Sneaking His Way into the Multiverse (RWBY Jaune, WC-lite mechanics)

[sul4ic]

I am facepalming right now.

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I can't believe people genuinely thought you were serious lmaooo

 

[Adudefromthesea]

...See below for the joke. Once again, I am facepalming.

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It's alright, not everybody read Worm, quite a lot go with only the fanfics, I'm sure you'll can managed in no time with a wiki dive, you already nailed Lisa

 

[The Hero named Villain]

Genuine question?

They're Worm's illuminati created to battle the last boss of the universe by any means nescessary

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and they are terrible at it

it is canonical that they cause more problems then fix

their Hubris makes Zues look reasonable

they accidently unleased/made the Endbringers , dont know they did it.

the Triumverate are part of Cauldron and Alexandria has a secret identity of the PRT chief, which is illegal.

btw dont know if ya know, but Armsmaster rigged things(canon timeline) to get villains (Skitter included) killed by Levi just to have his 1v1.

 

[tarrangar]

I suppose you could handwave this by having the Outsider sense the party's potential imminent death and quickly give them temporary thinker immunity. It's kind of an ass pull, but otherwise, Contessa is going to detect them the second they walk through the portal. Just having Jaune immune to thinkers isn't enough because Path to Victory will just basically predict the other two member's actions, discover everything they know about the Company, and just drop Alexandria on Jaune. Being immune to thinkers doesn't mean you are immune to people of mass destruction. Also, full disclosure, the Triumvirate are all a part of Cauldron.

On the positive side, Cauldron does not become relevant to the Worm story until much later, so as long as you keep Contessa from noticing this trip, you can save worrying about Cauldron until much later.

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I would just rule they aren't negatively impacting the path, granting Aura would be positive to most of Contessas paths, and Worm canon is not in fact one of Contessas paths, she can't do that kind of long term path, there's too many blindspots around for that, and Taylor becoming the savior of the multiverse happen in large part due to those blindspots, so Contessa likely just never get a message about the 3 of them, because it's not in fact part of any of her current paths.

 

[MethodicBibliophile]

I would just rule they aren't negatively impacting the path, granting Aura would be positive to most of Contessas paths

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That is a tempting answer, but Path to Victory would definitely see the potential of the Company store. Aura to everyone would be a massive boost to humanity's chances, but a literal instant-kill magic spell would guarantee it.

 

[last admiral]

Genuine question?

They're Worm's illuminati created to battle the last boss of the universe by any means nescessary They are composed of some of the most powerful parahumans in the story, Contessa is one of their members and her power is Path of Victory, which creates 'paths' for her to achieve any objective as long as she follow its steps to the letter, there's a joke that if you go into the setting without thinker protection you'd get a bullet to the head by Contessa because the 'paths' she constantly had on would feel the disturbances the SI character would create and would create 'steps' to deal with it, even if Contessa didn't know anything about it (She can automate her body to follow the steps her power gives)

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and they are terrible at it

it is canonical that they cause more problems then fix

their Hubris makes Zues look reasonable

they accidently unleased/made the Endbringers , dont know they did it.

the Triumverate are part of Cauldron and Alexandria has a secret identity of the PRT chief, which is illegal.

btw dont know if ya know, but Armsmaster rigged things(canon timeline) to get villains (Skitter included) killed by Levi just to have his 1v1.

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And ofcourse, thing slike the whole Case 53 experiments. Then Cauldron/Contessa make a surprise piakchu face when the 53s didnt go unite and fight for humanity, but instead decide to "burn the village" by go hunting down Cauldron and destroying PRT/infrastructures, including Weld that turned rogue after the revealation.

because who the fuck want to fight and die for shitty world that treat them horribly, and something something a child that abandonned by village will set the village on fire to feel warmth something.

and ofcourse the other "HARD MAN MAKE HARD DECISION, WHILE HARD " stuff that its almost look like a parody meant to criticized the 'hard men make hard decision' tropes, but no, Wildbow intend and absolutely believe in it.

Its says a lot that Cerberus from Mass Effect would be much more reliable and getting more result than Cauldron.

 

[HyperspaceTrancer]

That is a tempting answer, but Path to Victory would definitely see the potential of the Company store. Aura to everyone would be a massive boost to humanity's chances, but a literal instant-kill magic spell would guarantee it.

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You mean the Company Phone that was putting Tattletale into Naptime every time she squinted at it too hard?

Even if Jaune himself keeps Blank off, that phone is locked up tight, Contessa isn't getting SHIT.

 

[MethodicBibliophile]

You mean the Company Phone that was putting Tattletale into Naptime every time she squinted at it too hard?

Even if Jaune himself keeps Blank off, that phone is locked up tight, Contessa isn't getting SHIT.

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True, I've been thinking under the assumption that while the phone is immune to thinkers, knowledge in someone's head that the phone exists isn't. But on second thought, the Company probably already has contingencies in place for that. I always that Jaune needed thinker immunity to keep precogs from stealing access to Company resources from him, but it could have just been to keep the Simurgh from rendering all Contractors' efforts useless.

 

[Talimancer2]

Also it was established previously that Leviathan didn't really 'get' Aura. It was an OOC problem for the shard network.

Assuming Contessa tries to kill them, she turns up, shoots Jaune in the back of the head and Jaune goes 'Ow, that hurt'

 

[ExFelineServer3]

As my Username suggests, I know a thing or two about cats, here are some of the top points; (1) Cats absolutely have souls. (2) Cats can be absolute assholes, you can see the scheming going on in their brains and then watch as they look directly at you as they tap things (usually fragile things) off of counters and shelves after you told them not to. (3)They view us two-legs as their servants. (4) They relish the pain, misery and chaos they inflict on their servants
Escha should definitely get Aura.

 

[Talimancer2]

As my Username suggests, I know a thing or two about cats, here are some of the top points; (1) Cats absolutely have souls. (2) Cats can be absolute assholes, you can see the scheming going on in their brains and then watch as they look directly at you as they tap things (usually fragile things) off of counters and shelves after you told them not to. (3)They view us two-legs as their servants. (4) They relish the pain, misery and chaos they inflict on their servants
Escha should definitely get Aura.

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Escha is not a cat, she's a Palico. You can tell this by how she is helpful.

Also I believe Jaune did give her Aura already

"Alright. Guess that's that. I give up. Escha can come with us."



A cheer went up among the monster Hunters, and he had to smile at just how honest and happy it was. Lifting his head, he continued to speak.



"The rest of you, get over here. I've got a present for all of you, too. A little thing called Aura."

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[PintSizedSlasher]

...See below for the joke. Once again, I am facepalming.

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Can't believe you made this fanfic with a worm main character, Worm arcs and talked about a lot of events in worm by only having read stepping on worm, woah....

Also, everyone should read stepping on worm. Not because it's good but so that I have company in my suffering

Okay now, shit posting out of the way.

I'm rooting for a Lisa to Lisa thinker power feedback loop that sends canon Lisa into a coma.
Or
Alternatively
Lisa to Lisa thinker power loop that ends with both Lisa's hating each others guts and at each others throats

 

[Mashadarof402]

I am facepalming right now.

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They're pretty much supposed to be competent, but written somewhat incompetent, because Wildbow has a burning hatred for authority figures, maps, economy and anything that isn't grimderp fuck you deconstructions.

But the fact that America, Europe and Asia have semi stable national structures by the time of worm canon is also thanks to their efforts. Normal parahuman distribution is selected specifically to create the collapse of all nationstates inside the space of a generation to maximize the amount of conflict and data generated.

Basically the space whales want Mad Max ASAP, and they are extremely good at getting it over the countless civilizations they've practiced it on.

That being said, it's important to remember that Cauldrons core leadership is formed from

x1 Iron age tween
x1 College age student (unpowered)
x1 Tween mass murderer, groomed by another mass murderer.

The other members (they had 4, but got whittled to 3) don't count because they're not really calling the shots at the upper level.

Now, to be fair, the College age student, who goes by Doctor Mother (for some inane reason), did suggest calling in some actual professionals and national leaders to deal with the multiverse ending threat (Space Whales kill every iteration of the civilization they parasitisize in one go at the end of the harvest, in this case meaning every version of Earth in the multiverse). The iron age tween, who has PTV, said no because the more people who knew about the threat, the more likely the Space Whales figure it out and just torch the experiment right now.

This leads to a situation where you have wholly unqualified people, one who has the cheat superpower, trying to save all of reality almost entirely on their lonesome.

It's very stressful.

 

[alanek]

To be fair to those who didn't realize you were joking (me included),

We *have* had authors write worm fanfic without ever having read worm before, in the past.

As for those who didn't get it after you already mentioned that was a joke on your part...

Decent odds just skipped right past your post

 

[last admiral]

Now, to be fair, the College age student, who goes by Doctor Mother (for some inane reason), did suggest calling in some actual professionals and national leaders to deal with the multiverse ending threat

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Also, the said "Doctor Mother" is neither a mother(as in like, even Carol had more empathy and better mom), nor a doctor.

Also didnt know she was college kid, which honestly not really help on how she is viewed by readers. Seems most likely being a college dropout.

 

[Mashadarof402]

Also didnt know she was college kid, which honestly not really help on how she is viewed by readers. Seems most likely being a college dropout.

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I believe she is a dropout. She never finished schooling when she got portal napped during Eden's faceplanting and all those portals went everywhere.

 

[Lopezelpesado]

it is canonical that they cause more problems then fix

their Hubris makes Zues look reasonable

they accidently unleased/made the Endbringers , dont know they did it.

the Triumverate are part of Cauldron and Alexandria has a secret identity of the PRT chief, which is illegal

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I dont think its reasonable to blame them for the endbringers, cause how the fuck would one predict something like THAT.

Oh noooo, they put a parahuman in chargeeee, thats illegaaaal....

My guy, they have done worse shit than that, and she does the job well enough.

Cauldron get called incompetent and I feel its kinda unfair, the guys are literally fighting against GOD and they dont know how their freakin tools work, they have to fucking pray for whatever they do to work, and have to rely a lot on the agents that want them dead.

Doesnt help that Ziz is constantly working against their efforts.

They are literally a group of VERY desperate people, trying everything they can to keep humanity alive.

 

[Kot_Sleep]

Can I suggest a world to visit? Just for 1 chapter it would probably be perfect. Kamidori Alchime Meister is a pretty funny setting where you can either turn it to the NSFW side by offering free sex or leave everything sterile and romantic. And so a great place to introduce the diversity of universes on a living example, after all there is at least 1 elf, 1 angel (or many angels), 1 demon of the succubus subspecies (or several of them) and a variety of monsters of various stripes. Also quite a profitable place if you deal with the main character and have some currency to buy and improve the sword if you have time. Of course, it is problematic to do robbery there, although it is possible, and Tattletale will be an additional experience with communication with too attractive ladies and fantasy races. Although this will be a problem in writing given that this is a JRPG.