Mountain, meet Endbringer

[sturdycoldsteel]

The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.

"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"

"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.




She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.

Comments

[sturdycoldsteel]

Fly, picture, picture. Digital cameras are handy.

She reports completion of the building and gives the pictures to Laura and asks her to find a reporter to interview her. Hopefully someone who fought Leviathan, fixed parts of Japan, and built 60% of a 12-story condo complex in two hours is interesting enough. She wants to be publicly known for building things and making material, so her rates can go up and still leave her busy for much of the day.

[peterxy]

Laura can most definitely do that, she's very used to dealing with the press.

[sturdycoldsteel]

Great, she has no idea how to deal with the press and would like some tips. Should she hide how she isn't from Earth and isn't really the same kind of parahuman?

[peterxy]

...yes, she should definitely not mention that part.

[sturdycoldsteel]

She hasn't exactly been hiding it so far. Significant parts of Japan's upper level, the PRT, and the Protectorate know. Maybe a few others, she hasn't been keeping track. What's so bad about it?

[peterxy]

Well, for one, it makes her look crazy. Other Earths do exist, though they typically have less parahumans than Earth Bet, and no one's ever been able to cross-over yet. She says something like that, she'll be put in the same mental bucket the likes of Glaistig Uaine are.

[sturdycoldsteel]

Which would be bad because Glastig Uaine is...?

[peterxy]

One of the most dangerous supervillains, among the ten most powerful people on the planet, on par with Eidolon. She also believes all parahumans are Faerie and she is the Faerie Queen.

[sturdycoldsteel]

...Yes, let's avoid looking like Glastig Uaine.

[peterxy]

Do let's. Any other questions about things she might want to preemptively avoid telling the press?

[sturdycoldsteel]

She doesn't really know what kinds of things the press generally are and are not told. It'll probably be tricky to pretend to be from Earth effectively. She still consistently misses names and references.

[peterxy]

Well, some people do have very convenient complete amnesia, though those are usually more monstrous in appearance.

[sturdycoldsteel]

She has vague misgivings about saying or implying she is one of those, but it's probably the best option on offer isn't it?

[peterxy]

Yes, in Laura's opinion it is.

[sturdycoldsteel]

Alright then.

She's going to her mountain to take care of something she overlooked, and will be back tomorrow morning to see about more jobs.

She does something she should have done a while ago: Verifying that the technology of her world really just doesn't work here. She tries dozens of patterns from her library of runes, some basic crystal and potion tricks, and even tries to make a golem. She's almost thankful that none of it works - she would have felt like an idiot if something did and she had just been too discouraged by the failure of the first thing to try.

She's back in range of phone and internet service the next morning.

[peterxy]

Laura has found a few press people interested in talking to Mountain. She hasn't performed any major feats of incredible prowess that are obvious to most people - preventing Kyushu from sinking completely isn't the kind of attention-grabbing headline that would land her on the Times - but there are some cape-related media that would be interested in talking and giving a source to her wikia entry.

[sturdycoldsteel]

Cool, cool. And any more work?

If not she can fly around New York to pass the time.

[peterxy]

There's always more work, this is New York. There are some areas of the city that haven't been completely rebuilt yet since the Behemoth attack five years previously, even though most of it is intact. The lack of a pressing need and anyone interested in spending the money means the project's been lagging, but the government has been keeping an eye on her and waiting for the whole process to be through. Now that she's available for hire, would she like to help with that?

[sturdycoldsteel]

Cetainly. What exactly needs rebuilding?

She does want money. Much less than they'd be paying a construction firm, but still.

[peterxy]

Yes, the "much less" and the "in much less time" are the clinchers.

There are, well, buildings, a few roads, a few collapsed bridges and tunnels, the whole city sort of moved to the south a bit as rebuilding efforts focused more on creating new stuff than on restoring the old.

[sturdycoldsteel]

Collapsed tunnels are probably the least pleasant kind of collapsing to her world-sense. She wants to do those first.

She meets the people designated to point her around and proffer blueprints, and informs them of this.

[peterxy]

Well, she can start with those, but given that there's a general "collapsing" theme going on, she'll probably have to uncollapse other things on the way.

[sturdycoldsteel]

This could take a while. Good.

The material collapsed around here doesnt quite add up to whole building frames, and some of it is molten beyond repair, but where she can't easily reverse the buildings exactly she can at least clear the rubble.

She does the same thing she did in Japan- little artful touches, subtle and not affecting the places' function and not present when the looks of a thing are considered important.

She doesn't get to any large tunnels, just some basic sewer pipes, by the time Laura has scheduled for her to talk to a reporter. She tells the New York authorities she'll get back on it in a couple of hours and shows up at the designated place in costume.

[peterxy]

A young man is waiting for her. He's dressed primly and doesn't seem to have a notepad or anything to write down whatever they say.

"Hello, Mountain, I am Robert Harrison. It's a pleasure to meet you."

[sturdycoldsteel]

"Hello, Mr. Harrison. Thank you for coming to see me. How do things like this usually go?"