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The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.
"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"
"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.
She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.
Steel in Wormverse
sturdycoldsteel
sturdycoldsteel
"Oh, I see." She doesn't know them, actually. Something to look up later. "I should go now. I do not know know much Japanese. Thank you for your time, Kyou-san."
She looks bewildered but nods. "[Okay]" her translators says, though what she actually said was closer to 'Mm!'
sturdycoldsteel
She goes back to walking around the park. This time she keeps to herself. After about half an hour she just goes back to her plateau and sleeps.
sturdycoldsteel
She's very cheerful and cooperative and industrious about it, but still sneaks in little creativities. That repaired tunnel being artful granite instead of plain concrete. The character for mountain left in a hundred inconspicuous places.
The tunnel, they notice. They politely request that she inform them when she decides to change the plans like that. The states justification is that there are several capes that can use terrain to their advantage and knowledge is crucial against them.
sturdycoldsteel
She explains how the little creativities help keep her focused and starts explaining them whenever she makes a significant change. She keeps them limited to aesthetic and not functional changes.
They've been going through various coastal cities and setting up and reinforcing infrastructure for finer work to happen in the future. All in all, she's saving them months or maybe even years of work.
sturdycoldsteel
Infrastructure is some of her favorite stuff to build, and she's clearly helping a lot, but it's getting old faster than she expected.
After three days she informs them that the fifth is her last unless something changes. More variety, more creative license, money: at least one of the three, preferably two.
After three days she informs them that the fifth is her last unless something changes. More variety, more creative license, money: at least one of the three, preferably two.
They can throw money at her. They're more reluctant about the former two, and would like her to elaborate on what would satisfy her there.
sturdycoldsteel
Never mind, money's good enough as long as they continue to grumble only small to medium amounts at the occasional engraving into a seawall or artful curve to a rebuilt building's foundations like she's been doing so far. She doesn't mention the series of hidden 山 she keeps putting down.
sturdycoldsteel
She sees some more of Japan whenever they're done for the day. Restauraunts are kind of redundant since they keep feeding her what must be elite chef level food. She doesn't like alcohol in any quantity, so no bars or clubs. But movie theaters and parks and museums and libraries are interesting.
After nine days in total, they've covered every major coastal city and a few inland ones. She says that she's repaired enough for now, maybe she'll come back in three months if they hire her. One last day to finish the current city, mostly fix a rail line, and do touch-ups on wherever they want, and she'd like to go back to New York.
After nine days in total, they've covered every major coastal city and a few inland ones. She says that she's repaired enough for now, maybe she'll come back in three months if they hire her. One last day to finish the current city, mostly fix a rail line, and do touch-ups on wherever they want, and she'd like to go back to New York.
The Sentai Elite do not seem too interested in having her on their team anymore. In fact, if they weren't all incredibly polite all the time you might even guess they were glad to see her jet go.
sturdycoldsteel
Yeah, she kind of expected that. A subtle I-told-you-we-aren't-compatible to one of the diplomats is the last word she gives on the subject.
She's alone in the jet, no Legend or Alexandria or Eidolon or Deputy Chief Director or anything like that, but the jet came with a few of the documents her lawyer said he'd be sending her.
sturdycoldsteel
She looks over the documents and signs things once she thinks she understands them, then works on her list of power-uses.
Detecting defects in and repairing to pristine condition the following: Concrete-and-steel buildings. Concrete-and-steel bridges. Arbitrary concrete-and-steel structures. Tunnels and caves of all kinds.
Reshaping metal and stone to arbitrary forms I.E. as art or for manufacturing. Detecting the potential for earthquakes, suppressing earthquakes. Large scale hydrokinesis suitable for reversing flooding or similar applications. Mixing metal alloys or plating objects in metal without heat, electricity, or equipment.
Creating a long, long list of stones and minerals with an explanation of how making rare materials also produces less valuable but nonhazardous byproducts.
And more things that it would be tedious to list here.
Detecting defects in and repairing to pristine condition the following: Concrete-and-steel buildings. Concrete-and-steel bridges. Arbitrary concrete-and-steel structures. Tunnels and caves of all kinds.
Reshaping metal and stone to arbitrary forms I.E. as art or for manufacturing. Detecting the potential for earthquakes, suppressing earthquakes. Large scale hydrokinesis suitable for reversing flooding or similar applications. Mixing metal alloys or plating objects in metal without heat, electricity, or equipment.
Creating a long, long list of stones and minerals with an explanation of how making rare materials also produces less valuable but nonhazardous byproducts.
And more things that it would be tedious to list here.
Should she email her lawyer a list of those things, he will inform her that the earthquakes and hydrokinesis probably fall under the Protectorate's purview unless she wants to specifically sell her services as a private contractor.
sturdycoldsteel
She doesn't particularly want to join the Protectorate. Bureaucracy rubs her the wrong way. Can it be arranged so the Protectorate could occasionally hire her to do things but she doesn't officially join?
Yes, that can work. She can also be an independent hero, which would forfeit payment for those particular acts but would earn her goodwill from both Protectorate and the public.