this is crazy

[from_scratch]

Cam is watching a new recording of Atriama, tail swishing in the gap in his couch, and doesn't stop to pause the show when he feels a summons go by.

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[from_scratch]

Cam is delighted to be invited to annex things! That is the best thing that has happened in ages! He annexes the things.

[wormcan]

The formerly existing leadership finds an elsewhere to be before Cam comes for them. It's like a revolution but without the revolution.

[from_scratch]

How nice and tidy.

[wormcan]

Well, less so for the elsewhere.

Now that being annexed by the post-scarcity genie has worked well in the past, there may be a bit of a domino effect. Some places this is more controversial than others. In Lubango, for instance, the people who call for defecting tend to be the targets of some parahuman-led enforced orthodoxy.

[from_scratch]

Okay. So now he can pick a fight with Moord Nag's crowd...

...or he can permit atrocities to be committed against a city which is literally trying to call him personally over to help it, no contest, to Lubango he goes.

[whole_new_can]

In defense of option two, most of the city wasn't calling for him personally.

When a single faction controls a city, they're usually pretty attached to it. No advance disappearances this time. Instead, shootings of Cam's spaceship out of the sky. (At least to whatever extent it's vulnerable to generic tinker firepower.)

[from_scratch]

The spaceship isn't heavily armored. He lets the ship disintegrate around him and swoops in on his own wings.

[whole_new_can]

And when the air solidifies?
There's a fair number of capes, and Cam doesn't know yet exactly what minions are present.

[from_scratch]

Well, when the air solidifies he hangs there and looks for someone to knock over.

[whole_new_can]

It evaporates before he sees anyone likely looking. Most capes aren't really intimidating enough. But when Cam gets lower it happens again, this time holding him in place for a large scarred man to throw a house at.

[from_scratch]

Okay, so a house has been thrown at him, and the large scarred man can have some drugs.

[wormcan]

The drugs have no more effect than the house does. A few more blasts from the spaceship-destroying weapon, giving away the tinker's position, and Cam gets released again.

[from_scratch]

The tinker can also have some drugs. Is house-thrower immediately threatening anyone except Cam or are the bystanders cleared out?

[whole_new_can]

They're clear.

The cape hits hard, but can't do much beyond knock Cam backward. He shouts an order, and someone grabs the tinker's gun.

[from_scratch]

The gun disintegrates.

[whole_new_can]

Predictably enough.

The tall one shouts to Cam this time. "So now what? I can't hurt you, you can't hurt me. You leave and we call it a draw?"

[from_scratch]

"I haven't actually tried to kill you yet," Cam says, "or even tried to do anything that would be really inconvenient to undo if it worked, but I could try encasing you in various substances or launching you into space or doing the same thing to you that I did to the gun."

[whole_new_can]

"Go ahead and try. No one's managed so far." A swing of what isn't but might as well be a telephone pole.

[from_scratch]

Cam tries encasing him neck down in, let's start with concrete.

[whole_new_can]

That interrupts the swing, but concrete can crumble. When it flies apart, some of the pieces are effective projectiles.

[from_scratch]

Well, "effective". He can knock Cam over, Cam's still not super steady on his feet, but he can't do more than scratch him.

Cam starts going through various other things. He steers clear of Endbringer tissue.

[whole_new_can]

Knife, butter, etc. At least working through the all-but-unbreakable materials is slowing the guy down.

Other capes show themselves and use what weaponry they have to fire on Cam. In practice mostly just distract him.

[from_scratch]

Capes fall asleep and their weapons disintegrate. Cam attaches a rocket to the tough guy with the substance he found most time-consuming to get out of and renews it as needed while the rocket fires behind the guy's back.

[whole_new_can]

Weirdly enough while it does vary with tensile strength it's also is about equally affected by complexity... not important.

The rocket stalls in midair and drops to the ground, but not before moving the person it's attached to several yards back.

[from_scratch]

Cam wonders what did that. But at least the guy can be moved around. Much like Cam himself, but the guy has basically no effective range besides literally throwing things. Anybody else showing up to the party of more than negligible consequence?