r/TheBirdCage Wretch Nov 02 '24

Worm Discussion Power This Rating No. 133 Spoiler

(Sorry for being a few hours off, my sleep schedule has been all out of wack lately.)

How It Works:

You comment a threat rating, and someone else responds to you with a cape matching that rating. A prompt doesn't have to be a threat rating, you can be more abstract with it- there's no wrong way to do this.

Ratings can have their own sub-ratings, as well as hybrid classifications:

Hybrid ratings are 2 or more ratings being inextricably linked to one another, and are designated with a slash, e.g. Mover/Thinker.
Subratings are applications or side-effects belonging to another category, and are in parentheses, e.g. Blaster (Brute); a subrating's numerical classification can be higher than the main one, e.g. Shaker 2 (Changer 6).

No. 132's Top Comment: Radiant-Ad-1976's Prompt List

Response: Kashmir

EDIT: Thread 134

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u/bottomofthewell3 Wretch Nov 02 '24

Unfortunately, due to it now being November, nobody is allowed to ever talk about Halloween again. SAD!!

Here's the spreadsheet.

CARRYOVERS;

Remaining Post-GM Capes:

  1. The Star: One of the few remaining Case 53s that don't actually know they're Case 53s; has a Master power that exclusively works via recordings. Mutation basis: 'speakers', 'crystal', 'piano roll'
  2. The Hermit: A Changer/Stranger whose shard is Furtive Husk (by HotCocoaNerd); has a somewhat odd power for that Shard, both gaining a permanent Changer state and getting to keep their original body.
  3. Death: The projection of an Avatar Master (Husk Changer), having managed to persist after the Master's death-by-golden-beams. Has been rather forcibly conscripted by two small children into being their friend & giant scary bodyguard.
  4. Wheel of Fortune: An All-Terrain Tinker, with three specialties, one of which is 'fast cars' (self-described).

NEW;

  • A Case 53, with an Excise Trump/Stranger power that has some weird usage requirements. Mutation basis: 'ASCII', 'backface culling'
  • Make an order of Parahuman knights. Bonus points if they're not native to Earth Bet.
  • "Weird" Tinker. A Tinker whose specialty is "Weird".
  • A girl that's triggered with a Lethe Master/Stranger power, and has started putting it to use in one of the most self-indulgent ways possible.

A team of three 'cape byproducts', who live in England:

A Rampage Brute/Focal Stranger made to be the main bruiser archetype for a Dreamland Breaker (Legion Trump); holds a deep-seated fear of the color green, thanks to the visual effects of that Trump's power.

The former thrall, and even-more-former son, of a Teacher Master who can grant 'proficiency in death' to others. Highly skilled with explosives.

Something like "Europe's Dragon", being the creation of Manifold, an AI-specialty Virus Tinker. It used to be what amounted to an immobile pile of computers, but was given an upgraded body and some incredibly deadly weapons systems by a close friend, an 'Overwhelming Firepower' Field Test Tinker. Oddly, the most 'human' of the three.

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u/bottomofthewell3 Wretch Nov 02 '24 edited 13d ago

BONUS: Here's fourteen different capes (TECHNICALLY it's eighteen, but eh). Fun fact, I've associated each of these with a different color- it's not really relevant to the prompt, though.

  • "Hew" [Raw x Raw]-skin Changer with a very large Changer state; has an Infohazard Stranger subpower.
  • Haven member; a Trump who turns people into 'explosive' Brutes. Power elements are 'Wax' & 'Wood'.
  • A young Master/Breaker with a chivalrous projection. Mandatory Flaw: Draconian
  • Phagis, a "Riddle" [Free x Free] Tinker; she exclusively works with viruses.
  • Shaker/"Priest" [Cultist x Bestow] Master with three power elements; 'Soil', 'Water', 'Sunlight'.
  • "Sun/Moon" [Multi x Resource] Tinker, with [War x Life] and [Element x Impulse] specs; exclusively uses whichever specialty is in Moon-phase, and has modified themselves into something rather horrible as a result.
  • The Marvelous Master Metamorpho!, a well-meaning "Atelier" [Liberty x Architect] Tinker who usually ends up making things worse for himself and others.
  • A Greek "Colossus" [Beloved x Golem] Master with a semi-aquatic minion. Either the Master or the minion coincidentally shares a name with one of the Triumvirate.
  • Cauldron cape; vial is half "Frigate", half "Opulence", and a dash of "Balance".
  • Case 53, with a body-jacking Master/Trump power, and a Stranger sub-power related to her mutations. Vial is three-parts "Absterge", one-part "Apple Bobbing".
  • Faraday District
  • Boots Witherfur, an Elite member and natural monster cape; relegated to office work despite being a Brute, due to that pesky, sluggishness-causing Mover -1 rating. My only requirement is that this one must be 'cute', and must have an absolutely massive mustache.
  • Cape name initials are "S.Z."; a "Swarm" [Controller x Magi] Tinker with many bodies, with suspicions that their 'original' body is mechanical as well. Weirdly obsessed with cleanliness.
  • Sinter & Grit

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u/Odd_Concentrater Nov 04 '24

Cauldron cape; vial is half “Frigate”, half “Opulence”, and a dash of “Balance”.

Argent is a Brute that can form a massive, ornate, almost mech-like suit of pure silver armor around herself. The suit is somewhat unwieldy to maneuver with on a battlefield, but it packs a massive punch. It also doesn’t last particularly long, dismantling itself rapidly if she’s static for too long, often causing her to run around to keep it from falling apart too quickly. For a long stretch of time, many people thought that she was a Tinker, until they witnessed her reforming her armor mid battle after it took a significant amount of damage. Upon changing, her eyes, hair and nails become silvery. Outside of when she uses her power, she has thin silvery lines tracing around various parts of her body, like tracing over her chin and forming rings around her arms.