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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.
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sturdycoldsteel
sturdycoldsteel
She watches the video, so there's a few minutes' delay before her next email.
You're right, that was hilarious. Almost like the time I fought this villain with a rewind power - she was robbing a jewelry store, so I just stuck all the jewelry to the ceiling and taunted until she left.
You're right, that was hilarious. Almost like the time I fought this villain with a rewind power - she was robbing a jewelry store, so I just stuck all the jewelry to the ceiling and taunted until she left.
mxglam
Oh, Rewind, she actually joined the Wards last month. She's really nice and sweet, and she told me about that jewelry store robbery. She was really annoyed at you, poor thing.
sturdycoldsteel
Well, I was stopping a robbery. Do convey my apologies for messing with her a little more than was absolutely necessary for that, please.
mxglam
I will. I think I noticed a sort of begrudging respect, though. I'm pretty sure she'd have done the same in your shoes.
sturdycoldsteel
All's well that ends well, I suppose. Good luck protectorate-ing. I should get back to work. Today's job is an artificial beach!
sturdycoldsteel
I'll send pictures.
Three hours later: Pictures.
A few days after that: Endbringer. Where is it?
Three hours later: Pictures.
A few days after that: Endbringer. Where is it?
Naples! It's Leviathan, naturally.
sturdycoldsteel
She joins the fight.
Her ability to track it works for about half an hour until it realizes what she's doing and sends fake holes-in-the-water in every direction.
Her ability to track it works for about half an hour until it realizes what she's doing and sends fake holes-in-the-water in every direction.
sturdycoldsteel
Smash/wall/unfracture.
At least they're helping. Right?
(Is Mountain getting much publicity yet for being a highly visible rogue who shows up to Endbringer fights? She imagines the places she builds might get some tourism value from being built by a parahuman.)
At least they're helping. Right?
(Is Mountain getting much publicity yet for being a highly visible rogue who shows up to Endbringer fights? She imagines the places she builds might get some tourism value from being built by a parahuman.)
Well, you won't find anyone saying they're not helping. And Alexandria today seems particularly vicious. Might have something to do with losing a teammate pretty recently—there was something on the news about it.
(She's getting some publicity, but not a whole lot—Endbringer fights are never recorded and it's only word-of-mouth that spreads it.)
(She's getting some publicity, but not a whole lot—Endbringer fights are never recorded and it's only word-of-mouth that spreads it.)
sturdycoldsteel
Now that she has a steady stream of money rolling in and a reasonably built-up base, she wants to start doing a little more heroing. It's slightly weird not to be considered a force of nature, so she wants the publicity. Laura is to either find her things to hero at in roughly equal proportion to more jobs, or hire someone to do same. Preferring things like dealing with storms and floods and earthquakes and bridge collapses than shutting down villains, though both could definitely feature.
It's not actually hard at all to deal with disaster relief, the Protectorate is often in charge of that in North America and given her powers she might do more good than a large number of heroes combined. The Protectorate is definitely willing to pay her for her services, and Laura can arrange the publicity.
If she wants to do actual solo heroing as a career, though, she'll need to register as an independent hero.
If she wants to do actual solo heroing as a career, though, she'll need to register as an independent hero.
sturdycoldsteel
Uh, she already did that. Look at this form the lawyer made her send in.
Oh, Laura's glad of it, bureaucracy is a pain. So, yeah, she can definitely continue doing that, too.
sturdycoldsteel
Good, she can engage villains on a moderately regular basis between all the other stuff.
She focuses on preventing harm or recovering stolen things even if this lets the villain themselves get away, and is almost always successful at minimizing damage.
She focuses on preventing harm or recovering stolen things even if this lets the villain themselves get away, and is almost always successful at minimizing damage.
And doing more solo heroing and helping in disaster relief also does wonders for her popularity!
sturdycoldsteel
Money and popularity all around. She makes a few villain fight videos of her own, publishes pictures of disaster-relieved zones, and so on, and pretty much settles in to the pace of the world. Occasionally she makes overtures to various non-Africa governments, offering to do infrastructure stuff like more hydro dams, roads, ports, on the cheap by reason of 'infrastructure is fun'.
sturdycoldsteel
...Somewhere in western Africa, a man with the lower body of a horse appears. He looks around confusedly, mutters something in a completely unknown language, makes himself a sunfruit tree and eats one, and flies off in a random direction, trailing vegetation below him.
Flying kinda-centaurs that trail vegetation behind themselves tend to not be a thing, so this understandably causes observers some alarm, especially given the social understanding of what to expect when new parahumans show up.
sturdycoldsteel
He does try to talk to a few people. Piecing together the language would be a good start. And some of them look awfully hungry, so this empty lot can have a fruit orchard that will do fairly well in most climates.
He considers 'killing himself' so as to respawn in a place he actually knows. But, no, the energy tells him that he would never find this place again. It's a once in a lifetime chance for something new and interesting.
Will nobody talk to him?
He considers 'killing himself' so as to respawn in a place he actually knows. But, no, the energy tells him that he would never find this place again. It's a once in a lifetime chance for something new and interesting.
Will nobody talk to him?
Someone will!
...well, for a definition of 'talk' that includes causing a giant boulder to be flung in his direction.
...well, for a definition of 'talk' that includes causing a giant boulder to be flung in his direction.
sturdycoldsteel
How irritating. He dodges it. Vines and so on start to spring up near the thrower, grabbing at them.
The thrower, upon seeing the Vines, suddenly opens a hole on the ground underneath themself, jumping into it and closing it up after.