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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.
Steel in Wormverse
sturdycoldsteel
Yes, that can work. She can also be an independent hero, which would forfeit payment for those particular acts but would earn her goodwill from both Protectorate and the public.
sturdycoldsteel
Would it be a problem if she declares herself a public hero but doesn't hero particularly often?
Not at all, and given the sheer amount of time Protectorate heroes spend participating in fundraisers and making public appearances for the press, actual heroing doesn't really happen all that often.
sturdycoldsteel
That sounds like the right course of action then. She can still make money doing non-emergency things, correct?
sturdycoldsteel
So she starts filling out the first layers of paperwork she needs to do that, at least the ones she can do on the plane.
She can do all of the first layer, it mostly consists of requesting evaluation and licensing of power use in non-Protectorate-related capacities.
sturdycoldsteel
And after that: zzzzz.
When she arrives back in New York she starts sending the paperwork where it needs to go for the second step. With lots of back and forth email with her lawyer for the exact details.
When she arrives back in New York she starts sending the paperwork where it needs to go for the second step. With lots of back and forth email with her lawyer for the exact details.
Lots of back and forth indeed! The next batch of paperwork is more specific to a few broad categories her powers belong to, and she gets categorizations that are a bit more specific than those used by the PRT, since the focus isn't the same.
sturdycoldsteel
She's really not sure what all these categories are for, but fills things out diligently and loses patience at only a moderate rate.
The lawyer explains that in the case of for-profit use it's because powers are so varied that it's impossible to pass legislation about each possible combination, so they create these categories in order to have broad things laws apply to. For instance: 'do not generate matter inside people's bodies without their informed consent' isn't something that needs to be regulated in powers that do not generate matter.
There's another batch of documents to sign, and then she has to schedule a day for the first phase of power testing, which will happen in the first PRT lab that's available within a reasonable distance, where she has a say in which distances are reasonable.
sturdycoldsteel
ASAP, preferably east coast but she can fly; She'll go to Chicago if it's the first available.
sturdycoldsteel
Wait time, horray.
She retreats to her mountain and grows it a couple of kilometers over the first few days of waiting for a lab.
She retreats to her mountain and grows it a couple of kilometers over the first few days of waiting for a lab.
sturdycoldsteel
She doesn't need money immediately. What she got from Japan is more than enough to pay her lawyers and the bank's credit, but it makes her nervous to not have a source of income.
She corresponds with more companies, telling them she's going through approval and making lists of contacts, buys a few pieces of hardware she can't just make and installs plumbing and a kitchen in her mountain (with plenty of help from the internet), and asks the internet how to find a good assistant.
She corresponds with more companies, telling them she's going through approval and making lists of contacts, buys a few pieces of hardware she can't just make and installs plumbing and a kitchen in her mountain (with plenty of help from the internet), and asks the internet how to find a good assistant.
sturdycoldsteel
They will organize commercial power use for a new cape: Mountain. They will also find people to do any other things she wants done and try to keep her informed.
Wages: A lot. Work conditions don't need to be particularly strict. She'd like it if they would live on her mountain but she knows that it'd be pretty inconvenient for most people. They'll have a budget on top of the wages.
Wages: A lot. Work conditions don't need to be particularly strict. She'd like it if they would live on her mountain but she knows that it'd be pretty inconvenient for most people. They'll have a budget on top of the wages.
sturdycoldsteel
Wages: A lot is not Wages: A ridiculous amount, mind you.
She typically flies back and forth. She could buy some kind of aircraft and make a helipad, she could fly them back and forth personally, she could buy a speedboat and make a dock. This is an 'eventually' type of thing, though. Definitely not immediately.
She typically flies back and forth. She could buy some kind of aircraft and make a helipad, she could fly them back and forth personally, she could buy a speedboat and make a dock. This is an 'eventually' type of thing, though. Definitely not immediately.
Well, if eventually she creates a job posting for that there might be people interested. Given that some actually go as far as becoming henchpeople of villains, that wouldn't be too surprising.
sturdycoldsteel
Back to practicing English-absorbing bits of this world's culture-steadily improving her mountain.
She reads up on electricity some, designs a crude version of a hydro plant that relies on the depletion of a large reservoir about halfway up her mountain that she plans to periodically refill. Then she contacts engineering firms until one agrees to evaluate if it would actually work and tune it up some and produce an estimate. For pay of course. She'll buy the generate-y bits and hire electricians but bulk construction will be all her. She might need to take the bank up on that large loan, but the PRT will approve her to sell stuff eventually.
She reads up on electricity some, designs a crude version of a hydro plant that relies on the depletion of a large reservoir about halfway up her mountain that she plans to periodically refill. Then she contacts engineering firms until one agrees to evaluate if it would actually work and tune it up some and produce an estimate. For pay of course. She'll buy the generate-y bits and hire electricians but bulk construction will be all her. She might need to take the bank up on that large loan, but the PRT will approve her to sell stuff eventually.
Eventually, yes. But while she doesn't, there's no law preventing her from using her powers to build stuff for herself. Her lawyer informs her that she won't be able to hire anyone to work in a structure she's built until she's cleared, though.