Macronomicon

What attacks the train?

The replicators are 100% attacking the train to get those sweet sweet resources.

They are also very smart. They have deliberately seeded the length of the tracks with highly aggressive, territorial mutated animals.

These animals will assault the train many times and inflict wear and tear, acting as disposable shock troops, before the alpha strike from the Replicators arrives.

so I need ideas for creatures and what weird powers they might have, as long as they're highly ag...

Chapter 64: Safety Meeting

The three of them walked down the center of the oversized train, which had enough space in the center for two of Hardcase’s mech-suits to walk side-by side. Which was probably by design.

The construction was mind-bogglingly massive and resembled a towering apartment complex sitting on it’s side rather than a train, and it had the space to match.

There was nothing ‘standard’ about the inter-city train. The steel beams for the tracks had been mass-produced by an Industrial T...

Can someone fact check me?

1: I knew a guy who had Tourretes (or claimed to) and the way i remember him describing it was that he could excercise a bit of control over what he did and when, but had to have some kind of outburst.

I'm also aware that he also had ADHD and speaking out of turn or blurting things might be more a symptom that, in which case, i would have to modify the Natalie's self-diagnosis.

I don't want to misrepresent a group or a condition that I know nothing about, so correct me if I'm wr...

Chapter 63: Gor’s Disintegration

Perry dusted his hands off, watching the voodoo doll flail as it sailed into the distance, propelled by suit-assisted strength.

Now that that stuff is taken care of, or at least put on pause, I can spend a day getting ready to go to Washington city.

Perry had a handful of priorities he wanted to get done.

1: Spare suits. Perry hadn’t mass-produced his Mk. 4. He only had one vat to grow them in, and it took quite a few days to finish, so he needed to bring along so...

So I gather...

A: Keep the parents around as long possible. Stay light and don't get too dark with it.

B: Fighting scenes are fun but I want serious worldbuilding in Washington city to make the trip worthwhile to me as a reader.

C: Ending the arc on the mystery sphere is fine as long as A and B are followed.

I've got a bit of an idea for the end of book 1

 So my thought was Perry goes to Washington city, does an inordinate amount of battling, (like, non-stop) and maybe the city collapses, and he escorts as many people back to Franklin city as he can on the train, and when he arrives back, Franklin city is under some kind of vantablack dome that eats all light and doesn't allow any matter to leave once inside.

This stems from multiple people suggesting attacks by major city-destroying villains like The slaughterhouse Nine.

of...

Chapter 62: Removed from the Equation

***Lu’ann Peterson***

“I guess I just feel like I don’t matter,” Eric Kole said. “All around me there’s supers doing the most amazing, earth-shaking things, and I…work in I.T., while every second of every day I could get snuffed out if a super so much as looks at me wrong. I’m in a city walled off from sudden death that could spill in at any moment and there’s nothing I can do about it. The human race is on its way out. Jefferson City fell last High Tide, and ...

What's Chemestro up to?

What's our maladjusted antagonist up to and how can we make him pursue his goal of supplanting Solaris while running up against Perry?

Perry in the immediate future is going to deal with a little bit of shenanigans around his scrapyard, then get shipped off to Washington city for his Draft (specifically, he will be guarding the train that will be transporting a ton of food and supplies back from Washington city in exchange for the draftee's help defending it.)

I don't have any s...

Chapter 61: Wayward’s Defensive Disguise

“Go, go go!” Perry said, hauling open the door and shoving Breaker through before diving into the bulletproof can himself.

“It’s extra for daring escapes.” The cabbie said, angling his rear-view mirror to assess Perry, eyes narrowed.

“He’s good for it, Carl.” Tung-Stan said.

“Yeah, I’m good for it.”

“Who’s that, daddy?” a little girls’ voice asked over the phone.

“Hi…” Perry glanced at Tung-Stan.

“Millie,” Tung-Stan w...

Chapter 60: It Takes Two To Tango

***Breaker***

“Ugh,” Breaker groaned as the heavenly cold from the ice pack cooled off his throbbing head.

“Here you go, Rook.” Barrel of Monkeys asked, frowning as he slapped ten thousand in chits in Breaker’s hands.

“Where’s the rest?” Breaker asked.

“You get the rest when Monolith gets back. What’s up with the ice? I thought you kicked their asses? You look almost as bad as Snake.”

“It was closer than it looked.” Breaker said. “My p...

Chapter 59: Paradox’s First Loss

Pelochard’s Symbiotic Spirit (Master Difficulty)

Create an essence-free environment with Ostoth’s draining, disposing of the clay beads in a safe area. Bottle a creature’s soul using a Gorbosh’s Acidic Curse and Pecholard’s Soul Trap.

Make sure Pecholard’s Soul Trap is modified to reduce the amount of strength it pulls with by raising the ratio of reticulating Jelly to Death Sand, from 1:3 to 4:1, Jelly to sand.

This will cause the ...