wrong” and “She is starting it” and his shit stain friends backed him up, so Tara took the blame and a guard bundled her off.”

Well. Shit.
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>>3536834

You hear a snapping sound and look down. Alright, Caitlin is going to need new silverware, but at least it wasn’t a table this time.

“That’s absolutely abhorrent” She snarls as she starts to stand back up with her eyes trained on the other table like heat-seeking missiles. “How dare he say something like that to Tara?”

“Whoa whoa hold your horses darlin” says Ralph as he stands up and lays a hand on the larger girls shoulder and stop her while stepping in front of her to block her path. “Hold up. Now I’m every bit as mad as you are, but if we start a fight here in front of all the guards, we’re gonna be the one’s to catch shit for it, and it ain’t gonna help Tara. We gotta keep cool, or things are going to get worse.”

Caitlin glares at Ralph for a second, and then takes a deep breath before sitting back down. “You’re right” She says as she loosens her fists and drops her mangled silverware onto the table. “We can’t do anything about it.For now.”

Alright. So, Tara’s seeing the psychiatrist, who you’re pretty sure messes with people’s heads, and things are escalating between you and the other group. That’s a problem. You contemplate your escape plan, and then realize that even if you got your implant out, you don’t know where you are. You wouldn’t know where to escape to.

That can be fixed though. You know how to determine latitude and longitude, and man you will never complain about geography class being a waste of time again. You just need an opportunity, and you’ve got an idea.

“Well, Ralph is right” You say. “We can’t do anything about it, but I don’t think I can stand to be in the same room as them right now. Why don’t we see if we can go eat in the courtyard? Sun should be going down soon, maybe we could see some stars. We’re pretty far from the city so we should get a good view without all the light pollution.”

“That sounds like a great idea” Says Ralph as he throws an arm around your shoulder. “Tell you what, I’ll go ask the guards.”

He trots off over to the guard in the corner. You can’t quite hear what they’re saying, but Ralph gestures at the ceiling and back at your group a few times, and then he trots back over.

“Well we got permission.” He says “We just gotta have an escort is all.”

“Well the storm troopers are around no matter what anyway” says Roxy “So it’s not like we’re really loosing any privacy. Why not, lets do it.”

“Cool, let me go grab my tablet real fast” You say “I bet I can find some books in it to help us identify constellations, and it can help us keep track of the time.”
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>>3536842

Of course that isn’t exactly what you want your tablet for, but it’s a likely enough excuse if anyone on the staff asks them about it later or if you get pulled in and questioned. It is a legitimate reason to have the tablet with you after all.

“I’ll carry your tray out for you.” Says Caitlin “Meet you in the courtyard James.”

“See you all there” You say, and then you run off to get your tablet.

It takes a while for the sun to go down after you’ve joined them in the courtyard, but that just means you all get to enjoy the sunset. Sort of. You can’t see the best bits since they’re blocked by the wall, but you get to see at least a part of the display of colors up in the sky. Then the sun sets and the stars come out, and your work begins.

True to your prediction, the stars are quite pretty away from any large cities, even with some interference from the facility itself it’s possibly the brightest night sky you’ve ever seen. Ralph assures you all that this is nothing, that if you go up camping at night in the mountains near his home you’ll see a view like nothing else, but it’s still pretty good. You aren’t here for the view though.

You look for the North Star, and then you start figuring angles. By looking at where it sits in the sky compared with the horizon you’re able to determine your latitude. Roughly speaking. You don’t exactly have any tools right now for exact figures, but looking at the angle you figure it’s less than forty five degrees, and more than thirty, so call it around 40 degrees N.

Longitude is a bit trickier, since as far as you can remember that’s based on how far you are from the Greenswich observatory, but that’s where the tablet comes in. Under the guise of “checking the time to make sure you don’t miss when you have to head back to your dorms” you check the clock feature on your tablet, and see that it does in fact have a function for setting the time zone. You’d hoped it would. You take a quick peek at UTC, and then look at what the tablet says is local time, and then you calculate the difference and convert it into degrees. 15 degrees for each hour if you remember correctly.

Based on your calculations you figure you’re off the shore of the east coast of the United States, most likely a little more than a hundred miles off of the shore of New Jersey.
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>>3536845

Everyone enjoys the stars as Caitlin and Ralph point out different constellations and you chime in with factoids from the books on your tablet, and you get one step closer to getting out of here. All in all, a productive evening.

Eventually the time comes that you have to go back to the dorms, and then it’s time to sleep.

As the intercom wakes you up, you really wish you could choose your own alarm. The chipper sound of the Headmistress’ amplified voice is a horrible thing to wake up to.

What is the plan before you head to lessons?

>Approach white hair’s group and see if you can stop this from getting out of hand. They could be reasonable people same as you.

>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.

>Eat quickly and head to the class room early, show how eager you are to learn and try to impress Larson, maybe get some time to ask him questions.

>Write in.
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>>3536671

I had some chicken, flank steak, bit of Ribeye, and a few shrimp. It was a good barbecue.
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>>3536847
>Approach white hair’s group and see if you can stop this from getting out of hand. They could be reasonable people same as you. Just make sure you bring a of members of your 'gang' with you, just in case.
We're careful, not stupid.
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>>3536854
Reasonable,* not stupid. Fucking autocorrect
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>>3536847
>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.

Gang wars later, I am more interested in what is wax putting on max
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>>3536847
>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
I personally want to take care of Tara and allow the gang war to naturally escalate. Bone-shanking when???
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>>3536834
Goddamnit. Shit always gotta start with these kids. Here's hoping Tara gets back like Caitlin with only minor alterations...

>>3536845
Holy shit we got a real big brain. Much more precise than I thought we would be.

>>3536847
>Approach white hair’s group and see if you can stop this from getting out of hand. They could be reasonable people same as you.
Nip this in the bud. Don't need tensions growing. The last thing we want is to be divided when we have a clear mutual enemy.
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>>3536847
>>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.

Unfortunately, James ain't a social being. Any diplomancer attempt is gonna end in failure.
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>>3536847
>>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
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>>3536847
>Approach white hair’s group and see if you can stop this from getting out of hand. They could be reasonable people same as you. Just make sure you bring a of members of your 'gang' with you, just in case.
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>>3536847
>Eat quickly and head to the class room early, show how eager you are to learn and try to impress Larson, maybe get some time to ask him questions.
Fuck it, the sooner we master our powers the sooner we can fix this shit.
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>>3536847
>Approach white hair’s group and see if you can stop this from getting out of hand. They could be reasonable people same as you.
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>>3536847
>>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
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>>3536847
>Approach white hair’s group and see if you can stop this from getting out of hand. They could be reasonable people same as you.
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>>3536847 #
>>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
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>>3536847
>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
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Hey Eig, are we stil really dense?
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>>3536847
>>Eat quickly and head to the class room early, show how eager you are to learn and try to impress Larson, maybe get some time to ask him questions.
Sensei!
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>>3536847
>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
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>>3536847
>>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
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>>3536847
>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
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>>3536847
>>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
Like anon said, we ain't a natural when it comes to diplomacy and this is more our style anyway.
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>>3536847
>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
Gonna suck for those other assholes when our group escapes.
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>>Approach white hair’s group and see if you can stop this from getting out of hand. They could be reasonable people same as you.
Something along the lines of "You think it's funny to harass a 14 year old girl and get her sent to get brainwashed?" to the skinhead to potentially decrease his standing in the group. Doubt everyone in the group's on board with that.
And then addressing the head honcho "Listen, I'm not going to say we all need to be friends, skip through fields and play paddycake, but we need to at least keep our noses clean before things get out of hand, yeah? Or we can keep escalating if you want - all the way up to when I show you all how I can make Killer Croc look like the Cookie Monster by comparison - then we can all get ourselves killed, fatherbox'd and Wax'd until we're nothing but lobotomized tools for HIVE. We're all in a terrible situation here, our best bet to making it with our minds reasonably intact is if we don't start petty crap. This isn't the time for this clique bullshit, this isn't high school, it's closer to a fucked up boot camp."

We should at least extend an olive branch to these guys, they can be a huge help in the future prison break we won't tell them about until it's actually time, but depending on how they react, I'd be okay with letting them sink or swim.
The Killer Croc bit is something of a bluff, but disregard the entire write-in if it's too out of character/cringe, just wanted to do more than just pick a prompt.
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>>3537166
Support
>The Killer Croc bit is something of a bluff.
Boy, we're a Kars/Mercer fusion, we can be way more powerful and scary than Croc by eating like three or four cows.
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>>3537170
Forgot to add the pic.
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>>3537170
I know, but where do you think we'll find them on short notice? Plus, we're still lacking practice being heug, so right now I feel this is more of an intimidation bluff than an actual promise.
Thanks for the support tho.
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>>3536847
>Stick to Tara during breakfast, see how she’s doing after yesterday and figure out if there were any adverse side effects from her time with the psychiatrist.
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>>3536874
We should delegate. Plant boy seems more social. It's not like we need to do all the diplomatic stuff.
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>>3537176
Oh i like that picture
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>>3537468
Whip fist best fist
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>>3537468
>>3537575
I neeeds it. Whip fist would give us some much needed range and maneuverability.

...Let's just not let Liz see us using it(assuming our little group sticks together long enough), we'd never see an end to the tentacle jokes!
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>>3537595
We could even cover the thing in microneedles, or maybe add a poison or toxin. I'm thinking bullet ant, or something paralytic.
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>>3537642
Microneedles in a tentacle? So a Jellyfish.

There is a jellyfish with a poison strong enough without being lethal, probably.
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>>3537642
Imagine being punted by somebody with a fist covered with a thousand bullet ant stingers.
>>3537595
>assuming our little group sticks together
Our little group will be the founding members of our Meta-Human Liberation Squad.
Also if our powers can work on other people then we can really fuck with Waller and the suicide squad by just knocking them out and removing their brain bombs.
That is if the Squad gets sent after us.
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>>3537595
Liz seeing us shapeshift our whole arm into a tentacle would lead to pranking (and Liz secret crush increasing), followed by some akward retort from the socially akward kid (who only knows a way to deal with a lewd joke: escalating even further) about the size of his tongue (which will increase Liz secret crush even more), which will then lead to Terra becoming jealous and then a catfight. Meanwhile, Ralph won't stop making thumbs up and grins to Mercer, who doesn't understand a thing and is busy trying to figure out where all this sudden infight comes from.
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>>3537675
>Our little group will be the founding members of our Meta-Human Liberation Squad.
Now I'm not against this route, I'm just gonna say that I don't really see James putting something like that together all that soon after escaping from HIVE. There's his family to considerassuming HIVE doesn't kill them off and I'd imagine James would like to finish his education.

>>3537691
>Liz secret crush
...I'm not seeing it to be honest, Liz strikes me as the kinda person who just REALLY likes to tease others.
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>>3537754
Education is simple considering we can go big brain mode, also it's kinda unneeded.
We should probably get ourselves an eidetic memory too.
As for our parents they'll probably be safer if we stay away from them.
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>>3537754
>meta human liberation squad
>not Meta Individuals Looking for Freedom
The way of the future is MILF
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>>3537822
Do you want us to be a laughingstock forever?
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>>3537822
I'm sorry to tell you anon, but a military group called MILF already exists.
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>>3537822
i can live with that name
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>>3537822
If you find yourself lost in the city under hostile conditions, remember your BDSM:

Bearings: Are you truly lost? Hopefully not. Any good scout should at least be able to examine their surroundings and observe identifying landmarks such as street signs and government buildings. Train and bus stations might even provide a map of the immediate area.

Direction: Do you have a particular destination in mind? If you can ascertain how to move yourself to your ultimate goal, and it seems feasible to do either on foot or preferably with public transportation - Remember your travel money! - then you should see about reaching there under your own power. Don’t forget to use your umbrella.

Shelter: If you can’t reach your intended destination, your next priority should be protection from the elements and personal security. If you’re expecting somebody, you shouldn’t move too far - if you’re at a train station, for instance, see if there’s a sitting room connected off the platform; these are designed for hapless passengers caught out in the rain like yourself.

Mr. Neighborhood Officer: If even basic shelter that makes you feel safe can’t be found, try determining the location of a police kiosk or station. Even if it turns out you aren’t allowed to stay the night there, your friendly neighborhood officers should be able to help out with your predicament. (You can even stop your search if you find a patrol car. If an officer isn’t already present within, they’re likely in a nearby eatery.)
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>They want to “liberate” metas
>They don’t want to strike out on their own, doing as they wish
>They don’t want to live according to their own code, fighting their own wars
Sad desu ne
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>>3537851
>he doesn't want to become Metahuman Big Boss.
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>>3537856
I believe in Armstrong-chan’s vision!
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>>3537887
Armstrong was a faggot.
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>>3537903
>t. Boss lackey
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>>3537754
See that's what I meant when taking about our Meta Utopia. It'd be a safe haven not only for Meta-Humans, but for their immidiate families seeking safety from the intolerant and the ignorant. As for education, loads of revolutionaries quit their education and current occupations to support their causes. Plus, online cpurses are a thing, and we can fake our identity!

>>3537856
>>3537851
>>3537887
>>3537903
>>3537917
Brothers, please! It is good to seek self reliance, and it is good too to seek liberation of our Meta- -Brothers, but who said these had to be mutually exclusive? Yes it is good to seek self reliance, but doesn't one need capital, and votes? Most importantly, do you not need a Dream? That dream coincides with the liberation of our brothers and sisters, liberating the whole so that we may ALL strike out on our collectivly, instead of simply aiding ourselves. The more support we garner, the greater our dream of a self reliant Meta-Race grows! And it all starts here, where we shall set ourselves free. Free from pain chips, free from the brainwashing, free from Box Control! Our minds free from their prisons! That is the haven we yearn for, no?
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Alright I'm back, let me tally the votes, see if anyone had left me any questions, and I'll get to writing.
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>>3537018

Yes, you are still dense.
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>>3538033
High Int, Low wisdom?
A classic.
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so how long until one of your giant updates?
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>>3538059

I mean I'm pretty sure anon was referring to the density of your musculature and bones, but that works to actually now that I think about it.

>>3538257

Working on it, give me a little bit longer. It was kind of tricky to decide what I wanted to do with this one.
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>>3538282
I am also dense, apparently.
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>>3537018
>>3538033
>>3538059
>>3538282
Wait
>James, a 14 year old, awkward nerd
>Kind of dense (in more ways that one)
>Acquires a group of friends/comrades/???
>Said group is mostly made up of girls
>James has already held hands with one of the girls in his group
Dear God
Is- is James a Harem Protagonist?!
SAY IT AIN'T SO
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>>3538311
>Talks with girl by writing on eachother's hand.
>Holds her hand when she's scared.
Tera best hand girl.
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>>3538282
Talking about density, how much biomass would we need for people to break their hands when they punch us?
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>>3538429
The abs update said we were so ripped it looked like steel cords running through our stomach. Rock hard, though I don't know how literal that was. I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to get to a density level that injures baseline humans if they punch us.
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>>3538429
I mean, IRL punching someone in the face is a good way of fracturing bones in your hand.

It mostly depends on how strong the person doing the punching is and how durable their bones are.
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>>3538606
That's why when you hit someone in the face you slap them.
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>>3538618
It's why when you hit someone in the face you shift your hand into a giant biometal hammer.
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>>3538625
Its why when you hit someone in the face you add as many tendons and muscles to your hand as possible without being obvious, and flick them in the forehead with the force of a truck hitting them.
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>>3538640
It's why when you want to hit someone in the face you instead lightly poke their forehead and infect them with a hyper rapidly multiplying cell designed to break down and convert organic matter into biomass
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>>3536847

As you get dressed you give serious consideration to approaching white hair’s group and trying to talk things out with them, maybe give the Vlatavan kid a piece of your mind while you are at it, but ultimately decide not to. You know you aren’t very good at that sort of thing, and you’re genre savvy enough to know that trying to talk things out with the rival group rarely ends with a positive outcome.

No, talking to them would likely prove futile. Instead you’re going to stay near Tara this morning and see how she’s doing after yesterday. See if there’s anything you can do for her, and check to see if there have been any big changes in her personality like there were with Caitlin when she got back from visiting the shrink.

With your mind made up you make your way to the cafeteria, pointedly ignoring the Gothamite and his cronies, and heading straight for your table. You and Ralph arrived before the girls today, so you pick at your food while you wait for them to arrive. When they do the other girls are arrayed around Tara like bodyguards. They move as a group, keeping the young blonde girl firmly in the center as they collect their food and make their way to the table. Tara is holding Caitlin's hand, and Liz's hand is on the blonde girls shoulder.

They sit down across from you and Ralph, and you can’t help but notice Tara’s eyes are a little bloodshot, as if she hadn’t been sleeping well or had been crying.

“Tara, are you alright?” You ask.

“Oh James yesterday it was horrible.” She says bitterly “ All day listening to that man talk about killing people, knowing they planned to make us kill people, and then that terrible boy. It was awful, absolutely awful.”

“And the Psychiatrist” She continues to rant “He would not listen to me when I tried to tell him what happened, he just insisted that I needed to learn to control my temper and that if I allowed the words of others to effect me I was giving them control over my actions. He was kindly yes, but he didn’t help at all. I left more frustrated then when I went in!”

Well, this is interesting. On the one hand Tara is still visibly upset, and that is bad, but on the other hand she is still visibly upset. Caitlin went to see the psychiatrist and came back with her grief and guilt over her trauma ripped out of her. Tara’s come back from seeing the same man, and yet distress hasn’t been removed. She’s even still clearly upset about the subject matter of her class, so they didn’t do any tinkering with her morals either.

That brings up questions. Did the psychiatrist choose not to alter her mental state? Was he not capable of doing so? Or are there simply alterations at work to subtle for you to detect their influence at this point?
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>>3538692

“Well I agree with the psychiatrist about one thing.” Ralph says to the side of you as you mull things over. “Trash like that ain’t worth worrying about. You pay him no mind darlin, it’s beneath you.”

“He is trash.” You agree with Ralph. “And he is beneath you Tara, just hold your head high if he does it again, and tell us so we can figure out a way to get back at him.”

“I think a few hundred Volts at a non lethal amperage would do the job” mutters Liz darkly.

“No” Says Caitlin “That would just get you punished. We’ll need to be more subtle than that.”

You spend the rest of breakfast bandying about suggestions for how to get even, and then it’s time to head for class. Once again the majority of your group heads outside, with Tara’s hand held in Caitlin’s comfortingly, and Liz plops down on a couch in the common area. You climb up the stairs and soon find yourself back the large open classroom with Larson.

He’s waiting for you by the door. He grins at you and then gestures around the room.

“Well kid” He says “what do you think?

It’s changed a lot. The floor is now spread with mats, and there are hurdles set up in a circular path across the far side, and some hoops resting along the wall. The computer he requested is tucked in a corner, along with a table full of odds and ends.

“It looks different.” You tell him honestly.

“We’re ready to really get going now kid.” He tells you, then he gestures over to a waiting cart full of food at the side. There’s a whole roasted hog on top of it. “Now eat what you need, and then shift into that taller body we worked on last time. We’re going to work be familiarizing you with it today.”

You nod and head over to the cart, gobbling down succulent pork as you slowly grow into your new larger form.

“Good” Larson says “But too slow, We’ll work on that.”

He has you walk around a bit, then he starts you on jogging. You stumble again at first, but after a while you’re doing pretty well. Then he starts you on the hurdles. They’re low hurdles, not the full height ones, but nevertheless you fall down. A lot. And are really grateful for the mats he’s spread out across the floor. Just as you’re starting to get the hang of it, having just completed the last hurdle of your most recent lap he shouts at you

“Shrink Kid!”

You stop and start shrinking. When you’re done packing yourself into your smaller body he nods at you and then shouts “Grow.”

He has you do this a dozen times while he keeps track of how long it takes with a stopwatch. Then he has you do a few laps while small, before making you grow again and start doing hurdles. Once again you stumble at first, but it takes you fewer laps than last time to get into the groove of things.
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>>3538706

He nods and then you repeat the exercise where you shrink and then grow, and shrink and then grow. You’re getting much faster at it, in your opinion, and you mention it to Larson.

“It’s good progress, but still too slow” He replies as he holds up the stopwatch. “It took you twelve seconds. Do you know how many times someone can hit you in twelve seconds? If you’re going to be able to shift in a fight we need to speed you up.”

So you keep going. Shrink, grow, run, jump as Larson bellows encouragement and orders at you from the sidelines. You go at it for the whole morning, whittling away at the food cart. Mid day comes and Larson tells you to stop.

“Go take a break kid” He says “We’ll work on the next thing when you get back.”

You nod to him and then step out into the hall. You decide to find a window and see if you can catch a glimpse of anyone else training out in the courtyard.

You find a window and look down. You don’t see any of your friends at first, but you do see a few students. The blonde girl and the Redhead who hang around white hair are the first two you notice. Blondie is flying, honest to goodness flying through the air. There’s a series of hoops that have been erected that kind of remind you of the Quidditch scenes from the Harry Potter movies that she’s looping through at speed. The red headed girl is throwing handfuls of fire at targets. Some are stationary, and some move, but she seems to be doing a good job of hitting even the mobile ones.

You see the silver haired girl next. You can’t see her too well, but it looks like shes...screaming? At a rapidly deforming block of stone. Odd. Still, not who you are looking for. You keep looking around. The next thing you notice is an large vehicle. A big heavy looking thing with treads instead of wheels. You’d call it a tank, but you don’t see a cannon.

Then, before your eyes, it suddenly lifts off of the ground and into the air in the space of a few seconds. You look down and see there’s someone underneath it. It takes you a moment to recognize who it is. She’s wearing a skin tight leotard rather than the boggy smock like garments you’ve gotten used to seeing her in, which throws you for a loop for a second, but you recognize the height and the hair quickly. It’s Caitlin. She stands there for a moment holding the vehicle over her head, and then she lowers it back down.

Damn, is that what she looked like out of the smocks? You knew she was tall and therefore had long legs, and you figured based on the way the smock hung about her that she was stacked but...damn. Also, did she just clean and jerk a fucking tank? You watch for a second longer and then realize you’re being creepy. Bad James, no oogling your friends.
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You remove your gaze from your friend and resume looking around, but can’t see anyone else from the window you are at. They must be in a different part of the courtyard, and Larson is probably waiting for you, don’t want to keep him waiting.

When you go back into the classroom Larson hands you a hand ball and then orders you go grow.

“This is yours now” He says “Take it with you, practice with it in your normal body as well as with your other forms. I’m going to show you an exercise for building hand eye coordination and hand speed that I learned from a boxer.”

“Follow me out into the hall” He says as he leads you through the doorway. He pulls out his own ball. “Now you’re going to bounce it off of the floor, and smack it back down with your hands, like this.”

He then demonstrates bouncing the ball back and forth between his hands and the floor.

“When you’re ready you move on to multiple balls” He says as he grabs two more and then starts bouncing all three at once, keeping control over all of them as his hands flash out and he sidesteps and hops around on his feet to keep smacking them down. Then he catches them all.

“Eventually you’ve move on to doing it off of a wall instead of the floor.” he says as he turns to face the wall and throws the balls at it, bouncing them between the wall and his hands

“It’ll be a while before you get to this point” He tells you as he grabs the balls out of the air, “But you’ll get there kid, I’m sure of it. For now, just start bouncing that once against the ground and listen, I’ve got some stuff to tell you.”

He waits until you’ve started bouncing the ball, which is surprisingly difficult in your larger form since you misjudge the distances, and then he starts speaking.

“So, there’s some stuff you’ll need to keep in mind kid, and the sooner you learn it the better.” He tells you as he leans against the wall and brings a hand up to his chin.
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>>3538718
>>3538718
GEN 13! FUCK, I should have known...
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>>3538725

“Meta’s with super strength will beat you in a contest of brute force.” He tells you with a rueful shake of his head “Every time. I learned that the hard way. Shifting will make you stronger and more durable than is humanly possible, particularly if you can control your density like I can, but those bastards cheat. I’ve done the math, it is literally biologically and psychically impossible what they do, but they do it anyway.”

“Unless you have a way of massively increasing your density don’t expect to be able to go toe to toe with them.” He tells you. “That being said, if they’re white hats it’s a bit easier. They aren’t trying to kill you, or hurt you too bad. Their morals won’t allow that, so they’ll pull their punches. It’s why superman doesn’t just reduce everyone he fights to red stains on the concrete. If it’s a super strong villain though, I recommend escaping kid. Can’t get paid if you’re dead and there will always be other opportunities, other jobs.”

“If you gotta fight them” He continues “Being tricky is the key to it. Poisons are great, changing your limbs mid strike to something more flexible to get around their defenses by striking from an angle they didn’t predict, growing some spikes at the opportune moment when they try to lay their hands on you. We’re versatile kid, it’s our greatest strength. Play to that, don’t get into a straight up slugging match.”

“Elementalists and blasters are irritating.” He says as he rubs his chin “But far from the worst thing to deal with. Thick hide, fur for the ice flingers, bit of regen, and you can deal with them. It’s painful, but frankly barbecuing something the size of an elephant that sloughs off damaged tissue and replaces it takes a lot more juice than all but the most powerful of them have.”

“Psychics are a bitch to fight.” He says with a grimace. “Unfortunately I’ve had more than my fair share of experience with fighting them. One in particular really. Mento. Nasty vindictive little shit.”

“Now some people” He continues as you keep bouncing the ball. It’s getting easier. “They’ll tell you you can’t do shit, that either you’ve got a psychic of your own to protect you or you’re out of luck.”

“Those people are idiots.” He snorts. “Don’t know what they are talking about. Let me tell you kid, it’s a lot more doable than people make it out to be.”
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>>3538732
>Unless you have a way of massively increasing your density
*laughs in bullshit superpower*
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>>3538732

“The first thing to understand” He says “Is that the mind actually adapts to it. The more contact you have with psychics the more used to the sensation of it your mind gets, it starts to recognize it, and prepare. I’ve build up a bit of resistance over the years. Hopefully you won’t have to do the same, but you never know.”

“The second thing” He tells you. “Is that in order to get anything deeper than a surface read, they have to really dig into you, and when that happens you will know about it. At that point it becomes a battle of wills. Their powers give them an edge, but if you are strong enough mentally you can resist. Against a weaker telepath you might even succeed.”

“But, and this is the most important thing, sometimes you don’t want to resist.” He tells you with a savage smirk. “Sounds crazy right kid? Here’s the thing. Telepaths, they aren’t all powerful, they don’t know everything. If you resist strongly they might break you trying to get at what they want because they know you are hiding something. If you put up a token resistance for them to ‘overcome’ and then offer up most of the information they want willingly while hiding the more important bits deep down, a good number of them will think they’ve won and move on. See, psionics tend to have pretty inflated egos. They can’t fathom the idea of some mind blind sack of meat getting the better of their superior brains.”

“Mento is one of the most powerful and versatile psionics on the planet” Larson tells you, still grinning that vicious little grin “And I still managed to get one over on his arrogant ass on more than one occasion with that little trick.”

He starts telling you stories after that, about the time he went toe to toe with a redheaded amazon, and how he almost broke into fort knox, and a lot of stories about the Doom Patrol. You listen with half an ear and focus on smacking the ball around, and the afternoon passes quickly.
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Larson's a cool dude.
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>>3538740

You migrate back into the training room as the end of the class day approaches and he has you do the shrinking and growing exercise again. You’re in the middle of shrinking back down when the intercom on the wall goes off.

He walks over it and presses the button before saying “Larson here, what is it.”

“Please inform your student that he has been scheduled to meet with Doctor Wax this evening and wait with him after your class has concluded” says the voice emanating from the speaker. “A member of the staff will be by to escort him to the Doctor’s office shortly.”

“Understood.” Larson says, then he turns to you and says “Well kid, looks like you’ve got an appointment with the shrink.”

He walks up over to you and puts a hand on your shoulder. “You did good today kid. Keep practicing that drill I showed you with the ball alright? And don’t forget those stories I told you. They may seem like the ramblings of an old man, but you never know when you’ll meet your own doom patrol, your own Mento, and if you learn from my experience you don’t have to figure it out for yourself. So, remember to keep what I’ve told you in mind kid.”

Then his face twitches a bit, just one side, his right eye to be specific.

...did he just wink at you?

He has you tuck into what’s left on the cart since “It doesn’t sound like they’re letting you go to dinner.” and before long a member of the staff shows up and tells you to follow him to the Doctor’s office.

What is your plan for your talk with the doctor?

>Talk to him concerning your worries about white hairs groupies

>Talk to him about your concerns about the curriculum

>Wait and see what he wants to talk to you about

>Stonewall him, you aren’t talking to him willingly.

>write in.
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>>3538748
>>Wait and see what he wants to talk to you about
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>>3538748
>Talk to him concerning your worries about white hairs groupies
Larson you madman.
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>>3538748
>>Wait and see what he wants to talk to you about
I guess we gotta try to Mento this fuck somehow
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>>3538748
>>Talk to him concerning your worries about white hairs groupies
A good enough, hmm, red herring I guess.
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Man that really got away from me, and I kept getting pulled away so it took way longer than it should have, but it's done. I've been looking forward to this bit for a while now.

Sadly, I don't know that I'll be doing any more tonight. Got my regular Tuesday evening appointment to take care of. We'll see how it goes. If I get done early we might meet Doctor Wax tonight, if not it'll be tomorrow.
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>>3538748
Also block our surface thoughts with Caitlin wearing the leotard. It's totally in line with a teenage boy so Wax shouldn't be suspicious.

She a cutie though.
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>>3538765
Agreed but I think we should think about random spiel of thoughts, wholly unconnected and irregular. That way he can't bring up our current problems.

>"Well the food here is rather dry compared to home, did I ever talk about home? It's pretty nice place, the local council erected a new town hall so the. Blah blah blah."

This would be a method of stonewalling him with random bits of information. Concentrate on brick walls and strange remarks.
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>>3538748
>>Talk to him concerning your worries about white hairs groupies
I didn't even think I could like AVM man more but by God this man just keeps getting cooler
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>>3538786
I'm suggesting this because if we think of brick walls then he will know that we know what his power is. Then he'll try to brainwash the others before we can talk to them again.
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>>3538765
Yeah that's probably our best bet.
Remember, we don't really want the telepath to lead the flow of conversation otherwise he can trick us into thinking something we shouldn't.
If we pick the subject and block our surface thoughts by remembering Leotard Caitlyn we might be ok.
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>>3538748
>>Talk to him concerning your worries about white hairs groupies
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How about this for the conversation >>3538786
This for the surface thoughts >>3538765
And maybe we try to have a deeper train of thought shouting "EAT HIS FACE" or something, as a mix of distraction and to discourage him probing deeper?
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>>3538791
We can always take a page from Atton "easy as Pazaak" Rand https://youtu.be/4mokhjML3C0?t=204 he knows what's up when mindfucking's afoot
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>>3538824
>"hmm maybe if I just probe a liiitle deepe- KILL DEVOUR MAIM ABSORB CONVERT KILL KILL KILL- ok nevermind then."
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>>3538838
Yep, also surface level: quiet and extremaly calm images, a forest, the aea, the night sky, etc.
If he dives deeper, make your brain flash incoherent scenes of carnage, murder and feast (as horrible as you can, let your basic insctints loose if needed) emotions like rage, pleasure or even more alien (take those feom your "reptile" and more primitive parts of the brain) vage enough to make them seem like your subconcious is doing simulations and developing a reward system for you eating humans. If he has some self preservation instinct, he'll get the fuck out of our mind.
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So if we copy the genetics of meat we devour maybe we could be, just a lite cannibal. like eating a meta's finger to copy their genes.
We don't have to go full cannibal. Maybe even asking for exotic meat sightly boosts transformation?
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>>3538855
Also, If he touches our skin while doing an intrusive psy scan, we could cause a "reflex" shapeshifting and create some spikes (and succ a little, get that psychic Dna dammit, maybe some bone marrow to clone, that way we get as much psy blood as we need), but only if we can make it pass as an accident.
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>>3538855
Supporting this version in particular. Best part is, there's a chance our subconscious is like that already, considering we probably have a primal side of some kind based on the steak incident.
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>>3538748
>Talk to him concerning your worries about white hairs groupies
Specifically while paying attention to how his telepathy feels inside you head on a cellular level.

I wonder if it would be possible to trap a telepath in a mental loop by rewiring our brain on the fly. Leaving Dr. Wax a vegetable seems like a fun idea.
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>>3538911
>"Doctor Wax, what's wrong?"
>"Flesh...consume...absorb...leotard..."
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>>3537822
We might be in trouble if HIVE ever puts together a team to find us.
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>>3538949
Gotta get that DNA somehow.
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>>3538918
>>3538911
>>3538900
>>3538855
>>3538838
My friends the answer is simple. Not inly shall we stealthily steal a sample of Dr. Wax's genetic material (maybe some blood through a prick during a hand shake?), rather than simply tuning out any psychic fuckery... we shall overwhelm him by forming several miniature brains! He will ne confused, and we shall trap him in a psychic feedback loop, because that's totally how brains work.

>>3538748
>Talk to him concerning your worries about white hairs groupies
You know what, I think we can deduce who that white haired bitch is. White hair, screaming at shit, ghostly appearance. My money's on Banshe.
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>>3538692
>he just insisted that I needed to learn to control my temper and that if I allowed the words of others to effect me I was giving them control over my actions.
>If I allowed the words of others to effect me I was giving them control over my actions
Did this fuckin' idiot just make Tara immune to his own powers?
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>>3539018
What if we form a gray mesh like Faraday cage around our skull inside our head, and have random thoughts and select memories run through that grey matter to act as shielding and distortion for deeper probes and digs.
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I feel like you guys are getting way ahead of yourselves and suggesting things that are way beyond our current abilities.

Like, we can barely make ourselves bigger and you guys want to entirely restructure our brain and shit.

Like I get it, I'm enthused about this quest too, but keep the conversation grounded. Yall out here talking about becoming the ultimate lifeform and creating a fucking country and shit.

Joe's 14 years old. When (or if) he escapes, he's probably going to try and get back to his family. Right now he's been practicing with his power for about 72 hours and can manage simple things. He can cannibalize unnecessary organs because doing so wont immediately kill him. That doesn't mean he can do crazy shit like restructure his brain or his circulatory system or fuck with critical organs like his heart yet.

Calm down, we'll get there eventually. But were not there yet.
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>>3539093
I have an idea why dont we have our flesh vibrate at the right frequency so we can open up a portal to the source wall and obtain godhood.
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On my way home, probably no update tonight. I need an ice bath and then I'm going to relax, so I don't think im going to be writing much.
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>>3539455
Very good quest, look forward to it later!
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>>3539018
>>3538911
>>3538821
>>3538790
>>3538762
>>3538754
>Wanting to openly discuss your issues with the brainwasher, which seems to be a requirement for him to brainwash.
Why?
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>>3538855
lets do somethings like this
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>>3539633
I think the reasoning is that it downplays how aware we are of what they are doing and shows that we're integrating into their system whether we are or not. Otherwise if we started shutting them out this early as if we are planning to escape then we would lose benefits down the line as they would be slower to trust us.
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>3539093
I agree.

Definitely think trying anything too complicated when we're still this inexperienced would reveal far more to Wax than it hides.
I think the most sensible strategy is to focus our conscious mind on the brewing conflict with the Gothamite fuck. We can talk openly with Wax about this and how he reacts may reveal some valuable info about the atmosphere HIVE wants to cultivate here. Spice up our concern for our friends with bikini-clad muscle girls and I think we have a winner.

Trying to hide some FEED HUNGRY CONSUME at the bottom of it all sounds reasonable too.

Anything more than that, stealing his genes, rewiring our nervous system just seems too risky, too likely to reveal just how powerful we actually are.
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>>3539633
My though process is that we have to discuss something with him - if we stonewall or just evade with nonsense then it will be obvious that's what we're doing.
If we throw something real at him then 1. we're making him less likely to dig in deep and 2. we're can potentially get some valuable info from Wax by how her reacts to the brewing conflict in the facility and what advice he gives us.
It's also an issue that doesn't really hurt us to share. Anyone viewing the cctv can see the cliques forming.
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>>3538748
>Wait and see what he wants to talk to you about
HE'S the one that scheduled US to come meet HIM. And going by what Caitlin and Tara have been telling us, I think it's unlikely that Wax would pull out all the stops straight out the gate with mind control.

At least I hope so. This might very well just be a standard "first-time meeting with the patient" session where Wax tries to get a feel for James' character so he can be more effective with his hypnosis in the future.
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>>3539093
>That doesn't mean he can do crazy shit like restructure his brain or his circulatory system or fuck with critical organs like his heart yet
We probably could actually, though there'd be a DC. Remember when we first experimented with the control implant? We instinctively have fine control over individual nerve endings and every other part of our body. I wouldn't recommend fucking with our brain, but I'm totally for cautiously improving our heart. Especially if we use medical texts as a guide.
>>3538824
I support this plan.
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>>3538748
>Talk to him concerning your worries about white hairs groupies

For one follow Larson instructions
>If he tries to reach ours deeper thoughts
>Create token resistance with Caitlin wearing the leotard
>Surface thoughts of worry about friends and difrent grup bullying them becouse of they looks and origin
>Surface thoughts of worry that this might escalat to violence
>Hide thoughts of our plan of escape like learning how to deal with electronic chip, finding were we are etc

Definitely don't create thoughts of murder, death, kill also eating people. Because it's retarded they will sedate us and then probe our mind even harder because there is something wrong with this kid.
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>>3539810
The murder thoughts are kind of what they want though.
They're villains after all.
But yeah lets hold off on that, too risky for now. Though good luck sedating somebody like us like we're a normal person.
Probably best to go with your plan.
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We should listen to AVM man warnings about psy metas, but block him ina "subtle" if he digs about the implant: If Wax tries to seek info about our thougts on the implant, let's show him our sensations the two times it has been activated (make it like the more intense memories we have about the implant are pure pain, show disgust and fear too).
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>>3539887
*in a subtle way
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>>3539810
But we're trying to AVOID brainwashing. If our thoughts are too peaceful they'll want to make us more aggressive, and if we have issues they'll try to 'fix ' it. Wouldn't it be best to pretend to have no conscious issues to avoid interference, and a violent subconscious to discourage further probing?
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Do you think we should listen to what our mentor said, put up a little resistance and then voluntarily give them the bare minimum?
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>>3539927
Yes. All this speculation is moot till we find out what the doctor wants to know. Once we find out we try the trick AVMM taught us. Give some info, keep the rest buried deeper, make wax think he’s found everything and not bother looking deeper. If that’s what wax is even doing. He may just want to do a meeting with every student.
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>>3539927
>>3539934
That's basically what we've been planning to do. We ramble about nothing important, then we have the image of caitlin at the front of our mind as what we're giving up. The violent stuff is to discourage going further or repeated mindreading, and make him think that's our subconcious so he stops looking.
Also, he might not even know we know what he can do. He might think we just see him as a regular therapist, so he'll underestimate us.
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What if Larson is part of a conspiracy to make us think we can fool the mind readers to keep us from doing anything drastic or to trick us into staying or falling for the brainwashing without us realizing?
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>>3539983
We're a 14 year old, they won't have organised a grand conspiracy solely for us.
It looks like Larson's just looking out for a fellow Shapeshifter.
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>>3539993
This. Larson pretty clearly doesn’t give a shit about the wider world of villainy. To him, all this is a job, so he’s probably just giving us the opportunity to avoid becoming the mind slave that everyone else seems to be headed towards.
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Alright I'm back. Give me a bit to read through everything and then I will start the write up.
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>Talk to him concerning your worries about white hairs groupies

Before we start stealth-sapping peoples powers we should probably practice it first. Maybe ask Tara or Ralph for some genetic material? It‘d still be creepy as fuck, but they are the least likely to make a huge deal about it.
If it’s going to fuck with Jims mind we need to find out and learn how to deal with it ASAP.
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>>3540063
>Larson pretty clearly doesn’t give a shit about the wider world of villainy.
Larson's the motherfucking animal-vegetable-mineral man, he has it made already.
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>>3540192
It would be easier to track down things people threw away, like tissues and shit. Nobody except Security would be suspicious, and there are ways of concealing the act.
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Alright, calling the vote.

Also, real quick, I need some rolls. Give me 4d6 please.
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Rolled 3, 5, 6, 4 = 18 (4d6)

>>3540203
Ah
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Rolled 3, 4, 6, 4 = 17 (4d6)

>>3540203
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Rolled 4, 3, 1, 3 = 11 (4d6)

>>3540203
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Rolled 5, 6, 6, 4 = 21 (4d6)

>>3540203
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Rolled 5, 6, 2, 2 = 15 (4d6)

>>3540206
>>3540205
>>3540204

Well, time to roll the dice.
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>>3540216
Yeah! Fuck you Wax!
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>>3540216
Was it best of 3? Worst of 3? Begrudging acceptance of 3?
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>>3540228

best of three as always.
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>>3540194

It will probably take more genetic material to pull it off. That and I doubt a cumrag will go down easily.

Just discovered this thread today, my hat is off to the Monitor and all you fine folk.
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>>3540237
My hat is off to you good anon, welcome to the anonommunity.
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>>3536729
At a guess, copy iron snail architecture with some stronger materials for the outer layer for durability, and an inner layer of limpet teeth material to hinder anyone who can get through the armor's attempts at ripping bits off us.
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>>3540228
>Worst of 3?
Jesus, that would be a harsh ass system.
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>>3540302
I still find bo3 d20 critfail override to be the most cancer system.
Especially when the players start rolling multiple 20s
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>>3540296
Maybe an Ironclad beetle? They're just about unkillable and they use normal chitin, just well arranged/constructed I think. You can run them over or stomp on them and they're fine. Maybe a Hero shrew? They're stomp proof as well, specifically because of their interlocking spine.
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>>3540316
Yknow, I’ve been reading lots of animal trivia thanks to this quest, and the more I read, the more excited I get.
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>>3540365
Welcome down the rabbit hole anon.
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>>3540365
I know how you feel. Factfiend has a whole video on that Beetle, it's great
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>>3540392
that's where I learned of it
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Does this quest have a regular schedule or Monitor posts when he has free time?
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>>3540479
when he has free time
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>>3540479

When I have free time, though I try to give advanced warning so anons know when to expect updates, and I do my best to make sure we get at least one or two updates a day if I can.

Unfortunately I haven't been doing too well the last few days. My apologies for the delay everyone. I'm working on the update, but I'm having a wee bit of writers block getting this to a point where I'm happy with it, and it's a pretty important section so I want to make sure it comes out right. Or close enough to right.
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>>3540491
>I'm having a wee bit of writers block
Just do what I do; insert an erotic or sexual scene.
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>>3540504
>with the rapey psychologist
Uh.
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>>3540514
See, I was alarmed at that train of thought myself.
But remember.

Leotard. Caitlin.

James probably STILL hasn't entirely forgotten that sight, if you know what I'm saying...
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>>3540519
Poor James, he needed to get Tar-ed, get powers that enhance his hormonal glands (among other things) and spend a few days trapped with a bunch of teenagers to realize girls around him are hot. HE'S SUCH A CUTE NERD, also a potential lovecraftian god, BUT SUCH A NERD ONE.
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>>3540491
so what are you stuck on? dont forget to save the stuff
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Fuck, I've been reading about Caitlin, Liz and Tara to see how they would be if Hive succeded. Tara is... well, canon Tara (treacherous bitch), Livewire is crazy as fuck, like really fucking nuts. Caitlin is a heroine in all her futures, but "punished" Fairchild is sad and has a lot of traumas (please, kill/eat Wax before he starts getting funny ideas and does something to her). I couldn't find who Ralph is so... I suppose some poison ivy but less environmental maniac and more Larson-like mentality?.
What do you guys think Hive Mercer would be like?
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>>3540656
I think Ralph is Ral Benem AKA Clorophyll Kid AKA Plant Lad.
Hive Mercer would probably be a shapeshifter infiltrator designed to replace a high value target.
He'd also undoubtedly have something along the lines of schizophrenia.
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>>3540656
Yeah, if we end up needing to eat Wax, lets undo his fuckery and then pretty much never use it.
I think Hive Mercer would basically be if mercer from prototype 2 was combined with hitman, and also an eldritch abomination/sarkic nightmare. And for hire.
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>>3540656
Probably like Prototype 2 Alex Mercer he starts spreading the virus creating more people like him and edgy as fuck
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Well I'm still not entirely happy with it, but eventually you just gotta shit or get off the pot.

Incoming.
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>>3540690
>Update
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>>3540690
Oh boy, here it comes
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>>3538748

Alright, you’re going to have to talk with him about something. You can’t just stonewall or ignore him. If you do that it might be suspicious, make him wonder what you are trying to hide. You can’t let him dictate the flow of the conversation either, if you do that he might steer it around to places you don’t want it to go.

It’s like inception, if you get told not to think of pink elephants, or escape attempts or something, then you’re going to think of them. So you have to be proactive, you’ve got to be the one putting thoughts into his mind.

You decide to talk to him about your concerns regarding the tensions with white hairs group, play it up a bit. He has to know about it, and it’s not like it’s actually a big deal or like you have anything to hide there, so its a safe thing to use to divert his attention and waste away the time you have to spend with him.

If all else fails you’ll just let your mind wander through innocuous nonsense. Or you could just imagine Caitlin in her leotard. You’re pretty sure you could happily let variants of that mental picture dominate your thoughts for a looong time, and it’s not like he’ll be suspicious if you do. Teenage boy and all, everyone knows they’re only after one thing.

You continue to plan as the guard leads you up the stairs and past a security door. The Doctors office is on the top floor of the building, along with several other offices. The guard gestures you inside and then closes the door behind you. It’s rather plush. Thick carpet, warm colors, a nice reclining couch across from the desk, and a big window showing the sunset. There’s also a little trolley next to the couch that has some food on it.

You give Wax points for style at least, his office was clearly designed to be both professional and inviting, and it does a decent job. It is kind of out of place compared to how spartan everything else around here has been though.

A man with messy blonde hair, who you can only assume is Doctor Wax, smiles at you from behind the desk.

“Joseph” He greets you warmly with a smile. “Please come in, feel free to make yourself comfortable on the couch, or I can ask them to bring a chair if you would prefer.”

“The couch is fine” You tell him as you lie down. Might as well be comfortable.

“Excellent.” He says as he pulls out a manila folder. “It’s a pleasure to meet you Joseph. My name is Doctor Wax. It’s my job to help you adjust to your life here. Do you have any questions you’d like to ask me about myself, or about our session, before we begin?”

“Not really.” You tell him “I do have some things I’d like to talk to you about if you don’t mind.”

“Of course” He tells you as he closes the file and steeples his fingers before leaning in attentively and gracing you with another smile. “I’m here for you Joseph. If there’s something you want to talk about, I’m all ears.”
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>>3540690
>INCOMING
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>>3540699

“So I don’t know if you know” You tell him, of course he knows but playing innocent rather than accusing them of watching your every move seems like a better opening move. “But there’s been some tension between me and my friends and another group of students, and I’m a little worried about that.”

“Really?” He asks with a look of concern. “Could you tell me about how it started, and why it worries you?”

“Well there’s this kid with white hair” You start “And he called me a freak and a monster, and one of my friends told him off, and ever since then we eat at opposite sides of the cafeteria and don’t talk much. One of my other friends said it reminded her of tensions between gangs, and yesterday one of the kids who hang out with frosty harassed my friend Tara.”

“I see” He tells you as he makes some notes on a pad. “And how do you feel about this.”

“Well I mean frosty is kind of an asshole.” You reply, just going with the first thing to come to mind. “we’re all Metas now, seems kind of hypocritical you know?”

“And why do you think he reacted like that?” Doctor Wax asks you?

“Because he’s a bigot or something I guess.” You tell the blonde man. Guy was an asshole, who cares why he was an asshole?

“Have you considered that he might have been afraid?” Doctor Wax asks you. “Not necessarily of you, but due to the change in his environment? Suddenly thrust into strange circumstances where he had little control it’s entirely possible that he was feeling rather helpless, and redirected his frustrations towards you.”

“That still doesn’t make it right to call someone a freak.” You tell him

“I’m not saying that it does” Doctor Wax replies calmly “I’m suggesting that you consider he might be going through a hard time as well, and that perhaps he may have acted out due to stress.”

“So what, I should forgive him?” You retort.

“You could.” He tells you. “I’m not here to make your choices for you Joseph, or tell you what to do. I’m here to help you. Sometimes I do that by providing a different point of view so you can consider the issue in a new way, but if it’s upsetting you I can stop.”

You’re starting to get why Tara was a bit frustrated with him telling her what to do.

“I think maybe we should.” You tell him.

“How about we relax a little then hmm?” Doctor Wax asks you. “We can talk again when you are feeling ready. You let me know when, even if it means we don't talk about it until our next session. In the meantime I’ll just put on some music and you can lie down while I do some paperwork. Alright?”

“Yeah that sounds fine.” You tell him. You could keep talking, but if he’s going to let you just sit there instead of interrogating you that works for you. You’ll just daydream about something for a bit so he can’t get anything useful if he’s trying to read your surface thoughts.
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You lie back and close your eyes as he turns on some soft classical, which latter gives way to a quiet synth number and then some smooth jazz. It’s a pretty varied playlist, but it’s all relaxing. Good background music.

You let your mind wander through unimportant things. You munch on the contents of the trolley next to your couch as you wonder about what they’re serving for dinner right now, which leads into wondering what your friends are doing. Hopefully they aren’t too worried.

Thinking of your friends makes you think of Caitlin, which then causes a segue to thinking about seeing Caitlin in that leotard this afternoon. Oh if only you’d been a bit closer, the view was great even at a distance, but imagine what it would have been like up close. Actually, that’s a good idea. Imagine what the view would have been like up close...Skin glistening with sweat, the cling of the fabric to her curves, the flush of exertion. One of her sweet smiles, just for you. Or maybe something closer to one of Liz’s smirks.

Oooh, you wonder how Liz would look in a swimsuit. Can she tan? Does she turn a darker blue if she does? Oooh tan lines. There’s just something erotic about a swimsuit shifting a bit and showing a sliver of pale skin, hinting at what’s hidden under the material….

You let your imagination run wild for a bit. You’re kinda surprised that Doctor Wax doesn’t try to talk to you or something, but he seems content to just putter away at his desk with his papers and wait for you to take the initiative, so you leave him be and enjoy your fantasies content in the knowledge he’s not going to get anything important out of this.

Before you know it it’s dark outside, it feels like it was minutes not the hours it must have been, and the Doctor turns off the music and wishes you a good night. A guard escorts you back to your room, and you plop down on your bed. Content in the knowledge that he couldn’t have gotten anything good off of you.

But that night, you dream. It’s dark, you can’t see anything, but you can hear voices.
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>>3540708

“You’re sure it’s safe to discuss this with him in the room.” Says the voice of the Headmistress. “Shouldn’t we take this elsewhere?”

“You’re the who told me to call you if there was even a hint of resistance in any of the other subjects, so I did. Kid’s minds pretty strong, but he didn’t last too long. I’m still working though, so no we can’t do this anywhere else.” Replies Wax’s voice. It’s a lot rougher than it had been when he was talking with you, there’s an edge to it. It also sounds a little strained.

“I need to be close to the subject while I'm doing this, so we aren't going anywhere. You’ve got nothing to worry about, he’s out like a light and I’ll be building false memories anyway. He won’t recall any of this, trust me. He’ll think he spent our whole session stewing in his hormones.”

“Forgive me if I am hesitant to take your word on the matter after your recent failure.” The voice of the Headmistress retorts.

“That wasn’t my fault.” He replies. “Your dossier said enhanced psychical capabilities. It didn’t say anything about latent psychic potential. I went in expecting a milk run and got dropped into the bush in Nam.”

“Don’t give me excuses” The woman's voice snaps “We had to pull Psimon off of assignment in Bialya to cover for your mistakes. Frankly the board is wondering why we are continuing to employ you rather than turning to an alternative.”

“Because you need me.” He replies. “I may not be as strong as the other psychics in your employ, but I’m a great deal more precise. You don’t use a sledgehammer to do surgery, you use a scalpel. Just look at what a hash Psimon made of things, anyone with half a brain could tell the subject’s behavior had been altered.”

“That may be true, but there are some reservations over the time frame” she replies. “There are others who could turn them to our use much faster.”

“And they’d be delivering you meat robots who would need constant supervision.” He snorts. “Look I can rewrite them directly if you want, but that only works as long as I’m in regular contact with them so I can renew it. I learned that the hard way. My new method is much better. Sure, it takes longer, but give me seven more months with them to slowly build up alternate memories and new latent personalities, and when the new personas are stable enough not to fall apart we flip the switch on graduation day and they’ll believe they came here to serve you willingly. That’s worth the wait and there's no one else who can deliver that like I can. After all, it’s why you hired me.”
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>>3540714

“Just make sure you hold up your end of the bargain.” She tells him “Now, about the matter we wanted you to look into, what do you have to report.”

“Kid’s got the location alright.” He says “But he knows he can’t escape without removing his implant and he doesn’t know how to do that. He isn’t going anywhere.”

“Larson assures me it would be futile for him to try in any case” She replies “Not without an intimate knowledge of his body down to the cellular level which he doesn’t have. Correct?”

“Right.” Says Wax. “He just uses mental pictures and his imagination. That’s it.”

“Then I think we are done here” Says the voice of the headmistress as the dream fades and you wake up.

You remember everything now. He invaded your mind while you were relaxed on the couch. Larson had been right, you had indeed known when he had forced his way into your mind .You’d struggled for a bit before letting him think he’d subdued you and offering up some edited information and hiding in your subconscious while doing your best to be quiet, and man had it paid off. Larson was right, psychics are arrogant assholes and you can beat them.


Now, do you want to

>Time skip to your first test day

>Play out both days of classes.


If you choose to time skip, you have two evenings that need to be filled do you

>Socialize on one or both

>Study on one or both

>Train on one or both

>Write in.
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>>3540670
So edgy he cut himself on his Fedora!

It was actually a Trilby!
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>>3540715
>>Play out both days of classes.

Played em like a damn fiddle. Nice work boys.
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i dont know if i want to timeskip
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>>3540715
>Time skip

>Train on both

Do we gain a set amount of experience when we train/study
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>>3540715
>Play out both days of classes.
Well well well, so that's what they're up to.
interesting.
Also
>"which he doesn't have."
Are you sure about that? Man Joseph really is some kind of latent genius.
The worst part is we can't tell our friends we know all of this.
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>>3540715
>Play out both days of classes.
Nice update monitor. Surprised we didn't go for the subconcious thing, but it was interesting to find out why caitlin was so obviously brainwashed. Now its just a question of which psychic to eat...
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>>3540715
>>Play out both days of classes.
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>>3540715
>>Play out both days of classes.
Larson would be proud. Good boost of morale too, to actually get one over on them, even if we're still trapped with no real way out.
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>>3540715
>>>Play out both days of classes.
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>>3540715
>Play out both days of classes.

>Study on one or both
Gotta get a book on psychology to help our friends, see if we can help them set up mental barriers.
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If we go for a hostile takeover I really really REALLY want to mimic their voices and reiterate
"Not without an intimate knowledge of his body down to the cellular level which he doesn’t have. Correct?”
“Right. He just uses mental pictures and his imagination. That’s it.”
to their faces. Real spooky shit.
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>>3540715
>>Play out both days of classes.
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>>3540734
Or if we somehow manage to sneak our way out, I'd love to leave that shit as a note or message somewhere.
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>>3540721

If you succeed in your training/study roll yes you do make a set amount of progress towards improving. You make a little more progress for a really good roll, and less progress for a bad one.


So, in other news my plans for the evening just got cancelled cause the other party is sick. Looks like I'm going to be around for a bit longer.

It also looks like we have a pretty clear consensus on the vote.

So that leads us to our new question.

Today is Acquisitions class do you

>Try to work with Tara and Roxy if you can

>Try to work with the other kids in your class

>Just focus on getting through the day and work with whoever.

>Write in.
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>>3540745
>>Try to work with Tara and Roxy if you can
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>>3540745
>>Try to work with Tara and Roxy if you can
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>>3540740
Really not feeling letting all our friends get brainwashed. It's hostile takeover or nothing at this point, just gotta findout if we can remove the implant from our friends too.
>>3540745
>Try to work with Tara and Roxy if you can
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>>3540745
>Try to work with Tara and Roxy if you can

>Write in.
Next time we are outside find some nice pretty rocks, and smuggle them back in to give to her.
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>>3540745
>try and work with tara and roxy if you can, and maybe include another classmate that isn't in a group yet.

>>3540734
Does our face morph to match their's while we do it for maximum spooky shit?
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>>3540755
Actually, lets see if we can get some rocks and "earth" for her to use, all she is doing in these classes is regular stuff without her powers. Lets have her carry some stones to help her in classes.

Bonus points for waiting for a "special moment", and giving her some pretty stones.
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>>3540745
>>Try to work with Tara and Roxy if you can
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>>3540764
Half our face is Wax's and the other half is the Bitch's. Just turn from one side to another as if having a conversation.
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>>3540773
oh that two face treatment i like it
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>>3540773
Bitches thought we were croc, turns out we were two-face all along
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>>3540767
Anon she's a princess, please stop trying to give her random rocks we found on the beach.
Later on we can just generate pearls to give to her if we feel so inclined.
>>3540764
Of course, they wanted to fuck with a bullshit shapeshifter they can suffer the mindfucking consequences.
Though we should sedate Wax or maybe keep him in pain so he can't do any psychic shit on us when we do our thing.
Appearing out of the shadows and taking a leg should do the trick.
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Gonna give it about fifteen minutes more while I go grab a bite from the kitchen since I'm not going out, and then I'll call the vote.
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>>3540715
>“Larson assures me it would be futile for him to try in any case”
If this was a lie on purpose then Larson is such a fucking bro
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>>3540745
>>Try to work with Tara and Roxy if you can
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>>3540745
I think i might be retarded cause I don't remember ever rolling during training
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Rolled 5, 3, 2 = 10 (3d6)

Alright, calling the vote. Doing some background processes, and then I'll do the next write up.
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>>3540838

You rolled during your solo study session. You've never really done any training for your powers on your own that I can recall.

Training with Larson is guaranteed success and requires no roll, at least for now. And yes, training days with Larson do work towards your progress with your powers.
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Ok thanks
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>>3540764
Nah, it's creepier when it's just their voices coming out of this young boy's face.
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>>3540884
and not the thing with two face the mutant cat did in the tmnt batman crossover?
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>>3540884
If we're going for maximum creep, what if we did the 'face matching the voice' thing, and at the end it returned to our normal face upside down, or a vortex of teeth and tendrils, or some messed up shit like that?
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>>3540967
Could always have our face shift from their face to reveal our skull for maximum spook.
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>>3540967
Do the same thing that the bear did annihilation?

https://youtu.be/fHc-O9MBGnw
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>>3540979
Maybe do that to the headbitchstress after eating Wax, and use his voice.
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>>3541019
Damn it man we aren't eating anyone, though if we take a leg I suppose we can use some blood or something
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>>3541039
If we're going to take a leg might as well go all in and eat the son of a bitch

I don't know how the bear does it in the movie obviously but I'm pretty sure it tears out the voice box and I think we would need to kill him for that
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Today is just not my day. I apologize everyone, but I'm hitting a wee bit of a wall, and unfortunately it's getting rather late.

I'm afraid there won't be anything until the morning. I'll sleep on it and hopefully something will come to me. If it doesn't we might get a bit of a place holder update just to get things going so we don't stall any more than we already have. I hope you'll find it in your hearts to forgive me.

>>3540979

That still creeps the shit out of me to this day. Movie was meh, but that fucking bear man, that fucking bear...
Topic for discussion, who do you think the acquisitions and interpersonal relations teachers are?
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>>3541169
Is the Acquisitions teacher Cheshire?
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>>3540967
Nah man, simpler is better. The less you show, the more active the imagination.

What you described is terrifying, not creepy. There's a difference.


Also, side note, I'd like to point out that Doctor Wax's advice regarding White Hair was actually very reasonable.
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>>3541169
I appreciate that you let us know that you're done for the night. Most QM's would just say fuck it and have left without warning.

And I felt what you wrote was fucking awesome.
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>>3541253
I agree. It was a very cool scene.
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>>3540782
Pearls aren't something she make make levitate and sling at enemies.
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>>3541169
That cheetah furry girl?
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>>3541039
If there's one guy worth eating it's Agent Wax.
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/agent-wax/4005-12008/
Nobody will miss him once the hypnosis wears off.
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>>3541169
No worries Eig, we'll see you when you wake up!
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>>3541353
What???
Pearls are organic and thus entirely within our power to create.
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>>3541484
As is ivory!
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>>3541513
We could make her a tiara out of pearl and ivory if we wanted to.
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>>3540745
>Try to work with Tara and Roxy if you can
>Try to work with the other kids in your class
Meta Human revolution SOON my Brothers!!
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>>3541240
>I'd like to point out that Doctor Wax's advice regarding White Hair was actually very reasonable
Yeah, he doesn't seem that bad actually! We should talk more with him.
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>>3541551
Shut up Wax and play some Pazaak.
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>>3541553
I don't know what you're talking about anon! You can trust me!
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>>3541563
Swith the face of the +1/-1 card, the totals are nine-ten. Swotch the +2/-2 cards, the totals are eight-eleven.
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>>3541599
what uno?
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So I have an idea on how to remove the implant. It’s connected to our spinal cord in our neck, right?

Well, a pretty common practice in surgery is to create arterial shunts. You sew an artery onto another and make a go-around for the blood while you work on whatever your doing.

So what if we do the same with our spinal cord. We grow a cord above and below the parts of the cord directly tied to the implant and connect it. Then we sever the cord connected to the implant and pull it out. I don’t know how intelligent or aware father box is, but this seems like the best way to remove the implant rather than going cell by cell nerve by nerve.
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>>3542017
This would probably leave us paralyzed till we fix the spine back to the original so we'll have to be proficient in both bone growing and do this overnight. The only problem being that I suspect they'll try reaching us as soon as we cut off and they probably double security over night.
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>>3542051
The hardest part is growing the actual cord since that shit is complicated and we have to be perfect. But it’s as simple as duplicating the cord we have now, extending it to go around our spine, and then connecting it together. Depending on how smart Father Box is, it might not even realize that it’s been severed from the network. Now we’d probably have a weird noticeable lump on our neck, and having a spinal cord outside of our actual spine would probably hurt like hell until we put it in its rightful place.

We probably can’t do it now, but with a bit more training, it’s totally possible.
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>>3542051
Would we be paralysed? I mean, we'd still have the connection through the father box until we sever it, which will only happen once we've made the spinal bypass. Then we reconnect our main spine and cannibalize the bypass.
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could we not learn how to control our body without using nerves and stuff?
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Been a while since Monitor posted.
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>>3542398
It's been less than 20 hours, calm thyself.
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>>3542398
Calm your tits anon. Eig just has a bit of writers block.
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>>3542398
>>3542432
>>3542459

I apologize, even if I don't have anything I should have at least been in communication. Breaking my own rules here.

Good news is I've had a flash of inspiration, and I'll have an update shortly. Bad news is I need a little time to make a few visuals for my idea.
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>>3542596
You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention
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>>3542017
Couldn't we turn the external parts of our spine into chitin or bone. That way we disconnect the implant. If we can't because they would instantly know we are free, separate a piece of our spine, severe it (but keep it alive) and cover the whole implant/spine combo with bone, mix it with rubber/non conductive materials in the parts that could potentially send impulses to our spine. If we do this, we avoid getting discovered (if the implant is also a tracking device, they'll think we still have it, but they won't know it's useless unless headmistress orders a punishment upon us and it fails, by the way, how good is Mercer at faking inmense pain?)
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>>3542596
Yay!
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>>3542617
If we're gonna be fucking with nerves, we should practice with a finger and not go straight to the spine.
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>>3542617
I think people need a reminder that implant has its own nervous system that linked itself to ours.
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>>3542626
It feeds from us and tracks our vitals/nervous impulses, that doesn't mean we can't connect it to a fleshbag we keep alive and copies our vitals, but is not directly linked to our nervous system, so we can either cut the connection completely or let only a small fraction of the pain be transmitted so we know when they are shocking us. We can fake suffering better than anyone (replicate the effect the implant has normally, just that we can stop it whenever we want).
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>>3540745

You keep pretty quiet at breakfast, you’ve got a lot to think about. The others ask you about your doctors appointment, you just tell them it was fine. That he was pretty chill and had decent taste in music for an old guy. You hadn’t missed much apparently, just Roxy schooling everyone at DDR.

After breakfast is over you head to Acquisitions with Roxy and Tara. You get there before the other students, which gives you a moment to observe the classroom. The projector screen isn’t set up today, and you don’t see as many materials off to the side as there had been. You wonder if that means you’re going to be spending more time outside today. You do notice that the teacher has a stack of papers on her desk though. Handouts?

After the whole class is there your teacher stands up. She’s wearing a dark navy blue dress today, and her raven hair is up in a bun rather than hanging loose around her pale shoulders.

“There has been a slight change in plans today children.” She tells you all as she grabs the stack of papers off of her desk. “Rather than continuing our lecture, we’re going to have a pop quiz and see how well you recall our lessons from last class on planning and executing a heist.”

“I have here in my hand a floor plan for a walled compound.” She tells you with a small smile. “You will be allowed one hour to study them and plan. When that hour is concluded you will be sent via boom tube to within a few hundred yards of the building you are to break into. Hidden somewhere inside the building will be a statuette, which will look like this.”

She holds up a picture that looks like those golden statues they hand out at the Oscars.

“Your objective is to retrieve the statuette and escape the building with it” She tells you all. “As this is your first exercise and I do not wish to be cruel, there will be no cameras in the building.”

You hear a sigh off to your side, though you aren’t sure which of your classmates it was.

“Do not however think that means this will be easy.” She tells you. “You will face opposition in the form of the students of the asset protection class, who will be having their own pop quiz. Namely, preventing you access to the building.”

“Now” She says “You will need to organize yourselves into two groups. Obviously the groups will be uneven, but the asset protection class will have uneven numbers as well, so whichever group has three members will simply be placed against the larger group from the asset protection class. You will be allowed use of your meta powers, as will they. Get to it children, your hours prep time is wasting.”
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You immediately look over at Roxy and Tara, and they smile at you as the three of you break off leaving the other two members of your class to work together. The teacher nods at your groups and then comes and delivers you the floor plans.

Looking at them you see that they are pretty basic. Three floors, wall around the ground floor, only one set of stairs between floors. No windows, and a decent number of rooms.

“Alright” Says Roxy “So how are we going to handle this.”

“We will first need to get past the wall and into the building.” Says Tara as she looks at the floor plan. “If we knew where it was we could try to go straight to it, but we do not. We will need to search the building.”

“What just go room to room?” Asks Roxy with a grimace “we’ll end up tangling with them for sure if we do that.”

“We still need to get into the building in the first place” you point out.

“I could make us a tunnel.” Says Tara “Or just open up a hole in the wall if it is concrete.”

“Walls ain’t exactly a problem for me.” Roxy says “I could probably go straight to the roof if I wanted, probably get both of you up to it too if I had to.”

Right...you never actually asked her what her powers were. You should probably do that. Apparently they let her get over walls. Flight maybe? That would be pretty cool.

“We should split up” Says Roxy as she looks at the floor plan. “One of us can distract the guards and draw them away while the other two look around for the statue.”

“What if they do not fall for this?” Asks Tara “and the two who search get caught by all three? Or if they do and one of us is caught alone by several of them? This is not a good idea.”

“Unless we want this to turn into a smash and grab we gotta have some way to draw them out” Roxy says to the other girl. “What do you want to bet they just hunker down around the objective and wait for us?”

“What do you think James” Tara asks you, and both of them turn to look at you expectantly.

What is your strategy?

>Roxy is right, if we’re going to get the objective we need to get them away from it. Splitting up and drawing them out will let us do that.

>Tara is right, we should stick together, we don’t want to fight them while outnumbered. I'm sure we can take them if it comes down to it.

>Write in.
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>>3542751
>You two should stay together while I draw them out, as you both are high-mobility and can likely get to the asset while I cannot
Time to use some BIG GUY INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
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>>3542751
>>You two should stay together while I draw them out, as you both are high-mobility and can likely get to the asset while I cannot.

Let's try to be the BIGGER MAN here
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>>3542751
>>Roxy is right, if we’re going to get the objective we need to get them away from it. Splitting up and drawing them out will let us do that.
Great, Battle Trial Arc!
Alright, Tara and Roxy are the powerhouses here so it'll be us who does the rogue work.
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>>3542758
Second this.
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>>3542751
>Roxy is right, if we’re going to get the objective we need to get them away from it. Splitting up and drawing them out will let us do that.
They don't know our numbers either, so we can make some noise to try and ensure more of them fall for it and get drawn out. Tara especially can make some holes, shoot rocks around or some shit, create multiple entrances.
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Rolled 1 (1d6)

>>3541356
>>3541175

I'm afraid that it's neither of these. Feel free to keep guessing though.

>>3541260
>>3541253

I'm glad to hear you liked it. I was rather worried about how it would be received to be honest.
Voting will be open for a bit while I attend to some things I need to get done this evening and then we'll get to the next post. Probably take me an hour, maybe a bit longer before I'm back and we can get the next write up done.

For the duration of this "pop quiz" write ups should be shorter and hopefully more frequent since this is going to be a pretty decision intensive thing. Less exposition more action and what do.

Pay no mind to the dice, it's just background processes. Randomizing things a bit you know?
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>>3542751
>Roxy is right, if we’re going to get the objective we need to get them away from it. Splitting up and drawing them out will let us do that
Should we be part of the distraction group or the sneaky group? I honestly don't know.
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>>3542751
Why don't we observe the building and one of the defenders before somehow luring one of them out, knocking them out and y'know, shape-shift?
Then we can distract their main group by pretending to be them while our other team members infiltrate the facility.
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>>3542751
>>You two should stay together while I draw them out, as you both are high-mobility and can likely get to the asset while I cannot
Supporting.
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Reminder that we have only one lesson in using our Big Guy form and one Interpersonal Relations lesson so we are pretty much the weakest of the 3.
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>>3542786
Which is also why James is the distraction. Roxy+Tara hopefully can beat any given other pair
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>>3542782
Remember when we talked with Larson about impersonation? It's hard to pull off without a lot of practice.
>>3542786
Shit, what are Roxy's powers again? I have trouble keeping track of characters.
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>>3542793
She's never said it and we've never asked. Apparently she can get on top of a three story building just fine, though.
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>>3542791
Then we are going to be the shortest lived distraction since the best we can do is punch or shank someone.
>>3542793
Gravity stuff.
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>>3542801
Keep in mind that our opponents may think we're some kind of psychotic maneater after watching us in the cafeteria. If we are the distraction, we just have to keep them busy, we don't necessarily have to win.
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>>3542799
>>3542801
I also vote we ask in character what her powers are then.
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>>3542808
I'm kinda surprised we'd have to actually vote for it. James himself had the thought, he just... didn't ask.
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>>3542751
>Ask them both about what their powers are. Find out their limitations. Can Tera make a tunnel quietly? What are their power's ranges etc. Can Roxy carry someone?

>Feel like an asshole cause you can't give the same amount of info back because you can't risk that info getting leaked to Wax and the Headmistress.
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Okay, I'm back, lets call the vote and get the next write up done so we can continue.

>>3542815

I honestly never meant for it to be something that needed to be voted for, and you'll be getting the down low here in the next update. I just realized it had never come up.
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>>3542751
>>3542758
This is the best option imo, we can easily take two metas at once and our powers don’t give us stealth(yet). We are best used as a distraction and meat shield. Seconding.
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>>3543155
Damn, I’m a retard. Disregard.
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>>3542234
>>3542330
Sorry I dipped for so long, but the main part of the spine in supporting the body and aiding it's ability to keep balance. By creating the separate spinal chords I'd imagine it would cause us to no longer be able to move our body in the same way and possibly leave us immobile because of how our body would then work off that new spine. Of course decision isEig's in the end. As for moving without nerves, that's practically impossible, even in comic book logic. Unless you mean we use a nerve cluster substitute like other things do, in which case it isn't impossible but should be incapable of working
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>>3542751

Honestly, Roxy is making a lot of sense, but you don’t want to agree with her outright. You would have been a lot more comfortable if they hadn’t turned to you as the tie breaker and if they both weren’t looking at you with big expectant eyes.


“I think that if we do have to split up, then it might be wise for you two to stick together since you’re both more mobile than I am.” You tell them slowly “But before we decide anything like that, I think we should probably talk a bit about our powers so that when we make the decision, we can do so with all the relevant information.”

“Makes sense” Says Roxy “I mess with gravity. Here, watch”

She grabs a pencil and hold it up in the air and then lets go, however the pencil doesn’t drop. It hovers in mid air for a few seconds, and then her brows furrow and it spikes down into the ground as if it had been shot out of a cannon before coming to a stop less than an inch before slamming into the floor. It doesn’t survive the sudden declaration however, and breaks into a cloud of floating wood scraps and graphite bits.

“They’ve had me practicing with weights to establish my limits.” She tells you. “I can affect a few hundred pounds at the moment. No G’s, extra G’s, turning the dial down to zero or cranking it up to 11 is easy. Still working on trying to reverse gravity though. I can’t lift more than a few dozen pounds with my mind, but if I turn the gravity off for half a ton and then just push it so that momentum carries it into the air it works. No idea why. I can get myself airborne though by jumping while weightless, and I can affect other people so I could make you two weightless as well I think.”

“I can manipulate the earth.” Says Tara to the other girl “Including concrete. The first day they set me to moving stones. The larger they are the slower they are when I move them and the more effort it takes, but we stopped before finding an upper limit to how much I could move. My teacher said that if it could not be moved quickly that meant it was not practical to move. Yesterday they had me working on tunnels, and going through walls. I can do it, but it was not quiet enough to satisfy my teacher. There is very little sound, but I cause too many vibrations.”

“What about you James.” Roxy asks.

“Well I can make claws” You say slowly as you consider what you can and can’t tell them and what will be relevant for what you are doing. “And I can stick to walls, enhance my musculature some, and I can repair damaged tissue. Oh, and my teacher taught me how to make myself pretty big. I can get to about seven feet tall and bulk up quite a bit.”

You feel kinda self conscious comparing your powers to theirs, it’s true that you haven’t learned too much yet, and when you compare growing to seven foot or sprouting some claws to gravity manipulation or moving boulders it doesn’t seem like to much.
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>>3543220

“Honestly I know I can do more, I can shift my body at will really, but I don’t quite know how yet. My teacher hasn’t had time to show me much. I’m sorry I won’t be much help” You mumble.

“Hey that sounds impressive to me” Says Roxy as she smacks you lightly on the shoulder “Don’t go emo on us, you’ve got a list instead of being a one trick pony, and you’ll only get better.”

“That is right.” Says Tara with a smile “Your powers are very good. I am very glad to have you on our team, you will be a big help.”

“Thanks girls” you say with a smile. Having friends really is quite nice.“I appreciate it.”

“Right so we’ve talked over powers a bit” Says Roxy “Now what?”

“I think we stick together” You say “At least at first, and we see what we are up against. Then, we split depending on how we want to handle things. Either one of you distracts them and I go with the other, or I distract them while you girls search for the objective. We’ll play the exact composition by ear when we get there, but I think that splitting up will be the best way to go probably.”

You discuss different combinations after that. If Tara and Roxy go together then Roxy can lift them to the roof and Tara can get them though the ceiling while you run interference up front. If you and Tara go together she can tunnel you under them and into the building while Roxy drops large objects from on high or something. If it’s you and Roxy then Tara can throw around boulders while Roxy gets you over the wall and you sneak in the front door. If there are windows it will be easier for Roxy to get in on an upper floor, but you don’t see any in the blueprints so you don’t plan around it.

Honestly you really wish you knew who you were going up against and what their plans were. Your teacher had drilled into you the importance of knowing the guard rotation and what to expect last class, and you can see why. Going in blind sucks. You can barely plan at all. You'd bet a hundred dollars that she's going to point that out to you all when this is over. Or you would, if you had a hundred dollars.

Eventually your hour ends, and the teacher has the three of you gather at the front of the room.

“I hope you are prepared. You will be dropped in at the edge of the area. Simply move further in to locate the facility that will house your objective.” She tells you then she presses a button on the speaker built into the wall. “Send them to area B”

“Understood” replies the voice over the intercom, and then there’s a loud booming sound and a bright golden light. You feel the sensation of falling for a moment, before finding yourself at the edge of a ghost town.
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>>3543230

The buildings are old, rundown, ugly things. A lot of them are boarded up, and it’s warmer and muggier here than it had been at the facility. You’ve clearly been transported somewhere else entirely. You are also clearly being watched. There’s elevated cameras on the light poles and buildings.

You look at the girls and then hold a finger up to your lips to shush them, and they both nod. Then you sneak through the buildings, trying to stay out of sight as best you can, until you see the wall.

There’s a large blocky concrete structure ringed by a concrete wall about ten feet high sitting in a cleared section of the old ghost town that had clearly been knocked down to make room for it’s construction. There’s about twenty feet of open ground between the wall and the nearest building. Peeking out from behind the cover you are in you see something circling above the building. It’s the blonde girl who hangs around with White Hair.

“We need to get past her” You murmur to the girls.

“I could slap a few G’s on her” offers Roxy “knock the bitch right out of the sky.”

She’s glaring up at the blonde. She seems a lot more hostile than usual.

“We don’t have to hurt her, I could open up a tunnel” Tara adds quietly “two of us could pass underneath unnoticed while the other catches her attention.”


How do you respond.

>Tara open up that tunnel and take Roxy, I’ll draw their attention and make sure they don’t notice you.

>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall

>Roxy catch her attention, but let’s not hurt her. While you’re keeping their eyes on you me and Tara will go in from underground

>Tara see if you can get their attention and me and Roxy will make for the wall. If blondie notices us we’ll just slap her out of the sky then.

>Write in.
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>>3543234
>>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
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>>3543234
>>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
Tara's tunneling being very noticeable feels like it might be best if she's the distraction instead. Cause huge vibrations to send enemies her way, she can trap them in little spaces between the earth.
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>>3543234
>>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
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>>3543234
>>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
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>>3542626
So basically we just build a little neurologically locked off teratoma for that implant to do its dirt with.
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>>3543234
We need to find out what flying girl's teammates are.

Terra, hurl some small to medium sized rocks at the wall from a distance Try to draw them out. Don't engage, use a tunnel to hide or get away if you can.
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>>3543234
>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
Take out the flier first, remove their direct line of sight
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>>3543234
>>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
Nosedive into the concrete incoming, thankfully fatherboxes have advanced healing beam tech.
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>>3543234
>>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
Here's hoping she's not some sort of illusion or construct.
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>>3543234
>>>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
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>>3543276

I think I could happily have gone my whole life without seeing that.

Right, well I will see you all in the morning for the next update. And I promise not to just disappear for most of the day. Even If I can't post I will at least communicate.
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>>3543276
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
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Okay, so, I had a thought.

Is Terra's geokinesis limited by weight, or mass?

Because if we can get her moving larger rocks faster by having Roxy tag them first, that's going to give us some more flexibility.
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>>3543311
The cutest little thing you ever saw. Look, it's so happy to be ali-- to exist!
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>>3543311
>Google Teratoma
>a tumor composed of tissues not normally present at the site (the site being typically in the gonads).

Well, that's just a whole new dimension to the nightmare.
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>>3543276
>>3543509
KILL IT WITH FIRE

>>3542773
Is the Acquisitions teacher Madame Rogue?
...No idea who the Interpesonal Relations teacher could be.
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>>3543460
Yep, I think she could throw weightless rocks is a good combo, but the real deal is Tara levitating rocks really high and then Roxie adding as much gravity as she can (a big one to create a real meteor strike and hit a packed group of enemies or a really hard one, a rain of small rocks for multiple targets), just remember we are fighting our fellow metahuman slaves, so just scaring the fuck out of them.
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>>3543276
Pretty nightmarish but this led to some interesting reading. Apparently, sometimes they can form into what's basically a fucking fetus. Inside your body.
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>>3543668
Homonculus route is a go.
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>>3543668
>Apparently, sometimes they can form into what's basically a fucking fetus. Inside your body.
Oh god why

Nature why do you do this to us
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>>3543671
Cancerman route is a go
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>>3543674
Genius! This can be our villain name! Sneak up on heroes, slap them on the ass and give them stage 4 ass cancer. Imagine how butthurt the League will be.
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>>3543684
They'll be so ass-ravaged it would be a shitstorm of epic proportions. Every villain will laughter and they'll be the butt of the joke, and we'll collect the booty from their headquarters.
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>>3543668
To add on to this, teratoma means "monsterous tumor", aptly named as we can see. They are capable of forming eyes, teeth, hair, various glands, etc and are overall terrifying to look at.
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>>3543689
Oh also cant forget muscles, bones, parts of a nervous system, and some have even been found to half brain like structures with it's very own not!skull. So that'll haunt my dreams for a while....
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>>3543690
That's all extremely rare though. The most exciting you're likely to get is a little fleshbag of teeth or matted hair.

Though I guess even those are pretty creepy - I heard about some woman who only found out about the teratoma in her lungs when it burst and she started coughing teeth.
Might just be an urban legend though
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>>3543689
>>3543690
I read one case of a teratoma forming brain tissue, which tricked the immune system into attacking the patient's normal brain as well. Thank you nature, very cool!
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>>3543695
>The most exciting you're likely to get is a little fleshbag of teeth or matted hair
>Though I guess even those are pretty creepy
Gee, you think?
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>>3543690
So what you're saying is we can produce homonculi by overseeing this process ourselves and making it an actual person?
Sweet.
>friends trying to cheer us up despite our power probably being the best of everyone's
Damn psychics making us downplay ourselves.
If we do escape this place with our group our Super Team will be pretty versatile at least.
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>>3543234
>>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
Can we do this harmlessly though?
I'm thinking have Tara soften the ground on impact and then cement it around her. That way we've pretty much completely neutralised an enemy without doing her any serious injury.
This whole sudden popquiz is probably some idea dreamt up by Wax in relation to the conflict between our groups and I feel like going for real damage straight off the bat would play right into his hands (and solidify any enmity Whitehair's group might have for us - especially if this flying sucker breaks her arm on landing).
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>>3543703
I'll support seeing if Tara can lighten the fall
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>>3543699
I mean, at that point it wouldn't even be a teratoma, you'd straight up be budding mutant fetuses.
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>>3543699
We could produce clones of Mercer, we just need psy powers to create a hivemind, just imagine our endgame's epilogue: Martian/Darkseid/Kriptonian/Doomsday/Whatever bullshit hybrid hivemind, also with complete control over it's bodies to a genetic level, maybe more. Oh, and level one thousand bazillions intellect.
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Some ideas for things we could actually do in the early future, even now, without raising red flags everywhere in HIVE.
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Imagine the red parts are scales and bone, create a plate that covers your eyes like a visor and compensate with smell and echolocation. It could work as a cheap armour mode for Big Guy Form.
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>>3543740
>turn into Doomsday lookalike and trigger the entire league
let's not do that
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>>3543740
I'll be honest here, this guy looks a lot like Celtic Doomsday
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>>3543744
Tell them sharp boneplates are optimal as armour because they allow both for offense and defense, also that they are cheaper to regrow because you don't need to shape the bone/chitin, just let it grow wild and exert a little control to ensure it's not disfunctional. Also eyes are weak points and Doomsday looks cool.
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>>3543259
>>3543703
Supporting this too. I doubt staff wants us to go apeshit on each other anyway, even if they can heal that shit immediately.
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>>3543234
>Roxy ground her, if we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage and we can creep up to the wall
Let's do this.
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>>3543703
Supporting this. It also stops us from cutting off the chances of recruitment from whitehairs side, and lets us give both of them practice with controlling their power.
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>>3543762
>>3543740
Supporting this eventually as the big guy. Even better if a justice league member hears us say something about doom or judgement day offhandedly to a hive agent. I'm up for being suspicious as fuck, even if we're the good guy
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>>3543799
>"I want increased surveillance."
But why tho
Has Doomsday even shown up in the YJ universe?
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>>3543234
Ground her
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>>3543806
>Has Doomsday even shown up in the YJ universe?
Agent Wax and Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man have never shown up in YJ, so I don't think that's a problem.
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>>3543963
Yeah but Doomsday is a real special case considering just how bad things get with him around, the whole reason he's called Doonsday is because of the media.
He'd be mentioned and shit.
If he's shown up at all we'd probably know IC.
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>>3543968
>If he's shown up at all we'd probably know IC.
True, unless he's been gone for a long time, longer than 14 years...
Maybe we'll find him.
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>>3543979
Nah, even then everyone would know about it.
People didn't just forget JFK died.
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Switching to support grounding her without hurting her.
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Alright, calling the vote. Lets see what we've got.
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Okay, looks like we have a pretty clear consensus.

If any one is around could they give me 4d6 please?
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Rolled 6, 1, 4, 6 = 17 (4d6)

>>3544154
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>>3543986
JFK didn't die, he went into a healing coma.
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Rolled 4, 1, 3, 4 = 12 (4d6)

>>3544154
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Rolled 6, 1, 3, 1 = 11 (4d6)

>>3544154
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Rolled 4, 3, 4, 3 = 14 (4d6)

>>3544154
BRUTALITY
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Rolled 6, 4, 2, 1 = 13 (4d6)

>>3544155
>>3544160
>>3544161
>>3544163

lets see what happens then.
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>>3543661
So thats RL mpreg makes more sense then butt babies
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>>3543664

That's an excellent guess actually, but I'm afraid not.
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>>3543234

“Roxy ground her” whispers James as he peaks out the window “If we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage, and we can creep up to the wall. Just...try not to hurt her too bad okay?”

I nod back to him and move up to peek out at blondie. I’ll need to see her in order to pull her out of the sky.

James wants me to be gentle about it. I...don’t know if I can do that. Don’t know if I want to do that to be honest. The blonde bitch is pretty high up on my shit list at the moment. I’ve been looking for a way to get back at her ever since I overheard her and fire-crotch harassing Caitlin in the showers.

Cat told me not to worry about it, told me not to tell the others. It happens she says, I’ll deal with it she says, it’s just words she says, but I ain’t blind I can see how what they said hurt her. After all my rooms next to hers, and even if she won’t cry in front of me I could hear her sobbing through the walls. Cat, James, they’re nice people, good people. Probably came from good suburban families, learned to turn the other cheek and ‘be the bigger person’. I’m not like that. In the neighborhoods I grew up in you let someone fuck with you, and you were their bitch until they got bored.

I have no intention of being anyone's bitch ever again, and I ain’t letting that happen to any of my crew either. We can’t start shit ordinarily cause the teachers would come down on us like a sack of bricks, but the teachers set this up didn’t they? This is a golden opportunity to put the fear of god in blondie, and I don’t think I can pass up on it. James and Tara will forgive me, they’re good like that. It’s not like I’m going to go out of my way to hurt her, I’m just not going to go out of my way not to either. And if I seek her out when this is done to tell her to lay off or next time I’ll double the number of G’s, well the others don’t need to know about that.

I don’t think reaching for my power is ever going to be a comfortable thing. I have to go in after it, through this little door in the back of my mind and pull it out. I have to focus and grab hold of it, and I can’t let go. If I let go then I loose control and it doesn’t work. Takes a lot of concentration, makes my head feel like it’s being squeezed in a vice, but I deal with it.

When I’m holding the power the world looks different. I can see things. Everything's connected by luminescent spiderwebs, a mass of strands looping over and around everything holding it all together that only I can see. I grab a handful of strands with my mind, about enough for three or four G’s I think, and I wrap them around the flying bitch and jerk on em.

I can’t help but grin a little when I hear her scream. Paybacks a bitch, ain’t it blondie?
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>>3544332

“Roxy ground her” you whisper to the girl with the purple streaks in her hair as you peek out of the window up at the flying blonde. “If we put her out of commission it’ll give us an advantage, and we can creep up to the wall. Just...try not to hurt her too bad okay?”

It’s just a training exercise after all. There’s no need to turn this ugly, and you can’t help but think a bit about what Wax had said. Brainwashing asshole he may be, but he had a point. White hair and his group are victims just like you are. They aren’t your enemies. Not really. The HIVE are.

Roxy nods to you and then she creeps up next to you at the window and looks out at the blonde. She watches blondie for a little bit, and then you can see her brow furrow and her eyes narrow. The tendons on her neck start to stand out and her hands grip the edge of the window with white knuckles, it looks like she’s straining against something.

You hear a piercing shriek from outside and look away from Roxy back up at the blonde. She’s plummeting towards the ground screaming at the top of her lungs. It isn’t a drop straight down, it’s kind of a very fast dive at an angle. It’s pretty obvious she’s fighting to stay airborne, but the pull of the now stronger gravitational forces on her body is too much for her to resist. She arcs over the wall and then gives up on trying to fly and curls herself defensively into a ball before she leaves your line of sight. You hear a crash, it sounds like she smashed into one of the buildings.

“I thought you were going to try not to hurt her badly” Whispers Tara to Roxy.

“I was” The other girl hisses back. “I had to put on enough G’s to bring her down or it would have been pointless, but I didn’t put on anywhere near as many as I could have. She’ll be fine.”

“We need to move” You say. You can hear a male voice shouting from inside the compound. Your first strike wasn’t exactly subtle, if you’re going to take advantage of the lack of over-watch you need to do it now. This conversation can wait. “Get to the wall, go go”

You all break cover and sprint for the wall, crossing the open ground in seconds and getting your backs up against the concrete so that someone looking over the wall would have a hard time seeing you unless they looks straight down.

“What now” Whispers Roxy.

Alright, you’ve taken one of them out, at least for now. Assuming their group is the same size as yours, which unfortunately you have no guarantee of, then there should be two left.

What do you do?

>Tara, go draw their attention, Roxy lets go over the wall.

>Roxy, go draw attention, Tara lets go under the wall.

>I’ll go draw attention, you girls get around the wall and into the building.

>Forget splitting up, lets just stick together until we run into them.

>Write in.
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>>3544340
>Roxy, go draw attention, Tara lets go under the wall.
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>>3544340
>>Tara, go draw their attention, Roxy lets go over the wall.
I'll stick to my previous reasoning that Tara can make much more noise and handle herself much better than either of us.
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>>3544358
Support
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>>3544340
>>I’ll go draw attention, you girls get around the wall and into the building.
James doesn't exactly have building-searching powers. All we have to do is distract, which we did pretty well against Mammoth. And if the guards split off to go find Tara+Roxy, then they're going to be facing off against a pretty strong duo.
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>>3544340
>Forget splitting up, lets just stick together until we run into them.
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>>3544370
Actually, switching to this from >>3544357
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>>3544370
This, and we need combat experience.
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>>3544340
>I’ll go draw attention, you girls get around the wall and into the building.

We are not sneaky.
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>>3544340
>>3544370
I'll switch too, we could use the experience
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We talked about this, Mercer is the distraction, Tara and Roxy seek and grab, also sneak attack if we are in trouble.
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Right, well, I've got some work to do. I'll be back in about 4ish hours. So, alternate POV yea or nay? I thought it might be fun to do every now and again, but if you all dislike it I can refrain from doing so in the future.

>>3544399

My apologies if it feels like I am repeated a decision that had already been made. I was under the impression no clear conclusion on what to do had been reached.
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>>3544402
I like it, helps flesh out characters more.

>>3544399
I'm pretty sure that this anon is just trying to rally votes, not criticize you.
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>>3544402
I liked it. The sudden tone shift confused me at first, but then I read a bit and realized what was happening.

It's a great way of introducing more information to the readers (like poor Cait getting bullied) while simultaneously expanding the character's personality.
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>>3544402
>>3544410
That's right, It's not a critic, I'm just surprised that when we planned this mission there was a lot of people supporting Mercer (the shapeshifter with regeneration) to be the distraction and let Tara and Roxy (they are powerful but this early in their development are glass cannons) be the ones to infiltrate and steal and maybe act as a back up and strike by surprise so we can escape.
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>>3544340
>Forget splitting up, lets just stick together until we run into them
As the one who argued first in favor of James being the distraction, now I’d prefer to play the numbers game with blondie out of commission

>>3544402
Liked it, only complaint would be that it’s kind of weird when half of the update is it. But in the situation, it was perfect
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>>3544370
Sure, supporting.
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>>3544402
Now and again is fine, but I would personally prefer if the vast majority of the quest happened from Jame's perspective. In any narrative, tightness and economy is key, and one major aspect of that is keeping the story focused on a single character. Plot developments, other characters' development, etc. should ideally happen through the eyes of the main character.

>>3544370
Supporting this.
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>>3544340
Tara and Roxy together while we distract.
See if Roxy can flaot big chunks of concrete and have Tara lauch them at any that find them.
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>>3544340
>>I’ll go draw attention, you girls get around the wall and into the building.
Big guy + adrenaline = Shaq on meth
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>>3544402
I'm fine with it, just say at the top if there's a POV switch and with who so there isn't any confusion.
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Be back shortly, maybe 20 minutes or so and then I'll call the vote and start the next update.
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>>3545051
...I should be going to sleep. I really should.
But screw it, I can push 20 mins or so, it'll be worth it.
Bloody damn timezones I swear.
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>>3545085
You too huh? Welcome to brit/eurofag territory anon. Forget about good nights of sleep. Here we party until 5am.
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>>3545091
>*Cries in EEST/UTC+3*
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>>3545085
>>3545091

Anons I'm calling the vote now, walking through my front door as we speak, but I'm going to need some time to type before the update goes up.

I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression, but while I'm starting now, the update won't be posted for however long it takes me to type it.

I would strongly suggest getting some sleep. I'd feel bad keeping you up. I'm sorry for any inconvenience due to differences in time zone, but I'm very grateful for your participation.
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>>3545106

But if you wanna contribute before you go rest, could you roll me 4d6?
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Rolled 1, 6, 2, 2 = 11 (4d6)

>>3545110
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Rolled 5, 4, 2, 2 = 13 (4d6)

>>3545110
Awesome! Great to see you Eig!
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Rolled 4, 5, 4, 6 = 19 (4d6)

>>3545110
Euroboys roll out
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>>3545106
Eurofag here.

You are not my dad. Can't tell me to go to sleep.
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Rolled 3, 1, 2, 6 = 12 (4d6)

>>3545123
Niiiicceee, we'll have them chase us all over the place!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg


>>3545106
>I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression, but while I'm starting now, the update won't be posted for however long it takes me to type it.
Oh, oof. That's right, I forgot to take the actual writing into account.
Well, hitting the hay then. Thanks for running E-16!
Anons, bring that trophy home!

> I'd feel bad keeping you up. I'm sorry for any inconvenience due to differences in time zone, but I'm very grateful for your participation.
Oh it's fine E-16, it's our choice to ignore healthy/sensible sleeping schedules! Not like you can do anything about the time difference in the first place. Besides, I enjoy your writing so I don't mind putting off my sleeping every now and then!
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Wait.. Who here isn't a eurofag? I'm starting to think we all might be..
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Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>3545118
>>3545119
>>3545123

Thank you kindly.

>>3545142

Hey man, I'm not trying to be anyone's father figure, just saying I don't think its worth it is all. Sleep is a wonderful thing.


This first roll isn't for your opposition, this is just checking something. Next roll will be opposition.
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Rolled 5, 6, 4, 5, 1 = 21 (5d6)

>>3545173
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>>3545179
Ah fuck
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>>3545179
Guess we can't win them all...
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>>3545123
>>3545179
So we are pretty badass at fighting but they are three or something?
(Just kidding, we probably job, but is only a 2 between our roll and theirs so...)
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WE ARE ALL EUROFAGS, OH YEEEEAH.
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East coast Burgerstan here.
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>>3545209
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHC1230OpOg
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Am I the only Burger citizen here? There's no way
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>>3545214
>>3545236
Also burger here.
>>3545201
>>3545203
Kinda hoping this isn't the only roll for this. I think with best of 3 we should roll higher than them, on average.
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>>3545241
I doubt it's the only roll, but it will mean we get off to a slightly bad start. We actually did pretty well when considering we're off against multiple opponents and they're rolling with an extra die.
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these teeth remind me of those fucking prehistoric armored fish
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USA USA USA
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>>3544340

“Right” You say “I’ll draw their attention, you two break in and find the statue.”

“But-” Tara starts to object with eyes wide with concern before you cut her off.

“Tara, I’ll be fine.” You tell her with a smile. “I played keep-away with a giant, I can handle running from whoever is guarding this thing.”

“He’ll be fine” Says Roxy to the other girl as she tugs on her shoulder. “Come one, lets go.”

They start to slip off to the right, and you decide to go left. After a bit of consideration you decide that the best way to be a distraction is to attempt to get to the statue yourself, but not be all that stealthy about it. If you just run out there shouting and making a scene it will be obvious you’re trying to draw their attention and they won’t go for it.

So you jog over and then gecko climb up the wall with your suckers. You make sure to take your time going over the top, get nice and high so your profile is clearly visible, and then you drop down to the ground and start to circle the building looking for an entrance. You keep low and move quickly, but rather than moving into the shadow of the building you stay out in the open where you can be easily spotted.

You figure this should give the impression of a legitimate, albeit incompetent, attempt to infiltrate the building, and should therefore draw a response. You keep your eye out, just because you’re trying to draw their attention doesn’t mean you want to get bushwhacked and taken out from behind.

You’ve located the front door and run towards it. You’re kind a surprised that no one’s done anything, but guess that other than the girl on over-watch they must have all been inside the building since you haven’t seen anyone and no one has tried to stop you. You’ll need to make sure to be noisy about opening doors and maybe knock some stuff over to draw attention to you then.
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>>3545269
Bill Nye the Science Guy
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>>3545275

You pull open the door, and as soon as you step through the door you immediately see something whizzing towards your head out of the corner of your eye. You jerk your hands up to try and shield your head and duck, but are just a hair too slow, and something hard glances off the top of your skull, knocking you on your ass.

Your ears are ringing and your vision swims with black spots as you crawl onto your knees. Your head is killing you, it’s the worst headache you’ve ever had, and your senses tell you that your brain got rattles hard by that and the bone of your skull is slightly fractured, but it’s knitting back together, and you order it to speed up as you stand up and look to see what hit you.

You hear a low whistle. “Still standing?” says a male voice that stabs at your ears like ice picks. “I thought that would put you out for sure, but I’m not going to complain.”

It’s white hair, he’s standing about twenty five feet from you, with a ball of ice slowly growing in his hand. It finishes and he slips into a baseball pitchers stance, with his hands together around the ball and his body turned sideways relative to you.

“Don’t know what you did to Wendy to make her scream like that” He says as he looks at you with narrowed eyes “But I promise what I’m going to do to you will be worse.”

He starts to wind up, his leg leaving the ground as he prepares to throw.

You have taken 1 dice worth of damage to your nerd cliché. You are now in combat with White Hair. What do you do?


>Try to dodge and run outside before shifting to “Form:big guy” (roll power dice dc 15)

>Try to dodge and rush him, it looks like he’s got a good arm, but if you get in close that won’t help him at all. ( Power dice + Martial arts dice contested roll)

>Try to talk him down (Roll two dice, contested roll.)

>Write in.

So I just realized I forgot a bit of book keeping. I thought I had done it, but I guess it slipped my mind at the time. So, you currently have 1 dice in Martial Artist and 1 dice in Cat Burglar from your training so far. This means you really really suck at them, but you do have dice in them technically. It'll be a while before you advance to the next step, so don't expect those to leap up to high numbers any time soon.
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I honestly wasn't planning a confrontation with him, but the dice spoke. Be back to tally the votes in an hour or so.

Rolls to be held until after voting is concluded.
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>>3545299
Rush him while shifting, and deflect the ice ball with an arm block (Power+Martial Arts die)
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>>3545299
>>Try to dodge and run outside before shifting to “Form:big guy” (roll power dice dc 15)
We probably should've turned into big guy before going in
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>>3545299
>Try to dodge and run outside before shifting to “Form:big guy”
Don’t want to engage ice-man in close until we’re in a large enough form
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>>3545299
>>Try to dodge and run outside before shifting to “Form:big guy” (roll power dice dc 15)
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>>3545299
>Try to dodge and run outside before shifting to “Form:big guy” (roll power dice dc 15)
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>>3545299
>Try to dodge and run outside before shifting to “Form:big guy”
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>>3545299
>>Try to dodge and run outside before shifting to “Form:big guy” (roll power dice dc 15)
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>>3545299
>Try to talk him down (Roll two dice, contested roll.)

I think it's more important to de-escalate the situation. Even if we lose this practice thing, I want to make sure he doesn't want to kill us after this is over.
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>>3545342
Roxy likely just broke his friend's bones and is planning on threatening her after class is over. I don't think de-escalation is possible anymore.
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We need some type of heat vision
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>>3545355
Pit vipers get.
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>>3545361
>Heat Vision
>Very nice venom
We do need Larson to order us some pit viper, done rare.
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>>3545351
Damage control at least. We could talk to Roxy. She has gang mentality and I think this "Two sides one against each other" thing will be what stops us from escaping or kills a friend.
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>>3545366
But anon, what if we wipe out the other gang and then escape?
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>>3545351
I don't think it's possible to de-escalate in this situation but James has absolutely no idea what Roxy is planning.
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>>3545368
That's also an option.

Eating them all is an option too.
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>>3545378
An “option” in name alone
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>>3545390
What I mean is that we have a lot of options, but we have to decide what to pick.

Maybe not now but we should do as much as possible to not have the other kids as enemies. Our enemy is the ones who brought us here. Pretty sure we've all been inside the tubes with the black tar.
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Ayy Monitor, you might want to consider a pastebin character sheet to help everyone keep track of our stats/forms/abilities
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>>3545299
I'd argue putting some distance between us and shaping to big guy + warm fur. Full on sasquatch mode.
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>>3545473
support
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Right, voting is now closed.

Give me 3d6.

>>3545418

You are right, i should do that. I'll get on that.
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Rolled 1, 3, 5 = 9 (3d6)

>>3545508
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Rolled 3, 5, 1 = 9 (3d6)

>>3545508
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Rolled 2, 2, 6 = 10 (3d6)

>>3545508
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Rolled 5, 5, 4 = 14 (3d6)

>>3545508
Wew in hindsight that was a high DC
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Rolled 5, 5, 4 = 14 (3d6)

>>3545508
Squatch mode s00n
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>>3545511
>>3545512
>>3545514
>>3545522

Alright. Give me a minute.
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Fuck, we suck.
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>>3545299

As he winds up you scramble to get back out of the door. If you make it outside he’ll have to follow you if he want to keep attacking you. This accomplishes a few things. First, it gets him out of the building, which was the whole point in the first place. Second, it gives you time to change forms once you are out of his sight. It’ll be a lot easier to tangle with him when you’ve got a foot and several pounds on him. Finally, if he does follow you, there’s a chance you can get him as he comes out the doorway.

You whip around and dive for the door as fast as you can, but you don’t quite make it in time. You hear the crack before you register the pain, then you hiss as you feel a sharp pain in your ribs. The ball of ice he slung at you took you in the ribs, you can feel a few have cracked, though fortunately nothing broke.

You’re outside now. You step to the side of the doorway and start shifting, only to curse in pain. The growth is aggravating your ribs, and you have to dedicate a good bit of your thought process to holding them together and repairing the cracks as you grow.

You manage the shift, reaching an impressive height of seven feet and packing on a lot of bulk as your muscles expand, but your ribs still ache, and you are holding them together through will really, which splits off some of your attention.

“You can’t run freak.” White hair calls out, and you can hear his foot steps as he comes towards the doorway.

You have taken one dice of damage to your power dice pool, but have successfully assumed the form Big guy. What will you do?

>Wait and then ambush him as he comes out of the doorway (Powers + Big Guy + Martial Arts)

>Go up the wall, and wait for him to come out before dropping on him. People don’t look up. (Powers + Nerd)

>Try shifting some more to further advantage yourself before tangling him, maybe some thick matted fur if you can, or claws. (Powers + Nerd)

>Write in.
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>>3545535

Not over yet anon.

I'll give it thirty minutes and see how things look and if there's a clear consensus we will call it then.
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>>3545590
>Go up the wall, and wait for him to come out before dropping on him. People don’t look up. (Powers + Nerd)

Outsmart him.
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>>3545590
>>Go up the wall, and wait for him to come out before dropping on him. People don’t look up. (Powers + Nerd)
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>>3545590
>Go up the wall, and wait for him to come out before dropping on him. People don’t look up. (Powers + Nerd)
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>>3545590
>>Go up the wall, and wait for him to come out before dropping on him. People don’t look up. (Powers + Nerd)
The Skitter way.
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>>3545590
>>>Go up the wall, and wait for him to come out before dropping on him. People don’t look up. (Powers + Nerd)
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>>3545590
>>Go up the wall, and wait for him to come out before dropping on him. People don’t look up. (Powers + Nerd)
We're not good at direct combat anyway, even if we developed extra resistances.

And also this has more dice...
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>>3545590
>Go up the wall, and wait for him to come out before dropping on him. People don’t look up. (Powers + Nerd)

>>3545613
Is the sequel worth reading? I strongly disliked the second half of Worm, so I never ended up picking it up. What’s it about?
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>>3545590
>Try shifting some more to further advantage yourself before tangling him, maybe some thick matted fur if you can, or claws. (Powers + Nerd)
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>>3545653
Dunno, I haven't read it yet. Heard good things about it, tho.
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>>3545590
Could we accidentally kill him? What kind of repercussions would come towards us if we did?
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>>3545677

>Could we accidentally kill him

Theoretically yes, yes you could.

>What would happen

We'll find out if you do.

Going to call the vote here. Roll me 5d6 anons.
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Rolled 3, 5, 3, 3, 1 = 15 (5d6)

>>3545692
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Rolled 6, 3, 4, 2, 4 = 19 (5d6)

>>3545692
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Rolled 1, 4, 1, 3, 6 = 15 (5d6)

>>3545692
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Rolled 3, 2, 4, 1, 6 = 16 (5d6)

>>3545692
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Rolled 6, 4, 2, 3, 2 = 17 (5d6)

>>3545692
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Rolled 5, 1, 5, 6 = 17 (4d6)

>>3545697
>>3545698
>>3545699

Alright, lets see what goes down.
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Rolled 1, 2, 6, 6, 2 = 17 (5d6)

>>3545692
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>>3545704
>>3545698
Saved us from our mediocrity
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>>3545590

You jump up and attach yourself to the wall with your suckers and then climb up over the doorway. You’ll wait for him to come out and then drop on him. He won’t expect you to attack from above.

A moment later you're glad you did so, as the doorway, and a few feet of wall to either side of it are blown away in a massive surge of snow and ice that shakes the building. A man made avalanche. Fortunately you’re up above and it passes bellow you, but if you’d been down there…

There’s a field of white spotted with bits of rubble extending all the way to the compounds wall below you now as the surge of frozen water settles down. Your breath fogs in front of you as the temperature rapidly plummets.

“You, huff, alive, huff, freak?” Comes the panting voice of white hair from bellow you. You hear him wheezing from somewhere inside, and then he inhales deeply and steps out. His feet crunch across the virgin snow as he walks underneath you and casts his eyes from side to side looking for you.

“Shit” He pants and leans over, bracing his hands against his knees. “Did I actually kill him?”

He never looks up though.

You silently detach from the wall and then push off, launching yourself straight at him. Your bulk slams into him and you ride him to the ground. The snow cushions the fall somewhat, but you can feel something crunch as the two of you crash into the frozen earth.

“No” You rumble at him as he screams in pain. You’re voice is a lot deeper than it is normally. “You didn't.”

White hair is lying on his belly in the snow, with you straddling his back.

What do you do?

>Try to hold him down. You’re bigger than him, you can keep him down without hurting him any worse, maybe reason with him.

>Knock him out, a good blow to the back of the head would probably do it if the movies are anything to go by, and then you can go look for whosoever is left.

>Grow claws and threaten him by putting them around his throat. The two of you need to have a chat, and that will motivate him to listen.

>Write in.
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>>3545776
>>Knock him out, a good blow to the back of the head would probably do it if the movies are anything to go by, and then you can go look for whosoever is left.
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>>3545776
>>Grow claws and threaten him by putting them around his throat. The two of you need to have a chat, and that will motivate him to listen.
Who says negative reinforcement never works?
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>>3545776

*your voice

Damn you auto correct. Damn you my eyes for not catching that until after it was posted.

anyway, thirty minutes and then I'll call the vote and we'll do the last write up of the night.

Also, just a heads up, I got a wedding to attend tomorrow so I'm going to be incommunicado for a while. I should be back by the evening though unless something unexpected happens.
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>>3545776
>>Try to hold him down. You’re bigger than him, you can keep him down without hurting him any worse, talk with him like why do he call us a freak and why they bullying us? and stuff just talk and try to talk with this slow snow fuck
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>>3545776
>Try to hold him down. You’re bigger than him, you can keep him down without hurting him any worse, maybe reason with him.
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>>3545776
>Put him in a choke hold. Sensei made sure to demonstrate it on everybody in the class. (Power+Martial arts)
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>>3545776
>Try to hold him down. You’re bigger than him, you can keep him down without hurting him any worse, maybe reason with him.
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>>3545776
>>3545802
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>>3545796
Nice engrish.
We know why he thinks we're a freak, razor teeth and steak devouring.
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>>3545776
>Try to hold him down. You’re bigger than him, you can keep him down without hurting him any worse, maybe reason with him.

Tell him to surrender. Don't try the blow to the back of the head thing. We are stronger than usual and not in a movie.

We don't have the precision or knowledge to go around messing with other students heads right now.
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>>3545776
>Try to hold him down. You’re bigger than him, you can keep him down without hurting him any worse, maybe reason with him.
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>>3545776
>Try to hold him down. You’re bigger than him, you can keep him down without hurting him any worse, maybe reason with him.
Maybe we should try to hold him in place, then use our mutation to see if we can temporarily paralyse him if he keeps struggling. Failing that, a good punch to the father box.
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>>3545776
Throw him over the wall if we can. Doesn't look like he has movement powers.
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A reminder that blow to the back of the head by somebody with somewhat enhanced strength has a high chance of killing.
Comic Book logic likes to disable itself whenever it would be most tragic.
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Right, calling the vote.

Roll me 2d6 would you?
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Rolled 1, 6 = 7 (2d6)

>>3545905
Schnappen time
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Rolled 3, 3 = 6 (2d6)

>>3545905
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Rolled 4, 1 = 5 (2d6)

>>3545905
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Rolled 4 (1d6)

>>3545915
>>3545916
>>3545918

Well I already know you win but we'll roll to see by how much.
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>>3545810
just too tired and could not careless about grammar
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>>3545776

You haven’t really learned proper ground work yet. You’ve seen wrestling matches and MMA, and you have no idea how to do any of that. Sensei will probably show you at one point, but he hasn’t yet.

He has showed you how to make a fist and how to hit more or less properly, but you aren’t going to punch white hair. You don’t want to accidentally kill him or something. You may like action movies and comics, but you aren’t just going to hit him in the head and assume it will knock him out like it does on TV. You know that’s a load of shit. Holding him down is much safer.

You may not know proper technique, but you are a lot bigger than him right now, and you figure that has to count for something, so you just sit down on his hips and then grab hold of both of his arms with your hands and hold them against the ground. You know for a fact this looks absolutely nothing like any sort of martial art you’ve seen, but again, you’re big. It should work.

White hair thrashes underneath you, and then stops as his body is wracked by coughs and he spits something out to the side of his head. The streak of crimson he just coughed up contrasts starkly against the white snow underneath you. Holy shit he’s coughing up blood, that’s bad.

“Stop struggling” You tell him. “You’re just going to hurt yourself more. Hold still and they’ll come patch you up.”

“Fuck you freak.” He coughs as he spits up more blood. “Gonna eat me now huh?”

“My name is James” You snarl at him. Wow, you sound kinda scary with this new body when you get mad. “Not freak.”

“Call you what I want” He gasps at you. “Freak”

How do you respond?

>What the hell is your problem with me? I haven’t done anything to you.

>I told you not to call me freak you hypocrite, you’re no more normal than I am.

>Fuck you, I didn’t ask for this. None of us asked for this!

>Write in.
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>>3546061
"Have it your way Snowball."
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>>3546061
"You're doing exactly what they want you to do. They're trying to pit us against each other. It's fucking obvious dude."
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>>3546061
>Fuck you, I didn’t ask for this. None of us asked for this!
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>>3546068
+1
>>3546073
I don't think it's a good idea to let them know we know, you know?
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>>3546068
Support.
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>>3546061
>Fuck you, I didn’t ask for this. None of us asked for this!
>How do you not understand that? You and your group, acting like we're fucking gangs, sizing each other up, trying to take swipes. Take a look at the situation we're in. What's the point of tearing into each other?
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>>3546061
>>3546068
Don't try to reason with a moron.
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>>3546073
Support
>>3546077
They already know we know. They know we were trying to escape, they just don't care cause of the personality switch they're planning. Seeing what they're doing and calling it out will only give us positive points in their books for intelligence.
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>>3546068
>>3546061
This
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They know that we know, but they don't know that we know that we know, ya know?
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>>3546061
>"While I would like to continue cru- sitting on you, I have a mission to complete. Goodbye asshole.
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>>3546061
>>Fuck you, I didn’t ask for this. None of us asked for this!
>>How do you not understand that? You and your group, acting like we're fucking gangs, sizing each other up, trying to take swipes. Take a look at the situation we're in. What's the point of tearing into each other?
"You're doing exactly what they want you to do. They're trying to pit us against each other. It's fucking obvious dude."
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>>3546110
Ah, I see. I still think persuasion is our least deadly route out of this mess, but I understand your point.
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>>3546061
Also, we need to grow fur. He's probably gonna try to freeze our hands or ass or something.
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I kind of want to fuck with his tracker thing just so he could shut the fuck up
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>>3546151
Let's grow hair, not fur. If we grow fur, they'll realize that we can mimic things we've eaten. Right now, they think we can mold our body into different forms(even our suckers were just folded skin and bone), but making something as complex as fur is on another level. Plus. we already have a lot of hair follicles, its simply a matter of stimulating them and multiplying them.
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Being a nerd we'd know that polar bear fur is hollow, causing it to retain heat better and making it look white. We already mimicked octopus suction cups, so why not that?
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>>3546194
Nice trip, btw. Our suction cups were macro changes, changes that were easily visible and thus are easy to excuse as panic shifting as opposed to micro cell control. Manipulating our individual hair follicles, that strongly implies that we have cell level control over our body. Now, we might be able to excuse it as something that happened without us knowing, but remember that we have an expert shapeshifter on our ass. At the very least, he would know something was afoot. And if the psychic goes looking for that specific piece of information, there's no way we could hide it from him without exposing ourselves. No, simply increasing our own hair production seems the most reasonable option.
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>>3546183
We haven't eaten anything furry.

We're a shapeshifter. We can change shape. Growing fur is literally what Larson recommended we do against blasters.
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>>3546219
Hair is close enough to fur that it offers the same benefits, while also keeping the exposure of our abilities to a minimum and allowing us the benefit of not having to concentrate on significantly modifying ourselves, just commanding our hair follicles to grow.
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>>3546068
Throwing in for this.
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>>3546061
>Fuck you, I didn’t ask for this. None of us asked for this!

>>3546068
This is probably t he worst option. This might be the only chance we have to make him listen to at least something.
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>>3546068
Kek. Supporting.
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>>3546061
>>What the hell is your problem with me? I haven’t done anything to you.

Come on guys, can we at least try to defuse the situation and not make enemies with the other kidnapped supers.
>>3546068 this is obviously the worst option
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>>3546151
>>3546183
>>3546219
Checked to make sure. Hair and fur are literally the same thing. Both keratin, it's just a matter of density. And some unique traits like polar bear fur, as mentioned before.
>>3546068
Voting for this and growing fur.
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>>3546061
>What the hell is your problem with me? I haven’t done anything to you.
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Should we throw in some "HIVE is the real enemy," guys?
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>>3546493
From what I can recall, human body hair IS fur, because it grows to a set length and then stops. The hair on your head (including beard hair) is a different type as it can keep growing, much like sheep's wool.
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>>3546500
Doesn't look like we'll get the chance because the meme write in is winning.
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>>3546502
>meme
Because you disagree with it?
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>>3546510
No because we've got a single chance to attempt diplomacy and anons are taking the opportunity to taunt him.
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>>3546061
>>3546089
Supporting, we should try diplomacy first, then when he refuses to listen like the edgelord he is and tries to blast us (and fails because we alredy have fur), break his arms and legs, then knock him out ( that way we'll have a legit reason to hate him/beat him and maybe eat him if he tries to kill us or one of our friends).
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>>3546515
I kinda feel bad but it's just too funny. We'll try diplomacy later.
>>3546525
Actually, I'll change my vote to this. Attempt diplomacy, if it fails snowball route with a helping of violence.
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>>3546061
Ugh, you guys are no fun. Fine lets *try* talking to him. And when it fails we shove snow in his pants.
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>>3546569
Honestly. This Ice Fairy clearly hates us for more reasons that he's let on, or he has no excuse and he's just a dick. Any attempt at diplomacy will fail but sure. I'll switch to diplomacy if it wins. >>3546061
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>>3546515
This shithead and his gang aren’t going to magically come over to our side just because “HIVE is the real enemy”.
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>>3546620
No shit, but I'd prefer not to start a gang war because he's a retard.
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>>3546620
You are right. He is not going to come over to our side with just talking once so it's better if we taunt him and never try. That's the smartest thing to do.
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The smart thing to do is to disregard this guy as the liability he is and ignore him outside of tests as much as we can so we can focus on building rapport with our existing relationships and figure out an escape plan.

Just because you have a diplomacy boner doesn't make it a good idea to throw time and effort better used anywhere else at a sinkhole of a human that's been set up as a antagonist by the QM.

Also, have you considered that if we actually did manage to head off the budding rivalry between our groups the faculty would either double down on the pressure or just create a new rivalry with a different group altogether?

They make sure these group rivalries exist to create growth through conflict just as much as to keep too many students from working together, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it when they have memory editing psychics on staff and monitor our social interactions 24/7.
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>>3546669
>>3546620
Sure, maybe we won't be best buds but we can try to head off the sort of serious enmity that'll get us shanked in a corridor or sabotaged in the middle of our escape attempt because of some petty grudge we've contributed to. Or have him and his gang genuinely motivated to hunt us down and bring us back (rather than just grudgingly being forced into it).

Pointlessly antagonising is straight dumb.
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>>3546089
+1
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>>3546669
Your own presumptions about whether this is pointless mean nothing. His group being antagonistic and disturbing ours has led to one of our crew being sent to that memory-editing psychic, remember? It's in everyone's interest to cut this shit out.

This is a supervillain school, they WANT us to survive and be of use to them. Doubling down on the pressure is a dumb idea because they are not going to be fine with us killing each other. Creating a new rivalry is impossible because we are the only groups in the school.

As for not being able to stop it, Wax is slow as fuck and needs extensive time to actually do anything. Caitlin only went through a big change because of Psimon. We don't need to be big friends in public, even ignoring each other is fine.
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>>3546669
That's a lot of assumptions.

We should at least TRY to avoid as much conflict as possible. Try to have less enemies instead of more.
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>>3546727
Hmm, when you put it like that...
Switching from >>3546077 to >>3546089
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Slipped out for a bit. Figured I'd give you all an update. Gonna be a few more hours everyone.

Anyone else know that awkward feeling when your ex is in the wedding party and people are trying to push the two of you back together?
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>>3547205
Eugh, I feel for you Eig
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>>3547205
Ouch, that's some bullshit. Hope everything goes well monitor
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>>3547205
Are your parents pressuring you for grandkids too? That's the icing on the cake, ugh.
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>>3547205
Sounds almost as awkward as the groom deciding to use his speech to reveal that he has a foot fetish.
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>>3547205
At least the bride's brother doesn't repeatedly bring up the fact he took your significant other's virginity.
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>>3547228
>mfw.jpg

Jesus christ dude, that's not only weird as fuck for him to say but seriously crappy.
Hope he gets syphilis.

>>3547205
Ouch Eig, that's a pretty shitty situation to be in. Make out with the bridesmaid to show them what's up. :^)
Seriously though from the sounds of you and the anons above, weddings seem awful.
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Alright. Weddings done, I'm headed home. Depending on traffic it will take me a while though, so I wouldn't expect to hear from me for another hour or so, maybe just a bit longer.
>>3547212
>>3547216

Eh it's a complicated situation.

>>3547226

Fortunately nothing that bad.

>>3547228

I have no words. I'm sorry anon.

>>3547288

Honestly the wedding was beautiful and I'm glad I came, it was worth the minor irritation. Good outweighed bad, all that jazz.
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>>3547226
atleast it was nothing as bad as a shit fetish
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Well traffic was worse than expected, but I am now home. The vote is called, and I will get to writing as soon as I've read through everything and figured out what won.
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>>3547885
We voted to pet White Hair and to hug him and squeeze him and call him George.
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>>3547904
Make sure to have fuzzy yellow fur and hair, and warn George about being to curious.
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>>3547904
And to possibly give him a teratoma in his balls while we do.
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“Fuck you” You snarl at him “I didn’t ask for this. None of us asked for this! Don’t you get it? We’re all in the same boat here, we’ve all been kidnapped and experimented on. Who the fuck do you think you are, throwing stones in your glass fucking house?”

“Yeah, cause you're such a nice guy I should kiss the ground you walk on.” He hisses back “That’s why I had to listen to Wendy scream as she fell out of the sky, and why I’m hacking up blood right now.”

“You tried to crush my skull!” You growl back “That should have killed me, would have killed me if I didn’t have my powers.”

You’re fairly certain the only reason you got off with what you believe to be a concussion and some fractures, which are now mostly healed, and not a cracked skull and brain matter on the ground, is because your skull is denser than it should be.

But, yelling at him won’t resolve anything. He’s wronged you, and considering you’re sitting on him and he’s coughing up blood you’ve wronged him too. If you point fingers it’s not going to get anywhere. You exhale deeply and then try again.

“This is what they want” You say slowly as a realization hits you. “They want us to fight. It’s like crabs in a bucket, one could get away, but if there’s another crab they’ll just keep dragging each other down.”

“What the fuck are you talking about.” White Hair groans from beneath you.

“Think about it” You say, it’s obvious now that you think about it “Why would they put us against each other in this exercise? They knew about how we were polarizing into groups, they wanted to accelerate the process. Pit us against each other. Competition is an impetus for growth, and if we’re busy focusing on each other we can’t act against them.”
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Always forget the darn trip

>>3548293

“Problem with that theory freak” White Hair snorts “That top heavy bitch who’d rather fuck a freak like you than a real man? She’s the third member of my team inside. If they were trying to turn us against each other, why put her on my team?”

You want to snap that it clearly didn’t endear him to her any, and that if that was how he had talked to her it likely hadn’t endeared her to him either, but you stop. He isn’t listening. He’s chosen his hill to stand on, and he’s going to hold that hill until the bitter end. Maybe if he wasn’t in pain, maybe if you were both a bit calmer, you could talk things out. But right now, you’re just the guy whose holding him down in the snow after crushing his ribs. He doesn’t want to listen to anything you have to say, not right now.

“Fine” You say as you let go of his hands and stand up. “Have it your way snowball. If you don’t want to listen to me I’m not going to waste my time trying to make you. Think about what I said, and if you change your mind and want to talk you know where to find me.”

He starts to push himself up as you remove your weight. That can’t possibly be good for him and frankly you don’t want to deal with any more of his shit.

“Stay down” You tell him. “If you get back up I’m just going to smack you back down, and you’re injured enough as is. Just stay down and don’t do anything stupid.”

He groans and then slumps back down. You watch him as you back away from him towards the door, keeping an eye on him to make sure he doesn’t try anything. It doesn’t take you long to get to the gaping hole where the door to the building used to be, and you turn as you step over the threshold, only to be stopped by the sound of his voice coming from behind you. You peek back over your shoulder to see if he’s moved, but he’s still just lying there.

“This isn’t over freak.” He groans from where he’s spread eagle on the melting snow. “I’ll get you for this.”

You turn away from him and walk into the building.

What do you do?

>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.

>Look for Roxy and Tara, the three of you can overwhelm the last of the opposition and then search the place.

>Attempt to draw attention to yourself. You’re still the distraction, you need to try and draw out the remaining opposition so the girls can search without interference.

>Write in.
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>>3548302
>>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
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Yeah I got no excuse for how short that was, how long it took, or of it's questionable quality, other than that I'm tired.

I will see you all in the morning.
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>>3548302
>>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
>>3548311
You still write good shit even when you're tired. Goodnight.
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>>3548302
>>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
>>3548311
Don't sweat it, seems like you had a busy day.
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>>3548302
>>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
If he really is that dumb (and he seems like he is), then we know that they only have three members and Caitlin won't be a problem for Tara + Roxy and can be avoided by us. No need to bother with drawing attention, though we will anyway if we're just running around looking for the statue rather than sneaking.
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>>3548302
Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
So freeze jr is a cuck. Poetry.
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>>3548302
>Attempt to draw attention to yourself. You’re still the distraction, you need to try and draw out the remaining opposition so the girls can search without interference.
Trust the PLAN
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>>3548302
>>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
If we happen to bump into the girls we can join forces but otherwise we go it alone.

Can we make a nerd check to work the best place to start looking?
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>>3548302
>Write in.
Its probably on the second floor.

Start "searching" all the rooms by shouting where is the darn statue" while kicking in and bashing the doors in on all the first floor. Make sure to stop our feet and pound the walls.

Concrete tends to transfer the sounds an vibrations through solid structures fairly well so, EVERYONE in the building will hear us.
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>>3548302
>>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
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>>3548302
>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
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>>3548302
>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
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>>3548302
>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
>Attempt to draw attention to yourself. You’re still the distraction, you need to try and draw out the remaining opposition so the girls can search without interference.
Both these basically. Search for the statue, but don't be quiet about it.
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>>3548302
>“That top heavy bitch who’d rather fuck a freak like you than a real man? She’s the third member of my team inside".
Well, this part is useful:
Firstly, white hair feels atracted towards Caitlin and she rejected him, then she either mentioned Mercer to Snowball (please call him this and Elsa, also mumble "Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore~" whenever we want to stealthy trigger him) or he thought she had a crush because she stood up for Joseph.
Secondly, Caitlin is the third member, so this mission has gone from dangerous combat situation to hold her back with gravity and rocks until we find the statue.
At last, it reveals the kind of asshole this guy is, like, WTF he just revealed the third member of his team, also the cause of his hostility towards Mercer, which is his low intelligence and self steem making him overcompensate and attack the biggest threat to his "real man" status (seriously, Mercer is smart, ripped as fuck and is always surrounded by girls, and Ralph, our nerd is a chad without even trying). His group started the bulling because of him, the girls in his group probably did the showers incident (the one Roxie thought about while crushing the psy girl) because he told them to, because they have a crush on the ice queen or because the psybitch told them Caitlin had killed someone. Tara being baited by that guy probably has no direct conection, but it coul be a sign of our group becoming the official punchin bag of this place, we either talk this out with everyone (making sure they understand we are not begging, rather trying to avoid killing someone) or turn the first guy that tries something serious into a stain in the floor.
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>>3548302
>>Start searching the rooms for the statue. It could be here on the first floor, and if you find it you shouldn’t have to fight whoever is left.
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>>3548888
I'm pretty sure the blonde girl that Roxy brought down isn't the psychic girl, if we're talking about the one who revealed Caitlin's kill. She was the only one other than Roxy to avoid grouping, though now she's the only independent left.

I think his low self esteem is probably not as much a problem as his retardation. He seems to have completely accepted the environment he's in as if it was a normal high school and thus doing what he'd normally do in that setting. It's like he just doesn't grasp that he and everyone around him has been kidnapped to become mindless supersoldiers.
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Alright, I'm here. Calling the vote now. Update will be in the works as soon as I've caught up.


>>3548941

You guys want an up to date rundown of what you've seen powers wise from the various students?
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>>3548421

You could make a nerd check to try and figure out what you think the most logical place to hide it would be based on your own knowledge.
Now really quick, can any anons who are around roll me 2d6 please?
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>>3549925
I think we've got it pretty straight, but sure, it wouldn't hurt.
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Rolled 6, 6 = 12 (2d6)

>>3549980
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Rolled 1, 3 = 4 (2d6)

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Rolled 3, 4 = 7 (2d6)

>>3549980
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Rolled 2, 2 = 4 (2d6)

>>3549980
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Rolled 1, 3 = 4 (2d6)

>>3549925
Yes. If you create a character sheet pastebin can you include it there as well?

>>3549980
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>>3549987
Fuckin noice.
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Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>3549987
>>3549988
>>3549990
>>3549992
>>3549995

Thank you anons.
>>3549983

what you know so far, updated list.

>Tara- has told you she is a geokinetic. Haven't really seen it though.

>Ralph- has told you his lesson consisted of a video conference with poison ivy and controlling some giant vines

>Liz- Has shown you her power by arcing electricity between her fingers.

>Caitlin- You watched her pick up a tank.

>Roxy- can manipulate gravity. Saw her pull the flying blonde out of the air.

>White haired kid -tried to crush you with a meta powered avalanche

>Silver haired girl - Floated, had her hair turn weightless and her eyes turn into black pits, and somehow knew Caitlin had killed someone. You saw her training with a block of stone. The stone was breaking apart and deforming, it looked like she was screaming at it from your perspective.

>The Black Kid - You're pretty sure you've seen him changing heights out of the corner of your eye.

>Blonde girl who hangs around white hair - We've seen her flying

>Red head who hangs around white hair - We saw her incinerating targets

>Doctor Wax- was clearly able to alter Caitlin's mental state.

>Larson- Turned his hand into a fucking Velociraptor.

>Mammoth- was huge and deformed, but incredibly fast and strong.

>Psimon- weaponized a children's game as his preferred method of controlling people.

I'm pretty sure that all the instances of Meta-human ability we've encountered so far.

>>3549995

Right, the paste bin. I will do that today. Been meaning to do that, I'll take a minute and get it done.


please ignore the dice roll, just background processes.
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>>3550021

forgot to fix doctor wax's profile

Doctor Wax - was not in fact responsible for caitlin's behavior. Is in fact a psychic who is slowly rewiring all of you and building new alternate personalities loyal to the HIVE. Takes forever fortunately.
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>>3550021
>Doctor Wax- was clearly able to alter Caitlin's mental state.
Didn't we overhear that it was Psimon who edited her mental state while we were in a mind coma thing?
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>>3548302

You don’t really feel the need to do anything to make your presence on the first floor more obvious. Snowball blew out part of the wall. Everyone in the building knows something is going down on the first floor. If someone is coming to back up white hair, then they are already on their way at this point. Making more noise is pointless.

But, on the other hand, it’s entirely possible that the statue is on this floor. You don’t know if Tara and Roxy have already checked this floor, but you don’t think they have. Since you can’t be sure either way, you decide it’s best to check it yourself. After all you might find the statue, and if you do that then you’ve won and the exercise is over right? No more need to fight anyone, which sounds pretty great right now.

You look around, this first floor is an open lobby with a counter that extends across in front of the wall. Like this is where you come in and get greeted and talk with the receptionists/tellers manning the counter while things go on in the back. You check behind the counter first, might be there after all, but there’s nothing.

Seeing as it doesn’t appear to be in this room, you go to move through the door behind the counter into the back rooms. It’s locked. This stumps you for a few seconds since you don’t have any lock picks, before you remember playing dnd with your cousin once, and his solution to locked doors. You rear back and put every ounce of force you can behind your shoulder and slam into the door. It breaks free of it’s housing with a loud crack as you apply the “universal key.” Stupid, maybe, but it was worth a shot and it worked. Besides, just like there’s no reason to try and be loud and draw attention, you don’t really need to be super quiet either. Again, everyone in the building knows something is going down on the first floor.

There’s a door in front of you, which you decide to check first. Fortunately this one isn’t locked, so there’s no need to use your universal key. You’re glad about that, your shoulder is kinda sore.

The rooms has a couple of desks in it, and some cubicles. Looks kinda like a cheap office room, complete with horrible itchy looking carpeting. It takes a few minutes to check the room for the statue. You have to pull open the drawers at the desks and cubicles since you don’t know the size of the statue and it could be in one, and a couple of them are locked. But they’re just cheap poorly constructed filing cabinets really, so you solve that issue by using a chair as a bludgeon to break them open and peek in. After looking around you are pretty confident that it isn’t in this room.
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You start to make your way out of the room when you stop. There’s a couple of potted plants in the room. They kind of stand out. A lot, at least when compared with how drab and utilitarian everything else is. Now, ordinarily a potted plant would not be where you would look for a statue. Last place really, but you do recall your teacher saying something in one of her lectures about how sometimes people tried to be clever about where they hid things. That a wall safe or a secure room can be a red herring rather than the location of the score if the mark likes to play mind games rather than rely on locks and security systems. You get the feeling the teachers are the sort to play mind games.

So you decide to check them, it can’t hurt really. You make your way over to them and look around in the leaves, but see nothing. That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything though. You decide to smash the pots. You’ve already made a mess, so there’s no way this is getting passed off as a covert operation. You’re thoroughly within smash and grab territory now, so time to get to smashing and hope you get to do some grabbing.

The first pot shatters, then the second pot. Nothing but dirt. Still, in for a penny in for a pound. The third pot shatters as you throw it against the wall, and you expect the same results as the first two, but this time there’s a soft thump as a sealed package spills out of the dirt flowing from the broken planter.

You walk over to it and tear at the packaging. As you rip away the paper and plastic, you see the glint of gold. Pulling off the last of the protective packaging, you find yourself staring at a little golden man. You’ve found the objective.

You step out of the room with the prize in your hands, pleased with yourself for winning and then the building shakes. You hear shouting from up above. It sounds like Roxy and Tara have run into Caitlin. It's at this point you remember your exact instructions. Your teacher told you to get the prize, and then escape with it in order to pass the quiz. You may have the statue, but the exercise isn't done yet.

What do you do?

>Run upstairs, you have the prize you need get Roxy and Tara so the three of you can run. You can’t just leave them behind, even if you’re sure Caitlin wouldn’t hurt them and vice versa

>Run, run as far and as fast as you can. The teacher said you won if you escaped with the prize, if you book it your team wins and the exercise ends. Roxy and Tara will be fine, it's not like Caitlin is going to hurt them.

>Shout up the stairs at the top of your lungs that you have the statue, it’s time to leave, and then book it. That way Roxy and Tara won’t feel like they have to stay and try to get the statue, and you don’t have to waste time going up the stairs. Win win.

Write in.
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>>3550443
>Run, run as far and as fast as you can. The teacher said you won if you escaped with the prize, if you book it your team wins and the exercise ends. Roxy and Tara will be fine, it's not like Caitlin is going to hurt them.
Shift mass to legs for maximum SPEED
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>>3550188

You are correct. Wax did not in fact alter Caitlin's mental state, you now know that was Psimon. I forgot to update wax when I redid the list. Please see >>3550024


Alright, gotta go for a bit. I will be back in like an hour or two to continue, and I'll let you know if perchance I'm going to be held up longer.

Hope everyone is having a good day.
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>>3550443
>it's not like Caitlin is going to hurt them.
The girl who is brainwashed into thinking killing is fine? Oke.
>Shout as loud as you can "Tera. Roxy. Run away!" As loud as possible. If the enemies are dumb enough they might not realise why we're running.
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>>3550443
>Run upstairs, you have the prize you need get Roxy and Tara so the three of you can run. You can’t just leave them behind, even if you’re sure Caitlin wouldn’t hurt them and vice versa
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>>3550443
>>Run, run as far and as fast as you can. The teacher said you won if you escaped with the prize, if you book it your team wins and the exercise ends. Roxy and Tara will be fine, it's not like Caitlin is going to hurt them.
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>>3550443
>Shout up the stairs at the top of your lungs that you have the statue, it’s time to leave, and then book it. That way Roxy and Tara won’t feel like they have to stay and try to get the statue, and you don’t have to waste time going up the stairs. Win win.
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>>3550443
Caitlin only has super strength and some psychic resistance, right? Shouting that we have the statue will clearly attract her attention, why don't we do that and then run. If Caitlin instead goes for us, we can throw it as hard as we can to Roxy and Tara, who have far more mobility while we have more survivability.
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>>3550443
>Shout up the stairs at the top of your lungs that you have the statue, it’s time to leave, and then book it. That way Roxy and Tara won’t feel like they have to stay and try to get the statue, and you don’t have to waste time going up the stairs. Win win.

Optimal solution. They can't stop Caitlin while we flee.
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>>3550443
>Shout up the stairs at the top of your lungs that you have the statue, it’s time to leave, and then book it. That way Roxy and Tara won’t feel like they have to stay and try to get the statue, and you don’t have to waste time going up the stairs. Win win.
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>>3550443
>>Shout up the stairs at the top of your lungs that you have the statue, it’s time to leave, and then book it. That way Roxy and Tara won’t feel like they have to stay and try to get the statue, and you don’t have to waste time going up the stairs. Win win.
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>>3550443
>Run upstairs, you have the prize you need get Roxy and Tara so the three of you can run. You can’t just leave them behind, even if you’re sure Caitlin wouldn’t hurt them and vice versa

Y'all know what we SHOULD do, is try and talk to Caitlyn during the exercise so we can knock her out of her hypnosis so that she regains some common sense. You know, learning that killing is in fact bad.

Also in dealing with White Hair... I don't think we're ever going to see eye to eye unless we beat the shit out of him and prove we're top dog. He just seems like one of those people...
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>>3550667
Good thinking about White Hair. Of course, there's always the risk we beat him so badly his focus switches from caitlin. Like that one anon who tried to wedgie some guy that backfired with him then spending the next few years trying to fuck them.
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>>3550667
For Caitlin, I don't think we'll be able to do that since it was Psimon who fucked with her head. Might need psychic help in turn.

For White Hair, I don't think he's the type to ever see eye-to-eye regardless of what we do. If we beat him I'm guessing the most we'll get is very begrudging acceptance.
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>>3550692
Oh, and there is a possibility of him just double downing into thinking that us beating the shit out of him is proof we're a freak.
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>"He's a monster! He shifts his body like it's play dough, he broke my ribs sitting on me, and now I get a boner thinking about him! He's an abomination!"
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Alright. Calling the vote. Give me a minute to tally things up.
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Do you think we'll be able to get ourselves an eidetic memory?
Could be real helpful.
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>>3550694
We should check on the girl that fell. Show we actually care about people at least to others in his side. Undermine his accusations with actions.
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>>3550701
>Joseph is so socially retarded he doesn't notice the vrowing sexual tension with White Hair
>He just thinks he's still jealous over caitlin
>roxy knows, though
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>>3550701
How horrible.
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>White hair has fantasies about being in the middle of a Caitlin and James sandwich covered in oil and it pisses him off.
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>>3550443

Right, you have the statue. There’s no need to stick around. You need to get yourself and the rest of your team out of here.

“Tara, Roxy” You shout at the top of your lungs. They’ll probably be able to hear you. “I have the Statue. Run.”

And then you turn and sprint for the exit, past the shattered remains of the door you had knocked down and out the hole white hair blasted in the wall. You turn left, no sense running past white hair, and sprint for the wall.

Rather than do your sticky hands trick you just take a running leap and catch the edge with the hand that isn’t clutching at the statue and try to heave yourself up and over. Being seven feet in your current form, and having a good running start, you manage to get your arms over the lip of the wall and pull yourself up enough to throw a leg over it.

As you slide over the wall you hear a crash of crumbling concrete, and look over just in time to see Caitlin come bursting through one of the walls in a shower of rubble and start dropping down to the ground.

You drop down and you start running through the ghost town, and you don’t look back. Looking back slows you down. You duck behind the nearest building and start sprinting through back alleys. You don’t know if you’re faster than her, you might be you might not be. Just sprinting in the open down a street seems like a good way to get caught if she is faster than you. Better to try and loose her by getting out of sight.

You quickly become immensely happy Larson had you do hurdles, as the back alleys have crates and rubble and garbage and various other obstructions in them which would otherwise have to be gone around, but that you can now leap more or less adroitly even in your new form. You don’t fall down at least, and you keep moving, even if you do stumble once or twice and knock a few things over.

You have to wonder how far you need to get before you are considered to have been successful. You’re fast approaching the edge of the ghost town. You don’t hear any shouts or the sound of breaking stone or houses behind you, so that’s good. It doesn’t sound like the girls are fighting.Maybe Caitlin isn’t following you.

You see a shadow on the wall in front of you and look up. You spoke too soon, she’s running on the roof of the building to your left. She leaps and soars as if she was suspended on wires jumping an unnatural distance and landing crouched in the alley in front of you.

“Give me the statue James” She says softly “I won’t hurt you, but you can’t really stop me from taking it.

What do you do?

>Give her the statue, it’s just a training exercise there’s no need to get worked up over it.

>Stall for time, play keep away. Roxy and Tara probably saw her when she jumped and might be on their way.

>Attempt to talk her down. It’s just a training exercise and she’s your friend, see if she’ll let you go.
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>>3550726

You could potentially. You'd have to figure out how though, and that might be tricky.

>>3550473

Enhanced physical capabilities according to the dossier and what you've seen, and in the words of Doctor Wax from what you recall of your dream latent psychic potential.

If I'm missing anyones questions, or if anyone has a new question they'd like to ask. Let me know.

Sorry about the delay, got pulled away. I'll be here the rest of the night though until I pop off to bed, so hopefully we can get in one more write up.

Voting is open, we'll give it like an hour unless it becomes clear there is no point in waiting longer.
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>>3551035
>>Stall for time, play keep away. Roxy and Tara probably saw her when she jumped and might be on their way.
>Are you sure about that?
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>>3551035
>Swallow the statue and tell our stomach not to eat it.
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>>3551035
>>Stall for time, play keep away. Roxy and Tara probably saw her when she jumped and might be on their way.
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>>3551048
>>3551056

Support
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>>3551056
Can't we just skip one step and just open a hole in our stomach?
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>>3551056
>>3551060

I feel compelled to point out that I don't think it would fit in your mouth, at least not while you have a natural human mouth and esophagus.

You can still attempt this of course, I won't say you can't, but it's going to involve some shape changing, and I don't think it will be at all comfortable for you. Or good viewing for anyone around you.
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>>3551056
Supporting this. Our stomach should be no problem considering our full biological control, qnd expanding our easophegus or making a hole to our stomach should be easy
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>>3551079
Would opening a hole directly into our stomach work better?
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>>3551095

That is also something you can do, but likewise would involve shape changing and could potentially be painful. Likewise unpleasant viewing for anyone around you.

I wouldn't necessarily call either one better or worse than the other, just that both have problems and advantages and that you can technically attempt either if you wish depending on what you all think would be better.

Shoving a statue down your throat Vs opening a hole into your entrails.
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>>3551035
>Stall for time, play keep away. Roxy and Tara probably saw her when she jumped and might be on their way.
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>>3551106
Then lust just swallow the thing 'normally'. And causing discomfort to us and those around us comes naturally to a dork like us. She did see us eat the first night we were here.
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>>3551079
>>3551106

Just to be clear I am not trying to push anons away from the stomach thing if that is what they want. I'm just answering questions and providing clarification on what to expect if you go with this issue.

Not trying to say don' do it if that's what you want. You have complete agency over your character and I will respect your decisions and am not trying to influence them.
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>>3551106
Is there any reason we can't just look away while we do it? Just to prevent any unneeded disgust from the others with either option
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>>3551128

You could certainly do so. There is no reason you couldn't turn the other way before dislocating your jaw and then expanding your throat wide enough to allow for the passage of the statue.
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A second stomach for just items that we steal that would be pretty neat

>>3551056
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>>3551128
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Reminder that this is most likely being observed by the HIVE faculty. Let's make sure this won't out our true power.
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Ten minutes left until the voting closes. Last call.


Also, I remember that last thread anons advocated a new thread after 1000 posts, and we are past 1000 posts. Once we've wrapped up this 'pop quiz' do you all think a new thread would be in order or should we stick with this one for a bit.
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>>3551175
I don't think it will, seems like pretty typical shapeshifting.
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>>3551182
New thread.
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>>3551182
Should probably start a new thread
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>Young Justice:Meta-Human Slave Quest #3: Deepthroating a gold dude in front of a chick edition.
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Alright. Voting is closed. Time to swallow a golden dude I guess.

Roll me Power dice and nerd 7d6 please Dc 25 for a successful swallowing.
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>>3551188
>>3551187

We'll finish this up first and then get the new one going.
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Rolled 5, 6, 2, 2, 5, 2, 6 = 28 (7d6)

>>3551205
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Rolled 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4 = 21 (7d6)

>>3551205
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>>3551205
you don't succ you S L U R P P
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Rolled 1, 6, 6, 3, 5, 4, 4 = 29 (7d6)

>>3551205
Swallow it like a pornstar James!
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>>3551217
god damnit
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>>3551218
I think he did exactly that
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It's moments like this that I'm reminded where I am.

Also, made the paste-bin with your stats as they are currently and will edit it as you progress. Here it is.

https://pastebin.com/h3eMrpVP

If there's anything you want added for quick reference purposes to the paste bin in addition to your stats let me know and we can figure something out.

writing.
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>>3551224
How to we get a better quality transformationl? is it just training? Do we have to do something
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>>3551228

Training, time spent in the transformation getting used to it. You've already started progress on quality two in your last session with Larson.
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>>3551229
Would it be difficult for us to slowly transform back and forth while in our classes?
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>>3551224
Goddamnit. Did we have to choose the option that results in C ripping the statue out of our gut causing untold psychological trauma.
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>>3551282
She said she wouldn't hurt us, and ripping our stomach would hurt us. Worst case she'll just try to make us barf it back up.
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>>3551205
God dammit. Why are all the important votes held while I'm asleep?

Can some anon please tell me why we're giving away our power by having us CREATE A STORAGE POCKET in our stomach?
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>>3551458
What are you talking about? How is this "giving away our power"? What storage pocket?
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>>3551461
he thinks we're giving away how much our power can do and how much control we have of it, by creating sort of a pouch inside of us to carry the statue.
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>>3551472
But what sort of thought process is that? Does he know what a stomach is? Is where the food goes when we eat. It's not a superpower, everyone has it as far as I know.
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>>3551458
How would they even know if we had a pocket are we getting physicals
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>>3551458
We need to prevent them from realizing that we have control and KNOWLEDGE of our body right down to the cellular level. It's that knowledge of our own biology that they're worried about because a shape shifter with that knowledge can potentially remove the implant.

Right now they think that we can shapeshift just by using our imagination and mental pictures and that our body does our will automatically.

So storing something in our gullet is not something they would not expect us to do and is well within the ability range they have for us.
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>>3551481
have you even been reading this quest? do you even know what power we have?
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>>3551508
Yeah, and I know that stretching our throat isn't impressive at all since we can grow to 7 feet tall and make octopus suckers so, what's the matter?
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Okay, so you’re cornered. Now what? Fight her for the statue? Of course not, she’s your friend and you don’t want to hurt her. Or get hurt for that matter. Give her the statue? Not after all the work you did to get it in the first place. What to do? What to do? Gotta keep her from getting the statue somehow.

You keep your eyes on her as you try to figure it out, but say nothing. It’s kinda odd to look down on Caitlin instead of having to look up to her. Nice view though. After a few more seconds of silence she narrows her eyes and takes a step towards you, and you have a flash of inspiration. Or it might have just been a moment of panic. You’ll swallow the statue! There’s no way she can take it if it’s sitting in your gut! It’s genius.

You spin away from Caitlin and contemplate the statue. There’s no way that will fit, no way a normal human could swallow that. But you aren’t normal anymore are you? You throw your head back and imagine a snake swallowing it’s prey. If you recall correctly they actually simply have stretchy and flexible tissues connecting their jaws that allow them to stretch rather than dislocating them like many believe. You can replicate that. You will replicate that.

The muscles and ligaments holding your jaw in place grow and stretch as you use your powers to feed extra elastin and collagen into the ligaments and proteins to feed muscle growth as you force them to elongate. Your mouth stretches open in an inhuman display.

You shove the statue into your gaping maw head first, forcing your esophagus wider to accommodate it’s girth, stretching and bulging the tissues of your throat as you push the statue farther in with your hand until the whole statue has disappeared. You swallow and try not to gag as you force the statue down by constricting the muscles of your esophagus, feeling it scraping at your insides as it slides further down towards your gut. You also have to exert your powers to move some things out of the way to give it passage.

You can’t help but gag a bit as you start to swallow it, and your shoulder shake as your body shudders.

“James” Shouts Caitlin, panic lacing every syllable as she rushes towards you “What are you doing, you’re going to choke!”

You try to reply, you’re pretty sure you aren’t going to choke at this point, but it’s kind of a gurgle rather than words.

“H-heimlich maneuver” Caitlin stammers to herself as she reaches for before saying more loudly. “Hold on James”

You jump out of her reach as you continue to move the muscles of your esophagus, and with a final series of contraction you force it through to your stomach. You’ve successfully swallowed the golden man. Fuck that sounds kinda messed up. You’ve prevented the opposition from taking the objective. Yeah, lets go with that.

“Can’t stop you huh” You cough “Lets see you take it now Caitlin.”
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>>3551516

“James!” She shouts at you in a scandalized tone as she gets up in your face. “What were you thinking, that could have killed you! You could have choked to death!”

“Well mostly I was thinking that I didn’t want to give you the statue” You tell her as you back up a bit trying to get space. “and it worked didn’t it?”

“You-You-ugh” She shouts as she stomps her foot causing a few of the nearby buildings to rattle. “Fine James, you win. You damn near gave me a heart attack with that stunt. I hope you’re happy.”

“So this means you give up then?” You ask sheepishly.

“Yeah I guess” She huffs as she looks away from you and scuffs the ground with her foot. “I mean I could try to take you back, the statue is in you after all, but I don’t want to have to fight you and the others. It isn’t worth it.”

“I can’t believe you just swallowed that.” She says as she looks back over at you after a moments silence.

“Don’t remind me” You tell her. It’s actually kinda painful. The gut was not meant to accommodate something that large and solid, and you can feel the weight of it pressing against your stomach. You really need to get that out of there, though you don’t want to think about how you’re going to get it out.

“So if you aren’t going to stop me” You tell her. “I’m just going to go ahead and walk over to the outskirts of town and win this thing, okay?”

“Go ahead” She says and waves you off.

You head over to the outskirts of the ghost town. You hear the sound of multiple boom tubes opening up, one of which is right in front of you. An armed guard comes out, and ushers you through the golden glowing tunnel.

You find yourself back in your classroom. Your other two classmates are already there waiting, the black kid is getting a large gash knitted back together by the red light of a Fatherbox.

Roxy and Tara arrive shortly after you do, along with your teacher.

“Group A” She says as she looks to the Black Kid and the fit guy with the dark hair “You failed. Miserably. Please reflect on the importance of surveillance and contemplate the danger of rash action. You will both be pulled from free time tonight to do remedial work with one of my assistants.”

“Group B” She says as she turns to look at you and the girls “You succeeded, technically. In the future I would recommend that you try to draw less attention to yourselves. While effective your tactics were hardly covert. In the real world such tactics would likely draw in unwanted attention. Perhaps even draw the eye of the Justice League, which would greatly diminish your chances of success. You will not be assigned remedial work, for now.”

“Now” She says “With that business concluded, let us return to lecture.”
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>>3551481
>>3551491
Nah I was thinking of the anon who said we could form a hole in our stomach to pull the statue back out. I'm fairly certain that being able to separate and then reconnect flesh is more than a simple shapeshift.
We could vomit it back up though.

>>3551488
Stomach acid isn't my area of study but I'm sure there should be some damage to the statue. If we create a pocket and the teacher/observers are canny enough they may notice that aside from being coated in bodily fluids, there is no inherent damage to the statue.
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>>3551519

The sudden shift from violent struggle to classroom learning is rather jaring, but you sit down to get started. Well, everyone else sits down. You get pulled aside by one of the staff and asked to regurgitate the statue. The less said about that painful experience, the better.

After you come back the afternoon passes pretty quickly. You come back into the classroom as the teacher hammers the importance of properly casing the joint and keeping out of the limelight as much as possible into your classes skulls. She doesn’t phrase it that way of course, her terms are a lot classier than that, but that’s how you understand it after you translate it out of rich snob.

A few of her examples of why it’s important not to draw attention reference Batman, implying she’s tangled with him before, which you suppose is kind of impressive. It's Batman after all, but you notice something kind of odd. When she speaks of the Bat it’s kind of wistful rather than what you’d expect from someone speaking about an old enemy. Her tone is completely different than the bitter condescending way Larson speaks about the Doom Patrol, or the good cheer that fills his voice as he remembers some of the heroes he got one over on when he fought them. Odd.

After an hour or so of lecture you spend the rest of the afternoon working on lock picking, and she shows you some electronic tools that can be used to spoof security systems such as cameras. You kind of prefer the hands on stuff to the lecture, even if you’re kind of shit at the lock picking.

You head off to dinner with the girls and the other two members of your class remain behind with a few of the staff, who begin pulling out blueprints and setting up the projector. Sucks to be them. Hopefully Caitlin didn’t end up having to deal with something similar, but honestly a bit of remedial work isn’t that bad if she did.

When you get to the Cafeteria you look around. White Hair is sitting facing the door, watching the entrance. He catches your eye as you come in, and then he smiles at you. A vicious little smile as his eyes light up with a dark amusement.

“I know something you don’t” his expression screams “And you aren’t going to like it nearly as much as I do.”

Still smirking at you, he inclines his head towards your table. Ralph is sitting there alone. He’s not eating, just staring down at his tray. His food hasn’t been touched. He seems frozen in place, just staring at his tray.
So, how do you all want to spend your evening?

>Training

>Study

>Socialization
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Well I've stayed up entirely too late. We'll start a new thread tomorrow. I might repeat some of this to get us going just to make sure no one misses anything.

Good night everyone.

Sudden tone shift between the write up and the choice? I have no idea what you're talking about.....
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>>3551533
Shit. Another brainwash victim?!

>Training with Tara. Maybe try and shift into her and back again.
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>>3551533
>>Socialization
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>>3551533
>Socialization
Wtf happend Ralph?
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>>3551540
I'm all for training but larson said to never change into someone without him
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>>3551547
... Change into Larson then?
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>>3551547
That's a good point. Switch to
>Socialization
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>>3551533
>Socialization
Spaghetti ready for spillage
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>>3551533
>Training
We aren't strong enough to tussle with our peers yet we need more training
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>>3551622
+1
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>>3551533
>Socialization
>Say something like: Whatever, see ya later Elsa and then wistle Frozen theme song while leaving.
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>>3551533
Gonna post this video i've been reminded of with this class stuff. it's pretty neat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnmcRTnTNC8
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>>3551629
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Ni1hZiVmM
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>>3551533
>Training

Seriously guys, James‘ Powers are amazing and versatile, but if he doesn’t practice any tricks things like Caitlins Super Strength are always going to trump us.

Can someone post the new thread when it’s online?
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>>3551647
The problem is that our neater tricks will alarm/arouse HIVE enough that they'll bring in Psimon for extended sessions alongside Wax. And also require higher proficiency with the power than Jim has right now.
All-around improvement is good enough for the moment, and might also reveal interesting possibilities.

However, I could go over some late-game tricks I thought up if you want.
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>>3551533
>Socialization
What happened to Ralphy? Where's C and L?
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>>3551658

I’m intrigued, what did you think of?

I was thinking that a Brain Boye form could help negate the effects of psychic invasions as well.
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>>3551691
>after getting Kryptonian DNA, eyes on stalks all over our body to use as blasters or air vents to shoot freezing breath out of
>infectious lumps of flesh that grow on/in foreign biomass extremely quickly and digest it
>retroviruses that insert our DNA into other people, transforming them into clones of us
>flesh buds
Fun tricks.
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>>3551533
>Socialization
COLD NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY
>3551658
Tell us. I'm still hoping for the YUGE density option. I want us to weigh like 2000 lbs, would be cool
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>YUGE density option.
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>>3551533
>When she speaks of the Bat it’s kind of wistful rather than what you’d expect from someone speaking about an old enemy. Her tone is completely different than the bitter condescending way Larson speaks about the Doom Patrol
Whoa wait hold up now.
Well goddamn, could the Acquisitions teacher be either Catwoman or even Talia??

>>3551721
>Huge Quest: Metahuman Boogaloo
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>>3551739
It's more likely to be Talia. Catwoman's not evil enough, she was noted to have a "slight accent" and HIVE does have connections to the League of Shadows.
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>>3551759
Also iirc she shittalked Catwoman during the lesson didn't she?
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>>3534462
>“Always remember children that the true master thief is a master planner” She tells you. “Not just a limber contortionist or a skilled safe cracker.
>>3551793
So she did.
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>>3551533
>socialize, find out what’s going on from Ralph. Also, don’t respond to Snowballs taunting, just walk pass him since we’re clearly far more concerned with our team than with his idiocy.

Also DONT do any stupid shit like whistle let it go since something bad clearly happened to our friends and I feel that would take precedence in Joes mind over further antagonizing Snowball. (Especially antagonizing him further for no good reason.)
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>>3551533
>Socialize

Go to Ralph, figure out what happened/where everyone else is. Ignore White Hair.
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>>3551824
>Antagonizing him further for no good reason.
He literally laughed about Ralph getting brainwashed IN OUR FUCKING FACE. He doen't need a reason to antagonize us, we have alredy given him two chances to stop his bullshit and he laughs about somethingpersonal and horrible like it's nothing. Retarded people like Snowball never learn, they only understand one thing: strength. If we give him even the slightest freedom to shittalk about our friends, he'll think we are intimidated and up the asshole until we explode, rip his fucking throat off and get zombified by Psimon. If we are the one "stealthy" pushing him to the limit, he will snap and we beat him in self defense. We can't avoid the war, not with Wax turning everyone into villians, the best we can do now is make sure our friends are alright (and talk to the lonely girl).
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>>3551992
>Socialize
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>>3551992
We might have to 'commissioner gordon' snowflake...
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>>3551533
>>Socialization

>>3551992
First of all, we have no clue what the fuck happened with Ralph. Second of all, don't justify all this bullshit because Wax, it's been stated multiple times now how fucking slow he is, we've got a confirmation from his own mouth that it takes MONTHS. Thirdly, and most importantly, what exactly makes you think that they won't try to push Psimon on US if White Hair snaps? They've got fucking mindreaders, they'll be able to go through his mind, it doesn't matter how "stealthy" we are. If they deem us to be an aggravating factor to the students, they're going to lobotomize us regardless. How about we just keep calm and not "explode" because a retard keeps getting on our shit?
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>>3552023
But how are we going to make a bat signal?
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>>3552065
We'll paint one on his back once we've gordoned him
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>>3552088
So we shoot his daughter in the spine?
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>>3552089
I thing we've got very different ideas of what gordoning means. It's simple, we rape the snowflake
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>>3552100
>we rape the snowflake
>then we become pregnant with his daughter
>then we give her a teratomashoot her in the back after she comes out
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>>3552100
But that's jokering.
Being gordoned is when you vanish when people's backs are turned
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>>3552100
Ok... that's not what I meant about showing him our strenght, It would be both terrific and hilarious seeing Big Guy staring at him like pic related in the showers but I think we should not rape him (leave that for his dreams).
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Alright, I'm going to get started on the new thread, and when it's up I'll post a link here. Might take me just a bit.


>>3551629

Neat

>>3551635
>>3552162

This teratoma thing is going to become a running gag here isn't it?

>>3551793
>>3551800

>She shit talked Catwoman

that she did, see the following quotation

>>3534456

>that home wrecking whore Kyle

>>3551759

>Talia

Maybe, maybe not. You'll have to wait and see.
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>>3552490
Ah, i get what you're saying, lets try and make it at least somewhat consentual, like a tsundere snowflake. Plus, since we're a shapeshifter, we could add a bit more mindfuckery to it
>implying our normal form doesn't fuck with him enough
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>>3552510
NO
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>Inb4 it is Catwoman who's just being self deprecating.
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>>3552510
akun GET OUT
This is not a sex quest
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>>3552534
>>3552531
Relax, I'm just kidding. Who's akun, though?
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Anyone have any tags they'd like to recommend for the suptg archive?
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>>3552532
Next class she starts talking about Catwoman, then it escalates to screaming and insults and she ends up crying in the floor mumbling "why don't you love me batman".
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>>3552545

because sometimes grief drives people apart.
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>>3552537
Akun/anonkun/fictionlive is a website dedicated to quests... Sadly the only 'quests' on it are weird fetish shit pretending to have some kind of plot. Underage weeaboo sex and ntr is rampant over there.
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>>3552542
Fuck Psychics.
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>>3552542
>wedonteatpeople
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>>3551992
All he did was make a smug face from across the room. Antagonizing him further at this point does absolutely nothing to further our goals. All it does is make you/James feel better cause you're getting back at the bully. Why escalate the rivalry further when it literally gets us nothing at this point?

At least during the actual test we just had antagonizing him could have given us tangible benefits like information or just getting inside his head. Right now it accomplishes nothing.

Keep in mind, James is a Nerd/Wallflower. He's used to keeping his head down and taking the high road.
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>>3552542
>mightymorphingteenagerwithattitude
>mindfuckery
>10reasonstohateice
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>>3552542
Body horror.

It's kind of true and also the body horror quest uses that tag too. Sharing tags with other quests is a good way of getting more people to see yours.
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>>3552563
No man that's cheap publicity. Also, be savage and tag it as Snow white an his 7 inches.
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Headmistress: Daily mindscan initiated, proceed Psimon.
P: Ok boss.
>Be White hair.
>You feel sad today so you'll cheer up bulling someone.
W: Hey I'll go and talk to that (handsome) freak, maybe I can make him jump (over me) this time.
P: Ehhh, what?
>You spot him in the cafeteria, he's next to the blond chick, and the amazon, the blue haired girl is in front of him.
W: Good morning (extremely hot) freaks.
Liz: Get lost you fucking asshole.
Mercer: Liz, please don't talk to secondary characters.
P: PffffffHAHAHAHA.
W: What?!?
M: Sorry but if we don't follow the script we'll get fired, and you know how bad is to be fired from Disney, I don't even know where your seven dwarves ended up.
L (Oh my, this is good)
W: I'm not..!!!
M: Yeah, yeah, we all know how things go, you make one mistake and things SNOWBALL to hell.
W: OK, NOW I'M DONE WITH YOUR BULLSHIT.
M: And then you have to take shitty jobs as the Ice Queen.
HIVE mook: Shouldn't we avoid a fight breaking out?
P/H: No way, this is fucking gold. >Psimon says: bring me more popcorn.
W: KEEP THAT SHIT UP AND YOU'LL END UP FROZEN.
M: Let it go, let it go, you can't wold it back any moooore~
W: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
H/P/AVM man: HAHAHAHAHAHA,
B R U T A L.
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>>3552672
Okay, from now on we have to call White Hairs side the seven dwarves, no matter how many of them there are.
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>>3552556
>James is a Nerd/Wallflower
Not anymore, we've gone totally off the rails. We're a chad now.
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>>3552542
Also, could you post the link to the new thread here when it's made?
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>>3552817
>Literally does stuff in the middle of a mission because it's what a dnd character did.

yeah, no, he's a nerd/wallflower.
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>>3552853
>>3552817
Worse, he's a wallflower unknowingly masquerading as a chad. Also known as 'the wildcard'
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>>3552551
If you look really, really hard, you can find a decent sfw quest there. The question is now whether you want to go through the waist-high mud to find a single pearl you really don't, eugh.

But enough about akun, this is /qst/.
>>3552672
>unironically singing Disney songs
CRINGE REEEEEEEEEE
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Updoot tonight?
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>>3553050

Yes, Very close, maybe twenty or thirty minutes at this point. Very sorry for delay.
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>>3553057
What do you have to be sorry for? This is the first time, at least for me. To get not only a constant stream of updates and reliable scheduling, but to have it on an hourly basis. Most QMs can't even do a weekly.
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New thread is up. Time to Migrate.

>>3553097

>>3553097

>>3553097

Come along everyone.



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