>>3551533

That is not normal behavior for Ralph, not at all. The fact that he’s alone also begs the question, where are Caitlin and Liz? This can’t be good. Is it another trip to visit Wax, or something worse?

You go to grab your food, waiting impatiently for the kitchen staff to bring out your plate so you can get over to Ralph, who is still just sitting there staring at his food. While you are waiting on your dinner you see a flash of blue out of the corner of your eye, and turn just in time to see Liz join you Roxy and Tara in line waiting.

“Hey guys” she says as she slides into place next to you “How was class?”

“Eventful” You reply.

“Mine was so boring” she moans “I’m getting so sick of code. I don’t even like computers. The only interesting thing was when they had me try messing with the electricity in the circuits directly, but I fried the computer on accident and the teacher yelled at me.”

“Bit of coding sounds nice to me” You say half to yourself “Very low stress.”

“You some kind of computer geek James?” Asks Roxy teasingly. There’s no real bite in her words, it’s just good natured ribbing. You think.

“No” You reply, perhaps a tad too quickly “I just know a thing or two that’s all.”

“In that case, help me before my brain starts dripping out my ears” Liz begs you dramatically “I’m just not getting it.”

“We’ll talk” You promise as you grab the plate offered you by the kitchen worker. “Hey Liz, did you see Caitlin on your way in here?”

“Cat? No I didn’t, why?” Asks Liz as she accepts her plate and your group starts to walk over to your table.

“It’s just she and Ralph have the same class right?” You ask rhetorically “So if Ralph’s here where’s Caitlin? They should have been let out of class as the same time.”

“Maybe she was given remedial work like our classmates?” Tara offers as a possible answer to your question.

“Yeah but Frosty the Snow douche was in her group” pipes up Roxy “If her group had been held back for remedial work he wouldn’t be here.”

“Let’s just ask Ralph.” Says Liz “He was in her class so he’ll know right?”

She picks up her pace, pulling ahead of the rest of you and plopping down next to the green teen before asking “Hey Ralph, where’s Caitlin?”

He jerks and looks away from his plate, his head turning towards the blue girl at the sound of her voice. He takes a deep breath and opens and closes his mouth once or twice, but no words come out.

“Jeez man are you alright?” asks Liz, concern bleeding into her voice as she lightly puts a hand on Ralph’s shoulder “You’re looking kinda pale.”

“C-caitlin s-she” He stutters out as his breath hitches and his eyes start to glisten with moisture.

“What?” Asks Liz

“Fatherbox” He chokes out, and then he drops his head onto Liz’s shoulder and sobs, clinging to the blue girl as he falls apart crying.

>>3553112

Liz is stunned into inaction for a moment, then she slowly lifts her hands up and pats him on the back while saying softly “Hey it’s okay.” Then she looks over at the rest of you, confusion and panic writ clear across her face.

Yeah, you have no idea how to deal with this. Fortunately the girls seem to know what to do, and Ralph is soon surrounded by the rest of the group murmuring comforting words. Roxy grabs you by the hand and pulls you in, gesturing sharply at the crying green boy with her head and you throw in a few platitudes and follow the other’s lead. Eventually your friend calms down enough to explain.

They’d had a quiz today Ralph tells you, a contest with students from another class. His group passed, he’d grown out a layer of grass that acted as an early warning system and then wrapped up the opposition with giant thorny vines. It had been quick, easy even. He’d cut one of them up doing it, and he felt kinda bad about that, but still he won and it was over quickly.

They’d been taken back to the classroom and told to wait. When the other group, the group Caitlin had been in, had come back two of them had been on gurneys and had needed fixing with a Fatherbox. Caitlin had been fine though, and one of them was that white haired ass, so Ralph hadn’t thought to much of it.

Their teacher had just gone right back to class as usual. No commentary on their performance or anything. Kind of odd, but Ralph hadn’t questioned it. It had seemed like it was just going to be forgotten, until the end of the day.

Their teacher called them up and separated them back into the groups they had been in for the quiz. He’d praised Ralph’s group, and Ralph in particular, for their excellent performance and for passing their quiz. He had then informed the other group that they would be punished for their failure.

“But that isn’t fair” had argued White Hair, Darryl according to Ralph.“We tried, we only lost because she gave up.”

Darryl had blamed Caitlin. He and Wendy had at least tried, they’d had be brought in on stretchers for their trouble even, but she was untouched. She was untouched, and had probably let the other team win since they were her friends. It wasn’t fair that the other members of the team be punished for her failure to take the exercise seriously when they had given their all and suffered for it.

And their teacher had agreed with him.

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>>3553116

He had stated that there needed to be an example set, an example of what would happen to those who didn’t take their studies seriously, and then he ordered the rest of the class to step away from Caitlin as he pulled out a Fatherbox.

Then he’d pressed the button, and Caitlin had screamed. She’d shrieked in pain and terror and fallen to the ground clutching at her head, and he had just kept holding down the button. She’d fallen to her back with a final cry and her whole body had arched as every muscle pulled taught, and the teacher had continued to hold down the button.

She’d started to thrash, limbs jerking spastically knocking aside and breaking desks as she writhed across the ground, and he’d kept holding the button down. Her head and heels had gone up and down like jackhammers, pounding cracks into the concrete floor of the classroom as she spasmed, and he’d kept his thumb on the button.

She’d foamed at the mouth, choking on her own spit as her eyes rolled up into her head, and he hadn’t removed his thumb from the button. She’d started to turn purple in the face, and he hadn’t removed his thumb from the button. Ralph had fallen to his knee’s begging him to stop, afraid to move closer for fear of Caitlin’s thrashing limbs, and he hadn’t removed his thumb from the button.

She’d stopped thrashing. Falling silent as her limbs went limp, and he still hadn’t taken his hand off of the button. He’d calmly informed the rest of the class to remember the price of failing to give your best performance, and only then had he lifted his thumb and slid the Fatherbox back into his jacket.

Then with Caitlin still lying there limp and still as a corpse on the ground, the only evidence she still lived the slow rise and fall of her chest, and he’d ordered them to go to dinner. Had held up the Fatherbox in warning when Ralph tried to go to the side of your friend instead.

“I was so useless” Ralph tells you bitterly, looking down at his hands in his lap as he finishes his story. “I didn’t do anything, I just stood there as she screamed. Some friend.”

What do you do?

>Leave comforting Ralph to the girls, this is way outside your comfort zone.

>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.

>You need to hit something. Teachers and staff are probably not an option, but they aren’t the only one’s culpable in this are they? Let’s see him smile about your friends suffering after you feed him his teeth

>Write in.

>>3553125
>>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.

>>3553125
>>You need to hit something. Teachers and staff are probably not an option, but they aren’t the only one’s culpable in this are they? Let’s see him smile about your friends suffering after you feed him his teeth

>>3553125
Welp, time to assassinate Sensei.

>>3553125
>>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.

>>3553125
>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.

>Promise him we'll get that asshole back. Somehow.

>>3553125
>Tell him that they’ll pay. In time, they’ll all pay. Just bear with the shame for now.

>>3553125
>You need to hit something. Teachers and staff are probably not an option, but they aren’t the only one’s culpable in this are they? Let’s see him smile about your friends suffering after you feed him his teeth
I understand that this is a terrible idea and will have consequences, but goddamn I want to do it.

>>3553125
>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.
It's bro time.

>>3553125
Will you continue writing after this?
Also, do we know where Caitlin was taken? Is there an infirmary?

>>3553233

Honestly I should be in bed already, I don't think I'll be getting another update in tonight, but we will have one in the morning before I head to work.

At this point, Mercer doesn't know where Caitlin is. That is certainly something you could inquire about or look into though.

>>3553125
>You need to hit something- no, you need to HURT something. They think triggering a father box is funny? Let's see them laugh with theirs going off with a single touch. It's the only way they'll learn

Here’s the wishlist again.
https://pastebin.com/L80b33XQ

Also asking again if we when we copy smaller organisms, we get their abilities scaled up or not. For instance, fleas can jump 80 times their own height, which is the equivalent of a 6-foot tall human jumping 480 feet.

>>3553363
Also, for white-hair, let’s not get in too much trouble. Let’s just give him a little allergy, one that should be relatively simple to set up with skin contact, given we’ve already eaten meat. Let’s give him a meat allergy. Pretty hard to trace to us given it’s usually caused by ticks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy

“A typical allergic reaction to alpha-gal has a delayed onset, occurring 3–8 hours after the consumption of mammalian meat products, in contrast to the typical rapid onset of most food allergies. After the delayed onset, the allergic response is like most food allergies, and especially an IgE-mediated allergy, including severe whole-body itching, hives, angioedema, gastrointestinal upset, and possible anaphylaxis. In 70% of cases the reaction is accompanied by respiratory distress and as such is particularly harmful to those with asthma.”

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>>3553125
>you need to hit something

I want to grow as large as we possibly can before we do this I kind of just want to scare the living shit out of him

>>3553367
>Pretty hard to trace to us given it’s usually caused by ticks.
>OK, there are no ticks around here and he doesn't have any ticks on him, plus he doesn't remember being allergic to meat previously
>who could get their hands on some Alpha-gal and put it in his body discreetly
>surely not this guy who can manipulate his physiology (and potentially his biology)
Also, I don't want to give him something permanent.

>>3553380
Nope.
The tick responsible is found in New Jersey, where we are, it takes a few hours between ingestion of meat and the allergic reaction which is unusual for allergies so it’ll be quite a while until they figure out what he’s allergic to, and we don’t have to be obvious about giving it to him.
It’s caused by injection of alpha-gal into the bloodstream so we can just eat a mosquito to copy their proboscis for a stealthy injector, and then bump up against him to inject him with alpha gal while leaving a little bug bite. Even better if we could make nematocysts, but we don’t exactly have any jellyfish or related animals to eat.

>>3553125
>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.
As satisfying as it would be to feed Snow White his cowardly teeth, that's just going to get us Father Box'd and no doubt that is exactly what SW wants.

Next time we have a lesson with AVM-Man we should learn a combat trick.

>>3553125
>Write in
Confront Whitehead verbally. Be the bigger man. Him and his group should feel ashamed of themselves for taking such joy in the suffering of one their peers. He might be a cunt but his whole group can't be, lets sow a little dissent in their group.

Aww hell, really we're just trying to bait one of them into throwing the first blow.

>>3553125
>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.

>Start plotting to get back on snowflake.
What previously anons suggested its good some sort of allergies with late trigger

Also Caitlin could not retrieve statute without ripping us open or holding us back and fiting 3 on 1 any of those scenarios would not end up good for her punishing her for it is plain stupid

>>3553125
>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.

Oh. So they're THOSE types of villains, huh? The type to off a valueable asset just cause "hurr durr, ju msh lern de prish of failur"? Is Caitlyn fucking DEAD? Cause if she is no ammount of moral faggery is going to stop us from eating every mother fucker in the building.

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>>3553125
>>You need to hit something. Teachers and staff are probably not an option, but they aren’t the only one’s culpable in this are they? Let’s see him smile about your friends suffering after you feed him his teeth

Don't care if it's stupid, I'm sick of White Hair and his shit, he needs to realized that if he starts shit, he gets hit, otherwise he'll just keep being the petty faggot he's been since day one.
Maybe we can try and bite off one of his fingers too, see if we can replicate his powers later when no one's watching.

>>3553449
>You need to hit something. Teachers and staff are probably not an option, but they aren’t the only one’s culpable in this are they? Let’s see him smile about your friends suffering after you feed him his teeth

This guys got the right idea

>>3553097
>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.
FUCK COLDSNAP.

>>3553415
Moralfag here, yeah if they actually killed here then everyone who isn't in our group or maybe Larson gets chunky salsa'd
Starting with Wax.

>>3553125
>You need to hit something. Teachers and staff are probably not an option, but they aren’t the only one’s culpable in this are they? Let’s see him smile about your friends suffering after you feed him his teeth

>>3553498
Though I have to say, flipping out here won't do us any good at all.
We wait till we've got our chip out before making Darryl a potential paralympian by removing his legs.
Then we can dash through the faculty and stab the guards, kill basically every asshole teacher we know and get the father box controls.
We don't HAVE to cut Darryl's legs off though.
We could just Father Box him.
Even Superman goes killer if you push his buttons enough. Remember that.

>>3553513
Batman's motto isn't "don't kill", it's actually "don't kill people with guns, the most convenient way possible". Once he killed a mental patient by hanging him by his neck from the Batjet, as he flew away.

>>3553527
Batman is stupid.
Asshole just kill the Joker.
He's killed thousands because you keep putting him in revolving door jail.
Why not just put him in the phantom zone or something?

But yeah, I don't want to kill as a first resort but if they want to fuck with us or our friends then they can see how terrible we can be.
No "if you kill him you'll be just like him!" will work on me.

>>3553415
Yeah moralfag here, if Caitlin is dead or irreparably injured, everyone in this school just voluntarily gave up possession of their heads.

>>3553415
>>3553498
>>3553546
You're not very moral at all...

>>3553125
>>You need to hit something. Teachers and staff are probably not an option, but they aren’t the only one’s culpable in this are they? Let’s see him smile about your friends suffering after you feed him his teeth
>first grow as big and strong as you can not caring about looking nice and grow fur on our body to protect against his powers while doing this eat as much as you can

>>3553554
There's a limit to my moralfaggotry.
Enslaving a bunch of children was already nearing the limit.

>>3553554
They only stoped trying to be on a higher moral ground atleast for this short time

>>3553562
That was already not the limit?

>>3553533
You forgot batman is insane like his villains

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>>3553527
>>3553533
This is the extreme downside of longrunning capeshit.
Characters are never consistent because they keep getting passed around different writers of differing skill and opinion, plus, people in the "arts" have this need to force their own spin on established canon, never emulate, so when a writer gets brought on for a run, rarely do they just set out to do a good, fun rump that play to the strengths of the character, they have to inject OCs or subversion or make a "bold statement." into the mix
It leads to what we see in Batman, especially now that he's been flanderized with his no killing shit because "Heroes don't kill": his rogue's gallery as been completely warped into monsters over the years, which makes Batman's insistence on being "Good" more and more convoluted and retarded when he keeps making himself accomplice in future murders yet rarely does anyone bring it up, and when they do, they're the antagonists that get defeated by Batman, it's never considered anything but positive and inspiring.
I'm not saying we need Frank Miller Batman where he sets street thugs on fire with the bleach they wanted to steal then having sex with Black Canary right next to them, just someone that knows when cleanly putting down an irredeemable animal is the moral action to take, rather than having this infantile black and white morality, patting himself on the back on how lawfully good he is despite being a vigilante and while the guy he spares later goes on to damage more lives by murdering more innocent people.

>>3553565
This got a laugh out of me

>>3553565
Limit to "what I'm willing to not kill you for."

>>3553567
I wanted to make a comic similar to this but my drawing skills are sheit.

You guys seem to be confusing not attacking Snowball as a moral decision to be a good person.

Not attacking him isn't based on morality at all, its based on the fact that it literally does nothing to help us. All it does is make him hate us more and it makes you guys feel better about yourselves for letting Cait get hurt.

The ONLY thing we have complete and total control over is our self, and by letting Snowball get a rise out of us and going into a tard rage, your giving up control of yourself to someone else.

Like don't get me wrong, if murdering Snowball could give us a decent chance of escaping, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But that's not the case. We need to wait till the right time to strike.

Also PLEASE don't use any abilities that make them realize we're in fact NOT a shapeshifter and are actually a bio-kinetic.

>>3553125
Congratulations Eig, you’ve legitimately got me enraged over the fate of a side character.
Choice:
>>3553402
Supporting this. If there are any non-assholes in that group, they’ll leave. Whoever stays just earned a position on our shit list.

>>3553554
I mean, if you want a moral rationalization, here’s one: up until this moment, the unspoken understanding between the school and the students has been that if we stay docile and comply, we will not suffer unduly. In return, we have stayed fairly within the bounds of normal human behavior, and part of that is that is our escape plans, which have been engineered to be disabling rather than explicitly murderous. This agreement has been enforced by the fact that the school’s punishments have been minimal and that they have given us comfortable lodging, meals, trainers, etc. Basically, because they treated us like human beings, we will give them the same courtesy when we blow this popsicle stand.

What Martial-Man just did violated that agreement. By using a disproportionate response on our colleague, he demonstrated a flippancy for the social contract that exists between us and the school. Any action ought to be punished or rewarded proportional to the overall harm it created or prevented. Breaking the contract places everyone in this school at high risk of harm or death, and thus, the action must be punished with lethal force in order to provide a deterrent proportionate to the possible impact of the crime. Thus, lethal force is justified. (This, by the way, is the crux of the Batman-Joker and the Punisher conundrums. How does one punish those who break the social contract while still remaining within that same contract? Batman and Punisher are two ways to do so.)

However, applying the appropriate punishment for this action in itself breaks the social contract. When the bonds of social contract are broken, the state of humanity returns to its default: policy through a contest of power. The only question, then, is whether we can muster sufficient power to overwhelm our teachers and impose our own wills on them. This will require the use of disproportionate force as well, and so use of disproportionate force against them is justified also.

>>3553567
Yeah, unlike say... Lex Luthor, there is 0 reason to not kill the Joker.
Lex is a little evil but he's not a homicidal maniac doing it for the lols like the Joker is.
Lex does actually have somewhat good intentions, he just doesn't like relying on aliens to solve humanity's problems.
Which is fair.
Also his public image is fantastic.
Batman meanwhile takes on murderous mental patients who will never change.

>>3553584
I legitimately cannot wait to eject our chip and fucking MURDER (maybe) whoever tries to threaten us with a Fatherbox at this point.
Just laugh as we walk up to them and bladearm through their chest.
I've had enough of everyone in this shithole.
The revolution shall begin.

>>3553584
Actually, scratch that last paragraph, here’s a better justification:

>1)Breaking the social contract anywhere weakens it everywhere
>2)Deterrent should be proportionate to harm
>3)Harm is societal collapse
>4)Proportionate deterrent to social collapse is eradication of offending group.

>>3553374
Okay I'm changing my vote to

>Tell him there's nothing he could have done

Could]/should we go ask one of the guards if we could have a sparring match with snowball?

>>3553567
>Characters are never consistent because they keep getting passed around different writers of differing skill and opinion
-Sad Rocketeer Noises-

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>>3553598
>Forgot to attach image.

Caitlin not dead, you guys know that right?

Anyways, while we probably will be able to deal with the implant in us eventually, the thing is they will just threaten our friends with it and hurt them instead and we WILL break at the sight of that.

Also gonna add that we can probably disconnect our nerves touching the implant, make new ones and pathways, plus insulate ourselves a bit from the implant, we can even try violently ejecting it possible have Caitlin rip it out of us and stitch ourselves up after making some backup nerves and getting better at both passive healing and active healing.

>>3553582
>Also PLEASE don't use any abilities that make them realize we're in fact NOT a shapeshifter and are actually a bio-kinetic.
Agreed, but its more in character for us to lose our cool at this point and smack that guys face in.

>>3553604
Yeah, removing our father box is priority 1, with removing our friends’ boxes as priority 2. I wonder if we could pilot a nerve up someones bloodstream and establish a spinal bypass that way? Up the jugular, then worm it out and kinda attach it on both sides.

>>3553586
>Lex does actually have somewhat good intentions, he just doesn't like relying on aliens to solve humanity's problems
Lex could solve humanity's problems anytime he wanted, but chooses to pursue his crusade against Superman instead.
He likes to claim that he has humanity's best interests in mind, but the truth is that he's insanely jealous of Superman.

After all, he's just about everything Lex wants to be (or already is but worse) -- handsome, charismatic, powerful, intelligent -- and the only advantage Lex has is his mind.

He has always been selfish at heart. His motive was never HFY, it was jealousy.

>>3553607
Our powers are pretty much one of the few ways I see us getting out of this and maybe getting other people out too.
Also, I realised we can just lobotomise Wax and the asshole staff members.
It's not killing, technically.

>>3553618
Yeah, Lex is a dick.
But he's usually about to kill dozens of people for the sole purpose of being a prick.
Also the Injustice universe basically exists as living proof of Lex being correct all along about relying on Superman.

>>3553618
True, he's also obsessed with Lois Lane (but probably that's a result of Lois being sups waifu).
Also Lex is fucking rich and smart, but is always trying to be the number one (which is impossible, so he is eternally frustrated). Superman doesn't really need money to live and be happy, just sunbathing and not facing Doomsday without plot armour. If we can learn something from this is that after achiveing Martioomsdayseidptonianhood is to enjoy life and try to be happy, no throwing ourselves in an eternel crusade to be the the PERFECT LIFEFORM or some bullshit. Being immortal gives you a lot of time, we can slowly turn into THE PERFECT LIFEFORM in a few hundred years or when we really need it (remember that boredom is to immortals what death is to mortals, an ever-present threat).
For the inmediate future, I support ashaming White in front of his table and then asking the guards if we can spar with Whitebitch (and non lethaly brutalize him without revealing our true powers, maybe reiforce our knuckles to break bones when we hit him, ask how much we are allowed to harm him without being punished)

I had an idea on how to deal with Daryll (Coldsnap, I think.)
We're a shapeshifter.
We just need to give him the impression that we might be infiltrating his group.
Something like: "next time I'm not at lunch and one of your friends are late, spare a moment to think that I can take the appearance of anyone I like."
It's not really truthful to our current level but the kid is an idiot.
This might cause him to self destruct out of paranoia.

>>3553665
>Asking to spar some random asshole who wasn’t even responsible for what happened.

Like, he didn’t even encourage martial arts man to do it, he just weaseled out of receiving the same thing. The teacher was going to do that to all three of them. The teacher is the one we need to focus on.

And all of this instead of trying to visit our undoubtedly hurt and traumatized friend.

Can you guys stop trying to make joe act like some sort of dumbass?

Hell, going to the headmistress and complaining about senseis behavior would be more fruitful. At least to her we could make a good argument that failure is a critical part of learning and that senseis methods are not conducive to education. Perhaps she’d even give us tacit approval to take matters into our own hands.

>>3553669
Supporting this wholeheartedly.
I think Snowball is the only one actively fucking with us, if he was separated from his goons that would put us in a way safer position both generally and specifically in the case of an escape.
Just imagine how sweet it would be if he were to be beat up by his own side.
James could spy on him, reveal some shit he thinks he shouldn’t be able to know and just watch him devolve into a paranoid mess.

>>3553125
>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.

Try to find out where Cait is, check the nurses office. Most importantly, STAY CALM.

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>>3553582
>You guys seem to be confusing not attacking Snowball as a moral decision to be a good person.
Nah, at least, I'm not. Just discussing moralfagging/Batman at large.
>Not attacking him isn't based on morality at all, its based on the fact that it literally does nothing to help us.
It's stupid yes, and I'm pretty sure we're getting Fatherbox'd for it, but being the pacifist is starting to be the worse option, this is the second time one of ours as gotten screwed over by them: first skinhead starts harassing Tara in class, sending her to Wax (Thankfully it wasn't Psimon), we turned the other cheek, now to avoid staying for extra work because one of our friends refused to tear us open to get the statue after flying bitch and Frosty the Snowdouche jobbed hard keeping us out, she got literally tortured in front of their class.
Now anons still want to be the "bigger man", use their words like they teach you in pre-school, if not now, then when? How do you know it does nothing to help us? How miserable must they make our friends' lives before we finally show them not to?
This isn't everyday life here, Frosty isn't an asshole co-worker.
Are you assuming that feeding Frosty his own teeth in front of his posse for laughing at getting our friend tortured that this won't cause everyone there to have second thoughts on messing with us and our own in the future?
It's like you people never actually encountered normie bullies before, it's not like fighting back gets you shanked with these. Sure, you can lie down and take it until they grow bored (God knows how much shit they'll escalate and put you through first) or you can fight back, beat the shit out of them/get your shit beat, make them accept that it's just not worth the pain/effort to mess with you, hell, at the very least they'll begrudgingly respect you for not allowing yourself to be slapped around.

>>3553125
Also, props to you monitor for this excellently written and evocative description of what happened to poor cait.

>>3553125
>>Tell him there’s nothing he could have done, and he just would have ended up on the floor himself if he tried. It’s the honest truth, and he can’t blame himself for what happened.
Jesus fuck, they probably should've really gone through some of these teachers more thoroughly before hiring em. You go from a teacher like Larson to this asshole. What a pointless punishment, does nothing to help the student get better or learn from their mistakes. Just intensifies the fear and anger they already had.

Why don't we set off elsas father box? It reconnects automatically eventually, the separation could be handwaved away as the result of being hit, and he'll learn what it feels like.

>>3553775
Because that involves affecting another person's body, seems more advanced than just fucking about with our own, especially when we just started getting into that.
Besides that, it shows everyone - especially HIVE - that we are more than just shape-shifters.

Right, I'm back. I'll call the vote as soon as I've read through everything, so probably like five minutes, and then we'll get something written up real quick.

How's everyone doing this morning?

Alright, vote called.

>>3553593
>Proportionate deterrent to social collapse is eradication of offending group
WHOA THERE
>>3553704
>The teacher was going to do that to all three of them
I would say there's not sufficient evidence for this.

I feel compelled to point out that it was the Asset Protection teacher who flipped his lid, he may or may not be the same person as the Interpersonal Relations teacher, you don't know. Could be something to look into.

Gotta love the discussion.


>>3553363

Alright, the insect question. So here's my answer. These work because of their size, and really shouldn't translate up to something our size, but this is comic book land. So, if you were to eat a flea you wouldn't be able to jump 80 times your height and go a few hundred feet, but you'd probably figure out something that let you jump much higher than should be humanly possible and clear a building. Now given time, good materials, large samplings of various creatures, you could eventually figure out the 400 foot jump, but it ain't gonna be as simple as a single flea.

>>3553367

Honestly you'd have an easier time giving him Auto Immune disease, though that may be further than you wish to go.

>>3553415

At the very least the Asset Protection teacher is indeed, one of those.

>>3553584

Thank you, I guess.

>>3553598
>>3553599

Sad Rocketeer noises indeed.

>>3553736

Thank you. Honestly I was worried I was hamfisting it, it's good to see at least a few people liked it.


There's some really good ideas in here, good write in content. Gonna steal me some of that.

Anyway, writing.

>>3553815
>Their teacher called them up and separated them back into the groups they had been in for the quiz. He’d praised Ralph’s group, and Ralph in particular, for their excellent performance and for passing their quiz. He had then informed the other group that they would be punished for their failure.

Pretty clear he was going to punish all of them and Snowball convinced him otherwise.

>>3553825
Oh no, it was 100% a compliment. Very few books have gotten me as invested as this quest has. Your writing is excellent.

>>3553896
Sorry, just realized my Ip changed. >>3553584 is me

>>3553877
It seems to imply he was going to punish the three for failing, but it's up in the air on what punishment it was going to be, but then Darryl blamed Caitlin for "Giving up", said that he and the other girl had at least tried and showed damage for it as proof, but Caitlin was completely fine because she "let the other team win because they were her friends" and the teacher believed him, which then moved him into setting an example to what he perceived was someone not taking this seriously.
I see no reason to believe the punishment would have been anything more than a drill instructor tier lecture and extra work until White Hair shifted the blame all to Caitlin.

>>3553727
This isn't highschool where we get to go home after the bullies said mean things to us.

Our only goal is getting the hell out of here before they brainwash us. So far the only "bullying" has been some verbal taunting which is fucking irrelevant.

Neither us nor White-hair knew that the Martial Arts teacher was fucking crazy. White hair is not responsible for what happened to Cait, the only thing he did was convince the teacher not to include him and flygirl in the punishment as well. If we had been in his shoes, there's a good chance we would have done the exact same fucking thing.

So keep in mind, what you want to do is literally kick a guy's teeth in for SMIRKING at us across the room. He didn't speak to us, he just had a smug expression.

Not only will we get probably get us father boxed but that would be the least of our concerns, this will only serve to escalate this stupid gangwar from verbal harassment to physical assault. We've already broken his ribs and clearly that did not dissuade him from being a taunting asshole. Punching in his teeth will only encourage him and his posse to start trying to get back at us PHYSICALLY, which will only serve to distract us from our main fucking goal which is escaping.

Attacking White Hair right now literally accomplishes nothing and only makes our job harder by turning a minor distraction into a major distraction.

His punishment is going to be staying here and becoming a brainwashed assassin because he was too stupid to focus on the real problem and wanted to play Mean Girl esque games. Let's not do the exact same fucking thing as the idiot.

>>3553903
Nah, pretty sure he was gonna Fatherbox all three dude.

Monitor literally confirmed the dude is one of THOSE types of villains right here. >>3553825

Can someone roll me 4d6 real quick?

Rolled 6, 1, 4, 6 = 17 (4d6)

>>3553908

Rolled 2, 1, 1, 3 = 7 (4d6)

>>3553908

Rolled 4, 3, 6, 2 = 15 (4d6)

>>3553908
Sure thing

>>3553910
>>3553914
>>3553916

Thank you anons.

Rolled 4, 4, 5, 1, 6, 4, 6, 4, 2, 5, 1, 5, 6, 2, 3, 4, 3, 6, 2, 3, 3, 5, 3 = 87 (23d6)

>>3553919

Ignore the background processes. These dice are not all part of the same pool, just easier and faster to roll them all at once and then separate them out myself rather than roll a bunch of different smaller pools.

>>3554027
Or maybe you're rolling for Superman. We'll never know.

>>3554038

If I was rolling for superman there would be d20's involved.

>>3554027
I think the sight of 23 d6s is the true definition of fear

Rolled 4, 3, 6, 4 = 17 (4d6)

>>3554027

just occurred to me while I was writing that I forgot a very important part of this roll.

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>>3554096

Oh, oh now that is interesting.

>>3554096
>equal to our roll
Uhhh
>>3554098
AAAAAAAAA

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>>3554098
Oh god oh fuuuuuuuuck
>>3554099
Let me join in on the screaming
*inhale*
AAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>3554098
>>3554096
Oh cool, it got worse

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>>3554099
>>3554110

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>>3554098

>>3553125

Listening to Ralph tell you why Caitlin isn’t here was hard to say the least. You’re certain that your knuckles are white right now, and if you were to grit your teeth any harder, you fear you’d probably crack a few of them. This may honestly be the angriest you can ever recall yourself being, and a very large part of you is screaming for immediate action. Retribution. To fill the gaping hole fear for your friend has left in your chest with the suffering of those responsible, but you squash that down. You will be doing something about this, but you’re going to be smart about it. You need cold anger. Cold anger is good, you can use cold anger. Hot anger is bad, hot anger uses you.

You can’t remember where that quote is from, but it’s nevertheless true in this instance. You’ve got to cool it down, remain rational. You won’t forgive, you won’t forget, but immediate instinctive action is not the answer. You need a plan. You are going to get your pound of flesh for this, and you will do so methodically. You will ensure that you succeed, rather than simply lashing out. But, before anything else, you need to reassure your friend.

“This isn’t your fault.” You tell Ralph, your voice rough with emotion. “There’s nothing you could have done, you would have just ended up on the ground next to her and she wouldn’t have wanted that.”

“But-” Ralph starts to say.

“But nothing.” You cut him off. “You are not at fault here, and that is the honest truth. Put the blame where it belongs.”

“He’s right Ralph” says Roxy “It isn’t your fault.”

“We need to see Caitlin” Sniffles Tara. Her eyes are red, she must have been crying during Ralph’s explanation. You hadn’t noticed. “We need to find out if she is okay.”

You nearly snap that she had a grand mal fucking seizure and bounced her head off of a concrete floor repeatedly, there’s no way she’s okay, but you catch yourself. Calm, calm, keep cool. You cant snap at your friends over this. Tara doesn’t deserve that. Tara is terrified for her friend, Control your anger, don’t let it control you. Forget fear, anger is the mind-killer, and you will allow it to pass through you.

“You’re right.” You tell her as you stand up. “We do need to find out what’s going on. Wait here.”

>>3554133

You march up to the guard in the corner, the same guard who you had spoken with to get your tablet actually. Apparently your ill temper is apparent on your face, because he stiffens and reaches for his pistol while you’re still several feet away.

“Keep your distance” He orders you with one hand on the but of his gun “What do you want?”

“There was an incident involving one of my friends today in the Asset Protection class.” You tell him “I, and my friends, want to see her.”

“I don’t think that’s going to happen.” He tells you “Now sit back down and eat.”

“Respectfully I don’t think it’s your decision to make.” You tell him belligerently “Now kick it up the line and ask someone with actual authority.”

“Listen boy-” He starts to say, before cutting off and putting one hand up to his ear and listening.

“Yes, Yes I understand.” He says to whoever is on the radio before addressing you again. “Alright boy, looks like you get your wish. Finish up dinner with your friends and then go wait in the common room. Someone will be coming to collect you and take you to medical.”

“Good” You tell the guard with a sharp nod, and then you walk back to your table.

“We’re being allowed visitation once we’ve finished eating.” You tell the others as you sit down and grab your silverware.“They want us to wait in the common room when we’re done with dinner, and someone will come to take us to her. I suggest we finish eating quickly.”

Your friends nod and apply themselves to their food, and you do the same. Ordinarily you rather like Chicken Cordon bleu, but at the moment you can’t really taste it. Your table is silent except for the clink of forks and knives on plates. It doesn’t take long for the other’s to finish, but you still have a bit on your plate. Bigger portion sizes take a bit longer when you mind your manners.

“Go on ahead” You tell the others “Just don’t leave without me, I’ll be there in a second.”

“We’ll wait here with you” Says Tara, and Liz nods in agreement.

“I’ll be right there” You tell them a bit more forcefully “Go wait and make sure we don’t miss whoever they are sending.”

Frankly you don’t think they actually need to go wait for them, but there’s something you need to do, and they’d try to stop you. You can’t have that, so you need them out of the way.

“Okay, just hurry.” Says Liz, then she stands and leads the others out to the common room. Once they are gone you shovel down the last of your food, and then get up and start walking.

You aren't headed to the common room though, not yet. You have something to take care of real fast first.

Testing

>>3554137

You can’t necessarily blame White Hair, Darryl, for what happened to Caitlin. He didn’t push the button, even if he did throw her under the bus, and he likely hadn’t anticipated that level of response from the teacher. The “punishment” was, well not quite unprecedented, but certainly well outside of the norm, so you can’t assume he had malicious intent and wanted Caitlin to suffer like that. You can however absolutely be angry with him for finding what happened amusing. That’s just sick.

You’d be lying if you said that you hadn’t contemplated causing him physical harm. You have, and it’s very tempting. You had never been the violent sort before coming here, but that’s changing it seems. Feeding the little shit his teeth and seeing how well he smirks at you then sound like such a wonderful idea to the snarling ball of anger in your chest you’re trying to keep in check. You bet you could do it too, but then you’d end up Fatherbox’ed yourself, so you won’t. You will control your anger rather than the other way around, but even if you aren’t going to let your rage behind the wheel the simple fact is you can’t just let this go without saying anything. You simply can’t.


You don’t walk over to the Gothamite’s table, you don’t march up to it, no you stalk over to the white haired ponce and point at him imperiously.

“You are the most miserable petty small minded excuse for a human being I have ever seen” You snarl at him quietly. “You have the unmitigated gall to sit there and smirk at me after watching my friend have a grand mal seizure. I have to wonder, are you simply that callous, or are you just that stupid?”

>>3554147

“A grand mal seizure” You continue your tirade, voice gaining volume as you continue. “Do you know what that means? It means you watched her brain overload and short circuit due to the pain she was experiencing, causing her to violently lose control of her bodily functions.”

“You watched her head bounce repeatedly off of concrete” You tell him as you jab at him with your finger. “Do you not understand how horribly that can injure someone? The only reason I hold out hope that her brains haven’t been scrambled to the point where she’d be lucky to add two and two is that her Meta powers may have made her more durable.”

He starts to open his mouth but you increase your volume and talk over him. You’re going to say your piece damn it!

“You watched my friend tortured” You scream in his face “and you had the audacity to find it amusing? Because of a petty disagreement? What is wrong with you? I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. We’re under a lot of stress. I mean look at what happened with the Stanford prison experiment, people do crazy things when put into difficult situations, but this is just ridiculous. I was willing to try to reach out to you, to reason with you. Fuck that, you’re psychotic!”

You’re breathing heavily. White Hair is just sitting there shocked. His whole clique is just staring at you, frozen in place. You could hear a pin drop in the cafeteria. Well, so much for keeping your cool.

“Just, just fucking stay out of my way.” You snarl at him, and then you turn and stalk out of the cafeteria and head for the common room.

You push open the doors, breathing deeply to try and calm back down, and find yourself face to face with your friends, who are looking at you with wide eyes.

What do you do?

>Uh, you heard that huh?

>What are you looking at?

>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here?

>Awkward silence

>Write in.

Don't know what happened there, internet was giving me trouble for a bit, but fortunately that resolved itself.

Well, I'm going to be gone for an extended period now. I'll see you all later this evening, depending on how long it takes me to get my work done.

>>3554155
Wow that was good.

>>3554149
>>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here?
Oh, this is nice. It's not quite a direct way of shoving the reality of the situation into their faces but I think it has the same result. They've been playing this shit like it's regular high school antics. If they keep going, then they're well and truly fucked.

>>3554149
> *cough awkwardly* So, where’s that staff member at, are they here yet?

Yeeeesss that was perfect.

>>3554149
>Uh, you heard that huh?
That was fucking great.
James is cool as fuck even when he's lost his cool.

>>3554149
>>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here?

Dude, Grade A Writing!

>>3554149

>Uh, you heard that huh? He deserved much worse.

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>>3554149
>>Write in.
Breathe in, calm down, pretend nothing happened. Say "Am I the staff member? I forget." jokingly and usher them away. Defuse. DEFUSE

>>3554149
>>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here?

>>3554149
>Awkward silence
Lets give them a moment to process while we fight the urge to go back in and eat frosty-joker's fucking face

>>3554149
>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here?

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Let's just take a minute to laugh at White Hair's future outfit.
He looks like a fucking Cyclops pallete swap.
The villain group he's in is called "The Masters of Disaster"
What a fucking dweeb
Hahahahaha.

>>3554180
I’m guessing that’s “fire crotch” right next to him? (Thank you, Roxy)

>>3554186
That's Heatstroke and yeah, it's pretty possible.
She and Coldsnap are in a relationship but because of the opposing nature of their powers, they can't get physical.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>3554149
>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here yet?
Ohhh boy that was great Eig!

>>3554180
okay, fuck calming down, let's skin him

>>3554149
>>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here?

>>3554149
>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here?

>>3554149
>>Awkward silence

>>3554149
>Do you think it would ruin the effect if I went back in for dessert?

>>3554149
>Stanford prison experiment
That was actually faked, just like Robbers cave.
They coached the guards into being mean and stopped the prisoners from leaving the experiment, and even the prisoner freakout was faked so they could study for college.

>>3554267
I'm curious, I need a source for this contrary info

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>>3554267
>That was actually faked, just like Robbers cave.
Robbers was the real life Lord of the Flies wasn't it?

Have you heard of Eden/Eden: Paradise Lost? The show was dropped halfway through but then the last few months were broadcast a year later, something about the show taking a dark turn wasn't in the broadcaster's best interest.
I can't say if it was staged or not but damn if it ain't an interesting study on retards spending a year on an island.

Something something, more than half of the contestants left early due to starvation. etc etc tribe making and a buncha alphas littering their tent with skulls and abusing the whamen.

>>3554280
WIkipedia it. It’s never been replicated, the researchers instructed the guards to exert control and some of the participants were aware of the study and acted certain ways to give researchers something to work with.

>>3554291
Oh man Eden was fantastic.
The two sane people split from the main group and made a pretty fancy Cabin.
Then the main group came to the decision to vote them out for the purpose of trying to steal the Cabin and general envy, basically.
They were literally discussing who would get it
The ones being booted out decided to burn the cabin out of spite.
Then after they left they found out that the main group had "accidentally" managed to get the results wrong.

>>3554298
I don't really have the time or patience to look it up right now but Joseph was also under the impression that the 10% of brain thing is true. Goes to show that even if he's a smart nerd he can be working with false information. Although considering this is the DC world it's probably simpler to just say that both are true here anyway.

>>3554298
no offense anon, but I'll never trust a wikipedia entry for any academic purpose

>>3554307
The ten percent thing is literally true in universe, Deathstroke is noted to be able to use 90 percent of his brain.
So that's a route we can take to get smarter.

>>3554305
Oh shit I didn't think many people have seen it considering the ratings.
Then it turned out some cuck had friends on the mainland sending him food and electronics.
Wasn't the cabin burning at the end of the series? I didn't miss any episodes did I?
That vet/hunter, damn he had absolutely no use at all- though I feel bad since he was raised to respect life and the people he was with were cutting up the wildlife like a pack of babybels.

>>3554315
Here are some articles if you're interested

https://www.livescience.com/62832-stanford-prison-experiment-flawed.html

https://nypost.com/2018/06/14/famed-stanford-prison-experiment-was-a-fraud-scientist-says/

>>3554315
Anon was generalising the wikipedia article. It brings up speculations some researchers have on the credibility of the study, and it brings up some interesting points. But never trust wikipedia anons.

>>3554318
It was a strange show for sure.
The main group basically spent all their time doing fucking nothing but also complained about single members of the group for totally non-existent reasons.
I should probably rewatch.

>>3554335
Shit, that's another show on my list of 'should watch/rewatch shows' that I'll forget about tomorrow.
Shit I need to rewatch John Doe soon, and the lost room.
Fuck, there are too many shows I enjoy or haven't gotten around to watching.

I loved that cunt who thought he was in charge, you know the one who would always want to decide what the groups should do.

>>3554149
>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here?
truly an amazing quest, each installment brings a smile to my face. thank you Monitor. You really are a god among men.

>>3554149

>Awkward silence

>>3554149
>> *cough awkwardly* So, where’s that staff member at, are they here yet?

>>3554382
>calling a Monitor a god among men
I mean, yeah.
God among gods, really.
DCs cosmic entities are hard to keep track of.

>>3554422
The chosen champion of the dice gods

>>3554149
>>> *cough awkwardly* So, where’s that staff member at, are they here yet?

We probably made our voice deeper and louder than we thought. We do listen to it as being deeper on acount of bone conduction, we may have matched it unconsciously.

>>3554640
Good point. If we did THAT subconsciously, who's to say we didn't do anything else? I mean, they do seem pretty freaked out by us...

>>3554147
>>3554149
>"...What??"

Ooooohhh that was *goooood~*
There is a reason they say to beware the nice ones! After all;

Demons run when good men go to war.

>>3554149
>So, where’s that staff member at, are they here?

Well, that was satisfying. I'm going to be honest. Him smiling after that just made me mad to the point I stopped reading for a while.

Now I come back to this and I'm a bit happier again.

Gonna be a few more hours, but when I get back I'll do the next update.

>>3553593
>>3553584
Very well said anon.

Not being dumb moralfag and understanding the importance of social contract is important even for anti moralfags. Both going too far and not far enough can be just as damaging. Its why I personally despise moralfags and evilfags who cannot see past the immediate ramifications.

>>3553607
We cannot remove the box from others until we unlock the ability to extend our power beyond ourselves. It's one of those abilities that are within our powerset but we haven't learned how yet. The only problem is the QM hasn't given us a single hint on how to unlock new abilities but only has confirmed that is indeed within our capability.

Naturally, anons have been running in circles because they have literally no idea to resolve it. To make matters worse moralfags insist on taking DNA samples to grow stronger...when we haven't even unlocked genetic manipulation. Meaning DNA samples are worthless until then which naturally aggravates the pragmatic anons and anti moralfags who point an immediate workable solution. By pointing out that without that ability we literally have to eat whatever it is we want to acquire or understand it enough to mimic it without eating(direct assimilation). Which with a lack of stolen super smarts is limited to mundane things we can comprehend or directly devouring said super beings.

Our power while powerful and adaptable is truthfully a very gruesome nightmarish one. That forces us into being both a glutton and turn into abominations in order to maximize our true power. We literally grow stronger the more we feast and can ignore the limits of the human body by twisting ourselves into whatever we can imagine. Naturally the more...imaginative we get about it the stronger we will be which quickly turns into body horror and covert superhuman 'normal' resting state that if you look inside REALLY isn't actually human anymore...it just looks that way.

>>3553905
He literally laughed and taunted us in our face about getting our friend(his classmate) tortured just because she wasn't willing to LITERALLY rip our guts out in order to get the statue. I really do mean LITERALLY. Since without doing so its 'technically' in our possession and the match cannot end until we either lose the statue or completing the mission.

Even a classmate who wasn't our friend would hesitate about having to literally gut another classmate in order to retrieve it. Since we are all still rather fresh after all. Now you're ignoring the fact that the harassment is precisely what they want in order to keep us from thinking too hard on how to escape or working together against them. Infighting means we have to spend effort AWAY from getting out of this hellhole.

This means we need to show them that they cannot afford to mess with us. Otherwise, we will waste valuable time. Think about it every time we have to comfort a friend due to their bullshit. Is time we COULD have been spending on stuffing ourselves or preparing to escape.

>>3554746

I'm sorry for making you that mad anon. But I'm glad you came back.

Should be on my way home in just a minute, so vote should be called in about 30 minutes or so.

Last call to vote.

>>3554970

>Qm hasn't given us any hints

Guilty as charged, but I have plans, and that should be coming up soon actually.

>>3554972
Not your fault. I was one of the anons pushing for a peaceful resolution and I felt betrayed for trying to be friendly to him.

That means you did good writing this.

>>3554970
>Infighting means we have to spend effort AWAY from getting out of this hellhole.

You're actually so dumb, you think that beating snowball up would end this feud and not just escalate it to a whole 'nother level.

Whatever. Joe didn't do what you recommended. (Thank god). It's a moot point now.

>>3554970
>>3554994
I kinda assumed we would unlock new powers by just... trying. Is that not the case?
Also, do you guys think we should make a complaint to the headmistress or is that a total waste of time?

>>3555011
I'd assume that to be an absolute waste of time, and a great way to get Fatherboxed our self.

>>3555011

It might be worth a shot, depends on who the headmistress is. We have a decent case that such actions are not an efficient way of teaching people and that the it's not conducive to a productive learning environment.

Ultimately depends on her personality.

>>3555011
This is a facility that trains and braimwashes kids into becoming supervillains loyal to a secret terrorist/mercenary organization, so probably a waste of time.

>>3555001
You're right, it'd be stupid to beat him right now. We have to follow Ender Wiggin's advice, beat them so hard, so thoroughly that they never dare to try their chances against us ever again

>>3555011

You are correct that you can figure things out via trial and error. I apologize if I gave the impression you couldn't. Trial and error is a big part of your self discovery and exploring your powers. What I mean to say is there will be opportunities to experiment presented to you.

>>3555001
Anon I think just going straight up to snowball and bashing his face in is as stupid as the next guy, and I do think some anons are being a bit too edgy, but for god's sake you can't just assume a bully will leave you alone if you play the big man and ignore his crap. That never works, when you do nothing it just encourages them. We tried to be polite and that failed, we tried to appeal to his rationality and that failed. At some point you just have to stand your ground, go up to the kid, and tell him you're done with his shit and to fuck off. We did, he's been warned, and if he does or pushes any further, verbal or otherwise, than you subtly retaliate, because he's a bully, and bullies prod and see where your limit is, and if you give them an inch they'll take a mile. When someone juat won't listen, you have to make them understand that any type of prodding, any type of slight, is unacceptable and they need to watch it.

Is it the preferred option? No, I would have loved to have eased tensions and get him to understand there is no reason to antagonize each other, but he's already showed he's unwilling to listen. Scaring him off, making him go "shit I don't want to fuck with this kid" is the best way to deal with him. For now I'm satisfied, but if he tries anything again we'll have to really set in how bad it is to mess with us, or he'll never stop.

>>3555017
Not to mention that the horrible pain and possible death of having a grand mal seizure inflicted upon you is only going to rile the students up even more. Who the fuck gives a shit about possible death as a threat if that's gonna be a possibility regardless just because of a performance in a pop quiz?

Alright, home. Vote's called. Give me a minute to read and tally, and I'll get started on the next write up. Probably last one for today.

>>3555038
I get what you're saying, but there is fuck all we can do to "subtly retaliate" and effectively instill fear in him because we've yet to experiment with our powers to do so and they have mindreaders on staff. Anons are talking about the staff trying to keep the conflict going to prevent cooperation for escape but I imagine the headmistress does not want it to go overboard and lose possible tools for the future.

>>3554267

Well damn. My only defense is apparently my professor back in the day was unaware of this or didn't care and taught it anyway.

>>3555050
Just kick the shit out of him the next time we're in any kind of training exercise and the opportunity presents itself.

>>3555055
The experiment being fake hasn't even been confirmed, it's just constant back-and-forth from what I've seen. The one thing that could have actually altered the results, without any defense from the professor, is that the students he recruited could have naturally been more aggressive than normal; another study from 2007 attempted to recreate the recruitment conditions with similar wording for their fake ads and found that to be the case.

>>3555050
Basically this>>3555060

>>3555060
>>3555069
Fair enough.

Perhaps James can engage in a bit of hot anger. Though it'd probably terrify White Hair more if James still kept to his cold anger philosophy and beat the shit out of him methodically.

Do we actually have any ideas on how to change our body and get advantages against him other than fur? I imagine that wouldn't help much if we end up in a situation where he can freeze us directly.

>>3555078
Antifreeze blood like some arctic fish? Or maybe a really high internal body temperature or getting really fat

>>3555078
Extra lipids/fat to act as blubber/insulation? That and possibly burning energy to raise our body heat. That's about all I got.

As for beating Snowball up in school sanctioned matches, it's less hot rage and more cold punishment. We hit just a little hard, twist just a little further. Heavily bruised and bloody? We were just taking the exercise seriously. Broken bones? Honest mistake. Just make it really hurt, just up to the point that we're not obvious about it

>>3555078
Well one of the main tools he used when we fought him in the pop quiz is blunt force, just throwing ice balls at us. I think it's pretty what we do to protect against that; bone armor around vital areas.

>>3555090
That should be a colon, not a semicolon. My bad.

>>3555084
>Antifreeze blood like some arctic fish?
Damn, looking this stuff up, really interesting stuff. Particularly this bit
>https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=132798
>The protein-bound ice crystals that accumulate inside their bodies resist melting even when temperatures warm.
> "What we found is that the antifreeze proteins also stop internal ice crystals from melting. That is, they are anti-melt proteins as well."

>>3555089
>That and possibly burning energy to raise our body heat
Oof, the thing about that is that it means using up our biomass too, rather than re-purposing it. Could be our only choice right now, though. We really need to experiment more.

>>3555090
Internal or external? It's probably easier to just have a sort of bone mesh inside our body rather than manifesting it outside. Can leave it on permanently without looking different, too.

Speaking of which, Monitor, did we shift back from Big Guy mode after the battle?

>>3555078
Honestly, being huge and having shaggy fur should be enough. Consider the Bison for example- able to winter Yellowstone and nuke bears that attack it. It’s just a matter of having enough fur, muscle mass, and presence of mind to ruin this dude.

>>3555108
>Internal or external
The internal bone mesh is a good idea, but if we wanted maximum protection we could go Mercer armor mode. They're not mutually exclusive, internal could be our baseline and we could shift on the external as needed.
>did we shift back from Big Guy mode after the battle
I'm going to assume yes, because it would be dumb if we didn't.

>>3555111
Yeah. Sasquatch mode is the best way to fight him. The 2nd best way is to come up with some kind of ablative epidermis. Layer it so that when the top layer freezes it sheds away and he has to refreeze the new layer rather than just continue letting the cold seep into our body.

>>3555011
The only hint we've sorta gotten is the first time when we ate the steak. We learned how to create those tissues...but not anything else to do with the animal in question. Eating eggs also hasn't given us anything nor plants. Which honestly means that atm our assimilation ability fucking sucks and needs serious upgrades. At the moment we can only eat animals to benefit and we ONLY unlock whatever it is we directly ate.

Which you know sucks pretty hard all things considered. So right now if we wanna get a better understanding of brains, for example, we literally have to eat brains. Eating anything else even if it's from the same body won't count in terms of improving our brain related abilities. QM has acknowledged there is a way to improve this but we got nothing. We don't even know how to make use of plant or fungi we've eaten.

So hey it really wouldn't be a bad idea to go fishing and eat some bugs whole. We can at least gain some starter armour if we ate a bug to learn how to grow carapace.

>>3555078
multi-layered coats(both polar bears and penguins do this), blubber, and antifreeze blood/cell tissue.

Chomping on some cold water fish should give us the antifreeze blood. Blubber isn't hard to understand if not we can munch on some more fatty animals. Which come to think of it means finding upgrades for the cold is actually pretty fucking easy. I know best heat upgrades are equator and friggin volcanic bacteria related.

Keep in mind he literally tried to kill us when he shot our forehead. We would have died or gotten brain damage if it weren't for how much effort we put into reinforcing our bones previously.

As for dissuading someone like snowball the trick is to make it abundantly clear it is not worth fucking with us. Period. Sadly with someone that stupid, this means inflicting as much pain and misery as possible for the smallest of excuses since it's impossible to reason with him. Since he's the 'leader' if he does something we beat him so bad that we make him wish he were dead and we randomly choose someone in his group for the same treatment while pinning their misfortune blame on their boss for not stopping him. If a minion of his does something we beat both of so badly they wish they were dead. Sabotage him and his people in classwork as much as possible. Blame them for the smallest mistakes and hyperinflate them to the staff. Create elaborate plans to sabotage them as much as possible. Pit them against each other. Instigate conflict between his group and others.

Since he's the 'boss' he is naturally responsible for any bullshit his minions pull and we punish one of the minions at random for anything he does for being too stupid to follow him. The goal is very simple its to make his life a living hell and intimidate the rest into never wanting to fuck with us under any circumstance. Simple.

Naturally, we will need to teach our friends how to pin the blame on others and be smart about sabotaging them as much as possible.

>>3555166
Oh right here are some very simple rules to keep in mind before I go into deeper detail.

1 ALWAYS get revenge
2 NEVER start it
3 be smart
4 maximize intimidation

In order to convince friends to beat the ever living shit out of the enemy far more than necessary tell them this. Maximize pain and minimize harm. Remember pain disables but harm cripples. If they fight them it's actually 'kinder' to just inflict pain then actual harm as its easier to recover from.

That is why they use the fatherbox after all. Causing undue harm means time must be wasted on recovery. Pain doesn't have that problem and is just as convincing.

When dealing with neutral parties. Be friendly. Be helpful. Be scary. Make it clear if they are so kind as to...target our foes we will not forget such favour and since we cannot be friends. That don't mean we cannot be allies who help each other. Once you get the ball rolling there is always someone who will want help us out if only to avoid being on our bad side.

Maximum intimidation at all times when in the presence of others. This means giving the most terrifying, cruel, ingenious, and gruesome suggestions as if we were merely talking about the weather. When we talk in the presence of others is meant to be scary. Advice from us must be good, sincere, and nightmarishly effective. The point is very simple. We have to make it painfully clear that is FAR better to be on our good side than bad. This doesn't mean we have to show them why personally...we just have to reveal that we always have plans that we can use and we won't flinch when doing so. By speaking up first and revealing our terrible designs means there is a chance we won't have go through with it at all. If we do...well we DID warn them after all. This means whenever we discuss anything in the presence of others we must make it painfully clear just how terrible it is to face us and how good it is to be on our side. Be calm about it. Act as if it were all perfectly normal and that your still totally a nice guy. Never get into it. That is far scarier then being an honest psycho who loves it. At least you can safely reason with us!

When dealing with the enemy we mustn't let a single thing slide no matter how small or accidental. All of them guilty but they all have a way out. Its not our fault they didn't bother so they deserve 0 kindness. Never give them any mercy and never accept an excuse. They know exactly how to not be on our bad side but they refused. Now they need to pay the price. So we must destroy them and make them cower to the point of never daring to give us the slightest reason to target them.

Make sure to approach the neutral group and be helpful in exchange for mutual assistance. They help us we help them. Simple. If they don't better stay neutral or else. After knowing how fucked up our enemy is and how reasonable we are. A few are bound to be willing to offer assistance. We merely have to give them an excuse and help them out in turn.

Okay, I lied, looks like we aren't getting an update tonight.

Come morning. I'll absolutely have it done come morning.

>>3555267
No prob Eig, looking forward to it

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>>3555267

You are all right the thing with bullies is that they take every chance when they think or know they will get away with it

Monitor I just want to let you know that this is the best quest I've started in months.
Being able to make anons actually angry about events in story is a pretty great accomplishment.

>>3555441
Cait's a sweetheart and all the bad stuff keeps happening to her. ;_;

>>3555090
If we want to better defend against blunt force than really thick hide and fur is the way to go right? It would also help with the cold too, so in general thick blubber,hide, and fur is the best way to deal with Snowball and most ice users.

>>3555470
I'm confused about everyone's thoughts on snowball. IIRC we've never seen him "freeze" anyone. We've just seen him fabricate ice and snow. Are you guys using meta knowledge about cold snap?

>>3555485
It's a likely assumption if someone's able to throw ice balls that they made out of thin air they probably can freeze you as well

>>3555498
If he could freeze us he would've done it from the beginning. He doesn't seem like the type to hide things -- although that could also mean he's really good at hiding things.

>>3555485
It’s a pretty safe assumption. We’ve seen him make hoar frost when he got mad, and he generates snow and ice. Itd be pretty damn weird if he could do that without lowering the temperature somehow.

>>3555505
He might not be able to yet

>>3555505
He’s probably not at the skill level to do a ranged Mr Freeze style you’re now an ice block attack. But he can almost assuredly start freezing us and giving us frostbite in close proximity/contact.

>>3555510
Get out of my head

>>3555485
Anon I have no idea who this character is but he can blast snow. Thinking he has the potential to lay on the cold with repeated snowballs to the face or even freeze us is a safe assumption. Honestly, not everything needs to be bluntly told to us, we can connect the dots without needing to read up on the character.

>>3555513
It's just so obvious though

He also has the ability to make an “avalanche” of snow around himself, that he used to break down the door. If we get caught in that, fur or blubber is a must to keep up afloat and alive.

Let's do a quick anon intent count while waiting for monitor
How many of you want
>to go full monster
>to become a supervillain
>to become a revolutionary
>to become an anti-hero/dark hero
>to straight up become a superhero
And how many of you want to stick with our group as opposed to striking out alone?

>>3556585
>to become a revolutionary
Magneto route is go. Take the crew. Though depending on circumstances I could be pushed towards total monster.

>>3556585
>be viewed as a hero by civilians, as a revolutionary by our fellow mutants, and a monster by other heroes
Take the crew with us, along with anyone that chooses to follow

>>3556585
>to straight up become a superhero
Let's make our own Teen Titans/Young Justice with our crew. Being revolutionaries at 14 just seems silly and ripping off X-men isn't my cup of tea.

>>3556585
>to become a revolutionary

META-HUMANS
RISE
UP

>>3556585
Call me indecisive, but I'm pretty much fine with everything except the monster and villain routes.

I just don't really see James committing to anything immediately after escaping HIVE. Maybe he'll try to go back to civilian life, try to forget what happened but soon realize that is just not gonna happen.

...I think I'd prefer striking off on our own.

>>3556585
>to go full monster

Any of them are good and I don't care if we go villain or full hero, but being the thing that makes you fear the darkness intrigues me. This character can be extremely terrifying if we go full body horror abomination.

>>3556585
>Supervillain
Kill only if necessary, focus more.of acquiring money or maybe working as a mercenary. I could see this working alongside revolutionary.

Would prefer going solo and just meeting up or working with the gang now and again.

>>3556585
>>3556626
Pretty much this.

Regarding revolutionary, I don't know enough about DC to get involved, do they even have problems with metas like Marvel with mutants?

>>3556585
>Neutral Good for mutants
>True Neutral/Neutral Good to everyone else.

>>3556585
As for me personally I'm all for trying to become either a superhero team with our friends or trying to become a revolutionary and fucking up people who attempt to enslave or force meta-humans into doing shit with EXTREME prejudice.
Which will make dealing with Waller fun.
We can also attempt to make our own utopia where Metas are safe from all the bullshit.

>>3556677
>I don't know enough about DC to get involved, do they even have problems with metas like Marvel with mutants?
...Not to the same extent as in Marvel, I don't think? At least, it's not touched up on as much in the the DC universe.
Do take this with a bit of salt, I don't really have much in-depth knowledge about DC or Marvel.

>>3556585
Mercenary. Neither a hero nor a villain, just a guy who has a unique set of skills that let him make a damn good living.

He doesn't go out of his way to get on the league's badside, but he's not above breaking some laws to get the job done either. Killing is an absolute last resort.

I hope Monitor posts soon.
It would be a damn shame if the curse killed this quest.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid.

>>3556585
>to become revolutionary turned supervillain that eventually falls into full monster

>>3556585
>to become an anti-hero/dark hero
I'm not really up for the idea of us going full magneto, could one of you anons explain exactly the pros and cons of this? kind of on the fence here.

>>3556827
From what I've seen of previous posters, the plan is to basically work together with Tera to make Markovia or whatever she's from a haven for Metas where they won't be discriminated against.

Couple big flaws in this plan, she's not next in line for the throne, she's got a couple of big brothers and an uncle. Two, Meta's aren't really that discriminated against in the first place since this is DC.

On the plus side, we get to waifu a princess and get to devote ourselves to a decent cause. (and maybe keep all the bad things from happening to poor Tera.)

>>3556872
They aren't really discriminated against but naturally if you're fucking blue or look like a giant hulking lizard people aren't gonna treat you like they would treat other people.
And they are ripe for being used in nefarious plans like the nefarious plan we are currently trying not to be used in.
But not really to the point of Marvel where mutants get an incredibly bad rep for mostly no reason, I say mostly because Cyclops is a massive cunt and pisses the entire world off many times.

>>3556827

My feelings are along the lines of >>3556882

They aren't overtly discriminated against but you better believe that, aside from swamp thing, there are no heroes that look/have ugly powers. If you look gross or have similar powers you tend to end up a villain in DC.

Plus there's no place really for powered folk who just want to live a normal life.

>>3556882
>But not really to the point of Marvel where mutants get an incredibly bad rep for mostly no reason
Wasn't there that one germ that was making people hate mutants all along because it couldn't infect them and wanted them out of the way?

>>3556585
>to go full monster
I will honestly be disappointed as hell if we don't go full body horror abomination with our powerset. There is just so much cool as fuck nightmarish shit we can do if we just let ourselves. Which is frankly my only reason. Truthfully if we keep up the body horror route I don't mind doing something else entirely instead. I just want to be nightmare fuel.

After the escape, we are sorta going to need Tara in order to acquire asylum and a new solid as fuck identity in her country. Which will be our best first base of operations. Its the best place we can run to after the escape and her family is going to owe us big time. Anywhere else and we simply won't have the connections or resources to cover our asses VS just tagging along with her back home. I mean really it's a no brainer so Tara is the most important in terms of usefulness. After that, we will obviously have a lot more breathing room to consider things and relative safety.

I would imagine our friends being a similar situation if they don't have any special cards to play that they neglect to mention(can't really blame them given whose listening). We can't exactly force them to come with and hopefully, they won't do something as stupid as heading back home to their families which will no doubt be bait for a big ass trap. To be frank I think a couple of them will probably join up with the superheroes and maybe the supervillains if on their own terms. We could possibly keep a couple of them around but we aren't exactly very persuasive. I think the most we can manage is staying together until we reach refuge with Tara's family. At that point, we will probably end up going on our separate ways. From what I can see currently our friends lean towards superhero and supervillain. We seem to be the only ones considering doing something else entirely.

>>3556827
It's not as serious as what Magneto has to deal with. Things to keep in mind is things like HIVE and Suicide Squad. As well as the poor metahumans who don't have a human appearance thus cannot pretend to be normal. Keep in mind people will happily shove a bomb inside skulls of metas and mindrape metahumans in order to do what they want.

Basically as a revolutionary we will be pissing off both sides by going after anyone who tries to use metahumans against their will, abuses them, and offering them refuge. Basically, we will be deeply pissing off a LOT of people.

There is even serious discrimination among superheroes against metahumans with freakish appearances and any who have disturbing powers to the point of forcing them all to go supervillain. Supervillains have been able to recruit them all simply due to their lack of bias. In the superhero defence though public opinion is a HUGE concern for them which the supervillains obviously don't have. People won't support them if they allow for monstrous metahumans and those with nightmarish powers.

>>3556882
I remember that one Wolverine-centric strip going around a while back with some kid waking up one day and passively killing everyone around him because of some radioactive or gas type shit or something, I imagine stuff like that is one reason why they get a bad rep. It's one of those things that people criticize Marvel for when it comes to allegorical usage of the Mutants; these characters have superpowers that can do some real damage and it can come outta nowhere. No shit people would be afraid of them. And that is, of course, barring shitheads like Cyclops making things worse for everyone.

I owe you all an apology, busy day. Update soon.

>>3556799

What curse?

>>3556937
The QM curse is when quest runners just mysteriously vanish mid-thread forever. Usually blamed on the QM getting run over by a car or something.

>>3556928
>Things to keep in mind is things like HIVE and Suicide Squad
This feels like a really strange point to make. HIVE are a group of villains and are explicitly trying to turn us into useful tools hence making us metahumans in the first place. They've had no qualms of callously throwing aside normal humans with their weird black goo. Suicide Squad is a group of supervillains who already have a history of crime, it's not a surprise they're treated like garbage. Like with HIVE they're supposed to be tools and have members that aren't even metahumans.

>>3556950
>Usually blamed on the QM getting run over by a car or something.
Ah, reminds me of the tragic tale of Zion: disappears, returns with news of having been hit by a car, disappears again, returns with same news, and then disappears a third time, and his players wait with bated breath for news of the third accident.

>>3556952
I mean, the suicide squad is a government sanctioned group of MOSTLY supervillains.
If you're just a meta that was arrested for something relatively minor but have a power useful for a mission, welcome to the squad! Here's your free brain bomb.

>>3556827
Not a magnetofag, but I can definitely see the perks:
>Gives an overarching goal to the quest
>Fits the experiences of the character so far
>Allows us to be a “good guy” without having to adhere to hero codes(no cannibalism, no body horror, etc.)
>Let’s us team up/go against heroes or villains on our own initiative, rather than being on one side or the other
>Allows us to eat people, as long as they are sufficiently “bad”
Honestly it’s not a bad goal to aim for, just not quite my cup of tea.

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>>3556585
>>3556585
>to become a revolutionary
LET MY PEOPLE GO

>>3556677
>>3556728
>>3556827
>>3556882
>>3556913
>>3556931
Alright so I'm reading up on a load of comments, these posts in particular, about Meta-Discrimination. Here's the thing, to be discriminated you first need to be considered a person. When you're Meta in DC, though it may never be outrightly spoken, you cease to be a person and become a resource to exploit. You know what I'm talking about. Hell it's happening right now. But for a better view, I give you Ace as a prime example.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YOooJW5SSDA

Since her infancy she was experimented on and turned into a government attack dog. She should've been throwing a million frisbies at once with a million puppies to catch them all in a field full of flowers, smiling happily that she was lucky to be so gifted. Instead, there she was. Backed into a corner and hound for the very thing that made her so great. She never got the chance to experience any real happiness because to the people around her she wasn't a person with feelings. Feelings were dangerous to them, as was thought and person-hood.

Let's not forget, she was one of the lucky ones! Anons make a good point, that physical deformations determine a great deal of what people think of you. People always forget there's more to Waylon Jones than just Killer Croc. He is a victim of circumstance. Abused by the same kind of people that are locking us up right now. This dude helps the homeless, avenges dead cops that do right by him, he even helps people into AA meetings for god's sake. Look at him. He just wants to be left alone. He doesn't want to eat anyone, he just needs a hug. We can give him that hug. Him and everyone else who needs it. We have the ability to do so, we have the power! We have the obligation...

With great power, comes great responsibility.

>>3556957
Reminds me of the tragic tale of UberNEET, survivor of the QM Curse:
> My formerly alcoholic and autistic but otherwise healthy grandfather died out of nowhere, two days after the ban, leaving me reeling
> One week later, my parent's trailer was immolated in an electrical fire caused by a faulty roof installation, destroying everything they owned and suffocating my dog.
> After narrowly passing both finals, I decided to change majors from Information Technology to English, because both back-to-back tragedies made me realize I'm dog-shit at handling computers and need to spend my life doing what I'm good at.
> For the last month and a half, I've been living with my parents and younger sibling in my great-uncle's hunting cabin, with no internet connection whatsoever while we go about building an actual house 200 yards or for you eurogfags, 182.88 meters behind the ashes.
> At one point, I was attacked by a meth-head with a tire iron while I was trying to drop off some burnt scrap metal at junkyard, and almost died in the ensuing confrontation because my dumbass left muh .45 in the truck's glove compartment, and I was lucky to get away with only some heavy bruises, even if I couldn't identify them to the police

>>3556950

Right. Look, If at some point I can no longer continue, or if there is going to be a hiatus, I will tell you all. I won't just disappear, I like to think I'm better than that.

Otherwise I will post at least once a day. I'll try to be more frequent like I have been in the past, but I can't promise it. Some days things just get a little crazy is all, and it takes a bit before I get a free minute.

Now this following section is intended to provide information only. This does not represent me supporting one side or another. Just providing information so everyone can make an informed decision.

Warning, spoilers for young justice season three ahead.

Regarding predation of meta humans in universe. In the standard DC universe meta's have it pretty good comparatively speaking. There isn't active hatred like you get in Marvel, although there is a certain degree of discrimination against those with unnatural appearances or frightening abilities.

Within the Young Justice universe as seen in season three which is the basis for this quest, there are a few things that are non standard.

One is meta human trafficking, which is a major plot point for the series. That isn't really a thing in the standard DC universe, at least not to this degree, but in Young Justice it very much is. To use some direct quotes from the show.

"Meta humans are being treated as the next exploitable resource. By first world countries, third world countries, rogue nations, corporations; its a global pandemic." -Batman

Child abduction and human experimentation are occurring on, and again this is a direct quotation, and unprecedented scale. The season revolves around various meta exploitation plots and organizations that participate in them. This quest likewise deals with said issues as a major theme. You're tied up in it, and it will likely remain relevant even after your escape, because people will want you.

Two, is that due to misuse of meta's by some organizations and due to super villain activity some countries and civilians are shown to have a fear of meta humans in general which is not typically present in DC. Meta humanity appears to be becoming a political issue. In season three we see at least one nation where significant political debate is occurring on what to do about the "meta human menace" so it is something that may spill out in some places. It doesn't appear to be a widespread problem, but it is a sentiment that is growing somewhat.

Now, this quest is occurring prior to these quotes and events from season three, but that's the way things are headed in universe.

>>3557039
>Now, this quest is occurring prior to these quotes and events from season three, but that's the way things are headed in universe.
I can see James going the revolutionary route if he escapes from HIVE and returns to all this shit coming to a head. He has the benefit of being able to be perfectly normal so he might not face it directly but considering his friends, he'll probably have to deal with it at some point.

>>3557039
Neat.

Also don't worry about not posting enough. Do things at your own pace. This is a really good quest, you're a really good writer and I'm pretty sure I speak for all of us when I say we don't want you getting burned out.

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>>3556585
My intention is
>Escape HIVE with Tara (Rest of the group is also okay tho)
>Take Tara back to Markovia
>Take Tara as wife (Hopefully, our interactions and experiences together will ensure she will have us and that her parents approve) to secure ourselves a place in Markovian royalty.
>Become ruler of Markovia
>Start speaking in third person.
>Become wildcard
>Become Victor Von Doom of DC

>>3557110
>>Become ruler of Markovia
Anon, no. Tara's older sibling aren't going to die, if we have any say on the matter.

I get where the revolution fags are coming from but I just- WANNA BE A COOL BROODING ANTI HERO OK? IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR?

>>3557110
Anon don't be ridiculous

Doom overthrows royalty, he doesnt marry into it

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>>3557116
Perhaps he could be persuaded to relinquish the crown? After all, why stress over making Markovia the best country in the world when you can just sit back, relax, and enjoy a life of luxury as prince while your younger sister and your brother-in-law do it for you?

>>3557130
Magneto is a cool brooding anti-hero though.
He just has a goal.
It's not like he doesn't chip in when the world needs it.

>>3557130
Why not both? The revolution will not come without blood after all.

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>>3557133
I love Doom so much.

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>>3557141
I'm never going to learn the context of this.

>>3557133
Are you talking about normal persuasion

or DOOM persuasion?

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>>3557141
I see you are a man of discerning taste

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>>3557151
his eyes look like the ass of a old mehaphone

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>>3557156
You dare to insult DOOM? You better watch out, he's hurt more for far less.

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>>3554149

Right, they definitely heard that. Now you could address the issue, but that would be awkward. Yeah no, don’t want to deal with that right now. Now deflection, deflection sounds good.

“So, where’s that staff member at. Are they here?” You ask after clearing your throat.

“Uh not yet” Says Roxy after a moment of silence where they all just looked at you.

“Well I guess we’ll just have to wait then.” You reply. Okay, they’re still staring. Gotta stall for time. Gotta change the subject. Now. “So Roxy, I hear you’re really good at DDR and I missed it last time. Care to dance?”

….Well, not the best idea you ever had on the spur of the moment, but it could work. Your friends look at each other and share a look. Right, they aren’t going for it. Crap.

“James-” Tara starts to say, eyes still red from her earlier crying. Actually wait, she’s teary eyed currently. Crap, you don’t do crying girls. You don’t know how to handle that shit.

“Kid” calls out a familiar voice from behind you, drawing your attention. And also fortunately providing you a nice out from the heartfelt discussion that may or may not have been about to happen. Thank goodness.

Standing over by the stairs is the familiar large frame of your shape-shifting teacher Larson. He looks a little different than usual, takes you a minute to place it. No smile. His lips are pressed firmly together in a small frown. You see him sigh, and then he jerks his head towards the stairs.

“Come on kid-kids” He catches himself and addresses you and your friends “I’ll take you to medical to see your friend.”

Huh, you’d expected one of the goons on staff, not your teacher.

“You know this guy?” Asks Liz in a whisper as your friends fall in beside you and you walk as a group over to the stairs.

“Yeah” You reply “His names Larson, he’s the guy teaching me to use my powers.”

“What’s he doing here?” Asks Roxy

“Showing us to Cait apparently” Mutters Ralph.

When your a few feet from the stairs Larson turns and starts up the steps ahead of you. “This way kids” He calls to you over his shoulder.

The walk to medical is quiet. Larson isn’t saying anything and your friends seem disinclined to talk among themselves in his presence. Your teacher takes you and your friends up past the second and then the third floors. Your destination is on the fourth floor it seems. He leads you through a set of double doors and down a long sterile white hallway before motioning at the entrance to a room on your right.

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>>3557479

“She’s in there” He tells you and the others. His voice is subdued, grim. “She’s unconscious at the moment, but the medical staff is certain that she’ll make a full recovery without any lasting physical damage. She’d be awake now actually, but the doctors felt it was safer to leave her under for a bit. Feel free to head in, but don’t touch anything.”

He opens the door and ushers you in. Tara is the first through, followed by Ralph and Liz. You’re the next closest, but as you move to go through the door Larson reaches out and puts a hand on your shoulder.

“Hold on a moment kid” He says with that same grim look on his face. “I need to talk to you for a second.”

Roxy pauses, hesitating to enter the room and leave the two of you alone.

“Go on” He tells her, face softening slightly “I’m not going to hurt the Kid, just need a word that’s all.”

Roxy looks over to you for confirmation, and you give her a small nod. It’s not like you have too much of a choice. She looks at the two of you for a moment more, and then slowly walks into the room. Once she’s gone through the door Larson closes it behind him.

He sighs again before speaking. “Listen Kid, I’m sorry about your friend. It won’t be happening again. The man responsible has been dealt with.”

“You and your friends will never see him again.” He tells you and his lips curl up exposing his teeth. Calling it a smile wouldn’t do the predatory nature of his facial expression justice, couldn’t capture how vicious all those bare teeth and that glint in his eye looks. “I can promise you that.”

Well, there’s only so many ways to take that.

“He’s not dead” Larson chuckles darkly, must have seen something in your facial expression. “Let’s just say he’s been reassigned to a position outside of domestic operations, and leave it at that.”

His grin lingers a bit longer, and then he blinks and his face smooths back out.

“In any case, the headmistress will make an announcement about how he was let go. Bring in his replacement all of that, but when I heard you were asking to see your friend I figured I’d volunteer to take you so you could hear it from me.” He tells you. “I wanted you to know he got more than just a slap on the wrist. Feel free to tell your friends if you think it would make them feel better. Now get in there Kid, I’ll be here when you’re ready to leave.”

>>3557489

He opens the door and gestures for you to head in. Looking inside through the doorway you see your friends are clustered around a bed in the center of the space where Caitlin is laid out asleep. There’s a beeping ECG machine keeping track of her steady heartbeat, and an IV drip line set up. You’ve never really spent much time in hospitals, but it looks like what you’d seen in medical dramas, albeit a bit more spartan. No plants or nice sunny window. No chairs for visitors either.

Everyone is silent, seemingly caught in their own thoughts. Tara is holding one of the larger unconscious girls hands between her own. Roxy is standing next to the blonde girl close to the bed. You watch Ralph hover on the edge of the room until Liz puts a hand on his shoulder and lead him closer to the bed to stand with the others.

What do you do?

>Go inside, wait for one of your friends to say something. The mood seems pretty somber.

>Go inside, pass along Larson’s assurance that the teacher was dealt with. It might make them feel better.

>Linger outside, you want to ask Larson some questions. What they mean when they say "non-domestic" for starters.

>Write in

Not quite happy with it, but it's good enough, and I really need to sleep. Stayed up too late as it is.

Good night anons, see you all tomorrow.

>>3557497
>Go inside, pass along Larson’s assurance that the teacher was dealt with. It might make them feel better.

I want to give that bastard quick hug. He is the coolest

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>>3557489
How is he so based.
>>3557497
>Linger outside, you want to ask Larson some questions. What they mean when they say "non-domestic" for starters.
>>3557500
You are doing great dude, sleep well.

>>3557497
>>Go inside, wait for one of your friends to say something. The mood seems pretty somber.
Just let everyone chill for a moment. We can let people know the teacher has been dealt with later, this isn;t the time.

>>3557497
>Go inside, pass along Larson’s assurance that the teacher was dealt with. It might make them feel better.

Larson is the best, let's kidnap him when we leave.

>>3557500
Good night!

>>3557525
>Go inside, wait for one of your friends to say something. The mood seems pretty somber.
Waifu be needing support.

>>3557497
>Go inside, pass along Larson’s assurance that the teacher was dealt with. It might make them feel better.

>>3556990
Whats this from

>>3557497

>Go inside, wait for one of your friends to say something. The mood seems pretty somber

>>3557497
Non-domestic clearly means Apokolips but we should ask in-character even though Larson won’t want to tell us. Thank Larson for being bro-tier. And go tell our friends. (Get them to thank Larson on the way out) I’m thinking Larson is our way out of here.

>>3557497
>Go inside, pass along Larson’s assurance that the teacher was dealt with. It might make them feel better.
G'night Moni- hold up
>Monitor of *E-19*
"That QM is a SPY"


>>3556952
>They've had no qualms of callously throwing aside normal humans with their weird black goo
I'm not convinced HIVE was the one using the Tar on people. Doesn't seem like HIVE's MO going by what I know.
Personally I think it was CADMUS experimenting with the Tar, and they simply sold surviving test subjects to help fund the research.

>>3556990
Oh wow, I've never heard or seen of this iteration of Killer Croc. Usually I've seen him portrayed to be much more animalistic than here.

>>3557632
Todays update brought to you by the Monitor of the industrial revolution universe.
As for Cadmus, we should burn everything to do with it to the ground.
Maybe give the researchers the Tar treatment before we do.

>>3556957
I miss him bros
>>3557039
QMs oftentimes disappear because it's just easier. If you officially end the quest, you have to break the news to the players and watch their reactions, so many QMs feel ashamed. It really shouldn't be guilt-inducing but it is.
>>3557497
>Go inside, pass along Larson’s assurance that the teacher was dealt with. It might make them feel better

>>3557497
>Go inside, pass along Larson’s assurance that the teacher was dealt with. It might make them feel better.

If we end up going villain I want to be this guy's sidekick.

>>3557687
>wanting to be a sidekick
No thank'ya

If we go full revolutionary, shall we try to take over the facility or escape with our group?
Do we let Whitehair and his group join our revolution? Because god knows they are fucked without our help.

>>3557608
>>3557632
Like I said man, half the time when introduced to people who don't scream at him at first sight, notably kids and the elderly, Killer Croc is a nice dude. He's just been so badly mistreated cause of his condition, and make no mistake, it is a condition. That's canon. It's like people attacking you cause of how your teeth look, it's bullshit. We need to find Waylon Jones and give him a hug.

This particular set was from Batman Earth One though I forget what Volume. Give it a read sometime, it's pretty good.

>>3557729
When we get better with our Biokinesis we could probably help him out with the whole crocodile thing he's got.

>>3557497
>Go inside, pass along Larson’s assurance that the teacher was dealt with. It might make them feel better.

Who are you qm?

>>3557746
Eig is Eig, who do you think Eig is?

>>3556990
Wait but that pic is from an otherworld comic set in setting where gotham is way more normal and Killer Croc was just some runaway carnie living in the sewers.

But anyway I see the appeal to the revolutionary, I just think it would make more sense if MC's focus was on liberaring the metas from Hive specifically, destroy them as an organization, and then eventually going full Magneto during his crusade as he sees more and more of the sick shit people do to get themselves a squad of meta-powered pawns. Rather than going straight to Magneto route, you need a little of that inbetween you know?

>>3557750
Of course, we can't immediately go full revolutionary.
We need a trigger for it.
Another thing I realised, if we get good enough at our biokinesis and can effect other people, not only will we be able to heal other people's injuries, we will also likely be able to activate their meta-gene if they have one.

>>3557753
>activate their meta-gene if they have one
Or deactivate it.
Or steal it.

>>3557771
If we are actually capable of doing that at any point we will easily be one of the most powerful beings on the planet.

>>3557753
Or enhance it, or do any genetic bullshit we want. Just imagine how much the world would change if there was a guy that can steal your powers if you act like an asshole and give them to someone that will use said powers to help others. Not only that:
>You are a natural supergenious ( like Luthor, no powers) that wants to conquer the world by any means necessary.
>You just failed your last plan to blow up Metropolis so Sups goes crazy and you can kill him and be declared emprah of mankind.
>Suddenly, this random guy appears from nowhere and grabs you by the neck.
>You wake up in a hospital, chained to your bed.
>Time to think a plan to get out of here.
>You can't because that guy altered your genes and brain and you are now a regular guy with memories of being a supergenious.
>FUCK.
That way we can fuck anyone whose powers come from a biological source (magic is still a problem). The downside is that everyone would want us dead, so we better keep it hidden until we are kriptonian tier at least.

So things we can probably already do
>be biologically immortal, can't really die of old age when you can control how old you look/are
>be immune to poison, we can control the interior of our body, eject/destroy that shit
>be immune to hallucinogens
>be immune to control powers that aren't psionic in nature (pheromones etc)
And that's just as we are now.
We might even be able to reverse aging on others with enough practice if we ever get to the stage where we can actually affect others.
*Ra's Al Ghul would like to know your location*

>>3557973
Control powers that aren't psionic OR magical, I should correct.

>>3557973
We better keep HIVE from knowing the full extent of our powers, just imagine the auction to get us as a sidekick:
>Joseph Mercer.
>Metahuman.
>Highly intelligent, competent and adaptable.
>Wide knowledge about biology, chemistry, physics, programming/hacking and many other fields due to eidetic memory and hyperfast synapses.
>Perfect Biokinesis, both over himself and others.
>Can leave your enemies powerless as long as they aren't magic users.
>Can give you their powers.
>Is immortal as long as you feed him.
>Omnivorous, like, literally.
>Can cure anything.
>Can make you immortal.
The bets would be insane.
And then everyone would try to kill everyone else in the auction house to be the winners, the JL notices the massive top tier villain fight and beats them. Then you get an autograph from Superman, or give him one depending on how much of the talk he heard.