He likely won't do it himself, but leave it to Porkins to find out for him and sum it up. Depending on how thorough Porkins is, Valentino could gain a wealth of information, or he could gain very little, or even get some misinformation.
What makes you say that?
That's just Valentino's nickname for him, his real name is Lucien De Porc, and he's a boar demon, but because Brainiache is all blindfolded and such, he can't really tell.
Huh, I thought that Luna was just a sinner that they brought in and not an actual hellhound.
True, but then I had more been thinking of power level than anything else. Granted, mortals depending on their circumstances can get access to magic fairly easily if the School teacher is anything to go by.
I'm surprised Skitter actually drank. She strikes me as someone who absolutely hate not being in control of herself.
The hypocrisy in this statement is strong. Khepri was able to keep casualties to an absurdly small amount. Even after Doormaker's power failed, the only reason people continued to fight Scion was because Khepri was using Canari's power on them. After all, except for a few exceptions like Chevalier, the majority of capes were settling small grudges or doing power grab instead of fighting Scion after the first failed attempt.
Honestly, even though Weaver has an history of fighting alongside monsters, I hope Weaver doesn't bother trying to recruit Battery: if I remember correctly, Battery was the reason the S9 were able to flee Brockton Bay.
It's more about taking out a threat before they become a significant problem while also gathering funds at the same time. The vigilantes fell into the "appropriate targets" range when they began causing significant amounts of chaos across the city and even were incited to attack and try to murder her. Snipe's group in particular falls into this due to being the ones that incited the violence against her and the merchants, while also having seen her face while trying to snipe her and likely the Merchant's van as well. Not to mention that they would likely (in her mind) be trying to hunt her down to take her out for good. Due to them being a significant threat due to them being able to muster the forces of vigilantes against them, and having already poisoned the water with the vigilantes due to Brainiache's vague memories of GM, Taylor wanted to take out that early threat that might be hunting them.
She was both humouring her friend, as well as just being a little curious. She wasn't planning on having much, as she wrongly thought that just having a little should be fine to not get her buzzed. Thing is she's something of a light weight and got buzzed really quickly after just a drink or two. Not to mention that she was never properly drunk. She was just a little buzzed at most, which from her perspective, and probably the perspective of the other patrons, didn't affect her at all due to her spending most of her time listening in on what the vigilantes were saying.
Thing is, Snipe doesn't have the full picture. She never actually made it to Golden Morning, she died before it happened, it is Brainiache that was in Golden Morning, and was among the capes that were sacrificed, or just not moved out of the way fast enough, and got blasted while under the control of Taylor. He has extreme biases against Taylor from the mastering and got his girlfriend to support him. He's the main instigator for getting Snipe to get everyone else to join in on the attack.
Nah, if anything, Piggot is the main reason that the S9 managed to escape. The memory plague that was unleashed because of Piggot brought in outside help to take down the S9, something they specifically warned against, though because Piggot wasn't a cape, she thought it was fine to not listen and do it anyways. This fucked everything up and made it so that the S9 were able to escape in the ensuing Chaos.
I remember Cauldron calling their favor with Battery to allow Jack to flee BB, but I might be wrong.
You remember correctly, but Thread Necromancer is also right about Piggot doing more to ensure the S9 escaped through her incompetence than Battery did deliberately trying. Of course IIRC Battery was trying to ensure the S9 were caught while obeying the letter of the request from Cauldron.
They did, but Battery was never planning on going through with it if she had the chance. She told Legend in her dying breath, because she didn't know that he was a part of Cauldron, that she had bought her powers from Cauldron, and that Cauldron wanted her to make sure they escaped. She told Legend that she wouldn't do it and would even defy them if she got the chance. She likely believed that telling the top brass of the Protectorate about the evil organisation she bought powers from would reveal them to the Protectorate and make things better, unfortunately, Legend is a part of Cauldron, and her message never got out.
You're close, the part in question is at the end of Interlude 12.5. It asks Battery to ensure that Siberian and Shatterbird escape BB to clear her debt.
And a fairly nice looking transformation effect.
I've done the edits to Chapter 10 that were suggested, and will be working on doing the edits for the first half a dozen or more chapters to make Adam's dialogue legible.
I've actually have a few drawings of the progression of the Merchant mobile that I might upload if anyone wants them.
I mean you could probably say the same as Chernobyl but it can have people. Though I was more talking about Earth Bet before GM happened. If anything, were I to interpret Earth Bet post GM, it would be more like either Stalker, or Fallout. Likely survivable, you just need to figure out what survives out there and what doesn't, and maybe see about inventing some rad-x and rad-away while you're at it, or just drink yourself to death with Vodka.
Those are just delivery trucks with a turret on.
Basically, though the drawings aren't very good but the first one is still just a regular van that has had some thick sheets of metal strapped onto the sides of it, and the other one would be a heavier version of it that wouldn't have the problem of the first of, if firing at something to the side of it, it has the risk of tipping over. I tried to describe the merchant mobiles as basically technicals that you could possibly see in Africa used by warlords and rebel forces if the turret of a tank was working fine but the body was either shot to hell or just didn't work, thus, turret on top of van.
