Odd Interactions

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This thread is for us to come up with explanations - be they silly or serious - for some of the oddest card interactions we've seen, or imagined, in SotM.

For example, just last night, my Fanatic used Final Dive on Akash'Bhuta's Carapace, and chose Bhuta herself as the target.  That was odd enough that play stopped for a few minutes as people wondered what had just happened, before it was agreed that Fanatic had broken off a shard of rock, flown up into the air, then thrown that shard down to stab into the space it had once armored.  Cool times.

Whenever we fight against La Capitan, we justify her vague-in-flavor flip side as her doing whatever heist she came to do while her crew stall the heroes - she doesn't take damage because she's dodging, hiding, using cover, and so on.  And then came the day that she used it to tank through two Oblivions, a hail storm, and board-clearing Ra fire.  How on Earth could anyone dodge that?  "Well, I didn't the first time.  But this time, I know where to stand."

The example that comes up all the time, of course, is Grappling Hook - it's reached the point where "it's okay, I have a grappling hook" has become a running joke in our discussions of SotM.  Here is a grappling hook which can:

* Incapacitate a raging tyrannosaur.

* Defeat the Lord of the Underworld.

* Disrupt the command structure of an alien army.

* Make Iron Legacy no longer invincible, or no longer scary.

* Quell a prison riot.

* Stop a volcanic eruption.

* Fix, while in the field, any and all communications problems being perpetuated from back at base.

* Safely navigate the time stream (especially between the present and 1883).

* Cure diseases, heart conditions, and bad luck.

* Prevent the apocalypse.

Granted, it can't get you away from Citizen Assault's ground-based shockwave attack, but still!  Mere speculation about how your flash flood washed away obsidian field cannot compare.

What are your favorite odd interactions?

Ironic

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That's why Grappling Hook is the best card ever. Sometimes while dealing with the environment destruction aspect of it, instead of picturing her stopping the Volcanic Eruption, I instead picture her swinging in and grabbing all heroes, villains, and dinosuars ato safety. Which leads to the awkwardness as to why she would save a giant Robot that is destroying the land from a Volvano.

 

End of Days and Apocalypse are also very interesting. As the main heroes and villains come out unscathed, but everything is blown to bits. Also there isn't even any reference to it in the game again. "Oh noes! Fanatic just brought forth the End of Days!" "Don't worry, it'll last 2 seconds and only destroy our stuff."

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Grappling Hook used on Shattered Mind, which had been played on Wraith. Somehow.

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Yeah, it has a very "Final Fantasy" air to it.  Sure, Apostate blew up the world, but the fight is still going on, he might do it again, and if he dies, everything is somehow fine.

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Oh yes, mostly Final Fantasy VII, as Sephiroth can use, I think it was meteor, multiple times. Somehow it had always destroyed the same planets on it's way to Earth. Totally weakened it's power by the time it reached it's distination as it barely left a scratch on the heroes.

 

Throut Jabbing Omnitron is always an interesting experience. Better yet Throat Jabbing a sword... Granted it doesn't prevent the damage, but somehow Wraith was able to hit the throat somehow.

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Throat Jab does stall the Electropulse Explosives, though.  That's odd enough.  "... where's the throat on a ball of exploding plasma, again?" "I found it using my grappling hook."

 

EDIT: Even better, try a Throat Jab on something like Targetting Innocents, or Mystical Countermeasures, which don't even have defined physical forms.

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Savage Mana being used on innanimate objects, like stout barrel.

"Wait, did you just... um, absorb the life force of a barrel you destroyed?"

"I guess it was full of alchohol!"

"..?"

"...because it had a SPIRIT inside!"

"booooo"

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We have a tendency to describe what's happening on the scene, if it's particularly odd or entertaining. Things like "Gloomweaver sticks Haka with a pin. The pin is suddenly no longer there, we're not really sure what happened to it." come up a lot when Savage Mana is being used. Things just kind of... disappear.

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...I've always thought of Savage Mana as Haka actually eating whatever (though in a hilarious, cartoon-y, comedic sort of way, not in a Hannibal Lecter way), and when he...unleashes...he actually vomits everything on the enemy; hence, toxic damage.

 

Of course, there is the Chairman's tendency to try to punch you, with it being redirected to himself (via Nightmist's Amulet or Tachyon's Synaptic Interruption), and then him punishing himself by punching himself again. Woohoo!

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Tachyon with Synaptic Interruption and Pushing the Limits, with a nice little Galvanize. Tachyon redirects the stress of running so fast into another target. How does she do it?

Or if Cramped Quarters combat the Pushing the Limits damage has become melee, now I think she had just ran into a bug.

Fixer and Tempest changing their damage to anything using Grease Monkey Fist and Elemental Subwave Inducer. You've now got a Pipe Wrench that causes brain damage and a Electrical Storm of hedgehogs.

 

Edit: Also I know officially that you have to choose one of the 11 types of damage, granted most of the time it doesn't matter so I like changing things to random types. Like Awesome damage!

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I think a bucket of chicken may have been mentioned when we last fought the Matriarch

 

We also change up the damage types. Since the most specific needed is when fighting Omnitron with his adaptive armour and is simply " A type that has not just been used and will not be by the next attack", our Mr Fixer is partial to, among other things, Fluffy Bunny Damage.

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Bunnys? Fluffy Kitten damage all the way!

 

While hardly an odd interaction, I think my favourite interaction is Mr Fixer redirecting Apostate's damage, particularly with the Gauntlets out. I just picture Mr Fixer standing there going "Why are you hitting yourself?" and repeatedly ramming Apostate's fist into his own face.

 

But I always laugh when Tempest heroically (and temporarily) saves one of Spite's victims by throwing them in the stratosphere.

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I so need this on a tshirt.

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That card is really second only to the Grappling Hook.  Things I have seen thrown into the stratosphere:

  • Space ships.

  • Mountains.

  • Legacy's memories of his daughter's murder.

  • A solar eclipse.

  • A pirate's voice.

  • Land mines, which fall all the way back down without going off.

  • The apocalypse (yeah, again).

I suspect that if anyone ever manages to throw a grappling hook into the stratosphere, the resulting singularity will obliterate the multiverse as we know it.

Or at least it would, if someone didn't use a second grappling hook to save us all.

Ironic

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This made my day. Just thought I'd share.

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Speaking of Into the Stratosphere. How about knocking Ambuscade's cloak up there and having Omni-X timeshift it back out, causing Ambusade to flip to his front side again.

It turns Ambuscade into the worst hide and seek player ever.

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That just reeks of some impossibly cool in-universe description, though.  Something with a lot of poorly-considered ideas about what "ionization"means.

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You're welcome for that visual. :slight_smile:

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Technically, that isn't actually legal. Check out the definition of Indestructible in the Glossary.

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I think it's Final Evolution he is refering to.