Being Taylor Hebert is a (Second Attempt at a) Quest
- Thread starter LightsaberDalek
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Conflict engine requires put on a fight!
[X] Fight
[X] Fight
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- She/Her
Thinkers can be a challenge to write well, but I wish we had more of them so much! Easily my favorite power type.
also yessssss my power grows
I don't believe we technically have one of those yet? It's unclear, to be fair. Maybe it's all some insanely jank extended trigger event and our conflict drive is already running, but my understanding is that QA is taking advantage of some kind of... phenomenon, and the quest is about triggering. Repeatedly.
That said get her ass Taylor! Your out-of-shape twig ass can definitely take a trained athlete
[X] Fight
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- Scotland
I'm conflicted- because the set up of this quest will be revealed with the next update, but the old version did do that reveal so if you really want to know check that out but the premise is basically me trying to make a quest out of a roguelite, and I've tagged this time loop on at least on site, if that helps you work it out without going for the answer
[X] Fight
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- She/Her
Oops! I will try not to spoil anything in the discussion that I might get from the old thread until you do your reveal then! That said, you do have the timeloop tag like you said, and subtitled this "Aka, Trigger, the roguelite", so at least that stuff is obvious
To your benefit, what was actually happening behind the scenes was still pretty unclear at the point the old quest left off. There was clearly some fancy bullshit going on that I'm sure you'd worked out behind the scenes, but from the reader's perspective we were still feeling around in the dark for answers (unless I extremely missed something, which is very possible).
Also, not directed at you specifically, just for discussion purposes:
I find this character sheet very interesting. The use of "roguelite" in the subtitle to the thread rather than roguelike fleshes some of them out too.
(For those who don't know, the main difference between roguelikes and roguelites is that roguelites have meta-progression, as in your actions during a run can in different ways (depending on the roguelite) affect your options and capabilities in following runs. In a pure roguelike all progress is lost when you die, but in roguelites there's special types of progress that stick around)
A big part of why I reached for a Thinker power is because of that "RESIDUAL" attribute (and just because I love Thinkers! ✌️)!
I suspect we may keep some kind of remnants of previous powers -- whether that's just the singular previous? What part(s)? Weakened? I do not know. But if we're going to have any kind of "secondary power", I'd like it to be a Thinker one. If we keep that remnant even before we trigger, than a Thinker power could even open up some major options (that aren't blow up the house... or our identity, or something...) at the start of the run that could heavily influence our trigger event.
The INFLUENCE section... is ∞ another shard (or non-shard influence? are those going to be a thing?)? is it a marker that Queen Administrator's influence will stay with us forever while we may have others that come and go? There are so many little hooks to yank on and investigate here and I am living for it!
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NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
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- Hawaii
[X] Fight
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- Nowhere and Everywhere
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- He/Him
[X] Fight
We can't be no coward, fight.
We can't be no coward, fight.
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- She/Her
Fight 6, Flight 3 on Spacebattles.
Fight 9, Flight 1 over here.
Looks like Fight has quite the lead at the moment I'm glad we all yearn for violence.
People are making a couple arguments that there's not much we can do at the moment and fighting is going to accomplish nothing, but that's not the point of all this. The point is to shape our Trigger event. I'm excited to see what shape this Thinker power takes and how we influenced it with our choices...
Fight 9, Flight 1 over here.
Looks like Fight has quite the lead at the moment
I'm glad we all yearn for violence.People are making a couple arguments that there's not much we can do at the moment and fighting is going to accomplish nothing, but that's not the point of all this. The point is to shape our Trigger event. I'm excited to see what shape this Thinker power takes and how we influenced it with our choices...
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- parker colorado
[X] Flight
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- Scotland
Okay so both sites want blood! I have it all typed up, I just want to be home and off mobile before I post. Give it a spell check and glance over
Loop 1.3
- Location
- Scotland
[x] Fight
You kick and flail, scream and fight, claw at her eyes and draw blood beneath your nails. It doesn't help.
{BOOTING}
oh god oh god oh god someone help me i'm in here it's rotting i am rotting help me help me help me they are crawling on me help help help me
{DESTINATION}
what is that the twisting it's not right it's coming for me coming closer
{AGREEMENT}
too close too close it's slowing down will it save me please save me it hurts and i'm trapped and there are terrible things biting
{TRAJECTORY}
where did you go you have to help me please i'll give you anything please help please save me
{AGREEMENT}
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[COMPLETE]
[CALCULATING]
[CALCULATING]
[CALCULATING]
[CALCULATION COMPLETE]
Synesthesiac expression of detect hosts: EXTRUDE
Overheard in PRT base 712, 2017 c.e.
"How did you manage to eat all those peppers, Hebert?! You won the entire pot!"
"Oh, got a brain injury in high school. Things just taste of metal for weeks at a time, no idea what sets it off. No idea why. I swear, when we were working on that Empire infiltration counterforce? Couldn't even smell anything. Useful for when we're on the New Marquise border, though…"
PRT base 712 was destroyed 35 hours later, by a Teeth slave raid. There were no survivors.
"How did you manage to eat all those peppers, Hebert?! You won the entire pot!"
"Oh, got a brain injury in high school. Things just taste of metal for weeks at a time, no idea what sets it off. No idea why. I swear, when we were working on that Empire infiltration counterforce? Couldn't even smell anything. Useful for when we're on the New Marquise border, though…"
PRT base 712 was destroyed 35 hours later, by a Teeth slave raid. There were no survivors.
[CONFIRMED. FAILURE]
[UNACCEPTABLE]
[ADJUSTING VARIABLES]
[RESIDUALS ENABLED]
[LOAD SAVE STATE?]
[Y/n]
[ ] Y
[ ]
[SELECT RESIDUAL]
[ ] imprint
[ ] aware
[ ] wiggle
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- Nowhere and Everywhere
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- He/Him
[X] Y
[X] wiggle
Let's get started on the bugpocalypse.(@LightsaberDalek, don't forget to threadmark your update.)
[X] wiggle
Let's get started on the bugpocalypse.(@LightsaberDalek, don't forget to threadmark your update.)
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- Scotland
Bugpocalpse??
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- Scotland
Sorry! There's context, I promise
Kermie
Roses Are Red, I'm Single And Blue
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- Hell (An Unfinished Google Doc)
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- Any
Oh no, I meant that unironically. I did the same thing in the first chapter and the most recent chapter of my quest, anyways.
[X] wiggle
"wiggle" is a funny word so I'm voting for it.
"wiggle" is a funny word so I'm voting for it.
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- Nowhere and Everywhere
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- He/Him
I'm betting on bugs being a thing at some point or another (Queen Administrator) and I mean, wiggle sounds like a bug thing. Combined with Thinker, might be senses like bugs or sensing through bugs.
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Interesting! Feels like a "more canon than canon" Thinker power -- the vast majority of Thinkers being the Think Tank kind who "smell purple" and it's up to people to figure out what the hell that means. This Taylor's power never got detected so she just treats it as a symptom of a brain injury. Wonder how often that happens for lower-tier Thinkers.
I strongly doubt we're going to have a good idea of what this means until at least sometime during the next loop, more likely a couple of loops in, but I'm definitely interested in theorycrafting. Someone in the SB thread thinks
and maybe they're onto something! Although spoilers make me suspect something a little different...PsiRaz said:
So, in the old thread our options were
The result of this was
"aware" is probably the same, meaning it will (if things are implemented the same) result in a vague awareness of what happened previously, that in the previous thread's case was dismissed as an anxious dream.
In the old thread we also chose "Fight", and Taylor got pissed off, but then calmed herself down, then Sophia pushed her a little too far and she went apeshit, so "nosnapplease.ini" feels like something that would have stopped that "going apeshit" part from happening and extended the scene/given us further options.
"required secondary no used" doesn't mean jack shit to me, I'll admit.
And, of course, the main problem with this theorizing is that we have no way of knowing how it applies to the rebooted quest, if at all. Perhaps "aware" is the only option that carried over, or perhaps even that is changed.
and we chose "aware v1.01".
The result of this was
and the thread didn't get that much further than that.
"aware" is probably the same, meaning it will (if things are implemented the same) result in a vague awareness of what happened previously, that in the previous thread's case was dismissed as an anxious dream.
In the old thread we also chose "Fight", and Taylor got pissed off, but then calmed herself down, then Sophia pushed her a little too far and she went apeshit, so "nosnapplease.ini" feels like something that would have stopped that "going apeshit" part from happening and extended the scene/given us further options.
"required secondary no used" doesn't mean jack shit to me, I'll admit.
And, of course, the main problem with this theorizing is that we have no way of knowing how it applies to the rebooted quest, if at all. Perhaps "aware" is the only option that carried over, or perhaps even that is changed.
My suspicions for "wiggle" and "imprint" are mostly as follows:
- "imprint" could be one of several things
- an "echo" of what previously happened (ex. if we choose "Fight" again, things might go differently because we "have a feeling" we should avoid taking the same actions as this time)
- this feels like it should be covered by "aware" though? but the spoilers from the old thread (one of the other options) make things a bit more muddled... assuming that Dalek hasn't overhauled the system too much (which is not a safe assumption).
- an "imprint" of the results of this trigger, somehow
- an "imprint" from Sophia's shard(?????) that could influence our future triggers?
- or something completely different from any of these, I'm just guessing here
- an "echo" of what previously happened (ex. if we choose "Fight" again, things might go differently because we "have a feeling" we should avoid taking the same actions as this time)
- "wiggle" I suspect has something to do with giving us more options? The three "gift" options stand out to me, since these are things that we (at the start of our loop) should have literally no influence on. Yet somehow, we get to choose them, bending reality to change the initial circumstances of the loop. Maybe "wiggle" enhances that capability somehow... or perhaps it gives us access to new power types? That could be a reasonable interpretation of QA "wiggling", if she usually grants Thinker/Tinker/Master powers... which feels accurate.
"wiggle" is easily the most intriguing of these to me right now. I'm happy to save information-gathering on the other options for future loops since it has the most interesting implications, I think.
[X] Y
[X] wiggle
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- parker colorado
[X] Y
[X] wiggle
[X] wiggle
I assume if Taylor ends up dead it's an invalid exit.
[X] Y
[X] wiggle
I can get behind wiggle.
Feels like voting half-blind because there's a second thread out there somewhere? (Probably SB, but this says SV and we're already on SV.)