Mostly posting here because I'm new to discord and have yet to figure out how to use the app whereas I'm more familiar with reddit- in any case I'm having trouble thinking of a direction for my fic besides how to start it and I'd greatly appreciate assistance

I need help naming an team of alternate triumvirate, here are the powers:

David is a power tinker. He creates tech that replicates the effect of powers. His tech can effect other's power, strengthening or weakening it. Personality is more or less the same as the original, but more stable thanks to Hero.

Hero survived the S9, and his power is basically Stilling but is less refined than scion due to limited brain power. Has a passive force field.

Rebecca has a time field, able to cause her surroundings to slow down to a considerable point. Those under the effects of her power see the world at the same speed they are moving, so Rebecca looks like a blur to them. She is able to do stuff like quicksilver in x men, but no running up walls since she isn’t actually moving fast.

Keith has speed force with no space/time powers and a force field made of the electricity he generates while running that protects the world from his speed (Tactile telekinesis but looks like electric field).

Hello, not sure if this is the right place for this but I figured I’d ask. The parahuman in question has telekinesis and some psychic abilities (mainly minor precognition of what a person will do and some thought reading but it’s complicated) atm she is a reluctant villain only really doing it because she has to, any ideas for a name?

Powers are still kinda a work in progress so they might change, but this is the general idea

Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place for this question.

I finished Worm a few months ago but I'm still fairly new to the fanfic side of things. I've just recently started working on a fic but I've noticed that there seem to be some unwritten rules about which types of fics are right for which forums. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Synopsis:

Wave is a prequel story to Worm set in Sydney, Australia in 2005 and is written with the intent that it could be considered canon within the larger Worm story/timeline. It will primarily consist of a completely original cast of characters with major figures such as the Triumvirate only making occasional appearances. As much as we all love them, our favourite gang of teenage villains will almost certainly not feature at all in this story.

The story follows Parthian, a new and less-than-heroic tinker who must navigate the parahuman political landscape of a city that was almost completely destroyed by Leviathan 7 years ago.

Now, the city stands once again, reborn from the ruins with a new team of capes watching over it, The Atlas Alliance. However, the AA aren't the only capes to have made Sydney their home, with several villainous factions having embedded themselves in the infrastructure of the new city as it was rebuilt.

How will Parthian fare in Sydney and its dark underbelly? Especially when she has a few dangerous secrets of her own to keep.

omg where can I get my piece of eden

So a strange idea popped into my head while playing destiny the other day and it won't leave.

I have no idea what type of trigger could possibly do this, probably something with ether. Or maybe a cauldron vial but the idea of a twelve foot tall kell Taylor in the bay cracks me up

Hey, what kind of life would Taylor need to have to trigger as a Tinker?

Her specialty would be supplementation. She can't build tinker tech from scratch, nor can she supplement other tinker tech. She'll get a talent for engineering though, nothing groundbreaking, just enough to advance her speed at learning how to build mundane tech.

Who would do that?

this shit is a bigger ghost town than Earth Bet

Doesn't have to be a cape, as long as it's a flat and soft material.

I wanna make an original character triggering from his crush rejecting him. I can't think of a any powers from this. Anyone got any ideas?

Short

here's what going on in the mind: after she said no in the halls feelings of self hate and intense frustration began to flow. Thoughts of why doesn't she like me, what did i do wrong, how can i get her to like me, why am i not good enough for her filled my mind. Then after that we began to slowly to drift apart i just can't take this anymore i didn't want this to happen i want things to go back to normal trigger

Long

Here's the story: at first you didn't like her she seemed annoying but as time went on you began to notice the good points. you spend time with her you, get to know her, you form a connection but you know you can't be her because she's with someone already so you stay friends. But one day the unthinkable happens she breaks up with boyfriend your heart races this is your chance. You can finally be this amazing girl you work up the courage to ask her out and then she says no. As she walks away all you can think is why doesn't she like me, what did i do wrong, how can i get her to like me, am i not good enough for her. As the days go buy you notice she slowly starts to drift away from you. She hardly talks to you anymore. As you stare at her across the room you think why is this happening this isn't what i wanted i want things to back to the way they were trigger.

p.s if this isn't trigger worthy then feel free to add something that will make it trigger worthy

p.s.s if you need more details just fill in the blanks yourself

Forming a villain group of left-wing terrorists that all have Stranger powers, need help filling the roster out. Their charismatic and intelligent leader is Everyman, who dresses in outlandish costumes to make his speeches, but has the power to lose himself in any crowd, even a small one.

I will not be silenced

A boy. Your father was so happy when you were born, he always wanted a son. Your father loved you as much as he could, things were hard as a single parent. You were home schooled because he wanted to give you the best education. As you grew up you began to have feelings for the other boys in the neighborhood, but you didn't want your father to know you were gay, you weren't sure how he'd react. As you grew up you remember having weird pains and cramps, your dad told you to man up and ignore them. Then one day, you were sixteen, you sneak out of your house to hang out with one of the other guys... things get heated but it was the best night of your life. Few days later you got sick, every morning. You began to gain weight. You try as hard as you could to lose it, but eventually collapsed and was rushed to the hospital only to find out...pregnant?

"How could that be?" you ask in total confusion. "Guys don't get pregnant..."

You trigger.

Working on a character, came up with the trigger for her but haven't figured out what to do for power. I was thinking this and a subsequent miscarriage would be enough for maybe a second trigger.

TL;DR Dad wants a boy, gets a girl. Raises her as a boy. Makes her think she's a guy the entire time. Girl ends up convinced she might be gay, goes out with a guy one night. Moment of passion. Finds out she's pregnant at the hospital and that she's been a girl this entire time, triggers.

Update: She could have simply been petite, or maybe her father did slip her testosterone. Both good options, second one is a lot of fucked up which is always bonus points when it comes to Worm

Just a fun little brain exercise I was interested in talking about, in regards to the Corona Pollentia, as well as the Gemma while we're at it. If these sections of the brain hypothetically existed, which brain sections would they move out of the way? (Or did they take the form of a brain tumor like structure?)

I'm trying to understand if I got the fictional anatomy of it right, for fun of course, this shouldn't be taken as a serious Anatomical inquiry, as I am only an amateur when it comes to the brain and it's anatomy.

And more importantly, do we have any reason suspect this portion of the brain wouldn't be made up of traditional nervous tissue and cells? With Neurons, Glial Cells, etc, with maybe Synapses connecting them and all that good stuff? With maybe one or more neuron's Axon corresponding Synapses leading to a Microscopic portal that leads to a giant brain monster in another dimension?

Do I have that down more or less?

Discord seems to be dead ;-; though some people say it works but is wonky.

:sos:

Discuss.

Hi r/Cauldron !

I was pondering today, thinking about how the Tarrasque (one of, if not the, strongest statted monster in D&D 5th Edition) would fare against an Endbringer. Superficially, the Tarrasque and the Endbringers have a lot in common: Them showing up to a city gives good odds of the city being wiped out, even the greatest Heroes cannot solo one of these beasts, and they have distinctly inhuman goals. That being said, the stat block of the Tarrasque seems pretty "meh" compared to how I would envision an Endbringer, especially since most D&D classes, even at high levels, don't have the staying power or outright offensive power of high-tier Parahumans.

With that in mind, can we try to stat them? It's pretty clear that there's an Endbringer basic template, that includes the Endbringer core and the escalating durability of the rest of their body, with each Endbringer getting some kind of at-will abilities related to their domains. But I'm having trouble phrasing the abilities of the Endbringers in ways that make sense (in D&D terms).

Some suggested Endbringer Template stats:

Endbringer Durability: The Endbringer's AC is increased by a value equal to its missing hit points.

ALTERNATIVE Endbrigner Durability: Endbringers reduce damage received by a value equal to their missing hit points. This reduction is ignored by damage dealt by weapons with some sort of Phasing or Sting trait.

Endbringer Core: If the Endbringer would be reduced to 0 HP from a non-magical source, instead reduce the damage to 0.

Endbringer Regeneration: Endbringers heal (some amount of HP) per turn, probably on the order of 30 HP?

"You needed worthy opponents."

Fuck this shit

Does anyone have a bot that spits out triggers or vials from the spreadsheets? I used to be in a discord with one.

I have an idea for a character, with a powerset that I think would be interesting and unique...but the character in question is a Striker/Tinker...and I can't think of a trigger event.

I have an idea of the powers:

The Striker power applies an effect onto objects touched, binding them together telekinetically, while making them slightly more durable. Objects under the effect can also move according to the user's will, albeit with not a lot of force. The Tinker aspect tells the user what materials would make a given device, and how to build it, using the Striker ability to put it together. Powered armor, kinetic power sources, guns and melee weapons, etc., all possible. The Striker ability is Manton-limited, although it can easily be used for combat on it's own if necessary. (By sticking enemies together, immobilizing foes, etc.) The Tinker specializes in creating devices quickly, kludging them together from nearby materials, only for them to fall apart into useless parts when the Striker power is released. A limitation on the Striker power is that individual objects above 10 feet in length/10 pounds in weight are largely unaffected, forcing use of many small components, and the tinkertech produced isn't very durable unless specifically created to be. It is mostly improvised from the surroundings, after all, and while the power itself increases durability of objects a small amount, the objects themselves tend to be fragile.

I need a trigger event. Anyone have any ideas?

The Endbringers have inorganic, crystalline "flesh", which apparently only reads as organic to the Manton Effect because of shard shenagigans. But what happens if a non-shard power (especially if the scenario is a crossover) that affects inorganic matter hits them? Would it treat them as organic or not?

I've been reading the Worm/Bionicle crossovers "The Masks We Wear" by Barely Present and "Viceroy", and it got me thinking, how would Bionicle protodermis be interpreted if Bet scientists analyzed it? Would Panacea be able to control organic protodermis, like the Visorak in the latter fic? How would PTV interact with Energized Protodermis? Use the below links if you're not familiar with Bionicle.

http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/Protodermis http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/Energized_Protodermis

I'm guessing you've come here for help. That's great! That's what we're for.

But as you can probably see... the subreddit isn't the most active of places. The reason for that is we're primarily located in the Discord server, and this subreddit is more of a way for people to discover us. Basically...

Join the Discord!

The server is a LOT more active (we recently passed 1500 members and 4,000,000 messages!) so if you're in need of help, that's the place to ask! And if you've never used Discord before, don't worry; we're happy to help you out with that, too.

Here's the link: https://discord.gg/mFkEnjh (it's completely free)

So, i'm not sure if a power like this was ever specified in Worm canon, but if so all the better.

Power: A tinker ability for one to build tech which runs on multiple energy sources. For example, said Tinker would construct a car, this car would run on gasoline, but could also run on solar power should no gasoline be available, and should no sunlight be available? Then it could switch to running on kinetic energy, and so on and so forth from there.

Anyway do any of you folks here on Cauldron have any good ideas for a drawback to this ability? It would need to be a suitable pain in the ass whatever it is as to prevent this Tinker from becoming over powered.

Hi, wall of text incoming.

I'm currently planning a post Gold Morning story that has a very strong focus on characters within the Dragon's Teeth.

Inspired by Setanta, I've imagined the Dragon's Teeth to have evolved into something of a paramilitary organisation- a counterpart to the parahuman centric Wardens. However, what I haven't considered is how the Dragon's Teeth would be funded.

Even in the final epilogues, it's clear that the Wardens must be well funded to have an extensive infrastructure and roster, but similarly, their source of income isn't clear either.

My current, basic idea is that the Dragon's Teeth might rely on the sales of tinker-derived tech, as selling their services, however this conflicts with what I imagine would be their ideology of serving the people as the PRT did before them. Without a centralised government, would it make sense, both practically and ideologically, for the Dragon's Teeth to collect taxes to fund themselves?

An alternative might be having the Dragon's Teeth behave as something similar to a stereotypical Knight's Order, potentially even like Fallout's Brotherhood of Steel. However, the long term prospects and rampant xenophobia typical of such organisations could prove problematic to integrate story wise.

I'll include a synopsis of my story, tentaviley named 'War Games', below:

Preview

I just re-read Migration and looked through the WoG thread, but I couldn't find anything on this other than the (rather extenuating) circumstances and unreliable narration involved with the Travelers.

Pre-GM, if a cape from another, previously uncontacted world made an appearance, what would their response be? How does the response change based on the possibility of others coming from the same world? The cape's level of power? If the cape goes villian, do things go differently should they be arrested?

I'd be greatful for any help ya'll can give me, even if it's just pointing me at some WoG that I missed.

I come to you guys once again. This time however I am attempting my first go at a worm fanfic. However I am struggling with creating my two main characters. I can give trigger events to help to a certain degree but willing to adjust to meet ideas. Also looking for a possible partner. I have ideas and thoughts, but trying to convey them into words, and a story is difficult. So any and all help is appreciated.

Character 1: Gearing more toward a Siberian power set. Not the projection side of it, but the brute. This character is self motivated. Fighting only for his own personal gain, and desire. When capes began to show up this character wished and hoped that one day he would become one too. Years passed with no luck. Only a growing frustration toward capes. He is quiet, a thinker who takes information in rather than give it. Always the guy to be around to listen. He eventually comes into contact with cauldron, through character 2. The two friends compile nearly $50,000 dollars between the two of them and go to cauldron to get powers. Character 1 tells the dr. that he wants something to make him strong, to fly. Something like Alexandria, or the Siberian. She informs him of possible mutations, he merely laughs almost welcoming a change.

Character 2: Another quiet kid who was always the nice guy, rather than the tough guy. Short tempered and always in what appears to be a down mood. He is well loved and is extremely kind, but never someone's first choice for anything. This was apparent through constant suicide attempts. He meets cauldron this way. After an un-successful attempt on his life he runs into dr. mother a the hospital. She tells him that she can change his life forever. He accepts but knows he can't go alone, and asks that a friend be able to join him. She agrees. Character 2 asks for a mover, striker of some kind. leaning more toward agility and quick attacks.

Once again, any and all help is appreciated!