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GG's reaction mirrors what I feel mine would be :D They seem to be taking it rather well though, which for the good, now Taylor has two Parahumans AND QA on her side, maybe her influence will spread across their network?
 
In the middle of it, Taylor was sitting in a large and very expensive chair, the sort you found in very high end evil lairs, with her feet propped up on a piece of equipment that was full of oddly glowing widgets that were strangely hard to focus on, a small point of silver light hovering above it and somehow giving a weird impression of watching them, stroking an oversized pure white dragonfly.
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"It turns out that when you're smart enough, you don't have to rent minions, or buy them. You can make the United States Government your minion. You can make the second-highest sentient alien computing node your minion, and give it sapience. You can even make your friends your minions... by giving them what they want and need. Congratulations! Your two are now minions too! Muahahahahahaha!"


*Quote may not be entirely accurate to the original letter of the text.
 
"It looks straightforward enough," Vicky said a little weakly. "Not nearly as complicated as some legal things I've seen are."

"There is no intent to lay traps in legal wording, Miss Dallon," Agent Charlie put in. He'd been sitting there watching in silence up until then. "The document is deliberately as clear and concise as possible. Allowing misunderstanding would be entirely pointless."
In large part because at this level if somebody starts trying to play games with technicalities they are likely to send somebody to apply a "ballistic solution", not a lawyer.
 
(Onscreen: Lursa of the House of Duras)

Legend: "Becky, eat a snickers. You're not you when you're angry."

(Lursa opens said candy bar and takes a bite. Camera pans to Legend, then back to... Rebecca Costa-Brown holding a snickers bar with a bite taken out of it.)
 
"The Slaughterhouse Nine are dead?"

Rebecca stared at Fortuna in shock.

"It is decidedly so," the woman in the hat replied calmly before walking off humming.

"How?"

"Better not tell you now," came the reply, then she turned the corner and vanished.
"Extremely thoroughly." Alternatively, "SCIENCE!!!!!!!"
"Path to fucking with Becky."
It goes back to David's present to Contessa. "It is decidedly so" and "Better not tell you now" are both answers given by the Magic 8-Ball.
 
The glittering blue insect seemed content to stay where it was and Taylor didn't appear to mind, which Vicky found a little strange, as she didn't particularly want insects in her hair.
This tends to be a habit of Taylors. Apparently. Even the ones (officially) without bug control.
"Let's say that about now your mother is having a slightly uncomfortable chat with some people who are expressing the concept that perhaps she should modify her approach to someone who is very important to certain individuals."
I don't think I've seen a statement better at saying nothing since the Mayor's speech shortly before Kaiju arrived!
"Most people who make plans are making plans on what to cook for dinner," Vicky pointed out somewhat acidly. "You appear to have plans that require minions. Where did you get minions?"
This is also a common feature of Taylors. Also I now want to see what happens in a Despicable Me crossover...
some sort of secret agent butler.
That's a very precise and somewhat odd mental image...
"It is decidedly so," the woman in the hat replied calmly before walking off humming.

"How?"

"Better not tell you now," came the reply, then she turned the corner and vanished.
Bwahahaha! She's still doing the magic 8-ball quotes! And apparently she's even more effective since she started doing that!
 
Can you imagine the Krogan following the Quarians, then Amy learning about the Genophage?

"Let me get this straight. You saved them from the monsters in the dark, and they repaid you by causing a still-born plague that affects your entire race?"

"Yes."

"That's double fucked. It would be monstrous on it's own if it was a sterility plague, but to forcibly terminate most children before they're born...Can I take a look? I can read your biology by touch." *cue Krogan blink-blink. Extends hand*

"Oh, THAT'S what they did. Bastards. Fixed."

"Whut?" o_O

"You're healed. Who's next?"
Amy is declared a Saint and has Krogan bodyguards when?

And then the Krogan start trying to name things after Amy. And considering they name children by getting horribly drunk and then saying the name right before they pass out (IDK if that's canon, but it's my headcanon), there will be a lot of Ablargs krogan in the future.
 
The real irony is that neither of those two NDA's is legal at all, they are both minors who signed a binding document with penal repercussions upon breach of contract without either a lawyer or their parents. Plus Taylor would probably stop the feds from going overboard with any punishment they can give to those two even if she feels betrayed due to their loose lips.

That said I'm fairly sure that between their friendship with Taylor, the current dislike of their legal guardian and the seriousness of the threats received from the government they are not breaking the NDA's unless under duress, and maybe not even then.
 
Superb words. While somewhat lacking on the "mind blowing new science and technology", it nicely advanced an important subplot.
 
"Extremely thoroughly." Alternatively, "SCIENCE!!!!!!!"
Personally, my favourite approach to answering any question of "how?" that I don't want to is to assume they meant how much instead of how did it happen and respond in kind, especially with a single word. "They're DEAD? How?!" "Very."

Unrelated, but I just noticed while typing this - has anyone else noticed the easter eggs with SV's comment box word count? At 40 words, it quoted the Lex Luthor forty cakes thing. At 42, it just said "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" without a number. I wonder what else it might have...
 
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I see QA still has an affinity for bugs.

There are only 168 hours total in a week! 40 of them would be spent in school. So, that's 66 hours she has to do literally everything else - sleep, eat, bathe, travel time, be with friends...
if you go for 8 hours of sleep, that leaves you ten free hours across the week - which pretty much all gets taken up by meals, hygiene, and travel. studying for school pretty much has to be done at the hospital between patients.
if you're running much less than 8 hours, that just accelerates the fall-over-from-exhaustion crash.

"The Slaughterhouse Nine are dead?"

Rebecca stared at Fortuna in shock.

"It is decidedly so," the woman in the hat replied calmly before walking off humming.

"How?"

"Better not tell you now," came the reply, then she turned the corner and vanished.

Clenching her fists, Rebecca looked around the empty corridor, then stomped off.

This was getting way past the point of being annoying...
A young girl wished upon a star, and a star fell upon them with all it's fury.
 
Contessa noticed how stressed she was getting when things got weird, didn't she? And the Path to less stress to her and Cauldron? 1 step, answer questions with phrases from the magic 8 ball whenever possible.
 
Curiously enough, I'm actually wondering what Danny is up to.

Also, is QA co-opting the local dragonfly population to keep better tabs on Taylor? Or are they just that friendly?
 
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