Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

Well, if you're going with THAT, why not just 'port the universe in? Kevin as a young boy who triggers with a tinker ability to construct horribly painful deathtraps during a home invasion.

 

The movie came out in 1990, so well after Scion showed up, but IIRC, years before the Protectorate were founded (or maybe just before they became a government superteam). Hero was probably active already, so Kevin would have someone to compare his 'building stuff' power to.

 

I think there was Tinker with a similar specialty,but he ended up with a fate worst then death.... he became Butcher.

 

Well, Kevin lives in the suburbs of Chicago, so he probably would be avoiding that mess entirely. Hopefully. Well, he was going to get his fingers chewed off by the Wet Bandits, so bad things might happen.

If he were to be a tinker, he would be the most underrated one in existence. His traps don't really have that much in terms in moving parts. In my mind, Kevin was just using whatever items he had lying around to cause the most humiliation and pain possible, not going out and around gathering specific materials, unless you count lonely old people as specific materials, to build his traps.

That said, I would probably have Kevin get a Thinker power that shows him the best way to use an item to cause pain, physical or otherwise. Or I could just have him be a regular kid who's mistaken as a parahuman because who else would use a staple gun on someone's genitalia?

 

Armsmaster and Squealer. (He can cram a whole lotta junk in her trunk)

Triumph and Screamer. (Imagine Screamer being able to send Triumph's shouts to anyone within her range)

Miss Militia and String Theory. (String Theory builds the biggest guns, MM operates them without need for reload or maintenance)

Brandish and Marquis (gotta love that drama)

Noelle and Ballistic (Krouse will explode)

Citrine and Accord (They almost get it on in canon anyways, might as well)

 

I pretty much had this idea, before I read your snip. I'd love to see more. I'd also like to be able to do it myself... I do have some time off soon... Hmm.

Though TAW!Taylor would be pretty sweet too. Decisions, decisions.

 

If you want to give it a shot, go for it! RL has really been eating up the time an energy I normally use to write, and I'd love to see it continued. If not, I'll probably get around to writing it at some point.

 

... well, that was fucking horrifying.

Any chance that Legend will start seriously pursuing the S9 after this, or perhaps send Eidolon after them?

 

So I had this idea for a Railgun!Taylor. Or more accurately a RADIONOISE!"Taylor".

Taylor would gain her power sometime during her childhood. Control over electromagnitism. The precision and power of which increases with calculation ability which gradually rises with usage. But there's a second part of her power, the creation of near perfect clones of herself, the more of which exist the stronger any one can be at a given time by "borrowing" the calculation power of her sisters. The clones generate randomly and the clones themselves spawn other clones. When she joins the Wards this naturally becomes a problem, but at this point enough clones are generated to have a noticeable increase in her power and in a pragmatic move the Protectorate decides to put them to use, namely as cannon fodder against S-class threats. Clones are not legally people and their status as power created and their inexpressive faces and disappearing cadavers has the public not viewing them as real, it's only plaid up in the face and body concealing costumes they are made to wear.

This, of course, pisses off Taylor when she learns that they are purposely sending her "sisters" to die in the place of other parahumans. The PRT tells her it's a necessity given that her powers mean that her clones' numbers grow exponentially without a way to stop it and it was more useful than just gassing them when they grow too numerous. Even taking such measures the growth only increases, not helped by the group's growing power and experience thanks to their RADIO NOISE network letting them share their knowledge and power. By the time cannon starts nearly 40000 are currently active across America, each ranking around a shaker/blaster 5, or collectively powering up a small few to Triumvirate levels of bullshit. Feeling threatened now that very few of the clones are dying and only growing in number and power the Protectorate decides to act proactively.

The clones are collected and put down in synchrony. Within minutes over half the population is exterminated before information leaks to the network and the rest escape. Taylor acts in a rage and attacks the Protectorate but when faced with The Triumvirate and unable to call upon the full network access due to losses and the sisters need for it she gets taken down hard, and finished off by Eidolon. The Protectorate had hoped her death would result in the clones disappearing but were disappointed, though the spawning appeared to have stopped. The PRT then has to deal with the remaining clones, most of which escaped custody. Eventually the courts decide that they are no longer considered an S-class threat and tentatively dismiss the kill on site orders.

In the mean time Eidolon learns that his powers increased dramatically with the death of Hebert, consulting Cauldron and using some Thinkers they realize that his powers return with the death of the clones for some unknown reason, now that Hebert is dead. It's predicted that with the deaths of the rest of them over a period of time could return Eidolon's power to full and then some. And thus begins the hunt of the remaining Taylors.

This is where the story begins, following the dwindling SISTERs group that holds out in Brockton bay, unwilling to abandon the city their Older Sister had loved and tried to protect. The group would consist of a Big Sis, one of the rare double digits that survived, the Youngest Sister who was created minutes before the extermination, several of the Rebellious who are sisters who are sisters who want to be more unique and are more disconnected from the network than most, and a lot of regular SISTERS.

 

That is just fucked up.

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Fits surprisingly well with worm. Good job.

 

:O

You should have a group of SISTERs that want revenge and find a way to increase their numbers again.

 

Reposting this here since this is where it actually belongs.

I'm kinda wanting a story where Danny becomes excessively frustrated at being stonewalled every step of the way until he eventually starts using legbreakers dockworkers to get his own brand of revenge against the school. He has a phonebook to find out where the school staff live, plus there are plenty of ways to destroy the facilities to the point where closing the school and paying to send the students elsewhere would be cheaper than fixing everything.

The PRT/P would be looking for the new parahuman gang leader with a grudge against Winslow while ignoring the mundane explanations behind it.

This could also involve Taylor in a role similar to Mafia Princess where all the dockworkers like her and are more than willing to get revenge on her behalf for free.

 

Why not have Danny actually be a mob boss? Maybe he was the head of the Original Merchants, who live up to the name by selling goods and services. When he left the better elements left with him, the remaining eventually gravitated to Skidmark. It'd be sorta like the Blue Scarves and Yellow Squares in DRRR. So when the story starts he will have preexisting network and good criminal connections to work with. Something like Mikado's later characterization would work for him well.

 

That could work too but I was more thinking this would be the impetus behind him becoming a mob boss.

The boys don't mind all that much, the looting earns them abit of extra cash anyway and it's not like there is much, or any, shipping containers that take more than 30 min a day to deal with.

Meanwhile Taylor is developing into Skitter in the background and eventually Warlord!Skitter has need to sit down at the table and negotiate with Union Man. Both are feeling some major deja vu as the awkwardness at the negotiating table is almost exactly like the awkwardness as the few times they have sat down to have dinner together in their civ ID's.

Them finding out each others' ID's is optional but would make for some hilarity and for them to finally figure out why Lisa hasn't stopped giggling for the last 3 days. She started when she first arranged the meeting and the broken comments about it running in the family make more sense now.

 

Something I put in SV.

Prompt: Zion, Eden, and Abadon; Reach our Solar system and find it to quiet but they find Earth, badly for them that Earth is the one Old World of Darkness with all the nasty things, the Parahumans end destroying the Paradox; Taylor Awakes as a mage, maybe Annete and Danny were mages maybe one of them was a Progenitor, and the other was a member of the Society of Ether, Taylor was their joint experiment, (backstory for a harem protagonist).

Myrdin in this universe is really a mage. (He is really one)

Sophia is Werewolf of the feminazi type.

Sabah father did not die in this universe he was saved by a Taftani who was a friend of the family. (Did not help with her family relationship)

Nilbog is an exworker from Pentex (one of the lucky ones).

People thinks that Amy is a Tzimisce. (Half truth)

Endbringers are just gaint monsters that are around the planet, chilling out.

How would you Expand the idea?

 

There was that one Worm/OWoD cross by... that one dude. With the Brujah named Bloodbath while Battery and Vista were covert mages infiltrating the Protectorate or something. Behemoth got solo'd by the Ravnos Antediluvian, werewolves were a public menace that nobody understood.

It was very interesting, but like many interesting fics it died before completion.

 

Werewolves have some kind of Delirium thing, right? They'd be Strangers on top of being Brutes?

That would have an interesting impact, given the prevalence of Master/Stranger counter-measures.

Hmm, that might be interesting -- super-hero counter-measures end up catching way more than anticipated. The world is fucked up in ways you never imagined, and it always has been, and we have it on film.

Perhaps capes are actually a Seer plot to discredit the truth of magic.

 

For reasons of 'Eidolon read different things leading up to their appearance' and/or 'Eidolon interpreted Contessa's statement differently', the Endbringers do not manifest as individual giant monsters, but as invading civilizations of parahumans (or at least, powered & high-tech races who might be descended from humans, given that Case 53s are humans altered by their powers). Most members of each civilization are fairly low-powered, but they all have some Elites that are serious threats individually.

What would have been Behemoth manifests as the Mole People, an amalgamation of various underground civilizations that show up in comics and a few pulps, make a mess, and get driven off. Tend to be very pale, have big eyes, and odd heads, and travel around in high-tech mole-machines (pretty much drill-tanks of various types). Their Tinkertech is a factor in how dangerous they are, but not as great a one as their numbers or ability to arrive and escape without sufficient warning. A lot of their Elites have Earth-manipulating or Lava-manipulating powers, and of course the most powerful ones are fairly close to true dynakinetics.

What would have been Leviathan manifests as the Empire of Atlantis. They have a wider range of looks, from Deep Ones (with a partially-pheromonal Fear effect that may make GG less popular if she still has it in this setting), merfolk (with fishtails and a tendency to stay far from the land and do support work, or drive tank-equivalents), humanoids (look like unmodified or only-slightly-modified humans, but can breathe under water). Most of the Atlantean Elites are humanoids, apart from Dagon, who appears to be a giant, mutated Deep One, and Siren, a mermaid (or perhaps a group of mermaids) with significant Master powers. Unlike the Mole People, the Atlanteans have a lot of magic-themed Tinkertech and pseudo-magical powers, but their mundane tech and non-magic-themed Tinkertech tends to seem less advanced than that of the Mole People. As well as coastal cities, they may attack large congregations of ships, or areas where large numbers of oil platforms are close together.

What would have been Simurgh manifests as various alien invaders, and usually doesn't appear as the same 'race' twice in a row, though some 'races' do repeat. They often have the most advanced-seeming Tinkertech, though captured Atlantean 'magic items' tend to at least match and sometimes exceed their capabilities (and the tech's apparent level varies from 'race' to 'race,' as do the themes available, simulating different mindsets and technological paths). Some 'races' are known to have subtle Master powers, but not all of them. As with the others, a lot of the invaders are suspiciously like aliens from various comics, novels, TV, movies, and modern myth (e.g. Greys, Klingons, Thanagarians, Martians, Actual Space Nazis, and so forth). When defeated the flyable spacecraft tend to leave the atmosphere, and then vanish into what appears to be various types of FTL - though no FTL engine is ever captured. The existence that would have been called Simugh is still working toward the same goal as in canon, but has an easier time of it, due to the uncertainty about how connected the various 'races' are, and the lack of awareness that any of them (not just some of them) can do long-term mind-control. Occasionally, two or more 'races' will attack at the same time, and either end up fighting each other, with most of the damage done appearing to be collateral, or show up as allies, or as two opposing alliances. The existence that would have been called Simurgh is generally consistent about who is allied with who, but will change things up sometimes, simulating interstellar politics.


Invaders captured alive tend to be variably unhelpful, and are generally low-ranking, thus not being able to supply much intelligence, even once you learn their language - and of course, anything you get from captured aliens is exactly what the existence that would have been called Simurgh wants you to know. She probably has less precise control over what the Atlanteans or Mole People say.

The answer to 'why are you attacking, and how can we get you to stop' will tend to be unhelpful, or require something that isn't really an option, like stopping all mining, or no-longer polluting the seas nor having ships travel on or in them, and so on.


Thoughts?

 

I remember that fic it was very interesting, think it was some readers that managed to annoy the writter.

 

This is sick. And dumb. Mostly dumb. You're talking about a minor. A kid who's a member of their oragnization with standardised powers and and the ability to communicate. How would she not know about the suicides? Why would the protectorate toss good old fashioned stable blasters fives.

40 k capes is like a significant portion of the world wide cape population. Useful for coordinated assualts against normal parahumans. And Taylor does have a expiration date. And there are dead planets to send her too.



Alexandria comes up and say. Taylor dear we're going to be having population issues. We've recently discovered a method to make portals and were funding an expedition to colonize it. we want you to do security.

 

Scourge Caste Taylor is hard to write unless going murder-crack. I've rewritten what I have three times (one of those times was to an ill-timed update and forgetting to save though) and the best I can come up with is a murderously eager puppy that doesn't really fit with Taylor at all.

With all the Twilight Caste Solar Taylors out there I'm kind of surprised to see so few (I don't think I've seen any, actually, which is extra strange since with an demon riding piggyback, you could feasibly get Taylor some first circle sorcery with some very minor shenanigans) Defilers even though Taylor is pretty much what SWLIHN looks for in an Exalt. Feels betrayed by the world, knows the system in place is broken/non-functioning, lost her mother (and her father emotionally) to a blip on the radar of fate.

 

Yeah, that was a problem I had, too. The thing about the Infernal shards is that they choose people based on the qualifications of their old Solar qualifications (albeit ones who failed), so I could see Taylor as either of the two. If she's not a Defiler, she'd almost certainly have SWLIHN as her favored Yozi.

Anyway, as far as writing her as a Scourge goes, Adorjan's charmset is more than a bit Loony-Toony. One charm let's you steal someone's voice with a kiss, another let's you fall in love with anyone of your choosing, and anyone trying to catch an Infernal who learned her movement charms is destined for Roadrunner & Coyote shenanigans.

Edit: Oh! and we can't forget the hammer-space weapons, either .

 

Yeah, her charmset is kinda silly, or rather it can be rather silly. It really makes me think of something along the lines of:

"Boop!" came through the comms. The Thinkers gathered in the tent turned and looked at each other.

"Did [insert cape name for Taylor] just 'boop' Leviathan?"

"Yes."

They group watched the screens, not quite believing what they were seeing.

"And Leviathan is giving chase?"

"Yes."

"What has this world come to?"

 

Then there's the shipping charm, Wind-Carried Passion and its upgrade Embracing Empty Passion. You can get up to all kinds of shenanigans with that.

Spoiler: Charm text

 

First, their not suicides, the Protectorate is slowly replacing the front lines of S-class fights with the Sisters, because the Sisters are replaceable Capes, if one dies another is probably going to be born in a day or so anyway that's just as good. The setting has Clones not being regarded as human, both legally and publicly, and the Protectorate doing media handling to dehumanize the sisters so they can keep them as shock troops because, again they pretty much just spawn more.

And like you said it's a significant portion of the cape population, under the control of an already very powerful cape who's only getting more powerful. The plan was Take out the Sisters first because having 40k Blasters on the loose with a grudge is a bad thing. After the sisters were gone Cauldron would only have to deal with a significantly weakened Taylor. The shit hit the fan.

 

But it's a significant fraction of the cape population say it with me now on their payroll. Young malleable kissing the ground they walk on and ptv able.


They would never turn on her. She's too damn useful and controllable. They wouldn't do a dehumanization campaign on a fucking hive mind.

And they'd talk taylor into determination for the people at eighteen and junior weight determination at 14.