Gromweld
Learning By Mistake
Several other people have chimed in on this to explain why it would be problematic, so I'll just focus on one point that hasn't really been brought up: the Soulgem Injector process gives someone a HUMAN soul, with its Hun and Po components. That means the person receiving it has to be close enough for the process to identify them as Human (very difficult to swing for Dragon and some Case 53s), and they would then be limited to all the standard Human frailties that were built into a Human soul by the Primordials - the biggest one, of course, being the NO TRUE RESURRECTIONS rule (which would fly in the face of Dragon's AI-self backups).
It fudges up the timer a bit, but not a full restart - it really depends on what happens during the subsequent fight, but at the worst he'd lose about a day or two of progress as long as he's brought back to where he was working on converting.
Again, this is Iris' calculations and considerations, not objective fact. Of course, it's pretty dang close to the truth, since Iris is no dummy and he had a lot of time to watch and think things through - for this Quest's purposes, his statement should suffice as the final say on the matter.
Yes.
Just quoting it because it's true; I try to shape the story to play to our strengths and weaknesses, rather than keeping to a strict plot path. My biggest concern, in this way, is that we've rapidly run into the problem of having too much awesome powers/abilities, so it's difficult finding the time to showing it all off without turning Taylor & Co. into rampant Mary Sue-esque protagonists. Hopefully I've struck something of a balance, but it's something that occupies a lot of my headspace when writing and plotting.
Basically. I expected this to only take a year IRL - two, at tops. Real Life has been the major timesink, I know, but I'm going to be putting more in-universe pressure to get things moving just so I'm able to finish the story at all.
Google Docs had the spelling wrong for some reason and auto-corrected. Weird, and means I probably saved the wrong spelling manually into the dictionary at some point. Fixed the story and my own dictionary, thanks!
Any one of these events, alone, wouldn't have raised too many eyebrows - the PRT's been around a while, and ~40 years of parahumans means lots of weird shit has come and gone before. It's the constant, increasingly-powerful instances of absurdity that are sending up the most alarms, and the PRT is sort of scrambling to figure out what to do about it all, since the one-off rules that have been designed to handle each separate Weird Thing are usually mutually exclusive.
Lord Grasp called him a Yozi Sympathizer. The only reason Lord Grasp still exists is because Iris determined that he's crucial to the Assembly's success.
Do Not Taunt The Happy Fun Ball.
Taylor has more info than we do at the moment, but it's going to be revealed in-story (a lot of it in the next Part) so I'm not going to repeat it here. Suffice to say that where we want Iris to make the first demesne will one of the vote options for 9.5, but by default Taylor is just going to plop him on the Cradle so that he's not an albatross around her neck.
In-universe, Taylor & Co. are of the firm belief that their continuity of consciousness and fully-intact memory of their meatrobot life means that their Alchemical selves are the same people they were before. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Even the very first eight Alchemicals made - which Autochthon himself forged from the Eight Great Heroes that were helping keep everyone safe/sane when Autochthon first absconded into Elsewhere - had only one past life in their soulgems when they were forged and came out different people. This is because Alchemicals are still human in soul and spirit, and thus follow the NO RESURRECTIONS rule put in place when Auto and the other Primordials crafted the human soul template.
So the question becomes: Did Autochthon break the NO RESURRECTIONS rule through some loophole involving the Nowhereverse? Or are Taylor & Co. delusional and the POD PEOPLE fear is founded? The only person who would know for certain is Autochthon, and his statements during the Exaltation visions certainly imply one answer... but is that the actual truth, or just something he says to instill faith in his Nowhereverse agents? JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS.
Adamant clothing would be possible, yes, but it would still count as 'armor' for the sake of Clarity generation.
This is a possibility, yes. Taylor didn't have time to try it over the week since Prayer and Defiant were cavorting about the planet, but it's something to keep in mind for when Iris finishes accelerating the Plot.
We have a sizable stash (100+) of soulgems filled with Hun souls. If we need more, there's probably something going on important enough to interrupt Iris for it.
All of what Iris said was understandable by everyone that was frozen - Iris didn't want to deal with possible translation errors or trust issues. For those wondering why Vision of Vengeance only spoke in Old Realm, Vision gave exactly NULL fucks about the specks of dust around him and their limited capacity for understanding true language.
There was a hint at just exactly what went wrong in Saki's vision.
Legend would have absconded with the squishy meatbags before returning himself, since Prayer would have been able to survive in the meantime.
Taylor and Prayer were deliberately hiding/obfuscating Iris and his power, at Iris' request - Iris' existence is still largely a secret to everyone, and he sorta prefers it that way since it generally allows him to work/act in peace.
Iris' initial "Exaltation Guide Book" briefly mentioned that their 'home reality' was gone, and Iris filled in a few more gaps over the last week, but since it was largely irrelevant to the task at-hand he didn't bother explaining the whole thing (he doesn't like thinking about it, too).
There may or may not have been an infinitesimal moment where Iris was confused about Dragon, but then went "Oh, Nowhereverse version of I AM ok no big deal."
Chevalier only sees impressions of trigger events from shards, and some wonky stuff from converted shards. Iris himself is neither of those.
Sure, but that interrupts Demesne creation in the meantime. However, Iris is no longer putzing around on a long time scale where he has time to sit and gather data - he's not going to just sit by and let things happen to him anymore, even if it means letting lose the map-redrawing moves.
It's worth remembering that Lord Grasp went through an even worse time-skip than Saki; for him, the party after the Primordial War, in which he had spent hundreds/thousands of years (time got weird for a bit in there) participating, was only three days ago.
What a way to learn that your entire existence, and the deaths of your friends, were for naught.
Poor dude. At least comforting him will give Saki her first opportunity to intentionally use her powers.
Sure, add them to the list.
Feel free to try that in-story...@Gromweld, next crazy question.
You say in SoPA writeup for Spirit Attunement Generators that: "The exception to this sub-module are dormant spirits - usually least gods and lesser gods within objects - which the user must consciously identify, then rouse in order to bring them under the charm's sway."
You also state (2327891) that "Alchemical charms are physical artifacts, and thus have lesser gods within them. It's how they're 'learning' about Nowhereverse rules, even if they aren't fully awoken.".
As an Alchemical Exalt, we should obviously follow the wise example of our 5 dot mentor and be willing to do SCIENCE, so I was just wondering. What happens if Taylor uses SoPA to rouse to awareness the lesser god in her TIE charm artifact, takes control of it with SoPA, and forcibly makes it eat another Dragon Suit whether the TIE charm likes it or not?
You have to be able to pierce/puncture a person to give them motes with Personality Override Spike. Don't expect that to work with Iris.
He'll have you know that the S9 was quite a valuable source of data, despite their wasteful and inefficient tactics, and it served his purposes quite well to be carted around by them. The dresses, hats, and tea time were, of course, completely unconscionable.
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