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I'd think that the lesson would be better learned (and made) if the lauchee does not get liquified by the sudden acceleration. At the minimum, being around to affirm that one should not mess with or push too deeply into GravTech makes sure that new(read external forces) will be warned.

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Joseph Tracy said:
she could ask for a door to "the most important person in GravTech."
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Should I add you to the list of bettors?
 
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FaerieKnight79 said:
Taylor being so busy with her SCIENCE that she doesn't get bullied by Sophia and Emma
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Taylor wouldn't be getting bullied even if she was at Winslow. This version of Emma wasn't rescued by Shadowstalker and has been comatose since that day. Without Emma's 'friendship' Sophia has no reason to go after Taylor.

As for people causing trouble, there's always the possibility of Uber&Leet or the Merchants trying to cut through the DWU during one of their stunts/ without even intending to actually attack Gravtech, just using a shortcut/trying to evade pursuit.
 
Pinklestia said:
Taylor finally gets a friend?
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I'm kinda hoping she makes an AI, her parallel processing computer is already a good start. It won't likely start out as a full sapient AI obviously, but making a computer dedicated to heavy number crunching and analysis to start with. When her projects get large/numerous enough that robotics automation becomes needed/wanted, that data analysis computer (now more advanced) will easily provide the precision control necessary. Add voice commands for ease of use and it snowballs from there.
 
How would said AI be protected from Dragon? If I recall correctly, part of the restrictions on her is that she has to neutralize any AI that she finds.
 
Norgarth said:
As for people causing trouble, there's always the possibility of Uber&Leet or the Merchants trying to cut through the DWU during one of their stunts/ without even intending to actually attack Gravtech, just using a shortcut/trying to evade pursuit.
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Or U&L crash a flying machine of some sort into the compound after getting shot down by Purity or other angry Blaster. There are many ways to cause trouble after all.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
And depending on time of day, that might put her in the Hebert living room (or dining room), Danny's office, or next to Danny as he's supervising something. After all, the CEO is the most important person in the company.
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At which point, Rebecca meets Danny's baseball bat, followed by Taylor's protection detail, and then things really go sideways.
 
Not scalable. DARPA and the military wants a widely deployable version, not a single railgun.

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rdmcmains said:
At which point, Rebecca meets Danny's baseball bat, followed by Taylor's protection detail, and then things really go sideways.
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Should I write up an omake based of that premise?
 
cryptoam said:
Should I write up an omake based of that premise?
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Sounds like fun.

FaerieKnight79 said:
And she still wouldn't know the one who's revolutionizing science is Danny's teenage daughter.
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No, but between, "(The Chief Director of the PRT/Alexandria) just popped up out of nowhere," and Taylor's Subspace QUantum Interference Detector going 'ding', there will surely be a shitshow (especially if it was the former who appeared, and not the latter).
 
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FaerieKnight79 said:
But really, anyone who says the story "has no tension"... I have to wonder if we're reading the same story. Are they not seeing the rapidly heating up cold war between the PRT and other alphabet soup agencies? While Max has been shown to have been warned off, can anyone really believe he's not going to arrogantly forget that warning and try something? Or that Coil isn't going to pull something? Or that any of the other players in Brockton Bay aren't going to try pull something?
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I'm seeing the PRT as the subject of smug mockery by the Defense Department with no sign of the rest of the national security complex in sight. The Nazis were threatened in public and there's no hint of foreshadowing that they're going to try something. Likewise, no signs that any of the other canonical factions in Brockton Bay have even so much as twitched despite all the flashy moves Gravtec made over the last few chapters. So... no?

And to be perfectly honest I don't have much interest in any of that shit, aside from the way the story keeps dunking on Cauldron I'm starting to think they're the plucky underdog protagonists here. I would be much more interested in, say, the tension in Taylor trying to figure out how to be both the military-industrial complex's secret weapon and present as a normal teenage girl, or even if she wants to do that. Or Danny wondering for a moment if being the military-industrial complex's secret weapon is really a good life choice for his supergenius daughter. Or even an actual broad overview on how Gravtec's existence has changed Brockton Bay and not just a few passing comments by Piggot. There is a great wealth of tension between characters and the world that could be explored but isn't. And that's disappointing.

There. Sermon over. Mock me as you will.
 
cryptoam said:
How would said AI be protected from Dragon? If I recall correctly, part of the restrictions on her is that she has to neutralize any AI that she finds.
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That may be so but Dragon is heavily crippled and Taylor makes things right. Her AI will have extensive security to prevent someone tampering with her child (I just see it that way) and it would out think Dragon in both speed and parallel processing (Dragon can only have one instance after all). That's assuming Dragon, or anyone else even becomes aware of the AI, she may not mention it at all.

*edit* There may also be an AI or cryptology(?) episode of the alien education show.
 
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cryptoam said:
Not scalable. DARPA and the military wants a widely deployable version, not a single railgun.

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Should I write up an omake based of that premise?
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Yes, but also have it that Taylor has programmed her subspace distortion monitor to automatically jam any parahumanish subspace signal that originates in her home. RCB shows up, finds herself cut off from her powers, and Danny just pops her one right in the kisser so hard her artificial eye flies loose.
 
Acknowledged!
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Understood!
List of Betters:
Pethrai Darkos: 300 for Deep dive
tfesmo: RCB double identity as parahuman uncovered
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Ken (Because Alex is in Heaven...RIP, Alex) - Your answer is: (bing) When RCB went to the Soviet Ambasador to America with suspicions of Gravtec violating international treaties involving military use of parahumans (Capt. America-ing in Earth Bet parlance), What happened next?

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I'll take 'Something something Taylor something invisibility field.'
 
Mal-3 said:
I'm seeing the PRT as the subject of smug mockery by the Defense Department with no sign of the rest of the national security complex in sight. The Nazis were threatened in public and there's no hint of foreshadowing that they're going to try something. Likewise, no signs that any of the other canonical factions in Brockton Bay have even so much as twitched despite all the flashy moves Gravtec made over the last few chapters. So... no?
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May I remind you that given how RCB has acted and what Cauldron actions would involve, that the other agencies are all likely hating PRT's guts? Even if every agency has to work together officially, politics are still a thing.

Also, Max Anders has already been "informed" about how messing with GravTech in any way may be problematic for his health. And that if he catches a single sign of any of his underlings trying something to at least let them know.
Mal-3 said:
Or even an actual broad overview on how Gravtec's existence has changed Brockton Bay and not just a few passing comments by Piggot. There is a great wealth of tension between characters and the world that could be explored but isn't. And that's disappointing.
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We already had a small(very small) view of how that would look like via "flying ship". DARPA still has more to do before any tech gets released to the greater military, let alone the civilian world. Don't worry though, I have full faith that when the time comes, mp3.1415player will provide us insights to how the world reacts.

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Whamodyne said:
Yes, but also have it that Taylor has programmed her subspace distortion monitor to automatically jam any parahumanish subspace signal that originates in her home. RCB shows up, finds herself cut off from her powers, and Danny just pops her one right in the kisser so hard her artificial eye flies loose.
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I might add some of that but I will not implement the part about the eyes. I don't like writing such but thanks for the other parts!

wingnut2292 said:
I'll take 'Something something Taylor something invisibility field.'
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Noted!

Possible paths to Cauldron:
-Legend "defecting"?
-Deep dive into RCB after her attempts to probe for information passes a certain point?
-A Contessa plan getting derailed via butterfly effects from BB?
-Taylor discovering other worlds and an exploration mission by some military forces finding the hidden Cauldron base?
-Cauldron(members) getting teleported into GravTech trying to prove that is is tinkertech(lol nope)?
-RCB showing up and being outed as a Parahuman, causing a chain of events that uncovers Cauldron?
-Invisibility field->???->Cauldron?
-RCB shows up and somehow unveils Cauldron?
-Anything else?

List of Bettors:
Pethrai Darkos: 300 for Deep dive
tfesmo: RCB double identity as parahuman uncovered
wingnut2292: Invisibility field->???->Cauldron?
Joseph Tracy: 20 for RCB showing up

EDIT: FYI the two lists here are incomplete and not up to date. Please read further into the thread to find the most current version.
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Joseph Tracy said:
she could ask for a door to "the most important person in GravTech."
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Done!
 
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Mal-3 said:
I'm seeing the PRT as the subject of smug mockery by the Defense Department with no sign of the rest of the national security complex in sight. The Nazis were threatened in public and there's no hint of foreshadowing that they're going to try something. Likewise, no signs that any of the other canonical factions in Brockton Bay have even so much as twitched despite all the flashy moves Gravtec made over the last few chapters. So... no?
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You do realize that I can't write all the chapters at the same time, I hope? I type pretty fast but there are limits.

So there are things that haven't happened yet. This is pretty much how it goes :)

Other stuff will happen. Give me a chance to write it.
 
Kinda surprised no one's asked me about my 'we've gotten a hint about the A plot and it's not RCB' comment yet.
 
mp3.1415player said:
"Nothing happened," is something I see on my own stories, and lots of other people's writing, as code for "No one died in this chapter." 🤷‍♂️

It's just a thing. Can't change it, don't feel like worrying about it, I just get a little tired when it pops up.

Anyway, I've said my piece, so now I'm going to write more words in which nothing happens.

Or... am I?
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I don't really care about lack of "action". Slice-of-life is a thing.

Patterns in writing can fake out readers, though.

For example, Sophia dies gruesomely in Mauling Snarks *and I completely forgot about it* because... no one else dies gruesomely. It was a really isolated incident in a huge amount of repetitive "Taylor uses Diplomacy".

I guess that's a complicated and lengthy way to say that the general feel of a story can undermine the actual events described.
 
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