“You were never ready for me.”
The execution of the triple-cross was just fantastic. Just perfect, and that one-liner was by far the best of all the great one-liners (including some stiff competition from Voss himself).
Ivan Ramonat is now officially my favorite character.
Oh, okay… I’ll have to go dig out Luminary’s deck at some point here. I haven’t really looked at it since I filed it away in the Big Black Box. I guess I thought the Oblivaeon heroes had the same art as the foils.
I just noticed when transcribing for the wiki:
Voss's back side flavor text: "Witness true power! Now begins the subjugation of all the Multiverse!"
First thing he does after claiming OblivAeon's power: Shuts himself off from the rest of the multiverse.
Some of the other flavor text is messed up, too. Tempest's quote where he flings Empyreon into space is in Scion Strike #1, for instance, but the story C&A told put it way later than that. And the quote on Faultless's card is from Scion Strike #5, far too late (Dark Mind's flip side's quote is from Scion Strike #3 and Borr's explosion is in #4).
From what I’ve been told on the Letters Page Discord the issues were put on them before they did their room full of stickie notes so there is good possibility some issues don’t line up correctly.
OK help me out everyone, I listened to these epsidoes over the course of many days and I'm trying to keep track of who took out which scion, here is what I remember:
OblivAeon: Final blow Luminary with Voss' help, though everyone contributed
Voss: I'm not sure who to give credit to... Tachyon, Legacy, AkashFlora?
Voidsoul: Guise, after Voss beats Writhe who absorded Voidsoul
Faultless: Harpy fixes him and then Faultless unmakes himself?
Progeny: ChronoRanger gets the final shot
Aeon Master: Lifeline absorbed him
Nixious: Voss after Fanatic and Stuntman did a bunch of damage to him
Dark Mind: Driven off by Benchmark, Visionary, and Idealist but its becasue Faultless gave her a physical form
Borr: Borr blew himself up, Stuntman and Mainstay were fighting him
Sanction: Parse after Omniton-U created and interface
Empyreon: I can't remember...
Am I remembering correctly, or should credit go to someone else?
Empyreon was destroyed by Captain Cosmic after being dragged into space.
For Voss I’d say it’s a combination of Guise, Tempest, Sky-Scraper, Young Legacy, Harpy, Luminary, Akash’Flora, and the Freedom Five
Empyreon was taken out by Captain Cosmic and doing so left Captain Cosmic drained and floating in space.
As an aside, for the Voss fighting originals, I tried Santa Guise, F6 Tempest, Extremis Sky Scraper and Young Legacy as a team and they were INSANE together. I cannot wait to add Luminary for Flora to it!
I love that Luminary was the one to make the freedom five team costumes. He is a mad fashion genius! and how did he get their measurements?
Even if he couldn’t have figured them out after all these years, evidently he made them adjustable (by remote control, of course).
"No wonder you have been losing to me all these years. You aren't fashionable enough!"
"Um, actually, we defeated--"
*sound of fabric tightening* "Fashionable!"
So, bumping this thread because I finally caught up with the Oblivaeon stuff.
Man. The story of Oblivaeon is fantastic. And all the stuff that Voss did that they couldn't talk about, which now comes into focus.
I'm really looking forward to actually playing Oblivaeon (yesterday was spent solely with me organizing all the cards into the UCC) so I can beat Nixious's face in. >:C I hate that guy now for what he did to Wraith's dad.
Of course, the only thought I come away from this episode with is oh no more ships and an image of Tarogath and Slamara in like, American Gothic getup, and Tarogath is just not happy about anything, and Aeon Girl's in a sundress and just giddy as can be because she has parents now. What is my life?
Oh yes, and Angry Taxpayer's letter got me thinking...
The scene: Sunny San Alonzo, California. We open on a large shadow looming over the city and people looking up as they realize it is not quite as sunny as it should be.
Cut to a news report: Breaking news! A giant creature has materialized over the city! Reports are coming in as we speak, but so far, it seems only to be observing its surroundings, no reports of damage outside of the warehouse it crushed while touching down on earth.
Cut to the streets: People shouting, "What is that?" running, panicked, calling their loved ones, the authorities, and any heroes they happen to know. The large face of Oblivaeon is visible above the skyline, but he seems to be surveying the countryside.
In the midst of all this chaos, one old man, his bushy eyebrows covering his facial features. He seems calm and implacable as people rush around him. Gazing up at the mighty singular entity, he says the only thing on his mind.
"Get a job, ya bum!"
Cut to Oblivaeon, who side-eyes the old man, a look of enraged offense on his face.
Cut to the report about San Alonzo being wiped off the map. :B
If you don’t love him at his ‘worst’ then you don’t deserve him at his best.
As awesome as the story is, I struggle with visualizing it in places, but sometimes I get a cool mental picture to answer a question that annoyed me. Oysters and pearls, y’know.
So while the battle is raging around the world, people all over the world probably know very little about events outside their immediate area, because nobody really has time to report on events as they unfold. One of the exceptions being the destruction of San Alonso at the start, which would have become known quickly due to footage from surrounding suburbs and rural areas, showing a massive blast like an atom bomb, but one or two that also managed to catch a towering humanoid figure just before that. There would then be plenty of time to witness whatever was left, be it a massive crater, a field of rubble and ashes, a hole in space where reality itself was deleted, etc. For minutes if not hours, that footage would have been scrutinized by relatively safe people all over the world.
Question: how did nobody notice that the Champion Studios lot in the middle of Downtown was preserved inside an energy bubble and was now being used as a command center for Rainek and the other Scions?
Possible answer: if a field of ashes and rubble, there should be no excuse for people not knowing CS was in there, unless the bubble that protected it was not glowing, and was in fact a bubble of concealment as well as a shield, but that seems questionable. So that scenario is probably out; a spacetime anomaly whose interior simply doesn’t exist and can’t be entered from outside works but is kinda boring. So my favorite scenario is the crater, and everybody looking in from outside saw this crater, and what they didn’t see was that Champion Studios had fallen a few hundred feet and was now in a cavern below the surface which the crater carved down into. From above and outside at ground level it just looks like a hole, lost in deep shadows from the crater edge, but sun coming straight down from above actually Illuminates the studios, and so inside them they look normal and unchanged.
Probably not my shiniest pearl ever, but it’ll do for now.
As to the awesome giant explosion of Paradoja and OblivAeon, I agree that’s the biggest and maybe coolest (I can picture it pretty clearly as this fractal explosion that blips back and forth on its own timeline at random, somewhat inspired by the explosion of Kang’s time core in the Ant Man Quantumania movie, but different). But IMO, the prettiest one would have to be the Oblivion Engine that made like an atom bomb sized blast when it was supposed to be planet sized, but Skyscraper shrunk it down to molecule size. It would look like a planet destruction effect from a space opera, and those tend to be more aesthetic looking than detonations in atmosphere, which create more dust and shrapnel and various other ugly side effects.
Perfect name for a variant Eugene, either in the RPG timeline or an alternate universe: The Lurker.
My one true headcanon. This is the biggest one, the one where I am most determined to just ignore canon completely, and do what my feels tell me is right and true. Luminary is actually really dead. The one who shows up later is a clone of late period Baron Blade. The clone isn’t a hero, although he’s not really a full villain anymore; he’s Luminary at the beginning of the Oblivaeon event… but the man who Luminary became at the end, he actually was a hero and he actually did die.
PS, it’s interesting to note that Trevor put OA music into both episodes, but only ever from phase 1, when it’s the slow bombastic doomy theme of his ten thousand HP form. The more upbeat phase 2 theme of 180 HP OblivAeon, there’s no trace of that, I’m 99% sure.