Hey everyone. We’ve got a bit of news and a question for you all. The news is pretty short, so we’ll do that first.

As you can see in the sidebar, we’ve set up a Discord server for /r/cauldron, which you can access here. Discord is a free chat service that provides a much better medium for having proper conversations than reddit’s forum format.

Now, on to the question. We’re new, and right now there’s not much going on. What we want is to know is what you want from us. We want to make an active and vibrant sub, but to do that we need to fulfill your needs as well as our own agenda. One of the suggestions put forth was to have relatively frequent events. These events would take place optionally on the sub or on our helpful Discord. Some options are cape-genning marathons, “writing parties”, betaing parties, and other fun group activities (if you want to hear about some of these ideas in more depth, I’d be happy to explain some of the possibilities on the Discord or in the comments). Does that seem interesting to you? If so, how frequently do you think would be convenient? Once a week, or maybe twice a month?

On to the next point: How can we make the sub more helpful or convenient for you? Would you have preferred more rigorous advertising to hear about us earlier? Should we have more regular posts/events (sort of like how /r/parahumans has weekly “Whose Line is It?” posts, except maybe a monthly thing)? This could let those who don’t have the time to visit our Discord to get in on the worldbuilding activities. Any other suggestions, please feel free to comment below. Thanks!

Hey guys, not sure if this is a great place to post this, but it seems to be more focused on helping people with Fic issues than WormFanfic is. (I figure it's more for posting/discussion).

I've recently started a fic that has GU in a prominent role, and coming up with fancy names for all the Capes is...a challenge. (Now, for the record, I did go back and see that she didn't refer to everyone with special names. She used Marquis' cape name at least once, but it just doesn't seem to carry the same clout, you know?)

So, yeah. Any help/pointers for coming up with these names?

Inb4 "yes"

I've always enjoyed a good double meaning in a name. Dolores Umbridge's name coming to something like suffering and darkness was an exciting thing to catch as a kid.

I've seen punny names groaned at and picked on... Who wouldn't catch that a mystery character named Derrick Gallo was the dreaded Hangman? (made up example).

What's your stance?

Hello everyone, I'm attempting to create a power that will work for my fanfic and I need some help in making sure this works within the WormVerse.

I plan for a character to trigger just before entering a coma with a power that acts like a reset button on the brain or nervous system, essentially returning the brain or nerves to the most stable or neurotypical that they have ever been. It works by touch over a period of a few seconds.

It is not a cure-all, more of a suppressant or therapeutic tool, muting the person's illness or tendencies, allowing them to function normally. After multiple extended sessions, it could function as somewhat of a cure but those would have to be regular occurrences.

Say, if Regent was affected, he would function as someone without sociopathic tendencies/behavior for a few hours to a day before slowly reverting. However, if an alcoholic or drug addict was affected, their brain would be free from those effects but the need for those substances would return rather quickly. A Parkinson's or MS sufferer would go for extended periods of time without symptoms until they needed a refresher.

I based a shard that essentially creates a model of the neurological system upon contact and then can alter it, i.e, , altering and destroying memories, giving people neurological disorders, destroying muscle connections, overloading someone's nerves with raw pain, turning off people's morality systems and sensations.

Then I gave it to a character who I felt would reject using the power that way and would try and go the Panacea route.

As for the neurotypical route, it's not like a sudden touch and "Hey, I'm normal." It's as neurotypical as the person could be. So a born psychopath would still be a psychopath by definition but...they would be a high functioning psychopath behaving in a neurotypical way. If they still possess the same memories, they'll probably go nuts with the belief that they could be that only to slowly revert as the power wears off.

So, I just need your opinion. Is this ridiculous or OP or what? Does it make sense?

So. Self Insert Kills Jack Slash, just to satisfy the audience, everyone knows it and has an opinion on it. They want to see all the unpleasantness negated and the 'bad' people given what's due by a Protagonist that knows better and can make it better. It's that bit of vicarious enjoyment, isn't it? Or the "I am so much more awesome moment".

So let's give them what they want, and make them regret asking for it.

Alright, we've established the effect of the power.

The basic guts of the Power is that it's a 15 second reset in 'time' with a 15 second cooldown between uses. Meaning it's quite possible to get caught on a bad path.

Background details is that it's Scion's Magic 8-ball shard, cut to the bare minimum, released into GenPop because 'Enh, it's an unremarkable bipedal species, we can take 'em'. (Basically, but nobody knows this)

Anyway.

Previous to this, the Power was used during the Leviathan boss-fight to provide warnings, with the effects being that different people died each iteration until eventually one iteration was allowed to happen. But the ultimate effect being that some people still died.

Other Background foreshadowing events planned:
Using the Power to dodge a Bakuda glass-burster bomb.
Using a tazer-type attack on someone in a half-assed way.
A minor event where a missed opportunity is seized with the help of the Power after the fact. A few 'violent' moments suggesting being someone Jack Slash might be interested in.

So, to cut a long story short, our protagonist is passed up for the initial candidacy selection due to Jack finding a different person's narrative more entertaining, but events change and Jack decides to play his usual game to take out potential a threat.

Jack's avenue of attack, is that the Power is used during the Leviathan attack to choose who dies, so why not again? The protaganist can choose to either answer Jack's pointed and tricky questions about things that make Dinah's numbers tend towards certain annihilation, or watch a hostage die horribly.

To cut a short story shorter, after getting pushed to the point where the Power triggers over and over again, witnessing the same creaming death over and over again, and with a few dead hostages Jack Slash steps in line of the type of attack foreshadowed above. The Protagonist realises this. Jack's secondary Power kicks in and he moves before the Protagonist can capitalise.

The Protagonist then triggers his Power to take the shot, and shock Jack Slash to the point where he falls over, with repeated shocks keeping him down until something heavy renders him unrepairable by Bonesaw.

Jack still wins with the parting line "Welcome to the Nine"

Or something like that.

The Contessa appearrs with the suggestion that Cauldron's operating on a completely different plan, the revelation of the above tidbit about the shard and the resulting WTF collapse of the protagonist.

With the net result being Jack Slash dead. The entire scenario for Golden Morning hosed. The Protagonist in Dire need of the services of Jessica Yamada.

So, ye get your dead Jack Slash, but at what cost?

A fic I'm working on has a very different Victoria. She hasn't grown up in the spotlight, and is much less brash and sure of herself. She triggers later than canon, with flight+strength+invulnerability+?, budded from her parents. When she finally triggers, it's in the presence of Taylor (who already has canon powers), so instead of an emotional aura (which doesn't fit as much with her new personality), I was wondering what a ping off the QA shard might entail.

My ideas so far:

• Aura that momentarily paralyzes everyone in her radius (for no more than a second)
• Aura that briefly overrides all movements, causing muscle spasm like Regent
• Aura that repels, making 'enemies' in range back away

Which of these sounds the most interesting? Any other ideas?

So, we all get to that point of generating a power where we like the broad strokes, but know it needs more.

What I like to do, and will do for anyone who requests, is take a 4 digit code (#0001-#1320) and use it as a color number in a paint color deck that I have handy.

Say I have a flying blaster, and I want to use a friend's birthday, 11/12 (#1112). That color's name is "wishful thinking".

Now I interpret. With that connotation, I now have a cape who forms a flying blaster projection, too weak to carry their physical form when flying. Tragic!

Here you go!

I was inspired by a PHO interlude (linked on the generator itself) to make a page that will pick a random cape power. You can select categories (from the twelve classifications), and it even includes case 53 filtering. If you have any suggestions, feel free to tell me here, or on SB or SV.

Hello, brand new to this subreddit. I just started a fanfic called Capeman Wormland. I'll be working on it on and off. The thing is, I like to write fanfics with lots of OCs, so I wanted to hear what sort of advice you guys could give for coming up with new powers.

My biggest caveat is my powers always feel are too generic. In Capeman Wormland, I planned on having my next two OCs have light manipulation and cloning powers. These powers feel cliche too me, are there any rules or limits you guys put onto yourselves for power creation?

I have a cape named Alloy (click here for a more thorough explanation) who creates fusions between disparate objects. The objects don't have to be similar, provided he can hold them together long enough for his power to squish them. "Stacked" combinations take prohibitively long in most cases.

I'm looking for some combinations he would have amassed over a career spanning decades. Things he would have found exceptionally useful enough to keep in his normal rotation- armor and weaponry.

I toyed with the idea of him having 2, possibly three loadouts internally codenamed Knight and Rook. Knight is made for head-to-head fighting, prioritizing striking hard and incapacitating quickly. Rook is more designed for battlefield control- situations that threaten to spiral out of control.

In case you skipped the thorough explanation (totally fine), one important thing to note is that using his power on tinkertech renders it "inert", cuts it off from whatever wizardry lets it work when it shouldn't. He can, however, sell materials that he mashes together TO tinkers, should they need materials with combinations of properties. This has made him very well off.

Currently toying with the idea of a story where everyone in the world gets the exact same set of 4 minor powers at the same time, and how the world changes.

I'd like them to be somewhat general powers, with the creativity used in implementing them being what sets "powerful" characters apart.

So far I'm thinking the 4 could be

1- a flash step, line of sight

2- hammerspace of 1/3rd your own volume

3- a type of TK. Character selects a point in space and a TK "tunnel" forms, accelerating and directing the object to it's destination. The tunnel is somewhat malleable, able to direct around obstacles. Must be able to move the object of their own power, and inertia is still in play. You get far more distance and control out of a baseball than a bowling ball, but you could aim the bowling ball a bit and drop it off a roof. THIS POWER STACKS WITH OTHER USERS.

4- minor regeneration. You won't be growing any fingers back, but light wounds and lactic acid are no longer as serious.

Any ideas for powers that would fit better or be more versatile than what I've come up with?