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Flenser said:
You know... as far as Coil is concerned she is fair game in all regards as she isn't a cape. Means the unwritten rules don't apply. Going after friends and family as well as murder are merely illegal. She can't rely on the cape community to self police.
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That also means that the Rules don't apply to him either. The whole point is that they are reciprocal. Also, I strongly doubt Coil knows more than the PRT on this which is basically "someone employed by Gravtec is an unparalleled genius" – who they are, where they came from, where in town they live, all are unknown. Also, by the time he figures it out, practically all his alternate paths will end "and then the mercenaries got shot by the NSA/FBI/MPs."


EDIT: Also, Taylor is not a Tinker. She doesn't have an actual compulsion to build anything so he can't just leave her in a room with some spare parts and wait. Never mind that she also needs actual parts with known physical properties; no turning toasters into death rays using a microwave synchrotron and a "healing quartz" crystal from the museum gift shop like "normal" tinkers can.
 
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I pity the guy responsible for Taylor's security. Can you imagine his/her briefing?
"Taylor Hebert is someone who comes along once every few centuries. You and I come along a few millions per generation. Please keep that in mind when making sure she's safe."
 
Personally I can't wait for this Taylor to get a hold of some of L33t's gear, take it apart and go "oh, wait, that's actually pretty straight-forward. Let me just replace this subspace capacitor and it should be all good. But how you got it to work at all when you made the original out of tin foil and gum I'll never know."
 
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Balrog said:
*gives author battery powered angle grinder* Bad sdwood we do not imprison the author of good stories. We give them cookies to encourage them.
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And a comfortable room, with good chairs and excellent lightning. And to protect them form people like sdwood we also add a very sturdy door with a lot of locks, just in case. Author safety is very important, of course.
 
I've got a recipe here that makes 2 peanut butter cups... If you can call something the size of a small pie a peanut butter 'cup'. (No crust, just an 8 oz. disk of peanut butter with chocolate molded around it....) Would that be a suitable replacement for cookies?
 
Faerakhasa said:
And a comfortable room, with good chairs and excellent lightning. And to protect them form people like sdwood we also add a very sturdy door with a lot of locks, just in case. Author safety is very important, of course.
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*Reads from card labeled 'Bad Cop'*
"No, we're keeping you manacled until there are many thousands of more words."
*pause*
"We're done? Okay. Tea? I've got some nice chai in the cupboard."
 
Chris876 said:
So the new science teacher is definitely not Armsmaster right, just a mild mannered guy name Colin Wallis?
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Collin, like everyone else unconnected with Gravtec, is completely ignorant as to how special Taylor is. The extras are all added security and the science teacher is likely someone who knows enough to not start talking up Taylor when she shows a better understanding of science than them.
 
Cerxen said:
She hasn't told anyone else yet, iirc. She's planning to eventually but for now, it's her secret project. Probably when she's tells then about the quantum communicator she built in her basement.
On another note, I can totally see Taylor with a mad scientist map of the city overlaid with an interface that shows all the parahuman locations...."oh hey Mr PRT guy, why is there a group of parahumans hanging out in an endbringers shelter?
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Right up until her quantum field detector is turned into a repressor, shuts down coils power, and then he is introduced to gravity shear.
"Please keep all appendages inside of the gravity field at all times ..."
 
I love this so much. The way you subtly mentioned the new staff is absolutely glorious. It really demonstrates the fact that she is VVVIP right now, and constantly has the equivalent of a seal team to discretely protect her.
 
Candrew21339 said:
I love this so much. The way you subtly mentioned the new staff is absolutely glorious. It really demonstrates the fact that she is VVVIP right now, and constantly has the equivalent of a seal team to discretely protect her.
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Nah, it won't be SEALs. It'll probably be Green Berets if they are from the military. But more likely they'd be from the alphabet soup agencies' groups.
 
Candrew21339 said:
I love this so much. The way you subtly mentioned the new staff is absolutely glorious. It really demonstrates the fact that she is VVVIP right now, and constantly has the equivalent of a seal team to discretely protect her.
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Oh yes, definitely. She's a Strategic Resource now. As in "if it comes down to a choice between saving her or saving the president? Save her. We can always elect another president."
 
Ancalador said:
The extras are all added security and the science teacher is likely someone who knows enough to not start talking up Taylor when she shows a better understanding of science than them.
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Taylor is a level 100 scientist in a level 11 classroom. Talk about a waste of her time. Still it gives her a free period to invent more stuff and more textbooks to correct. Science teacher is some MIT professor there to pick up nuggets of wisdom from the prodigy that he can develop and gain fame from.
aceraptor said:
It'll probably be Green Berets if they are from the military. But more likely they'd be from the alphabet soup agencies' groups.
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Secret service is the experts on personal protection. They get the best from people who outgrow the other elite groups. This will be the presidential protection detail promoted to something more important. President gets the B team. Maybe backed with embassy protection Marines. All of them Jason Bourne level operatives and likely parahumans with special skills. All of them willing to take a bullet to protect Taylor.
 
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zzfanz said:
Taylor is a level 100 scientist in a level 11 classroom. Talk about a waste of her time. Still it gives her a free period to invent more stuff and more textbooks to correct. Science teacher is some MIT professor there to pick up nuggets of wisdom from the prodigy that he can develop and gain fame from.
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Yeah, but she's an untrained scientist. It might a waste of her time, or it might shorten her time because she doesn't need to re-invent the wheel.

While it's unlikely that she'll learn anything in science class, it's not out of the realms of possibility. Or, maybe she'll get inspired by some experiment. "Ooo! I could do that, but so much better!"

Also, I doubt they would put a glory-hog scientist in the same room as her. Put someone who knows what's going on, and is clear their job is not to interfere with Taylor, but to help her grow. And take those 'corrections' back to the three letter agencies for verification.
 
YuffieK said:
maybe Lisa got some common sense and decided working with the Feds was a better option.
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Uh, "Lisa" and "common sense" I mean I know those words individually but put them together like that and it turns into an alien language.

Less snark: Even MP3s Lisa has been shown to have a total lack of common sense, even if it ended up working out for her incredibly well when it really shouldn't have in TV lol.
 
Creed said:
Uh, "Lisa" and "common sense" I mean I know those words individually but put them together like that and it turns into an alien language.

Less snark: Even MP3s Lisa has been shown to have a total lack of common sense, even if it ended up working out for her incredibly well when it really shouldn't have in TV lol.
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It's what happens when you have Wisdom as your dump stat....
 
mp3.1415player said:
"The Path has become… uncertain."

"What does that mean?"

"I have no idea."

"You have no idea?"

"I know. It worries me too..."
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I didn't read all the comments, so don't know if someone came up with this on page seven or something, but.
I'm pretty sure the factor the Path can't account for is less the superscience itself (though that likely contributes), but the alien transmissions Taylor is receiving. Between Scion and the shards being focused on Earth (plural), the activities of extrasolar life being less than predictable, and Taylor's outsized influence...
Creed said:
Uh, "Lisa" and "common sense" I mean I know those words individually but put them together like that and it turns into an alien language.
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Well, it doesn't take very much common sense to accept employment with the Feds if said Feds knock on your door to inform you that you are now unemployed and would you like a job?
 
I would not be surprised if the new science teacher is a striking looking red headed woman, with somewhat sharp features. Always good to be close to the protectee. :cool2:
 
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