It hasn't been asked yet, and I'm happy to answer. It's set in an unspecified metropolis in the US. Right now it's just referred to as "The City." I might just keep it as that, like in Transmetropolitan. I figure keeping it in a fictional city gives us some leeway as far as scenery goes. As for time period, it's set in the present, roughly.
Part of Apocrypha's ability set is that when it should 'die' via large amounts of kinetic energy, it splits into two copies of itself instead.
The explosion caused by the car was enough to cause our dear friend Apocrypha to split. Though there's two now - which is a massive problem - both are about as half as strong as the original. What I'm worried about is if they split again after that...
It occurred in the last bit, though the act itself was obscured by the fire and smoke
Of course - how could I be so blind? We have to strangle him to death with our BARE HANDS.
That's sort of Jotham's plan. It's not a very good plan - but from the information he's been given so far in that brief confrontation, it's the best he can come up with. His mentality is to get them down to a swarm of weaklings; if their power is being halfed each time, then it won't be long before there's a swarm of sixteen demons with 6.25% power of the original. If he can even cause that many explosions without getting rekt first.
I was actually thinking a big enough fireball would suck the oxygen from him long enough to suffocate him, but water might work too. Keep in mind, the clones can gain strength the same as the original can, so they might start weak, but dick around and they won't stay that way for long. It's just a good thing that their Power doesn't work on each other, otherwise they could just claw and gore the shit out of each other until they were full power once more. Good on you for not trying to use your player knowledge to make things easier though.
I was just going to ask that. Is there anyway for the Awakening to know how many shards a person (or in this case a being) has?
Not unless they are willing to tell you, or until you rip them out of the other person's corpse. Haven't decided how I'll do that yet though
It wasn't the image, the only thing that was a sticking point is the bit about him thinking that Apocrypha wants to die. Far as I could tell, your chsracter would have no way to know that, and the way the monster's acting atm wouldn't give any indication. Sorry I jumped on it so eagerly without explaining myself earlier. My mood's been all out of whack from having a long, bad day.
I know, I know, but if I get into too hard of science, I might start making people bored. Besides, using newtonian kinetic energy as a source of energy while ignoring the fundamental forces as a source of energy makes him powerful, but not overpowered. Maybe someone can get the heat bit once he dies?
