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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
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.
sturdycoldsteel
Would it be a problem if she declares herself a public hero but doesn't hero particularly often?
Not at all, and given the sheer amount of time Protectorate heroes spend participating in fundraisers and making public appearances for the press, actual heroing doesn't really happen all that often.
sturdycoldsteel
That sounds like the right course of action then. She can still make money doing non-emergency things, correct?
sturdycoldsteel
So she starts filling out the first layers of paperwork she needs to do that, at least the ones she can do on the plane.
She can do all of the first layer, it mostly consists of requesting evaluation and licensing of power use in non-Protectorate-related capacities.
sturdycoldsteel
And after that: zzzzz.
When she arrives back in New York she starts sending the paperwork where it needs to go for the second step. With lots of back and forth email with her lawyer for the exact details.
When she arrives back in New York she starts sending the paperwork where it needs to go for the second step. With lots of back and forth email with her lawyer for the exact details.
Lots of back and forth indeed! The next batch of paperwork is more specific to a few broad categories her powers belong to, and she gets categorizations that are a bit more specific than those used by the PRT, since the focus isn't the same.
sturdycoldsteel
She's really not sure what all these categories are for, but fills things out diligently and loses patience at only a moderate rate.
The lawyer explains that in the case of for-profit use it's because powers are so varied that it's impossible to pass legislation about each possible combination, so they create these categories in order to have broad things laws apply to. For instance: 'do not generate matter inside people's bodies without their informed consent' isn't something that needs to be regulated in powers that do not generate matter.
There's another batch of documents to sign, and then she has to schedule a day for the first phase of power testing, which will happen in the first PRT lab that's available within a reasonable distance, where she has a say in which distances are reasonable.
sturdycoldsteel
ASAP, preferably east coast but she can fly; She'll go to Chicago if it's the first available.