peterverse | endbringer, meet gun

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...Very unseasonable rains can be seen in the distance from the shores of Acapulco.

The Brockton Bay Protectorate starts organizing volunteers to be transported or teletransported in batches to it. Heroes, rogues, villains, anyone's assistance is appreciated. A rendez-vous point is set for non-Protectorate capes wishing to volunteer, and Protectorate capes are informed of the situation via communication devices.

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From:

alicornucopia

"Sanctuary," says the tinker person. "What do I do?"

From:

mxglam

"I'm gonna make various pieces of this appear, and tell you where you should put them, and you'll put them there. Don't look too hard at the pieces - my power doesn't like it when other people than me use its stuff, so better not remind it you're not me." Not quite true but good enough, and maiming an Endbringer is worth it.

From:

alicornucopia

"Okay."

Sanctuary proves biddable.

From:

mxglam

Good! It's good when people make it easy to do one's job.

Many of the pieces created at this stage are things other tinkers might readily recognise and understand like structural components for the base of a gun that can rotate around it.

Eventually, though, Glam starts creating pieces whose function is not readily apparent and asking Sanctuary to fix them onto each other instead of onto the carcass. Most of the smaller pieces they handle themself, their threshold of squinting before disbelief kicks in is higher.

From:

alicornucopia

Sanctuary helps and doesn't talk much.

From:

mxglam

Well, it could be worse.

From:

peterxy

Yes, yes it could.

Presently lizard butt has decided to start exploring other areas of the city, where "exploring" means going to them really really fast, destroying property, and swatting various capes on his way.

And his way is roughly along Avenida Cuauhtémoc, roughly in the direction of their building. Not quickly and purposefully enough to make it seem like he's heading towards them - after all, they could just cross the water if they wanted to do that.

From:

alicornucopia

Sanctuary goes and pushes buttons on his force field generator. It shrinks, a little, but looks stronger.

From:

mxglam

...okay, okay, he's not coming their way.

While Leviathan causes random destruction - if he has any specific target other than 'the city of Acapulco' it's not immediately clear - they finish the gun.

It's tall, at around 6'5'', and the interface consists solely of a screen for aiming, a switch under it, and one button on each handle. It's fairly easy to rotate, too, and has a very unique if unpolished design - there was no need to create anything but the most functional carcass so no bells and whistles.

Is Lorica's robot still around?

From:

alicornucopia

One's been looking in on them now and then. Here it comes.

From:

mxglam

"We're done with the gun. I'm gonna start charging, this will take a minute," because people wouldn't just believe a gun that could deal that kind of damage without having to charge before doing it, or even if they would the effect would be heightened by the expectation anyway. "When it's ready it won't limit itself to Leviathan so we'll need to clear the area around him as much as we can.

"Where are the shelters? I'll need to avoid them, if you can produce a map that'll help."

From:

thinkering

"Robot with a projector will be there in a sec. You're not going to do more damage than Leviathan himself, are you?"

A robot comes in to relieve this one.

From:

peterxy

A hero - probably Eidolon - beats Leviathan through a building.

The shoreline starts receding again-

From:

mxglam

"Of course not, but I'm going to do some damage," they say, bracing for the tidal wave.

Edited Date: 2016-01-31 10:03 pm (UTC)

From:

thinkering

The new robot projects a map of Acapulco with the shelters highlighted.

From:

mxglam

Glam flicks the switch. The gun starts making a low humming noise, and a soft bluish glow lights it up from the inside.

From:

peterxy

The tidal wave does the same thing it did before, entering the bay and then spreading out in all directions, destroying less since most destructible things are already crumbled, but widening the mess and crashing onto people who weren't fast enough.

Edited Date: 2016-01-31 10:13 pm (UTC)

From:

thinkering

"Soon would be good!" Lorica's voice says from her robot.

From:

mxglam

"On it!"

The gun gets louder and brighter, its sound increasingly higher pitched, and Glam does their best to aim at Leviathan. He's not moving the second the gun finishes charging so Glam-

-shoots-

From:

peterxy

A large laser beam appears, making a noise like a siren distorted to be much lower and louder than sirens ought to be as it travels the air. Its light visible even through the rain - Glam should really have thought of the rain problem, this was not well-planned at all - it hits Leviathan's left leg, causing him to lose balance and topple. The laser does some more damage to the Endbringer's hip and tail as he falls, but eventually runs out of juice.

Damage to the leg is... quite extensive, if nowhere near as extensive as Glam'd hoped. Still, several layers have been stripped off his leg and a deep gash is visible where the laser hit him while he was falling.

From:

thinkering

"That was really good! Can you do it twice?"

From:

mxglam

"Yeah! Charging!" They flick the switch again.

Okay, now people expected the mysterious laser to cause as much damage as it did, so it'd probably stabilize there...

From:

peterxy

Leviathan is having none of it. He takes a few seconds to learn his new balance but then starts making what is apparently a beeline toward their building.