The Coltellos ARE all up in the weapons industry, and “super power pill” definitely falls under the category of “weapons”.
I wouldn’t bet on someone in the actual family quite yet, but high-level corporate is certainly a possibility.
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Remember why Ignis got upset near the end of the demo? Yeah the implication that her parents are in bed with someone that got those robots
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Not exactly. 
Just because someone’s healing was kickstarted to a few thousand times what it should be normally, that doesn’t mean there’s someone throwing out powers.
Figuring out powered abilities and how to replicate them successfully is still beyond human technology (see: Super Project that Dark Star was part of).
Yes, when the King and Queen first met, the King had just gotten done beating some Caliphate soldiers that had been looking at him funny near the border. Nothing to do with slavers by that point, beyond a very great dislike.
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Oh, that’s definitely Coltello manufacture. Which is not to say that the Coltellos provided the robots to the Cult, the Cult can have somebody on the inside. I think it’s enough for Ignis to get pissed off that her parents are making Sentinels, Cult-provisioning not necessary.
BUT.
If I may don the tinfoil hat for a moment: the bomb at the Correspondents Dinner was made to LOOK like it was made by the Coltellos, but it actually wasn’t. What if this is more of the same? What if someone got hold of the Sentinel blueprints and built a bunch of the buggers? Time to get our hands on the inventory manifesto of the Coltello Sentinel factory.
I can’t tell if I’m more suspicious of you saying “technology” (therefore not precluding the possibility of someone having the super power of making superpowereds) or of the “human” qualifier for technology you slipped in there. 
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I’d like the power to control shadows and darkness please. Or maybe shapeshifting. Electricity Control? All three of these are good. 
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The trees, Bento! They are this close to starting their revenge upon humankind for our cruel acts, and they’ll do so by making themselves powered!
This means Book 2 starts in the Amazonas, yes.
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Also, in server time it’s your birthday already! Happy server-time birthday!
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A tree has poor range and a high weakness to fire… to fire
I CAST FIREBALL
Fuck
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It’s alright, I got you buddy
starts up bulldozer
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Happy Birthday @Jjcb
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Thank you, Lyle! (and Bento, too, who wished me a happy one past night) 
I’m officially older than the MC now. Let’s hope that doesn’t lead to any dissonance in values or anything… 
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Pen blwyd hapus Iawn!
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What’s that? Welsh? Are we still pretending that’s a real language and not a code made up by someone with a fetish for the letters w, y, and l? I mean, there’s no way something like
is a real word that people actually pronounce, come on.
Ugh, fine, I’ll play along. Let me just throw that into Google Translate.
…
“Happy birthday OK!”?
Either GT is worse than usual, or I’m missing something here. It’s not my birthday. It doesn’t SEEM to be my forum cakeday, either.
Additional clarification requested.
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Happy birthday @Jjcb!
One another note, I am pleased to inform you all that I have converted to a Latmancer. Also I am expecting an All For One-esque power transferring/replicating character to appear.
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It’s a Celtic Language, IIRC you’re distant cousins as Portuguese. Unlike the Portuguese, the Welsh never were really assimilated because Britannia wasn’t as heavily colonized as Iberia.
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Firstly, fuck you.
Secondly I may have put @ and then clicked on the first name that began with a J, so eh yeah.
(/s)
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Eh, sorry, I forgot to add a 
to that original post to make it obvious I was kidding.
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In other words it’s a skill difference.
Portugal got rolled by the Romans and forgot everything whereas the Welsh survived the Romans, the Saxons, the Angles, and the Normans
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And the English, don’t forget the English.
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The people that became English didn’t successfully repulse anyone- they’re a hodge-podge of Saxons, Angles, and Normans at this point. With some sprinkling of Norse.
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