Jump 426: Watchmen

Jump #426: Watchmen
>Wheel of Fortune: The path of destiny. Karma on a grand scale.
>Location: New York
>Identity: Drop-In
>Small World (Free, Drop-In)
Never hurts to be able to get the world on the street, I suppose.
>Who Watches The Watchmen? (900, Drop-In)
Why... I do. They're more boring than you think.
>Doomsday Clock (700, Drop-In)
I'm adding this to the other two or three perks I've got that perform similar functions. I may not actively scry for the future much these days, but it helps to avoid being taken by surprise.
>Retirement (600)
It never hurts to be able to change roles during a jump, let alone hanging up a costume.
>Untraceable (400)
Something something thirty-five minutes ago? Just as keikaku?
>Surface Of The Sun (0)
Honestly I just got this to cover my bases in a single perk - I've already got the ability to survive space and stand on the surface of the sun. Except the sun doesn't have a surface and Dr. Manhattan sounds like an idiot when he tries to use hyperbole.

One might wonder, why would you go here and get perks that you already have a couple of times over, Crux? Because this jump is an experiment. What is this jump an experiment in, you might wonder? Common sense!

I have the ability to lend perks to people. I have so many common sense perks.

Common sense goes to Rorschach. Common sense goes to Dr. Manhattan. Common sense goes to Nixon, for that matter, among other politicians. And then I abduct Adrian Veidt and sit back to watch the fireworks with him in tow, while we talk shop about society, technology, and ways to fix things that do NOT involve giant alien squid teleporting into New York and mindfucking everyone.

Okay, well, I obliviate the people Veidt was going to kill and send them home instead, thinking the supposed movie project fell through. And I tell Veidt exactly how things were going to end: a disappearance for him, the truth inevitably coming out, everything coming to a head with a nuclear war unless some sort of outside influence happens. And then I smack him upside his head and point out that intelligence is definitely not wisdom.

Rorschach keeps on doing what he's doing, because he may have common sense, but that doesn't cut through all the self-justification he does in order to keep on the path that he's on. He becomes peripherially aware that he's been lying to himself for years, in certain respects, but it changes nothing in the end.

Nixon and politicians ... well, they become a little more receptive to the desires to dial things back, but they're locked on a collision course and there's very little that can be done to stop it.

Dr. Manhattan remains convinced that he's stuck on rails, rather than free will being a factor, right up to the point that things start failing to line up. No Ozymandius where he's expected. He froze... and then realized he was free. Either way, everyone got to Antarctica, found a post-it note that read 'apocalypse cancelled due to lack of interest' in unfamiliar handwriting, and ended up catching a ride back to civilization thanks to Manhattan, before he fucked off to space. Or to the DC universe, or wherever he went.

So basically... almost nothing changed, aside from very minor details, without my direct interference. Which rather pisses me off. Plenty of experimental data, but completely failed. Apparently it takes more than common sense to fix what's wrong with the world.

So I tied my unified magic system into the local laws of physics, founded a cult, and took over the world to make sure the moronic politicians wouldn't nuke each other to death in their rampant stupidity.

Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.