Kadmon

win1   [win] Show IPA verb, won, win·ning, noun
verb (used without object)
1.
to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
2.
to succeed by striving or effort: He applied for a scholarship and won.
3.
to gain the victory; overcome an adversary: The home team won.
verb (used with object)
4.
to succeed in reaching (a place, condition, etc.), especially by great effort: They won the shore through a violent storm.
5.
to get by effort, as through labor, competition, or conquest: He won his post after years of striving.
6.
to gain (a prize, fame, etc.).
7.
to be successful in (a game, battle, etc.).
8.
to make (one's way), as by effort or ability.
9.
to attain or reach (a point, goal, etc.).
10.
to gain (favor, love, consent, etc.), as by qualities or influence.
11.
to gain the favor, regard, or adherence of.
12.
to gain the consent or support of; persuade (often followed by over): The speech won them over to our side.
13.
to persuade to marry; gain in marriage.
14.
British Mining.
a.
to obtain (ore, coal, etc.).
b.
to prepare (a vein, bed, mine, etc.) for working, by means of shafts or the like.
noun
15.
a victory, as in a game or horse race.
16.
the position of the competitor who comes in first in a horse race, harness race, etc. Compare place (def. 27b), show (def. 27).
Verb phrase
17.
win out, to win or succeed, especially over great odds; triumph: His finer nature finally won out.

More precisely though, Win is the fact that we're getting new Judgement powers (maybe, finally, my Tech AR/Dev Blaster can have a Judgement power )

Also red velvet cake. Win is red velvet cake.

Admittedly, I don't understand the Valkyrie idea, but Battle Maiden makes sense. This just brings up the point that I have always, and still do, want Spear Melee

Yeah, these all go on while I'm at work. Good to see a rundown of it though! Wish I could've been on there to ask if there are any more buyable vehicles in the works.

I have 44 tokens.

I did not know about that. That said, I may have been shorted 150pp then...

Didn't even know there was a new book coming out! I've been reading through the older ones (just started the Watch subseries, halfway through Men At Arms).

Oh most certainly. The satellite cannon is easily explainable as calling in the Light of Judgement, a massive bolt of lightning, a shot from your home planet, etc. The others, admittedly, are less easy to explain as anything but technology, but there is nothing saying that you aren't taking mystical control of a missile silo somewhere.

I actually spoke on that point in the first post. To power her cybernetics, the character has small battery packs that she keeps charged back at her apartment, and two that she keeps in her locker. Any given battery pack has enough power for about 28 hours of basic use, with the eye being the only on that actually relies on bio-electricity to run. She is more of a hacker than a technological innovator, since her powers are otherwise mutation in origin (she is a flawlessly accurate shot, and can almost speak to machines to get them to do what she needs).

Believe me, I've tried to find ways to justify the powers that be on her, but none of them end up making sense.

Really, they could stand to expand all of the other Incarnate power choices, just like the expansion of the Lore slot.

I am of the mind that, if you have the tech to launch the Light of Destruction from the sky, you can probably figure out a way to bypass those pesky cave ceilings

I've run into a quandary recently. I have an AR/Dev Tech-origin Blaster that I thoroughly enjoy (there is something to be said for minefields), whose backstory is that she is a PPD sniper with a robotic arm, leg, and eye, the former of which are keyed in to perform at near-identical levels physically with their normal counterparts. Other than that, she is simply extremely accurate and practically a wizard with machinery (not literally). None of the Judgement options are particularly amenable to this (several have suggested Ion as "overloading the power core" on her arm, but this would simply leave the arm rather useless and stuck in whatever position it was in when it did this without manual manipulation from the other arm; others suggested Void as a technological localized black hole, which is outside of her tech level.)

Admittedly, I'd be accepting of the concept of "These are all magical superpowers from within!" were it not for the Trapdoor mission. In this mission, you are given an "Incarnate Artifact," which changes for depending on your origin (Magic gets a magic symbol, natural gets a mirror, science gets a paper covered in equations, mutants get a DNA strand, and tech gets a schematic). Ergo, I thought of a few possible options for Judgement powers that would work for a more normal Tech origin hero.

Satellite Cannon - Ground-targeted Energy damage, shoots a colorable beam from the sky; Core side does standard Judgement Critical, Radial does a DoT that has a chance to spread to other targets outside of the blast (like Disintegrate, but maybe doesn't cause the Disintegrate bonus to keep from pigeon-holing Beam Gun users), maybe Knockback as well.

Orbital Bombardment - For-targeted AoE missile barrage, smashing/lethal/fire damage, with Core side gaining Toxic as well (With Judgement Critical tacked on, of course), Radial gaining Energy damage and a -Recovery (Think Rikti bombs).

Air Strike - Think Tutorial and/or fighting Duray at the end of Sutter's taskforce. Ground-targeted AoE that creates a line perpendicular to your facing (that gets wider as you go up in rank). Does Lethal DoT, with an increasing Chance for Knockdown as you increase in rank to keep targets from fleeing as easily. Core Judgement critical in the form of bomblets exploding on the critted targets (limit 1 per customer to keep from being overpowered). Radial adds a Fire DoT proc, presumably for tracer rounds igniting the targets.

Missile Salvo - Cone (with an aoe at the target!) A pod drops in front of the user, which opens up with a barrage of missiles and rockets (some flying straight forward, others flying out and swinging back in). Lethal/Fire damage, with Radial creating an Oil Slick-style inferno.

Thoughts on these are welcome, additions/subtractions also good, refinement is accepted and welcomed (since I'm typing this up as I get ready for work, I don't really have time to look everything over to ensure I conveyed it well).

Please no /jrangers, if you don't have anything constructive to add, don't post

As I've gathered it, 20-29, she's a Villain, 30-39, she's gone Rogue, 40-50, Desdemona has seen fully the error of her previous ways (and those of her mother) and become a hero, learning under Statesman, the person she had previously (wrongly) blamed for the death of her mother.

You need to post this in Forum Games. You'll get tons of votes from there!

Also, voted :3

No need to worry about the server burning down, seeing as I'll be with you, one way or another. Now, being concerned for the general northern section of the country, on the other hand...

In years past, I would submit a bit of writing on my birthday. This year, I've been kinda lazy. So instead, I give you... THIS!



Look ye upon it and despair! The age of Jumpkin is at hand!

Congratulations, Mistah Mekkanekkannonos!

... Wha?

Why are we early now?

Happy Fan-Ele day!

Fanny has hijacked Kad's forum account to deliver this message:

Ele, you are a birthday thief. Nevermind that you were born a few years before me. But still. YOU STOLE MY BIRTHDAY! >

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I still love you like [censored] loves [censored]. ^_^



PS - Kad says Happy Birthday.