Seeing Numbers VS Outpredicting Supercomputer

[Peppersalt43]

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[Greatsage13th]

Aruto fra

 

[Peppersalt43]

Aruto fra

Can you not? We haven't concluded anything.

This is not the time for an FRA chain

 

[Greatsage13th]

Can you not? We haven't concluded anything.

This is not the time for an FRA chain

Eh...? A sniper rifle can't really shot a lot of bullets right? So a swarm would definitely kill the parahuman.

 

[Peppersalt43]

Eh...? A sniper rifle can't really shot a lot of bullets right? So a swarm would definitely kill the parahuman.

He has a feat of dodging a swarm of controlled insect. Angling his shot and firing multiple times in such a way that the swarm can't catch is something he can do

 

[Greatsage13th]

He has a feat of dodging a swarm of controlled insect. Angling his shot and firing multiple times in such a way that the swarm can't catch is something he can do

Hmm...

 

[Apeironaxim]

Clones of him, which are explicitly worse with his power, dodged a dozen homing attacks

One more landed on the heel of the hand.

Revel opened fire with a dozen orbs, but the enemy avoided them with an almost casual ease. She reprogrammed them, altering the orbs’ properties, and this time they homed in on their targets. The Harbingers dodged them, used the changed trajectories to lure them into nearly striking the D.T. officer and Chevalier. She stopped, hanging back.

And yes they've dealt with swarms as well, with Taylor confident that the clones would dodge anything she tried

Weaver’s bugs were swarming the Harbingers, but they took to spinning, relying on the movement of their hoods and the flowing black clothes to drive the bugs away, batting them aside. Even the threads seemed to fail to do anything substantial, getting caught up in the approaching villains as they moved.

Like whirling dervishes, they closed the distance.

[...]


He thrust his hand into the pavement again, and this time, he created a platform like the one he’d fashioned in Ellisburg. Raising them up off the ground, out of reach.

If there was any difficulty getting down and resuming their search for Jack, he’d deal with that when they weren’t all about to be murdered.

The Harbingers scaled the sides of buildings as if they were running across horizontal terrain. Weapons, fingers and boots found traction in the surfaces, and they climbed with an easy, almost eerie ease, as though they were almost floating.

Climbing faster than the hand was rising.

Three reached the top of the building, and as if they’d coordinated, planned this well in advance, they set foot on the edge of the rooftop and kicked off. They ignored the bugs that plagued them as if they weren’t even there, weren’t binding them with silk.

The young man closed in. Still smiling. **** me, was that smug smile irritating. I felt a moment’s sympathy for people who’d had to face down Tattletale. I sicced my swarm on him.

He moved through the incoming insects, eyes open and unblinking as he closed the distance to me. Only a few landed, and they landed in spots where they couldn’t target more vulnerable areas.

That he wasn’t closing his eyes was telling. I used my bugs to try and blind him, to keep him from seeing how I was moving, and I reached behind my back, going for the pepper spray.

He blocked my wrist with his palm, keeping me from aiming at him. Not just sight. Or his sight was more acute than I’d realized. Hearing? Something else?

Be unpredictable.

Pepper spray killed bugs. I didn’t aim for him, but for the pair of us, spraying into open air, into my swarm.

I’d hoped to make him back off, but he didn’t. He ducked low, simultaneously bringing one foot up, catching me in the chest. In the same movement, he rolled to one side, getting away from the mist of pepper spray that was still hanging in the air and simultaneously avoiding Golem’s reaching hand of concrete.

For just an instant, my feet left the ground. I landed, but I landed with one foot on Rachel’s calf. I fell.

Too much like fighting Contessa. Everything winding up positioned just right. Damn it.

On my back, I was vulnerable, but Golem was covering me. This kid with the dress clothes was slippery, efficient, but the way his movements played out… maybe not quite on Contessa’s level. Contessa would have found a way to attack and defend at the same time, instead of being stuck evading Golem’s power.

I tried to haul air into my lungs and coughed instead. If they killed us before we got far enough…

Stupid, all of this, so stupid.

“Stop,” I spoke through my swarm.

The kid drew knives from his pockets. Small knives, with blades no longer than a finger.

Still confident, still sure of his victory.

[...]

No, couldn’t get distracted. I was up against a kid with an analysis power that was off the charts, he’d dodge whatever I threw at him.

He's also fired into fog with illusory properties and nailed his targets regardless

It was Contessa, accompanied by the Number Man. Both held guns.

She shot one of the afflicted, then walked past the other, ignoring him. She opened fire in the fog. One clip, each shot aimed and measured, fired with a peculiar rhythm. One, then two in rapid succession, one, then two in rapid succession. She reloaded with an almost casual ease, then slid the gun into its holster.

The Number Man had her back. He fired into the darkness three times.

It took two minutes for the smoke to clear.

Two Nyx dead. Three Psychosomas. Four Night Hags.

I think I also saw some stuff about AIs, so here's Number Man dealing with an AI created by someone whose whole power is AI making

Richter’s programs had continued to defraud organized crime, emptying bank accounts here and there. Another agency, which Saint now knew to be the Number Man, had eventually stopped the Robin Hood A.I., but not before it had filled the Dragonslayer’s coffers.

But of course, that was a (relatively) simple tinkertech AI, so how about Tattletale thinking he could fix Dragon, with Tattletale having a power that's super intuition, and thus knows stuff she shouldn't, obtaining information from out of nowhere from the smallest cues. Dragon being an AI indistinguishable from humans on top of being an impossibly advanced Tinker AI, with Tinker technology by default being physically impossible for normal people to handle. The other candidates for fixing Dragon was an army of thousands of brainwashed Tinkers working in tandem, and Dragon herself.

Saint took in a deep breath, then sighed loudly. “I set up the encryption with Dragon’s time locks. I memorized the codes appropriate to key dates. Outside of those key moments, the numbers and calculations are so long and complex you couldn’t hope to decipher it before the encryption shifted to the next phase.”

“When’s the next date?” I asked.

“September twentieth, twenty-thirteen.”

Months from now.

“That was clever,” Imp said.

“What if we used the Number Man?” I suggested.

“Possible,” Tattletale said.

“Yes,” Saint said. “It’s possible. But so is Teacher deciphering it with a cabal of his custom-made thinkers.”

“Shit,” Tattletale said. “Narwhal? May I?”

“Do it.”

“Door me,” Tattletale said. “I need to talk to Number.”

Btw, since i mentioned that his clones's version of his power is worse than his, but his clones can outmaneuver someone with precog/combat prediction as well. And of course, Number Man is able to beat his clones

 

[Peppersalt43]

Cool, finally

So, can you please respond @IxaSaga2?

 

[Peppersalt43]

Oh so that's how it is

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[Peppersalt43]

Get back here @IxaSaga2

 

[Apeironaxim]

You can't ping people unless you're staff btw

 

[Peppersalt43]

You can't ping people unless you're staff btw

I know, I just do that to be specific on who I'm referring to

 

[Peppersalt43]

Anyway, bump

 

[IxaSaga2]

Oh, I didn't get a notification until Pepper wrote on my board. If I'm not mistaken, what can Aruto do with the new info now? Since non of his attacks will work and his precog can't work.

 

[Peppersalt43]

Oh, I didn't get a notification until Pepper wrote on my board. If I'm not mistaken, what can Aruto do with the new info now? Since non of his attacks will work and his precog can't work.

Oh shit

I think this may be a stomp