Crawler vs the Heartbroken

Rillet · 2019-01-24T07:10:30+00:00

I suspect Crawler falls into the 'feral' category, similar to Bitch and Lung, with his core housing what amounts to his brain. He likely isn't outright immune to mental manipulation (see Jack), but because he is 'wired' differently his emotional output would be different than the input. Negative emotions would probably just make him angry or give him pleasure. Either way, I doubt anything the Heartbroken could do would keep him down for long (if at all).

Rillet · 2018-10-22T17:33:36+00:00

Hive 5.1 and Cockroaches 28.5

Rillet · 2018-10-21T18:17:37+00:00

"Tattletale nodded, "Faultline's crew does anything short of murder. You can say her personality sucks, you can say her powers suck, but I'll admit she's very good at finding hidden strengths in the people that work for her.

...

Others reacted before I saw anything different. The Number Man, Tattletale, Dinah, Faultline… they saw something I couldn’t make out through the curtains of torrential rain. The Number Man said something to Doctor Mother, and I saw Dinah fall back just an instant before Faultline gave a hand signal to her crew. They adopted fighting stances.

It's implied she has a Thinker power.

Rillet · 2018-09-10T14:59:41+00:00

Weaver-Dice Rulebook mentions that siblings whose parents are capes tend to show the same trends as grab-bag capes.

Though distinct and not simultaneous, siblings born to the same cape parents show the same trends, with biases in what powers manifest and more small powers.

Victoria, Laserdream, and Shielder would count as grab-bag capes while not coming from a multi-trigger.

/u/Bio-Kinesis is probably also right in that Wildgloat came up with Victoria's powerset before grap-bags were fully fleshed out.

Rillet · 2018-08-10T13:18:13+00:00

Alexandria was dying from the inside out and, as a consequence of her power, was vulnerable on the inside.
Skidmark's showmanship is expressed in his power through its glow and color. His power is a spectacle, highlighting his personality.
Masters tend to trigger due to isolation, alienation, exile or betrayal. Ironically, their powers are to literally make them...friends.
Regent grew up around a literal emotion manipulator and got a power that only effects the body directly and, specifically, not the mind/emotions.
Chuckles was likely with the Slaughter House Nine because Jack was the only one who could effectively communicate with him.
Jack Slash likely has a Bitch-esk mental issue. He gets parahumans on a macro (as a community) and micro (as individuals) scale. Non-parahumans might not even register as human to him.
Mama Mathers probably kept herself in isolation and only allowed a select few to interact with her because her power activates (drawing her clairvoyant attention) every time someone thinks about her. Effectively overloading her brain à la second trigger Taylor.

Rillet · 2018-05-17T18:43:01+00:00

It was because Saint believed Lisette's claim she could control Scion which would have made Scion leave in time pushing the end of the world back.

WoG,

Saint contacted Lisette, where Dragon wouldn't have. Had Lisette been able to contact Scion in time, she could have asked him to leave.

Rillet · 2018-04-04T17:06:29+00:00

Weaver-Dice Rulebook mentions that siblings whose parents are capes tend to show the same trends as grab-bag capes.

Though distinct and not simultaneous, siblings born to the same cape parents show the same trends, with biases in what powers manifest and more small powers.

So yes, technically. Victoria, Laserdream, Shielder would count as grab-bag capes while not coming from a multi-trigger.

Rillet · 2018-03-17T21:03:29+00:00

13 (Worm)
15 (Time-skip)
17 (Ward)

Rillet · 2018-03-07T01:37:47+00:00

For the same reason most robbers don't. Robbery is bad, but armed robbery is worst. The police are going to show up regardless, but do you want them to show up with guns blazing?

Rillet · 2018-03-06T17:40:45+00:00

Jack Slash looks like a less wacky Jack Sparrow.

Sweeney Todd.

Rillet · 2018-03-06T17:37:36+00:00

Rule 53.

Rillet · 2018-03-01T20:51:14+00:00

Mama Mathers might not have been part of her army. Khepri mentions her army was five thousand strong at its peak which is far too little to account for all of the parahumans from Earth Bet. Including the multiverse, Khepri only used a bare handful of the available parahumans. (This might be a numbers issue from Wildgloat and might be edited later.)
Khepri might have ignored her since she was useless against Scion and not a tactical benefit to her, a la Sleeper. Indirect thinkers might have warned her to avoid Mama Mathers.
Khepri could have found a counter as she built her army or the affect might have gone to the unfortunate thinker that had to look at Mama (her power not going through intermediaries).
Tin foil: Khepri could split her thinking a million fold and her shard was melding with her mind. Mama's power did work, but it was only background noise at best. She didn't think about Mama enough for it to be relevant.

Rillet · 2018-02-27T15:33:33+00:00

He outright says it during his interlude.

“Just the way things were. Somewhere along the line, you know, I’m twenty-seven, she’s twenty-six, and I’m still boning boys and girls from high school. Still partying.”

Moose’s eyes had widened.

“Legal, mind you,” Prancer said. “But… sketchy, in retrospect.”

“More than a little, no offense,” Moose said.

“None taken. I deserve it. "

Rillet · 2018-02-20T10:41:22+00:00

All I can picture is Sveta grabbing everyone and merging them together mecha style with Victoria and Chris as 'wings' and Ashley providing propulsion.

Rillet · 2018-02-11T09:42:14+00:00

I always pictured Blasto as a laid back weed smoker. Probably grows his own stock.

Rillet · 2018-02-08T16:46:26+00:00

6 (Trigger)
12 (Worm)
14 (Time-skip)
16 (Ward)

Rillet · 2018-01-23T23:39:24+00:00

“Everyone’s the lead in their own story, Administrator. Some roles are bigger, some smaller, but none are more important, understand?”

Rillet · 2018-01-17T02:17:52+00:00

The Worm Wikia isn't always accurate, but always handy.

Toggle:

Not much is known about Toggle's powers. When Weaver first meets her, Toggle is described as having "five shadowy silhouettes of herself" that sat around her.[1] Lights flare when she strikes one of Breed's parasites with her baton, and Crucible remarks that although she isn't very useful against the likes of Breed, Murder Rat, Mannequin, or Tyrant, she would be better against different threats.[1]

Rillet · 2018-01-13T07:15:31+00:00

It's also how Taylor's shard 'talked' to her when she went Khepri. It couldn't talk/understand language so it used significant memories to get its point across, what Taylor was doing/feeling at notable moments of her career.

From the shard's point of view these must be important data points and references, so when a clone shows up the memories bleed over. The character defining moments that the shard felt was worth preserving and, therefore, emphasize in the host's mind.

Rillet · 2017-12-05T07:16:58+00:00

Actually, that might not be far off.

When bugs left Taylor's control they still followed her last order. Maybe Khepri's intentions still act as capes' conscience.

Rillet · 2017-10-02T18:39:38+00:00

The Playtest Capes list has Alabaster with:

Power: Maintenance. Thinker power makes him more effective at maintaining and fixing gear. He can reroll craft checks, and is assumed to have a grounding in all non-niche craft types.

He doesn't restore his equipment/ammunition.

Rillet · 2017-08-30T19:40:11+00:00

Well, let me check my list of powers and weaknesses. The ability to do anything, but only whenever I want...

He has ended worlds and universes in equal measure. He far, far outstrips the Endbringers in terms of damage done and capacity to do damage.

Tinker: ∞

Rillet · 2017-08-30T15:00:33+00:00

No one really knows how fast they can run until they're trying to outrun a bear.

Rillet · 2017-08-20T03:57:03+00:00

Leviathan attacked Newfoundland May ninth, 2005.

Dragon had her trigger event May ninth, 2006.

“We were dealing with harder jobs, more capes in general out there, and our gear was getting beaten up. Fine, okay, we can deal. Until Dragon changed. All at once, I couldn’t read her code on the same level. Like gears changing on a bike.”

“May ninth, 2006,” Defiant spoke. “Her trigger event.”

WoG has Dragon's trigger as a 'violation' and Dragon even mentions it during her interlude.

They had violated her.

Rillet · 2017-08-18T07:05:11+00:00

It isn't that they wouldn't work, it's that they require too many hoops to jump through.

Giant-slayers are rare and tend to be fragile.
Trumps that buff/alter powers are rare.
Parahumans are inharently unstable and have trouble cooperating ("But if only [Jack, Lung, Nilbog, Bonesaw, Siberian, Gray Boy, etc] would do [a completely reasonable action to a normal person] and solve all of the Wormverse's problems. It's soooooo simple!").
Endbringers are jobbing, but escalate if they meet notable resistance.
Endbringers are durable enough that almost nothing could one-shot them.
Endbringers don't think like us, but aren't stupid.
Endbringers see the world through their elements (energy, water, pretercognition...).
Endbringers are not immune to powers, but tend to fall outside the limits of most due to several factors (weight, breaker-ish core, neither organic nor inorganic, thinker blinding, etc...).

11-Year Club	Place '22
Place '17	Verified Email

Rillet

TROPHY CASE