Jumpchain CYOA Thread #1422: Painted Jump Edition

1. Pokemon. Specced for team building, and short range combat. Stealth, strength, gunplay.
2. Samurai Jack. Went a little harder into melee, got an enchanted unaligned crowbar. Speed, dexterity, senses.
3. Firefly. Toughness, more stealth and gunplay. Some equipment for going to ground and survivaility.
4. Ender's game. Took heavy drawbacks to fuel tactical and strategic skills, as well as my first general purpose problem solver "when you love a thing."

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Sorry bancho but no. I dislike you. One may even say I feel an irrational hatred of you and all you represent.

, as long as you realize it's irrational. I'm good

I'll ask for you then.

Red bancho has asked me to ask you if you filtered him or whatever

Viking Saga and Dresden Files are pretty good. Depending on whether you want numbers or quality.

Innistrad's got some nice necro stuff too, either just raising zombies or stitching corpses together frankenstein-style.

Not sure how good the zombies in Shadow Ops are, but necromancy there apparently does allow you to command a 'vast army' of them.

Killer Instinct's got a decent one too, though it's dependant on the souls of the recently deceased, and only does one 'type' of undead.

I personally like Exalted necromancy myself, just because you can animate a skeleton... while the fleshy person around it is still alive. When we get a jump for Abyssals, it also shoots up in power, because being an Abyssal and a Void Circle necro is nice. Especially when throwing necrotech and necromantic warmachines into the mix.

D&D necromancy can be pretty good, but is generally better at debuffing than making armies of undead. Still, skeletal/zombie dragons are pretty damn decent.

You could be one of the officers and maybe manipulate the groups into some kind of shenanigans there?

Or you could try and stop Ender from performing Xenocide somehow.

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Well do you at least have little doctor access?

Also, just me, but I would start cranking out robots by the millions. Set up factories and start producing battle droids. Harden them so they can survive ftl then launch them by thr millions into the enemies planets. Load them up with unstable nuclear isotopes and viral bombs so that even if the droid dies the area around it becomes a wasteland.

Dump some highly unstable airborn and waterborn chemicals in there too so the waters supply is poisoned but make it one of the kinds that takes a little bit but doesnt show many signs till its too late. Like kepone.

How does ftl work in enders game? Can you just start firing asteroids at fractional c to bust the planets crust?

How about the sun of the bug systems? Any way you could mess with that? Dump a couple gigatonnes of anyimatter in there?

I myself used a lot of magic that jump. Mainly just to screw with the queens.

>stop Ender from performing Xenocide somehow.

Ender does the opposite. He joins the bugs and tries to exterminate earth. Then it turns out the bugs played him and were always trying to exterminate the humans but his feefees blinded him to the fact.

how do I touch the flame of Olympus in god of war without dying? I want to forge that shit into a sword.

...You do realise he's on jump 4 and doesn't have access to any of that, right? Even if he bought the little doctor, he'd only get it at the end of the jump.

Fire/heatproof gloves/gauntlets/mittens.

I recommend the Sun Picking Up Gloves from Axe Cop.

I don't get where all the bancho-hatin' comes from, man. You've never been anything less than nice when I've seen you in thread.

I used to be pretty bad,I deserve a lot of this maybe not the attempted murder, but a lot of it

You haven't been here long then.

I don't 100% get it either, but the way I hear it he used to be super open about his genocidal political views.

Even if he doesn't do it as much anymore, it soundseems like it was pretty bad, so that reputation just kind of stucknowledge.

Once again, that's just what I've heard.

Just using stuff available to him he could jerry rig most of that. He is in enders game, a space fairing civilization in the middle of a war for survival. The fact that the humans arent using chemical weapons as well as launching everything they got at the bugs biggles my mind to begin with.

The only thing that may even be out there is the robot part but damn even strapping nukes onto a ftl drive has got to be better than the entire "lets let this kid control our entire fleet" plan.

All he needs for my suggestions is access to various chemicals and unstable nuclear material, some metal, and a way to launch it.

He used to be pretty awful and such but he is trying to be a better person from what I've seen

I feel I should elaborate, I am already 7k words in to the ender's game jump. Weathering mental assault by the Formic Queens, and escorting a captured ship back to earth space with a crew of marines whose loyalty I am in the process of winning. Two companions are back on earth, with one trying to guide the political situation so peace won't immediately ignite world war three, and the other (the agent from the firefly BDM,) acting to counter the first's recklessness and help me maneuver things in the battle school program, if I can figure out an angle there.

The relativistic physics of the situation means I can't be there when ender does his final battle, but I mean to avoid the tragedy therein. The problem is that I don't know how to make a bunch of phone calls and overt manipulation interesting. I have plans for when I return planetside, but honoring the principle that I don't try to weasel my way out of uncomfortable situations by shitty writing means I'm more or less out of the crux of the plot, watching things escalate from afar. I am two light years out, and the relativity is strong until the events of the later books, a driving force of the plot that I have no means to circumvent. There's FTL communication, but not FTL transit, so my physical skill is useless.

The ask: I'm looking for a way to get more involved, without stealing the show from the roles my companions have taken. I'm hoping that through their conflict that they will take more independent voices in the group, but I am having a difficult time being left out, so I want a way back in that doesn't take the position of demagogue or backdoor politics away.

Should I just start manipulating events at battle school? I don't know if I'll be able to get through to ender. People are keeping him very isolated, very intentionally.

Well just to name a few of his past escapades.

Kidnapped and mutilated the genitals of a young girl in a anime setting. Happily bragged about it.

Attempted to remove all the laws of physics so everyone had no rights but him. Bragged about it and also said they should thank him.

Constantly going on about how anyone who doesnt share his morals shouls be mindraped, again they should thank him for this.

Tortured a bean/man by boiling him alive for eternity until the guy agreed to be soul raped. Again he saw nothing wrong with this and said the guy should be thankful.

He is like a retarded unlikeable bill cipher if bill cipher could neither plan nor understand why people dont want to have their holes rearranged.

Oh and his vision of beuaty is a ball of puss filled cancer balls. I am not joking. He used to show pics to prove how pretty it was.

And decades of time for his newly-launched weaponry to arrive at the bugs. Their spacetravel isn't that fast.

Little doctors are also a /lot/ better than nukes.

Chemical warfare doesn't help much, because until they get to the bug planet at the final battle, I'm pretty sure they only fight their ships.

Start inventing doomsday weapons.

He's 100% autistic, and I don't mean general Veeky Forums autism, with some seriously sociopathic tendencies but as long as you don't involve him in an argument, or reply to him at all really, he hides it pretty well, except for his atrocious spelling.

He drove jumpmakers off, consistently insulted others and made terrible terrible jumps of some beloved settings that then could not be remade as he generally guarded his claims.

When he did give up his claims he decided he wanted them back.

There was also the fetish posting, the bizarre and horrifying plans he detailed, the blogging, etc.

For hundreds and hundreds of threads.

He also tortured and brutally murdered a Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain, then broadcasted his pleading for mercy and death to the entire world to 'send a message'. And he saw nothing wrong with this.

Pretty much anything is going to take that long to get there though right? No matter what you use. Chemical weapons would be useful in space if packaged into the warheads, they use bioships right? Get a Slow acting highly deadly poison into a fighter so when it heads back it spreads it like poison in a sugar cube does to ants.

An amnesiac depowered Saturday morning cartoon villain at that. So to everyone else it was a defenseless kindly old man he tortured and killed.

1.which all lot of the nicer governments due to child molesters which she kept trying to do

2.literally the opposite plan.. I was trying to do that so no one could Lord over another

5.Didn't say he should be thankful , I was just trying to redeem a villain

6&5 okay I'll give you that

the gentleman in question Would have caused an apocalypse by turning everyone in the world into his zombie slaves.

1, she was a child playing with a friend, also what government mutilates the genitals of children for playing with friends?

2with you in control. That was literally your plan.

Redemption does not come with a boiling alive forever until you agree clause, especially when you broadcast it all love to the world.

>He also tortured and brutally murdered a Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain, then broadcasted his pleading for mercy and death to the entire world to 'send a message'. And he saw nothing wrong with this.

>Attempted to remove all the laws of physics so everyone had no rights but him. Bragged about it and also said they should thank him.Constantly going on about how anyone who doesnt share his morals shouls be mindraped, again they should thank him for this.Tortured a bean/man by boiling him alive for eternity until the guy agreed to be soul raped. Again he saw nothing wrong with this and said the guy should be thankful.He is like a retarded unlikeable bill cipher if bill cipher could neither plan nor understand why people dont want to have their holes rearranged.

>genocidal political views

You know, Bancho, this sort of fucked up stuff is why I like you. Seriously, it's like we're related.

It's not even that he does that. We have Jumpers who do much worse and no one gives them shit for it. It's that he always, ALWAYS thinks he's morally correct for doing so. The other guys own up to their douchebaggery, but Bancho does stuff that is horrifying to even consider, all the while arguing with everyone that he's the messianic savior of all living things.

He's not terrifying because he's evil, really. Bancho is terrifying because he lacks the ability to truly comprehend that he could ever be wrong seems to operate on some scale of morality roughly analogous to the Fae.

>5
>redeem
No that's not redeeming that's BREAKING. You broke him. Torture is not an ok way to convert someone.You might as well tore out that persons soul, ate it. And placed a puppet soul in there that does exactly what you say.

Because that's what you did.

>All the nicer governments that do FGM
Jesus christ are you purposefully digging this hole deeper?

I meant that there's no way to get your new chemical weapons there in time for the battles.

All the ships have already been send.

So, basically the only thing you could do with this idea is bugging people with ideas in hindsight.

He was a senile old man who had been stripped of his power and memory. All you would have to have done to prevent him bringing about said zombie apocalypse was prevent him from regaining his memory. But instead, you did something horrifically cruel.

Actually, that's a great summary for your actions in general. You skip the simple solution and go for the nastiest one you can find.

Please, point me to the government that mutiles child molesters. Also, I know you're autistic, but that kind of "molestation" is in 90% of slice of life anime. One girl groping her friend is certainly nothing malicious, and the "victim" would rightfully fuck you up for doing that to her friend.

Bancho, Misaka is practically a demigod and has no problems telling people to fuck off. She has also repeatedly risked her life to save Shirai despite her tendencies. She would hate you and try to murder you for mutilating her friend, no matter how annoying she is.

Doesnt he have access to tech from firefly? Isnt that faster than tech in enders game?

I'm trying to intervene in two theaters - first, earth, where a doomsday weapon would be counterproductive, and second, the bugger home system, via manipulating events on earth.

Because of the deceleration profiles of the ships and the timelines involved, the fleet has to arrive on time. In canon, they must have delayed it as much as they could to give ender more time. I don't have the clout to ask them to divert course, so they are going to get there.

If I had an ideal outcome, it would be a secret peace treaty, but there's not enough time. A lot of ender's game was set up right on the breaking point. Overt action would cause WW3. No action results in genocide.

I just had a really really ugly idea. I kinda myself for it. If I got a companion to bomb battle school or command school, the attack would fail, and I'd have more time to get there and start interventions that could lead to peace. But that's like actually killing children.

Fucking hell bancho, torturing someone until they give in to be brainwashing is NOT redeeming them, it's replacing that person with someone else. Identity death is a thing you know. I am /really/ glad that you have no power whatsoever in this world, because I'm sure you'd make hell like nice in comparison.

bancho can you and the rest of the guys just drop this please, I rather not the thread repeat the same arguing thing over again especially this early in the thread.

How survivable is Under night in birth as an early jump?
Anybody/event I should watch out for?
Any backgrounds that MIGHT fuck me over more than help?

I...er don't know how to deal with this setting.

Nah, if Bancho had powers in this world, you'd be happy as hell. He'd rid the world of all its problems, and you'd gladly spend eternity worshipping your benevolent god king and begging to be added to his monster harem.

You wouldn't have a choice.

It's not like there's much discussion of anything else at the moment. If people don't like a topic they can ignore it and post about something else that will surely interest people more.

Grabbing and fondling Erogenous Zones without asking counts as playing? What high school did you go to?
yeah I'll give you that, a lot of me is very, very angry and wants to punish others for their previous transgressions.
United States still uses chemical castration user.

yeah I kind of Retroactively continuity'd out of that jump I know I have to rethink this and I know it was too much and I needed to get some stuff with me straightened out. I really really hate child molesters okay?

isn't it that defeat equals Redemption thing from all the Shōnens? because that's basically what I was going for.

kay I'm dropping it.

...I'm not sure where he's getting that from actually, unless he means your acquisition of the Blood of the Dark Soul to the Painter Girl doesn't also drop the Dark Soul itself, which is ambiguous enough it most likely just floated off somewhere while you were off delivering paint. Not the first time one of the greater souls blipped off the radar

Speaking of which, in light of Ringed City's revelations:

Drawbacks: Phantoms of the Past, Darkness, Poise Deficient, Phantom Mess (1800)

Rolled Farron Keep

Unkindled Ash, age unknown

Bonfire Teleportation (Free)
Rare Vitality (Free)
Miracles (Free)
Resourceful (Free)
Young White Branch (Free)
Painting Worlds (1300)
Divine Blessing (1050)
Teacher's Pyromancy Tome (1000)
Salvaged Equipment (Free)
Ashen Estus Flask (Free)
Karla (800)
Dancer of the Boreal Valley (500)
Deep Cathedral (0)

...it's difficult for such as I to accept, but. As trite as what answers there are have been, it's become clear that the most merciful thing that can be done for Londer is a nurturing euthanasia by darkness. There is no happy ending in this land, because it is twisted beyond repair.

So I shall paint another.

If it takes fire and dark to paint a world, then it's fitting that what's left of Gwyn redeem himself as a third circle deva strengthened with Primordial power. For the dark pigment I shall lend the Dark Soul itself to the last Child of Dark, for her to quench it in the Deep's depths-and use the Soulhymn to render it a tranquil sort of entropy juice. The tragedy is that man had the potential to be the Lords' greatest allies, for they seem able to walk all paths in some way or form. And as a mutation born of rotten human remains, the Deep may yet prove less fickle than the beasts of the Abyss. At the very least, they long and grasp in very human ways. Other Children of Dark once sought powerful thrones and souls; perhaps with a strong enough soul, one could bring order to the rabble.

(Cont'd)

I have a question jc, what happens when you choose the import 8/ import all option in jumps but your max companion limit is greater then 8? Do you get the additional imports for free or do you have to pay the additional cost of imports as well?

This question is sort of important because I blatantly munchkin-ed and got 7 additional pods bringing my total up to 15 active companions at once. Which as you can guess is a huge CP drain to import all at once.

That conversation gets me thinking.

Jumpers, what would be your reaction if the Spark was a red herring, and at the end of your journey you get made powerless and sent straight to Hell by the Benefactor for all the ways you've abused your powers.

Is that a possibility you've considered? Would you consider you deserve it? Would you accept your fate?

Also if Misaka was being actually assaulted by Shrai wouldn't the results be less 'anime antics' and more 'fly running into a bug zapper'?

I'm not in the habit of taking tech across universes unless I pay for it with points. It's OK if it stays in the warehouse, but out of verse tech could be dangerous, or perform poorly unless some agent is able to make the physics gel.

The stuff from Warhammer Fantasy's quite puissant, especially if backed by Shysh. Apparently it's possible to raise armies of undead for miles? Blood, Bone and Heart from Dresden Files is also quite potent because Kemmler-style necromancy scales the power of undead with age; yes, this means a dinosaur skeleton's a goddamn juggernaut. And Valkyrie Profile necromancers can apparently summon tower-sized skeletons.

I shall paint a warm, bright yet gentle place. A refuge for souls of Light just as the other painting is for the forlorn, where rot is harnessed to nurture the land in its' own way rather than sealed with flame. Painted worlds must be set alight to be renewed by the painter. But all at once? Among my first circle devas are five that mirror the Solar Exalted's caste powers to prove I AM BETTER that a nation is more than the sum of its' parts. The mirror of the Zenith caste, the Horizonborn, burn Shadowlands to ash and aspect the reclaimed land to me. In a sense, by leveraging sorcery into my painting I'll be usurping the Cycle in my own way-but my creations will refine my finesse, burning the most rotten parts of the painting individually to signal their renewal at the tamed soul dregs' hands, and giving time for evacuation and a painter to replace what was once lost.

Even if it proves unfeasible, one more option remains: Without any other Unkindled available, I would show the Painter fire and dark anyway-but now also convince her to paint a doorway to my own, so that what life arises within may evacuate.

When I am not painting, this jump will be rather quiet. I will tend to the Dancer's wounds, and exchange tales about the age of Lords. I shall explore the lands of the dark with Karla, and catch locusts to roast at the edge of Cecelyne to see if the big ones taste any different.

It's basically a decade long spooky camping adventure, really.

I think that most Jumps only let you import 8 Companions, period. The others don't get the goodies.

>United States still uses chemical castration user.
Yeah, because the United States government is the artistic picture of a perfectly benevolent government that never violates basic human rights and dignity.

>isn't it that defeat equals Redemption thing from all the Shōnens? because that's basically what I was going for.
It would be. It would be exactly like that.

If Naruto had repeatedly fed Sasuke to Kurama and revived the chunks of flesh that were vomited back up for years on end until Sasuke agreed to be mindraped into what Naruto thought was ideal.

That's retarded, user.

>Yeah, because the United States government is the artistic picture of a perfectly benevolent government that never violates basic human rights and dignity.
Am I detecting sarcasm, ya godless commie?

>Grabbing and fondling Erogenous Zones without asking counts as playing? What high school did you go to?
You really have a problem with distinguishing reality from fiction. It's an anime, you fucking idiot, and if you watched any amount of it you would know that it's considered normal there.

>isn't it that defeat equals Redemption thing from all the Shōnens? because that's basically what I was going for.
Sure bancho, lots of shonen heroes torture their enemies until they become friends, it's pratically a staple of the genre. I bet you'll fit right in there.

Sometimes I wonder if this all a reeeally long con and bancho is trolling everyone in this thread. Nobody can be THAT stupid and out of touch with reality, can they?

I'd be incredibly disappointed in the Benefactor and ask her to rethink her evil ways.

No. No. I mean, I guess? It's not like I could do anything about it.

>You really have a problem with distinguishing reality from fiction. It's an anime, you fucking idiot, and if you watched any amount of it you would know that it's considered normal there.

That's part of my point though,I know the difference. But my Jumper does not differentiate between Fictitious settings. He is in and "Reality"

>Sometimes I wonder if this all a reeeally long con and bancho is trolling everyone in this thread. Nobody can be THAT stupid and out of touch with reality, can they?

I have a really binary mind,it's part of my autism. if something is a little like something it's exactly the same thing to me.

Well, if that was really the case, you'd have to have done some evil things to get punished. So you'd deserve it.

Come to think of it, the Fire and Life souls both apparently draw from the Flame. Does that mean that the Death soul draws from the Dark? Would make sense, right? Especially since the dead find dark so comforting, even outside of Hollows.

Also, seeing as everyone believes the Age of Ancients was actually just the first Age of Dark these days, think anything would happen if you required all of the Lord Souls together with the First Flame?

>kay I'm dropping it.

Thanks man

>It's not like there's much discussion of anything else at the moment. If people don't like a topic they can ignore it and post about something else that will surely interest people more.

It always goes in this retarted circle, They get bancho to post his response like what they know it will be, they argue with him and then when the thread is derailed they get angry and blame him saying it's his fault when it takes TWO to tango and I've had enough of it

I'd tell my Benefactor that I've already been to the Food Fight Jump, there's no reason to send me back to it.

Hephaestus forged Pandora's Box to be able to withstand its' heat without being scorched within, so presumably-you'd need to be as good a divine craftsman as old Hephy, and then be an even better roboticist in order to craft the ceramic(?) into a suit you can actually move and forge in.

...ha. Yes. Yes, I suppose I would, wouldn't I? I've done enough harm that by any sane measure, I would deserve it.

The multiverse is a dark enough place that I cannot-WILL NOT-accept that fate, and were it true fight it with everything I am and could be. It is a terrible sin to escape judgement, and a worse one to make all those sacrifices amount to naught.

I would not presume to truly know the Benefactor's mind. Oh, she is pleasant-even adorable at times-in her own way, but at the end of the day she's simply beyond everything. Only the last jump, decades of unaccustomed humiliation got unleashed on the Outsider-and I didn't even try to be the instrument of her revenge. I've long accepted I'll probably never know her whole story.

But no-I don't think so. I've known her for longer than some civilisations have existed, and just as Nyarlathotep is consistently a dick, she is consistently sort of like Zen'o's big sister. Likes to talk chuuni, isn't really used to direct confrontation.

Though practiclaly, I am most certain this eventuality won't be because:

1. I have long attained several comparably impressive means to walk between worlds, without relying on her gifts. And,

2. I have long made a name for myself in the multivers such that whatever devil so much as looks at me funny in Hell will be making some very, very powerful enemies elsewhere.

No, I really wouldn't. Eternal punishment is never deserved or justified, and "abuse" of powers does not necessarily constitute evil acts.

I'd be confused about why they bothered giving out that power in the first place, and about the existence of the few 'you are going to be a criminal' jumps (plus other villain jumps).

Like I could understand having a few evil options as a test, but unless the chain was a literal deal with the devil things like the various crime jumps or the Dark Elder jump make no sense.

Meanwhile if it is a deal with the devil I'd have to wonder why they waited that long to collect.

Also I'd probably be wondering which hell this is.

No, some jumps allow you to import more, and the Stasis pods increases the total companion limit.

well according to the Abrahamics anything bad is infinitely bad since it's an offense against God's infinite glory.

read the rules again, It's not an expansion on the companion limit Pod companions are tracked separately.

I think it would make a lot of sense, yeah-although far as I know there's never been an explicit connection. DS3 does go out of its' way to draw a skeletons=darkness motif, between the form Wolnir took clinging to not be dragged into the abyss, and the fact that soul dregs taking on human form looks like skeletons with a blue humanity sprite for a head.

And it would explain why Nito did absolutely nothing. He was just waiting for the world to get dark and comfy, so everybody would lie down with him and realise they have a skeleton inside themselves.

>all of the Lord Souls together with the First Flame

I...wouldn't hold high hopes. It seems to be a trend that people who just pick up souls aren't necessarily in the league of the souls' original bearers; the Old Iron King was no Gwyn for example. Besides, in DS1 the Chosen Undead technically did something similar already just kindling all the Lord Souls in the link the fire ending.

Maybe you'd discover some interesting primal miracles/sorceries? At best, maybe infuse the souls' respective elements into the nearby geography since that also seems they do when appropriately harnessed.

That's not necessarily true, it all depends on who you ask. Some people will say that Hell is something you choose, that it's you choosing to reject God and be away from him, which is suffering because you're away from God. Others say there is no Hell at all, and that eventually everyone will be redeemed and go to Heaven. There are a lot of different beliefs within the Catholic Church, let alone Christianity as a whole, let alone all the Abrahamic faiths.

You don't think she'd strip /everything/ from you? Even the stuff you didn't buy from her?

The US Government could be way fucking better. Just because things are worse by comparison doesn't make it good, dumbass.

It's eight companions. Period. Unless they allow you to import more.

You don't think that Jump-chan would be able strip you of any other powers you gained and create a personal hell for you?

I'd ask her what was the point of the whole thing.

It's possible. But then she's not omnipotent. Neither am I, of course-but between us nothing is truly absolute or certain, and my will is a force of nature itself. I have various countermeasures to that sort of thing, and one of my oldest is simply the channeling of my free will in the face of supernatural interference. So, giving up and accepting defeat right off the bat? If this actually happened, it would be an actual liability.

That's one of the hardest parts of being a Primordial, actually. Taking the measure of when to be confident, and when to realise your overconfidence will doom you.

Don't encourage bancho!!!

It doesn't matter. It was fun. -Benefactor

Actually considering the stuff you did to yourself does the original you even still exist?

You say Po-tay-ato, I say Po-ta-to.

People change over time, user. You are not the same person you were yesterday an most of the mass of your body is different from the mass which comprised it 7 years ago.
Torture is just a very quick and efficient way of convincing a person. If they couldn't see the truth behind the proposition they would resist it until they died, or only claim to agree shallowly and breakaway the moment they could.

There are some good arguments for the centralisation of authority.

You don't think it would be better to just let people choose six powers instead of a premade set? True Mark bearers tend to have a somewhat unique powerset instead of being a carbon copy of someone else, after all.

Why not?
I don't agree with fgm for any reason, and I don't partake in his fetishes, but other than those, he talks sense.

...y'know, I was about to say something pithy about certain perks that SAY I do and whether than would give the Benefactor the upper hand or not but. When I think about it?

It doesn't matter, at this point. I am what I am, not who, and my very self has only ever been one more advantage to be discarded or reforged as necessity demands. I may regret or question my becoming a force of nature, but I've learned the hard way not to deny it.

So I couldn't give a tinker's damn if this hypothetical confrontation had anything to do with the man I once was. Because if this actually happened, it would be so much more important than one lonely shutin's identity.

>Font change
Thank you.

"Ay Theseus, you got a ship I could borrow?"

Potayto is objectively superior to potahto, and anybody who says otherwise is probably the kind of person that calls foie gras "foe grace". I will defend this stance to the death.

Ok real talk for just one minute here. Have you ever heard anyone say po tah toe when they werent repeating this dumb saying?

JUST FUCK MY EGO UP, SENPAI

Also that may be true, but the noble poh-tae-toh is the true patrician's tuberous crop pronounciation.

>read the rules again

Where are the rules regarding stasis pods? I've been searching for them but I can't find them in the OP or the warehouse supplement.

I was thinking less relevance and more wondering if their would actually be anything left if they removed all your powers.

Exactly, you can change, even change a lot and still be the same person at heart.
Change opinions, change appearance even change really fundamental things like race or substrate and you'll still be you.
There is no need for angst in the face of beautiful transhumanism. I'm glad that you see things like that.

50/50 actually. Is that not the case where you live?

I have been all over th US and even in parts of canada. But nobody has ever said potahto to me.