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Apocalypse: Generic System is out of Amazon Prison!
You heard that right, Apocalypse: Generic system is out on parole and looking to score! Put in prison for a crime it didn’t commit, this book is looking to find the man that killed its wife…. But seriously, they’ve been out of commission for 10 days because of the System Apocalypse Trademark, and I’m starting to think that Amazon is entirely run by robots. If any of you amazing peeps out there are willing to signal boost their return, shout in your friends ears, or scream into the unfeeling void of the internet on my behalf, I would be...
Next mini-arc suggestions
Ideas I already have:1: killbots break down the wall of the newly dug-out shower room while Perry is showering in it.2: Wall break in the area?3: A bad trigger?4: Why is Brendon so valuable anyway?5: life Outside the wall/The Railway explored?6: city attacked by a Major villain? Chemestro/Perry have to not kill each other during it.Yeah, I'm a little in need of stuff to do. I wanna do the abandoned lair with killbots idea soon, but after that, not totally sure. This weekend is a great time to figure out some ideas to start working on Monday...
Chapter 47: You’re Cordially Invited
Perry was standing in the middle of the road, cars swerving around him as he glanced at the website again. He reached over and zoomed out and panned from side to side until he liked what he saw, then let it snap back to close focus.“You don’t seem very happy.” Hardcase said.“That suit I lost the other day had some proprietary tech in it, and I couldn’t find it.”“Do you have trackers in your suits?” Hardcase asked“Yeah, went to the place it last registered and found a suit-shaped hole in the sand.” Perry said with a scowl. A ...
Chapter 46: Nemesis ≠ Bullying
“I saw that video and I just about had a heart attack!” Mom said, fussing over Perry while he tried to eat dinner. “Solaris thought it was funny, but I don’t think they should let this Chemestro character go around bullying other supers. Especially not my boy!”“He’s not bullying me, Mom, he’s my nemesis,” Perry said, trying to weave a slice of pizza past his mom and into his mouth. While it was still warm, preferably.“Kids need a nemesis or two growing up. Builds character.” Dad said, stealing a slice of Perry’s pie.Perr...
Feedback required
This is the rough draft of the cover for Industrial Strength Magic. Cool, uncool? How could it be more cool?How could it be less uncool? Please, Blow this thread up!I personally think the guy's a little too beefy to be Perry, but (shrug) And maybe a teeny bit more eyecandy for Hardcase to gawk at, but that's about all the notes I have.
Chapter 45: The Highlight Reel
Perry signed the paperwork that said he would submit to military command, and wasn’t going to sue for anything that happened to him on the wall, handing it back to the woman behind the desk.“You guys a team?” the clerk asked, dark circles under her eyes. A moment later there was a distant explosion and a bit of dust fell down from the ceiling onto her desk.She didn’t even blink.“We’re gonna fight together, yeah.” Perry motioned to the three of them.“What’s your Nexus Team I.D.?” She asked.“….crud.”******Hardcase was as...
Chapter 44: Taking Inventory
“Hey, you can’t just-“Chemestro walked through the barred door to the ‘Employee Entrance’ before tipping the salt balance of the guard behind it, rendering him unconscious instantly.He descended the stairs with a measured pace, reaching a dark warehouse filled with the faint scent of blood and cleaning agent, along with an undercurrent of old paper and…hide?Interesting.“So apparently anyone can just waltz in nowadays,” A biker-looking thug with a scar on his forehead said, putting down a bowl of ramen and reaching for a pistol b...
Chapter 43: Worrisome Side-Effects
Okay, I think my theory might be correct. Perry thought, looking at his status.Paradox Zauberer (Perry Z.)Class: Garage TinkerLevel 4HP: 5Body: 4Stability: 4Nerve: 8Attunement: 18Free Points:5XP to next level 2441He’d been at 16 Attunement when he’d gone from level three to level four.1.05^16=2.18He should’vegotten three free points this level. 1 base +2 for the Generalist perk. Instead he got five. One plus double the Generalist perk.The question is when does the exponential growth level out? And what form does it take? Every exponential...
Chapter 42: Rampage FOMO
***Chemestro***“Chemestro, fancy meeting you here.” Metalon said as Chemestro entered the Tinker’s office.Metalon was a swarthy fellow with a wide frame, and an abysmal 5-34 win-loss ratio who’d gotten out of the super game a long time ago. Nowadays he supplied information, tinker-tech, and acted as a bookie.He must’ve found out that taking bets on super matchups was more profitable than fighting them.“It’s not unexpected. I wanted information on Paradox, and you offered it.”“I…see.” Metalon said. “I suppose I should sti...
Chapter 41: Plans and Workout
Paradox WizardM.D.“How many of those shirts did you make?” Heather asked, sitting in the tiny schooldesk that Perry had made for the occasion.“They were having a sale, so basically I’m gonna keep going through them until I get a laugh outta you.”“Good luck, I guess.” Heather shrugged.“Alright,” Perry popped open the cap on his dry erase marker, marking the top of the whiteboard.CHEMESTRO“Alright, after reviewing the tapes of the night before, I’ve deduced that his power is…PermeabilityThe board squeaked as Perry wrote th...
State of the Villain Address
So when Chemestro was introduced, just a short time into writing it, I decided that the best role would be a dark mirror of what Perry could've been, raised to be a super BY supers.I also realized that with the way I have their starting points, over the course of the series they could easily improve themselves by studying the other.Perry by improving his self-discipline and cold pragmatism.Chemestro by creating a support network and emotional stabilityIn regards to a heel turn:It's possible, but the best heel turns are the ones that hap...
Chapter 40: That’s Not How Therapy Works
Perry dragged himself out of the water, gasping in a desperate breath as he surfaced, clutching the edge of the pool with white knuckles.Coughing out the irritating chlorine, Perry scanned the surrounding poolside.It was complete anarchy.About two thirds of the supers present were fighting for the fun of it. Even Mom had gotten into it, hitting Gorganna with bolts of lightning that scattered off the snake-woman’s scales like water.Grampa was chatting with Gramma in the corner while Gramma’s bloodbound shadow bodyguards formed a humanoid wal...
Chapter 39: Tactical Hugs
***Hardcase**Natalie grabbed a burger from the grill and sat down at the plastic picnic table beside Wraith, visible across the entire pool because of her halo of beautiful red-gold hair.Wraith was slouched on the bench-seat, her back against the edge of the table, looking out at the party itself with a mildly amused smirk.The confident attitude Wraith had towards life just...looked good on her, and Hardcase often found herself wishing she could have a fraction of it. Natalie worried about everything.“How’s it going?” Natalie asked, slidi...
Chapter 38: Embrace The Chaos
The chants to the Elysian goddess reached a crescendo as unnatural winds began to swirl around the summoning setup, nearly putting out the blue pilot lights he’d substituted for candles.Perry figured if the spell called for maximum purity from the candles and minimum smoke. That meant perfect combustion. Perfect combustion=pilot lights.Well, I guess we’re gonna find out.In the middle of the summoning circle was a flattened chunk of lead, the bullet he’d taken to save that woman from Dave. Or visa versa.Hopefully that counted as a token of...
The BBQ brawl
So obviously crazy shit has to go down. In This post you may suggest the crazy shit that goes down at Perry's pool-party BBQ:Supers and their powers.Who fights who.ancient curses, walking eyes, lazer guns, what have you.I can tell you one thing that is definitely going to happen because it's hilarious. Grampa is on the paternal side of the family, a widower, and he is smooth.Hide your magical grammas!
Chapter 37: Perry Bites Off More Than He Can Chew
There were 4 basic spells that Perry wanted to work on today.Summoning,Unethical Blood rituals,Protective charms,Disintegration (with chain effects, if possible)Frost and fire spellsModifying the properties of Areonite.Permanent floating armaments, to create a linked computer.(that was more than four, wasn’t it?)Starting from the top. Summoning rituals were largely similar, they usually involved candles set up in a specific pattern, incenses that would either attract or repell certain entities, and a token of meaning to these creatures. Somet...
Chapter 36: Disappointment and improvisation
As the super Dazzle did not make it to processing by Nexus, the request for a capture payment is void, additionally, the super Paradox freed Dazzle from police custody, which carries with it a fine of $80,000 and up to two weeks of time Drafted.Nexus understands the extenuating circumstances involved and have elected to follow through on payment of the Invasive Species Extermination bounty, waiving the Draft and deducting the fine assessed from the bounty.Total earned: $20,000“Dangit,” Perry muttered as he inspected the letter from his bank...
Chapter 35: Into the Flier
***Dazzle***“So, umm…how’s this work exactly?” Jason asked the police officer keeping his hands behind his back.“We take you down to Nexus, get you into the system, then do a quick trial and probably a couple weeks of community service.” The cop said.“Community service? For attempted murder?”“It’s High Tide, kid. City’s basically under martial law, and a lot of super first-time crimes get downgraded to misdemeanors to keep supers flowing to the wall.”“In short, you got lucky.” His partner said.“Indeed. If you ever ...
Chapter 34: Out Of The Frying Pan
There were four other supers on site when they arrived, barely visible under the swarm of wasps and blazing heat until they go close enough to reinforce them, some fifty feet away from the massive concrete structure.Through all the insect legs and heat, Perry could barely make out the fortification the bugs had made.It seemed a lot smaller from the air. It was about three stories tall and wider than he’d expected by a huge margin. With the way some of the windows of the building revealed more activity beyond, Perry was fairly sure the nest ha...
Chapter 33:Lockdown
There are about 800 million insects for every human on the planet. They each have a chance to Trigger.Even if only one in a million trigger, and one in a thousand of those are viable…we are still vastly outnumbered.The most common Trigger for insects is gigantism, a way to bypass the square-cube law without sacrificing any of their relative strength and speed. When a queen from the order Hymenopterans Triggers, she will pass this trait down to her progeny.This can quickly become a problem.Mostly annoying before High Tide, once humans became a...
Which monster Tomorrow?
So two of the suggestions got a decent amount of likes, and I'm fine with either one.The winner will be the swarm outbreak the sirens are indicating.The loser will receive honorable mention by the characters (making both canon) and possibly be reshuffled for a future battle(transcribed directly from the suggestions)1:Mutant lamprey/crab hybrids. Think the facehuggers from Alien, but with a mouth and sharp teeth and the widest part about the size of a hand and a tail a couple feet long for adults. Maybe they mutated to prey/parasitize from p...
What are the sirens for?
Sometimes as an author, you write a cliff without knowing what it is, or why, it just fits nicely.I'm attempting to crib largely off of Superminion. This particular mini-arc in his story was based around an infestation of mutated mosquitos (vampires)What kind of bug or nasty force can we have that would help worldbuilding, while also putting a section of the city into lockdown?Tiny replicators tunnelled in?Mosquitos, directly lifted from Gogglesbear?Some other insect?I just don't know the specifics. Suggestions welcome. I've got abo...
Chapter 32: Prop Comedy
***Claudette***“Hi, mom,” Claudette said, wincing as her mother stormed into her home, taking off her praxa wool scarf and hanging it up on the coatrack before heading for the dinner table.“Family meeting,” Mom said. “Get your clown of a husband out here.”“You called?” Darryl asked, poking his head out of the broom closet that led to his lair.Mom motioned for them to sit.Claudette gingerly sat across from her mother, beside Darryl.“You two are going to explain to me exactly what you did to my grandson,” she said, clasping he...
Chapter 31: Mistakes Were Made
Perry was checking the accuracy of his newest spell-disc’s casting, and it was good.As close to 100% as a biological organism could be.Alright, I waited all day for this.Perry could have asked his mom to fix his broken arm, but where was the fun in that? Perry also half-suspected that his mom might refuse on the grounds of it not being life threatening and any magic she used would be under the Hexen identity, and she wanted him to learn a valuable lesson about playing with the big kids.Or maybe Perry was just being stubborn. She had freaked o...
Next Mini-arc?
1: Perry is cajoled into creating locker rooms and showers for male and female team members in his lair and this leads to him stumbling across another underground lair. (possibly in the middle of Heather bathing, Probably not)2: the healing spell prototype causes serious problems and Perry has to visit his estranged Grandma in Funkytown. (basically the queen of magical england)If you suggest a mini-arc that is hands down better than either of these, i will erase your comment and take credit for the idea.
What's your favorite Shipping Dynamic?
1: Childhood Friends: Heather and Perry date.2: Aligned interests: Hardcase and Perry date.3: Perry's Harem: Heather and Hardcase agree to share.4: It's always the quiet ones: Hardcase seduces both Perry and Heather.5: please God, no, just keep it a silly super story. Tease me forever.
Chapter 30: A Night In
Locust kicked up her heels and gave herself a mental pat on the back.There were two keys to running a successful business: Hard work, and seizing opportunities when they presented themselves.The cheapest power armor on the market was currently about 3.5 million. Paradox had opened negotiations with a price that was well below Locust’s minimum offer, which put her off for a moment, but if the rookie noticed her hesitation, he didn’t capitalize on it. The price tag did make her a little concerned about the quality, but at 50k per suit, it was...
Chapter 29: Obfuscation Through Chaos
…“What are you wearing?” Perry asked, glancing between Mom and Dad.Dad was wearing a really slim power armor with none of the superfluous size and raw mass that he was known for. It was painted ivory with gold trim and a rising sun printed in gold on the chestplate, with fake washboard abs stenciled on the front.It so far removed from Mechanaut’s brutal, unpainted pragmatism that Perry couldn’t quite comprehend what he was seeing. Which was the point, he supposed.“I bust out the paladin armor whenever I’m out on a date with your m...
We're gonna need a cover
So, eventually this series is gonna hit RR and possibly Amazon after that. I'd like to have one in the pipeline from my cover guy by the end of June, if possible. Here's what I've got so far:I'd like to condense and dramaticise his first fight with the prawn and make it into a cover.So the first image here is the general concept of the pose. a sort of 'bring it' feeling. Forget the clothes and weapons, just the pose.I was cruising through power armors when I saw the Hellcat armor from Fallout 76 and thought "yeah, so...
Chapter 28: Juggling train-wrecks
This text has been banned by decree of King Bron Zauberer for libel. If you are reading this, you are committing treason.The legendary Mimic, Abun’zaul.Abun’zaul was a powerful mimic who had spent many centuries growing and consuming, becoming ever more complex as it absorbed the remains of humans. Eventually, Abun’Zaul infiltrated a town in the form of a wanderer.Over the course of fifty years, Abun’zaul expanded through the town, growing like a cancer, taking on the lives of its victims without ever giving any of the other townspeople...
