....OOoooooooooh shit.
I'll be in my multi-dimensional bunker over here hoping it can stand up to the latest Tanky!Wordz (shutupiknowitcanthandletibutmaybeiftthingsareaimedinthewrongdirectionwellsurvive)
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I'll be in my multi-dimensional bunker over here hoping it can stand up to the latest Tanky!Wordz (shutupiknowitcanthandletibutmaybeiftthingsareaimedinthewrongdirectionwellsurvive)
M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
Hey, you don't know, she could just be working on a new Halloween costume with The Crimson Lady.
- Location
- Somewhere in The Woods
But do you know that with absolute certainty? Because I don't and am not willing to risk it by having the sheer audacity to assume we're safe... ish...
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
MTB.exe reported 'imagination overflow error'. Please restart the process.
You realize her costume will be a Symbiote, or possibly an Iron Man armor.
- Location
- Deep in the Badlands of Equestria
A child-sized transformer version of a Mark XIV Bolo, with working drive tracks when in vehicle mode, and an ammo-carriage wagon with the battery pack obviously needed to power things. Danny could even help by getting some of the bits welded up at the Dockyard mechanics' shop for her. No super-science here, just a vivid imagination and some bored machinists willing to help a young girl.
- Location
- Neptune
Exactly why would she want to do something so boring?
- Location
- Deep in the Badlands of Equestria
What self-respecting Mad Scientist™ wouldn't want to tool around in their assault tank and extort tribute from the terrified populace?
- Location
- Neptune
Any mad scientist who has far too many interesting things to play with in the lab... and the workshop... and in the basement... and in the shed... and in the garage... and in the park... and down by the docks... and at the recycling centre... and...What self-respecting Mad Scientist™ wouldn't want to tool around in their assault tank and extort tribute from the terrified populace?
We generally leave terrifying the populace to the sociologists.
M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
Do remember that the last time Doctor Curlyhair and The Crimson Lady designed Halloween costumes, they glued a soup can and a pinwheel to a couple of hats and went as a fanfiction argument.
I haven't been paying any attention to the last 2 pages or so, so I have NO context whatsoever for this quote.
Not sure I want any either, as it would ruin the magic.
M. H. Fuzzball
Aperture Science-certified Horrible Person
- Location
- Sector 2814
Doctor Curlyhair and The Crimson Lady are the faux-cape names of Taylor Hebert and Emma Barnes in @mp3.1415player's fic 'For the Honour of the Regiment'. One omake had them trying to figure out what to wear as a Halloween costume (going as Doctor Curlyhair and The Crimson Lady was shot down). So instead they took a couple of baseball caps, glued a soup can on one, and a pinwheel on the other. It took a bit, but Annette figured out that they'd dressed as a fanfiction argument ("Because you have a fan on, and she has a can on!")
michaelb958
(Verified Michael)
- Location
- Wherever I am, there I am
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
- Location
- The general area. Possibly behind you.
I'm still very proud of that one
- Location
- Somewhere in The Woods
More of Doctor Curlyhair's schemes when?I'm still very proud of that one
Sandy River DL
(Verified Destroyer Leader)
- Location
- Lake Michigan
- Pronouns
- Her/She
At a guess, whenever Kenny lets her.
So, with a pet Simurgh, Taylor should be able to wake Emma up; surgically precise telekinesis plus perfect pre- & post- cognition means she can shove neurones around in a pattern that leads to "awake Emma" post-haste. This is, btw, exactly how Ziz Bombs happen, but nice. Probably.
Taylor can even ask Amy to sit in and monitor the process.
Bonus points if it happens by Ziz descending on the Bay, peeling back the roof to get to Emma's room, singin a beautiful song then departing after reassembling the roof, while completely no-selling every attack thrown at her by the "defenders" in such a way that they either negate each other, disappear into space, or somehow fix things.
Taylor can even ask Amy to sit in and monitor the process.
Bonus points if it happens by Ziz descending on the Bay, peeling back the roof to get to Emma's room, singin a beautiful song then departing after reassembling the roof, while completely no-selling every attack thrown at her by the "defenders" in such a way that they either negate each other, disappear into space, or somehow fix things.
I would love to read that.
- Location
- Sydney
That's how the Bay end up in permanent Quarantine and Emma in solitary or ripped apart by a mob. That would lead to a really dark story so hopeful it won't happen.
Seriously no one's going to believe the Simurgh doesn't have some ultra evil plan so even if exposure is under the known limit they won't trust anyone exposed especially not a comma patient that was directly worked on by the Simurgh!
Pranks with endbringers especially the Simurgh will not go well and will cause world wide panic!
Like that would help.
It was bad, and you should feel bad.I'm still very proud of that one
It's not. The Simurgh is actually far scarier than that.
- Location
- Somewhere in The Woods
You'll never know if you don't try!
- Location
- Rotting in port
Nah, just make her hang a "Under New Management" sign on her neck.
Noitaerc
(Nexus Force) (Assembly) (Verified Minifig)
- Location
- Currently stranded on Mata Nui island
For the Simurgh AMA, when asked for proof, she should have added a picture or a recording of herself in a Rita Repulsa costume saying this: "After nine years, I am finally free! It is time to troll Earth/High Priest!"
Nighzmarquls
The Endless Hunger
- Location
- United States
Everyone jokes about this in the worm fandom, but look straight up and tell me how many planets you actually notice.
Space is VERY empty. Wildbow is not really the height of perfect world building/story craft but a lot of people jump to the strangest things as being something to complain about.
It is actually quite easy to miss a planet, it can take days to years to determine where one is.
And that's in one universe. The entities are dealing with a finite but very large number of universes more then one.
Also I feel like I'm probably almost done reading this. Not because it's actually being written badly, or there is a lack of drama, or any number of things people complain about.
But because I think I was fully satisfied with Taylor being a moderately lucky bright engineer getting one of those little insights to develop a few principles of the universe into something feasible. The story could have been perfectly, succinctly and happily finished there.
The rest of this just feels like trying to keep at the exact same pace of that single moment of inspiration and fortune and never letting up on that exponential acceleration. And I know a lot of people probably want that experience in nice, easily digestible and predictable solid writing every few weeks.
But I don't think I do.
Thanks for the story, far as I'm concerned it was finished completely satisfactorily in the first 10k words or so.