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Shining Example (WORM ORIGIN QUEST)

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[x] Take off your mask. This doesn't have to go on for any longer than it has to, and it's been too long.
-[x] Let him stay. If Danah asks anything, he can fill in the blanks where you can't.
--[x] Ask about her... husband. Does Clint know? Does Dad?
 
[X] Take off your mask. This doesn't have to go on for any longer than it has to, and it's been too long.
-[X] Let him stay. If Danah asks anything, he can fill in the blanks where you can't.
--[X] Ask her if she's been safe. The worlds changed, and you wouldn't be much of a big brother if you didn't ask.
 
[x] Take off your mask. This doesn't have to go on for any longer than it has to, and it's been too long.
-[x] Let him stay. If Danah asks anything, he can fill in the blanks where you can't.
--[x] Ask about her... husband. Does Clint know? Does Dad?
 
McLuvin said:
....What the fuck Danah? Lying about your age? Getting married for months? Okay, yeah, no, this needs to be explained, she's way too young and she is keeping a secret like this from the family is too major a thing, at least Alex keeps the Atlas thing a secret to protect his family, not whatever the hell Danah is doing.

[x] Take off your mask. This doesn't have to go on for any longer than it has to, and it's been too long.
-[x] Let him stay. If Danah asks anything, he can fill in the blanks where you can't.
--[x] Ask about her... husband. Does Clint know? Does Dad?

First things first, we can't trust her not to omit things at this point, she's lying about her age and doesn't seem to have told her family she married, whilst underaged, so we need someone to corroborate what she's been saying or doing, next we need to know about her Husband, as far as I'm aware Alex wasn't even aware of a serious boyfriend, now she's been married for months? When she's just 17? And appears to be hiding it possibly? Yeah no, she doesn't get away without being questioned on that.
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All for getting answers, but idk maybe make sure you include something that keeps our tone, less hostile to the idea? I mean we don't like it, but like pushing her away because we didn't specify how we make our concerns known is a big goof that should be easily avoidable. End of the day, we can't let something like this make her feel like she's alone or that she cant come to her family if things go south, even if we dont agree with her choices.
 
IKnowNothing said:
According to Manton, at least one in five of the people down there are parahuman.
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I'm a rusty on my Worm lore, but wasn't the 1 in 5 thing about people capable of becoming parahumans? Or is this 1 in 5 referring to people in New York specifically?

IKnowNothing said:
A few rows down, one, in particular, catches your eye. A small black and white picture of a bald boy sitting in a hospital bed looking out the window to the waiting cityscape. He's holding up his middle finger, grinning as best he can despite his life.
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Is that us? Why--

IKnowNothing said:
Danah Everett stands star-struck in front of you. She points to you, then Matthew then back to you. He nods, a wry smile, and Danah's jaw drops.
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...Oh that's why. Makes sense.


IKnowNothing said:
"Yeah, 19 is a little young nowadays."

She's 17.

"But hey, when it's love," she beams, the happiest you remember seeing her, "You can't wait."
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So I see three ways this works out.

1. We somehow lost 2 years, and our guy is repressing that knowledge (or somehow hasn't found out until now). I don't really believe this is the case, but I wouldn't rule out drama like that. There's also the chance that this is an alternative Earth from the one we lived in and this just happens to be the analog to our sister living in this one, but I don't like that idea.

2. She's mastered. Hard to prove, but there could have been a guy that did it to her. In which case it's risky to do the reveal since she's compromised.

3. She is the master. Less likely than 2 in my head, but it's entirely possible that a girl messes with the head of a boy she likes and gets him to marry her.

There's the boring option of her just lying to her family and getting married that young, but with mind altering superpowers around that seems like something too basic. Especially since I can't really see a reason to jump straight to marriage and hiding it instead of just waiting a year. Unless the guy (or her) was of the "wait until marriage" type, there's no real benefit to not waiting.
 
soulcake said:
All for getting answers, but idk maybe make sure you include something that keeps our tone, less hostile to the idea? I mean we don't like it, but like pushing her away because we didn't specify how we make our concerns known is a big goof that should be easily avoidable. End of the day, we can't let something like this make her feel like she's alone or that she cant come to her family if things go south, even if we dont agree with her choices.
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She's seventeen, been married for months, hasn't told her family, is lying about her age and working in a Parahuman rich environment.

She loves her family, has been shown to be close to them, didn't have a boyfriend when Alex last checked under a year ago and is extremely smart, smart enough and patient enough not to jump into things by marrying illegally, faking your age illegally, and doing this within half a year, at best, of meeting someone, whilst being in a very rigorous study environment that takes a lot of time away from things like serious dating.

She's either being mastered, in trouble, doing something stupid due to stress or had a trigger event. We go hard and if she's being mastered, Kill the bastard, if she triggered, get her out of the relationship and into a real support network, either way, this is far too much for too fast in far too weird a circumstance to be healthy.
 
Blonddude42 said:
I'm a rusty on my Worm lore, but wasn't the 1 in 5 thing about people capable of becoming parahumans? Or is this 1 in 5 referring to people in New York specifically?
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This is true, but this is the early days. With the rate that people are triggering from Symphony, the odds are wrong. It's the start of a completely new science, and even Manton is still trying to keep up despite having quite the headstart and the perfect environment to work in.

Blonddude42 said:
1. We somehow lost 2 years, and our guy is repressing that knowledge (or somehow hasn't found out until now). I don't really believe this is the case, but I wouldn't rule out drama like that. There's also the chance that this is an alternative Earth from the one we lived in and this just happens to be the analog to our sister living in this one, but I don't like that idea.
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Not going to comment on the other two options, but I'm going to say that this isn't it at all. Doormaker is linked to the earth that Alex and Rebecca were born in and the one filling up with parahumans. So far, from Alex's coma, there have been about seven months of time passing. He was asleep for four of them, and he's been Atlas for almost the other 3.

If Alex was repressing anything, it would be the fact that not once in his entire time running around as Atlas did he think to go visit his family. He was too busy living the life.
 
IKnowNothing said:
So far, from Alex's coma, there have been about seven months of time passing. He was asleep for four of them, and he's been Atlas for almost the other 3.

If Alex was repressing anything, it would be the fact that not once in his entire time running around as Atlas did he think to go visit his family. He was too busy living the life.
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So in seven months our smart, education focussed sister met a bloke, fell in love, lied about her age, decided to marry him despite being underaged, and got the rest of her family to be okay with this? And that's if they know, they would've at least tried to contact Alex if the sister was married or getting married, and that also lowers the amount of time she could've known this bloke, she's been married several months she would've decided to fake her age, get married illegally and not tell anyone about it whilst knowing this guy for, at best, 5 Months, when she's heavily education focussed, family focussed and smart.

Yeah, no, this tastes dodgy. You better have Alex taste the suspicious nature of all this. Even if he's tired and guilty for being out of contact, he should notice something is up. Either she's in trouble, doesn't seem worried in this scene, depressed and leaning on someone too much, again, doesn't look like it, or she triggered, and she would've gone to the help lines at the very least, finally, she's mastered, and a beautiful, young, smart girl being alone in New York interacting with Parahumans and working under Legend? Yeah, good target to be mastered by some skeevy bastard.
 
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McLuvin said:
So in seven months our smart, education focussed sister met a bloke, fell in love, lied about her age, decided to marry him despite being underaged, and got the rest of her family to be okay with this? And that's if they know, they would've at least tried to contact Alex if the sister was married or getting married, and that also lowers the amount of time she could've known this bloke, she's been married several months she would've decided to fake her age, get married illegally and not tell anyone about it whilst knowing this guy for, at best, 5 Months, when she's heavily education focussed, family focussed and smart.

Yeah, no, this tastes dodgy. You better have Alex taste the suspicious nature of all this. Even if he's tired and guilty for being out of contact, he should notice something is up. Either she's in trouble, doesn't seem worried in this scene, depressed and leaning on someone too much, again, doesn't look like it, or she triggered, and she would've gone to the help lines at the very least, finally, she's mastered, and a beautiful, young, smart girl being alone in New York interacting with Parahumans and working under Legend? Yeah, good target to be mastered by some skeevy bastard.
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Won't say yes or no, but eloping is a thing, and that's all I'll say on it.
 
[x] Take off your mask. This doesn't have to go on for any longer than it has to, and it's been too long.
-[x] Let him stay. If Danah asks anything, he can fill in the blanks where you can't.
--[x] Ask about her... husband. Does Clint know? Does Dad?
 
McLuvin said:
So in seven months our smart, education focussed sister met a bloke, fell in love, lied about her age, decided to marry him despite being underaged, and got the rest of her family to be okay with this? And that's if they know, they would've at least tried to contact Alex if the sister was married or getting married, and that also lowers the amount of time she could've known this bloke, she's been married several months she would've decided to fake her age, get married illegally and not tell anyone about it whilst knowing this guy for, at best, 5 Months, when she's heavily education focussed, family focussed and smart.

Yeah, no, this tastes dodgy. You better have Alex taste the suspicious nature of all this. Even if he's tired and guilty for being out of contact, he should notice something is up. Either she's in trouble, doesn't seem worried in this scene, depressed and leaning on someone too much, again, doesn't look like it, or she triggered, and she would've gone to the help lines at the very least, finally, she's mastered, and a beautiful, young, smart girl being alone in New York interacting with Parahumans and working under Legend? Yeah, good target to be mastered by some skeevy bastard.
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To be fair, there's the chance if she is mastered that the guy doesn't exactly know he's doing it. An out of control power like that is unlikely to be subtle enough to not notice, but there is the chance of it.

There's other similar ways it could have gone down that the guy isn't the generic proto-heartbreaker, but there's not too many and a lot end up something like "her boyfriend she hasn't told her family about yet triggered, accidentally mastered her, and keeps digging his hole deeper as he stews in his post trigger issues."

There's also the chance that the master isn't the husband, but the contrivances for that are pretty far out there. Could happen, but it's much simpler to explain in other ways.

All in all, I don't automatically assume it's a skeevy guy (even though the odds are it is one).
 
Blonddude42 said:
To be fair, there's the chance if she is mastered that the guy doesn't exactly know he's doing it. An out of control power like that is unlikely to be subtle enough to not notice, but there is the chance of it.

There's other similar ways it could have gone down that the guy isn't the generic proto-heartbreaker, but there's not too many and a lot end up something like "her boyfriend she hasn't told her family about yet triggered, accidentally mastered her, and keeps digging his hole deeper as he stews in his post trigger issues."

There's also the chance that the master isn't the husband, but the contrivances for that are pretty far out there. Could happen, but it's much simpler to explain in other ways.

All in all, I don't automatically assume it's a skeevy guy (even though the odds are it is one).
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Why does it have to be a sleezy guy? There are good people in the WORM verse that would make fine husbands.

... and when I remember who they are I'll be sure to tell you.
 
McLuvin said:
*Rebecca stares angrily*

Hey, you do you man *looks nervously at Rebecca* You make your own choices and take your own consequences.

Now I'm gonna get out of the splash zone in case you wanna make a 'lifechanging' Decision.
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It's an opportunity, I never said that it was a good opportunity.
 
IKnowNothing said:
Chose one major option, and one from each teir:
[] Take off your mask. This doesn't have to go on for any longer than it has to, and it's been too long.
-[] Make the conversation private. Matthew is a friend, but he didn't need to be here
-[] Let him stay. If Danah asks anything, he can fill in the blanks where you can't.
--[] Ask why she's been working, she never wanted to do anything like this before.
--[] Ask her if she's been safe. The worlds changed, and you wouldn't be much of a big brother if you didn't ask.
--[] Ask about her... husband. Does Clint know? Does Dad?
--[] Write in

[] Keep your mask on. Clint nearly broke in front of you. Danah... doesn't need to know.
-[] Leave the city, just go on your shift before you make things worse here.
-[] Stay, and ask Matthew if you can help do something.
--[] Have him tell you more about the parahuman situation in the city. You don't believe that things are quiet in New York of all places.
--[] Ask about the musicians, how many there are and if you need to stay to make sure things stay as quiet as he says.
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Seems like it might have been better handled as
[ ][Mask] Take off your mask. This doesn't have to go on for any longer than it has to, and it's been too long.
[ ][Mask] Keep your mask on. Clint nearly broke in front of you. Danah... doesn't need to know.

[ ][Matthew] Stay, and ask Matthew if you can help do something.
[ ][Matthew] Make the conversation private. Matthew is a friend, but he didn't need to be here.

[ ][What do] Stay and talk to Danah
-[] Ask why she's been working, she never wanted to do anything like this before.
-[] Ask her if she's been safe. The worlds changed, and you wouldn't be much of a big brother if you didn't ask.
-[] Ask about her... husband. Does Clint know? Does Dad?
[ ][What do] Stay and talk to Matthew
-[] Have him tell you more about the parahuman situation in the city. You don't believe that things are quiet in New York of all places.
-[] Ask about the musicians, how many there are and if you need to stay to make sure things stay as quiet as he says.
[ ][What do] Leave the city, just go on your shift before you make things worse here.

Although now its written out I'm not sure its less clunky than one from each tier.
IKnowNothing said:
If Alex was repressing anything, it would be the fact that not once in his entire time running around as Atlas did he think to go visit his family. He was too busy living the life.
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Not true, he visited Clint that one time.
Truely a paragon of family loyalty.
 
[x] Take off your mask. This doesn't have to go on for any longer than it has to, and it's been too long.
-[x] Let him stay. If Danah asks anything, he can fill in the blanks where you can't.
--[x] Ask about her... husband. Does Clint know? Does Dad?
---[x] Look at Legend, "DO SOMETHING!"
----[x] KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE! CALL EVERYONE IN! FOOL MASTER TAKE THE MOON, TAKE IT! (just in case)
 
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Plot importance says "this is probably a master". The probability that it really is is still only 50% or something like that. Since it probably is a master, being prepared to stop her from hurting herself might be a good idea.
 
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