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Cam is watching a new recording of Atriama, tail swishing in the gap in his couch, and doesn't stop to pause the show when he feels a summons go by.
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whole_new_can
It evaporates before he sees anyone likely looking. Most capes aren't really intimidating enough. But when Cam gets lower it happens again, this time holding him in place for a large scarred man to throw a house at.
from_scratch
Okay, so a house has been thrown at him, and the large scarred man can have some drugs.
wormcan
The drugs have no more effect than the house does. A few more blasts from the spaceship-destroying weapon, giving away the tinker's position, and Cam gets released again.
from_scratch
The tinker can also have some drugs. Is house-thrower immediately threatening anyone except Cam or are the bystanders cleared out?
whole_new_can
They're clear.
The cape hits hard, but can't do much beyond knock Cam backward. He shouts an order, and someone grabs the tinker's gun.
The cape hits hard, but can't do much beyond knock Cam backward. He shouts an order, and someone grabs the tinker's gun.
whole_new_can
Predictably enough.
The tall one shouts to Cam this time. "So now what? I can't hurt you, you can't hurt me. You leave and we call it a draw?"
The tall one shouts to Cam this time. "So now what? I can't hurt you, you can't hurt me. You leave and we call it a draw?"
from_scratch
"I haven't actually tried to kill you yet," Cam says, "or even tried to do anything that would be really inconvenient to undo if it worked, but I could try encasing you in various substances or launching you into space or doing the same thing to you that I did to the gun."
whole_new_can
"Go ahead and try. No one's managed so far." A swing of what isn't but might as well be a telephone pole.
whole_new_can
That interrupts the swing, but concrete can crumble. When it flies apart, some of the pieces are effective projectiles.
from_scratch
Well, "effective". He can knock Cam over, Cam's still not super steady on his feet, but he can't do more than scratch him.
Cam starts going through various other things. He steers clear of Endbringer tissue.
Cam starts going through various other things. He steers clear of Endbringer tissue.
whole_new_can
Knife, butter, etc. At least working through the all-but-unbreakable materials is slowing the guy down.
Other capes show themselves and use what weaponry they have to fire on Cam. In practice mostly just distract him.
Other capes show themselves and use what weaponry they have to fire on Cam. In practice mostly just distract him.
from_scratch
Capes fall asleep and their weapons disintegrate. Cam attaches a rocket to the tough guy with the substance he found most time-consuming to get out of and renews it as needed while the rocket fires behind the guy's back.
whole_new_can
Weirdly enough while it does vary with tensile strength it's also is about equally affected by complexity... not important.
The rocket stalls in midair and drops to the ground, but not before moving the person it's attached to several yards back.
The rocket stalls in midair and drops to the ground, but not before moving the person it's attached to several yards back.
from_scratch
Cam wonders what did that. But at least the guy can be moved around. Much like Cam himself, but the guy has basically no effective range besides literally throwing things. Anybody else showing up to the party of more than negligible consequence?
wormcan
There's whoever interfered with the rocket, presumably.
Most of the contributions from other parahumans are limited to checking whether they can do anything to Cam while trying to stay out of sight. The powers are skewed toward brute and blaster types, which inevitably bounce off the indestructibility. Which opponents get the coma drugs and which don't depends mostly on whether Cam is paying attention in the right direction at the time.
Most of the contributions from other parahumans are limited to checking whether they can do anything to Cam while trying to stay out of sight. The powers are skewed toward brute and blaster types, which inevitably bounce off the indestructibility. Which opponents get the coma drugs and which don't depends mostly on whether Cam is paying attention in the right direction at the time.
from_scratch
Mm-hm. Sigh.
Cam wonders if the Inconvenient Brute's invulnerability beats out his superstrength and decides to find out by attempting to fuse his wrists together with extensions of his own bones.
Cam wonders if the Inconvenient Brute's invulnerability beats out his superstrength and decides to find out by attempting to fuse his wrists together with extensions of his own bones.
wormcan
Invulnerability, apparently. He shouts and charges at Cam, with both wrists held at exactly the angle they were before the joints fused.
wormcan
That might be tricky to undo afterward. He falls.
"I can't surrender, if that's what you want."
"I can't surrender, if that's what you want."
wormcan
"I'd lose my fiefdom, for one. And if you come after my allies next and they think I could have fought harder, some might interpret that as breaking alliance."
from_scratch
"I still haven't tried to kill you," Cam remarks. "I mean, you probably can't provoke me into trying it from there, but I just want you to be aware of that when you're considering whether or not you can surrender."