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Well, right now we’ve already demolished a luxury hotel and a couple of city blocks, and Forlorn appears to be under enemy influence, and this thing is nowhere near being resolved, so I’d say THAT particular ship has sailed. And it was the Titanic.
So in a way- it’s a good thing Gloria found this out early right?
No. Everything about this is terrible. Gloria set up the entirety of the G7 and a bunch of civilians, all unknowing, as bait to trap something that he had no idea how strong it was. He orchestrated an attack by a third party he didn’t know the power of in foreign soil. Every single thing about this is bad and terrible.
If he absolutely had to set a trap, he should’ve convoked this in an isolated setting, and inform the other members of the G7.
And this still tells us absolutely fuck-all because there’s no indication of where this specific attack falls in the scale of available resources for the Cult.
Gloria thinks he’s hot shit, but turns out he’s just half of that, and it’s not the first half.
You have to realize that well- this is enough power to theoretically conquer most of the known world at their side. It doesn’t matter where they where at that point because if this is how hard they are pushing us that if they so choose they could level most of Western Europe.
It does, because if when Gloria set up this meeting he’s set it in an isolated location, then the attack doesn’t endanger civilians or demolish half a city. And it’d make it easier to see the attack coming. Just do this thing in a large tent in the middle of Death Valley, man. It’s not like the Cult is going to go “oh, well, this is a trap, we better not go.” You could have “This is a trap!” neon signs up, and they’d still go for it. It’s not like they don’t know what they’re up against.
Also, and I CANNOT stress this enough, tell the other G7 members your goddamn plan. Hopefully so they’ll tell you it’s bad and stupid and you should feel bad and stupid.
The man has deliberately and mortally endangered the leaders of the G7. There’s no way this doesn’t have international diplomatic repercussions.
Just you wait until the cult runs rampant because they know that we can’t stop them.
Feels like that is exactly what this is showing them. This is a deliberate trap for them, we had the biggest teams around working together in high-surveillance mode (I mean, the powers of at least one of the lookouts is literally super-senses), and this whole thing is STILL on the verge of going sideways. And, meta-speaking, we know this isn’t the biggest punch the Cult can throw, because we still have a LOT of game to go and making this the biggest Cult threat is a narrative no-no. So we put up the best in a favourable scenario and they haven’t, and it’s still all going like waves hand this.
Not that it matters, because the Cult was already operating under the impression that we couldn’t stop them, and religious fanatics have very strong impressions indeed.
Hypotheses on what’s going on with Forlorn?
Needs to work on those mental defenses. Good thing we have someone who can potentially be the most powerful telepath/empath to try to crack into his brain.
This was my first thought, but it felt iffy on meta analysis. We JUST had a mind controller (who couldn’t control supers), so right afterwards going “ah-HAH, another mind-controller who CAN control supers” feels narratively… meh-ish, I guess?
No narrative meh-ness, then, as expected. What, does he have a childhood trauma with toy robots or something?
resumes waiting
Oh, Forlorn’s situation isn’t from outside interference.
That’s all him.
All in due time, my dear fellow. 
Seeing how that conversation just went, you guys already know my opinion on the Queen.
Bitch ain’t dead. She’s out there somewhere waiting for something and made everyone think she died. But I found it interesting when Seeker was brought up by Bryce and my general opinion on him so far is that he’s a shit human being but a decent superhero.
This doesn’t seem to track. The King was at her side all through her decline, so even if she’s not dead-dead, she’s almost certainly out of commission, even if “out of commission” is ‘she’s totally fine inside the Tomb because the King managed to put in some regeneration stuff but she can’t leave’ (which would explain the healed legs), but there appears to be little chance that this is all a millenia-long intricate plan to do… something.
I suck at names. Who’s this again?
There are quite alot of ways to fake a death, not easy to pull off but if someone intelligent like her was put into a situation, she probably could pull it off. And Bryce was the mod you were talking to. Do you even read names lol
Edited: I don’t even know what kind of powers she had so I’m not gonna reach on that until I know for sure but I still find it to be extremely suspicious that the BK is said to be alive but the Queen ain’t. But then again, I read too many comics and mangas that I kinda can tell when a twist is coming and the Queen is definitely a twist to come
Duh! 
I thought you were referring to a piece of information on Seeker that we got in-game from somebody called Bryce, and I was “I don’t remember this dude” and then ran every cast member thorugh my head trying to see if I could remember any character called Bryce.
Why? People have different powers. Wolverine has been kicking around for however long the current author decides who he actually is, and plenty of his acquaintaces have died of old age. A plan that requires you to do nothing and not be seen for a thousand years takes a LOT of dedication, so it needs a huge pay-off. The Monarchs could’ve taken over the world when they ruled Crete, so world domination isn’t the goal, and for this to be true she’d already need to have immortality, so that isn’t it either. So if you’re right the big question is: what could she be aiming for? 
Also, the snippet jjcb linked earlier doesn’t seem to be an excerpt from an in-world work (contrast with, say, “On the Cretan Character” and “Powereds of Importance”, which are very clearly meant to be in-world works), so it has a smaller chance of it being deceptive and it tells us that the Queen was “ailing” and “unable to rule” (which, granted, doesn’t mean dead, but it certainly means cripllingly sick).
To be honest, I had thought of many different scenarios on what she could possibly want. And you’re right, it’s not immortality because technically from what I’ve been saying she has it. World domination ain’t it either cause everyone would had been speaking Createn by now. But if we’re going by the superhero with a dash of anime thrown in the plot, the worst case scenario I could possibly give you is that BK and BQ attempts to take over the bodies of MC and Lat because young healthy bodies and possibly take their powers to make themselves stronger too. It’s been done in Spiderman and even Dragon Ball Super covered this kind of trope with Goku Black and Zamasu.
Ok, but if they have immortality they de facto have “young healthy bodies” on a permanent basis, and Seeker, Ignis, and Forlorn trump both the MC and Lat in power level. Also, this doesn’t seem to require them to do nothing and stay in shadows for 1,000 years or fake the Queen’s death (until they jumped bodies, anyway).
EDIT: The notion that the Queen may be actively lurking around is an interesting hypothesis, though, even if there doesn’t seem to be much we can do with it and me definitely leaning heavily against it.
Yeah, but Seeker has (according to Cretan Intelligence) been holding back, so his power level is even higher than depicted. And Lat is supposed to work to catch up to Ignis, from what we know of her dream.
Does this matter? The point of taking over somebody’s body is that their mind isn’t running the show, and presumably a half-broken mind would be easier to kick out.
They trump us so far…
It’s been somewhat hinted that eventually the MC and Lat might be stronger than them. Our Other You also specifically said to “break your limits” when the first meeting was ending and they seemed so paranoid that we get strong in 6 months flat. Seeker has also mentioned that he isn’t 100% and broken as a Seeker. Yeah he’s strong but from what I see, he’s not getting stronger now. Forlorn as we see is seriously traumatized so what happens if BK and BQ shows up in front of him and he can’t process their power? Hard to tell with Ignis since her big deal is with her family. I don’t know or will tell you with certainly on what BK and BQ has been doing all of this time because we just don’t know.
Seeker’s different than Forlorn in the sense that he’s far more seasoned. I wouldn’t mess with him- the results might not be what you want them to be.
If that’s the route they’re going, why not just nab Seeker and Forlorn for now and use them while waiting for MC and Lat to catch up, something that might not even happen?