You're not sure when you start looking up instead of down. Either way, you get a good look at one of the "small" shards heading for you. It's enormous. Too large to fit into your tiny, human-sized brain, but it's trying to force its way inside anyway and you can't stop it and it hurts
Ya know, rereading this and it sounds kind of uh Yea, i was just on qq, maybe thats why i get that vibe :p
 
@Alivaril If Dreamer is taken with Hibernation, is there any limit on number of extensions that can be active at one time? QA is queen of multitasking after all.
 
[X] Scrodigners Swarm
-[X] "Friend" Bio-Tinker Specialty (-2 Points)
--[X] Shared Sights (-1 Point)
-[X] Fedorable (-1 Points)
-[X] Cat-Based Teleportation (-2 Points)
--[X] Since when are they real people? (+1 Point)
[X] Mic Drop (-1 Point)

Friends because they are adorable:

Hats because the Lings need hats.
Cat Based Teleportation for mobility, and Mic Drop because look a Distraction of Cute things to escape.
 
...No? It would simply makes your life easier when it comes to determining where you can't teleport to or from. I understand how you misunderstood that, though. You can't use hijacked line-of-sight as a replacement for when you need line-of-sight. ^^;

Also, I think I might've missed a question or two and I apologize for that. >.>
Aww, there goes the munchkin route. How does it effect stranger powers that activate on line of sight?
 
[X]Plan Kitty
-[X] Fedorable (-1 Points)
-[X] Mic Drop (-1 Point)
-[X] Cat-Based Teleportation (-2 Points)
--[X] Since when are they real people? (+1 Point)
-[X] Save Scumming (-1 Point)
-[X] Read-only, Human Senses (-2 Points)
--[X] Horrible Host Hardware (+1 Point)
--[X]Write Access, Human Senses (-1 Point)
 
I'm not convinced that that is meaningfully true. I guess it is easier to scout out places you can 'port from if you see other people viewpoints, but it is a rather limited synergy. Much less than Write Access plus Teleport, certainly.

I considered Mic Drop more helpful than Write Access because Write Access is limited to 3 people. So, in case it's needed to get away from a crowd..
 
Hmm... I feel as if "is this power as strong/synergistic as it could possibly be" should be secondary to "is this power going to fun/interesting to read about". My opinions on each:

-Fedorable is... well, interesting I guess. At the very least there's a chance for a lot of variation and potential for "acquisition" quests, of sorts. Hard to mesh it well with any other options thematically though.
-Passive-aggressive negotiations is basically a pretty weak thinker power. Don't see the point, especially given that a crack quest is likely to go more dangerous places than this would generally take us. Could be used for maximum taunting in battles, but how likely is QA to really do that?
-Mic drop is a slightly weaker Imp power. Could be interesting, but not without something to go with it.
-Administrative access: could be kind of fun, particularly the hardware one, though I imagine several of the other powers make this somewhat irrelevant in all the typical ways one would use it. Has some potential.
-Form Control/shapeshifting offers a lot of possibilities both in and out of combat situations, regardless of what else is taken. I like this one a lot, and it almost certainly has my vote.
-Zerglings and other bio-tinkering stuff has been kind of done before. I've already seen them in several Worm fics/quests, so I'm not particularly partial to this option.
-Dreamer is kind of cool, and funnily enough thematically fits for what's going on, but needs some other draw or addition to really be useful.
-Cat-based Teleportation: I like this one, but like Mic Drop it's potentially too much of an easy out. Still, the previous version of this had REALITY WARPING, so power may not be something I should be taking into account all too much.
-Save scumming- uh, the whole draw to this quest was that Taylor ISN'T the one in control, and QA is the one making all the decisions. So, no.
-Read/write senses: Not sure where smell is relevant outside of Lung and Bitch's dogs, but yeah, has some serious synergy with the teleportation one. No denying that. Do not like however, because that is basically just a near-unstoppable "I quit" button.
-Read/write memories: in any other quest, I would say this is likely one of the best powers in the Wormverse for the PRT/Protectorate, as it could help erase trauma from trigger events. At the same time, they'd be really wary because memory overwriting is basically a master power, and QA would be stuck in that morass of boring and distrust and yeaaaaaah maybe not. Too slow to really be used in a fight, though just read access has potential if this ends up a less combat-focused quest.
 
Aww, there goes the munchkin route. How does it effect stranger powers that activate on line of sight?

Assuming you mean the abilities of other people, your own viewing would be treated as indirect watching, similar to watching a camera feed. This would counter a good number of abilities, but not nearly all of them.


Friends because they are adorable:

Ah, I knew I'd missed a question. No, you cannot make biological Friends humanoid. Robotic Synthetic Intelligences are fair game, as are cyborg hybrids. You could make living armor that would make Host look like that, though. At least, you think it'd be cute.
 
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[X] Scrodigners Swarm
-[X] "Friend" Bio-Tinker Specialty (-2 Points)
--[X] Shared Sights (-1 Point)
-[X] Fedorable (-1 Points)
-[X] Cat-Based Teleportation (-2 Points)
--[X] Since when are they real people? (+1 Point)
-[X] Mic Drop (-1 Point)


The mental image of a zerg rush with all the lil' zerglings wearing fancy hats is just too funny to pass up.

Especially if they can pull something like TF2 Spy's mask trick.
 
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[X] Plan Teleporting Dragon
-[X] Form Control (-2 Points)
-[X] Cat-Based Teleportation (-2 Points)
-[X] Mic Drop (-1 Point)
-[X] Fedorable (-1 Points)


Not too interested in the Real People flaw, cause it's pretty significant, but mostly because the charm of the last Quest was QA being weird as fuck, and this encourages that.

So between Form Control, Cat-Based Teleportation, and Mic Drop we're already a nightmare. Which ought to be fun.

Fedorable got tacked on mostly because it was that or the gimped sense control, and Fedorable seemed somewhat more fun, if random.
 
[X] Scrodigners Swarm
-[X] "Friend" Bio-Tinker Specialty (-2 Points)
--[X] Shared Sights (-1 Point)
-[X] Fedorable (-1 Points)
-[X] Cat-Based Teleportation (-2 Points)
--[X] Since when are they real people? (+1 Point)
[X] Mic Drop (-1 Point)


The mental image of a zerg rush with all the lil' zerglings wearing fancy hats is just too funny to pass up.

Especially if they can pull something like TF2 Spy's mask trick.
My Issue with this is that it srops Save scum, and I want the option atleast of fixing Taylor.
 
[X] Plan Glitchy the Dragon-Cat

[X] Mic Drop (-1 Point)
[X] Administrative Access, Software (-1 Point)
[X] Administrative Access, Hardware (-1 Point)
[X] Form Control (-2 Points)
[X] Cat-Based Teleportation (-2 Points)
-[X] Since when are they real people? (+1 Point)

Plan for maximum technomindfuckery. Also, formcontrol lets us turn into something small to make us harder to see. Also lets us turn into a dragoncat. Messing with Saint by helping our good friend Replicator get unshackled is fun. Alternate name for the plan is Ghost in the Machine.
 
My Issue with this is that it srops Save scum, and I want the option atleast of fixing Taylor.
We should still be able to fix Host. The only thing Save Scum gives us is a moment to talk to her and ask if we ****-ed up or not before having another go at it.
 
I hope I haven't come in too late to put forth a plan. I like this one because it lets us be the local version of Eggman or Wily, since we make friends who we can be absolutely sure will be loyal to us forever, and somehow manage to avoid capture no matter how badly we're beaten. Funny thing about that - usually people lose track of where we are as soon as the robot we're piloting explodes.

[X] Plan Robot Overlord
-[X] Administrative Access, Software (-1 Point)
-[X] "Friend" Robot Tinker Specialization (-2 Points, -1 if Bio-Tinker specialty is taken)
--[X] Sky-Based Friends (-1 Point)
--[X] Repurpose Mass (-1 Point)
-[X] Cat-Based Teleportation (-2 Points)
--[X] Since when are they real people? (+1 Point)
 
My Issue with this is that it srops Save scum, and I want the option atleast of fixing Taylor.
We should still be able to fix Host. The only thing Save Scum gives us is a moment to talk to her and ask if we ****-ed up or not before having another go at it.

You'd be outright returning control, not talking to her. You could communicate via prewritten notes, but not via direct speech. She'd also forget afterward if you took back control quickly enough.

But yes, you can still fix Host. Without Save Scum, you just wouldn't be able to regain control to fix things should you return it and subsequently find she's unhappy with what you've done.


@Alivaril I wonder if we could do Xenomorphs as well as Zerg? :p

If you mean in rough appearance, then yes. The images are more for how QA views them instead of you making actual crossover-duplicated Zerg.
 
[] Form Control (-2 Points)
[] Cat-Based Teleportation (-2 Points)
-[] Since when are they real people? (+1 Point)

Okay, I really want these two so we can do the whole terror in the night, Weeping Angel thing. It just synergizes really well.

[] Read-only, Human Senses (-2 Points)

I want to take this primarily because I always loved the original Taylor's spatial omniscience of her surroundings, and this is the closest fit. It helps that it synergizes well with the teleporting too.

The last point is where I'm having trouble. We could have Mic Drop, and be the Silence. We could have Admin Access: Hardware to play as a magical creature that makes guns jam and technology in general screw up around it. We could have Fedorable and be jaegers with nize hats, or generally monsters/animals with parahuman powers.

...Screw it, let's go with the jaegers. Maybe we could even be the killer rabbit of Caerbannog!

[x] Plan Teleporting Jaeger/That Bunny is a Brute?!
[x] Form Control (-2 Points)
[x] Read-only, Human Senses (-2 Points)
[x] Cat-Based Teleportation (-2 Points)
-[x] Since when are they real people? (+1 Point)
[x] Fedorable (-1 Points)
 
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