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Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
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I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Fair enough, and I'm sure you've contributed to the discussion about things you've noticed about the story that you're actually invested in, and even specifically highlighted things that you really liked about a chapter.
But if you notice a trend of someone responding only after a large number of updates have passed and their takeaway is just about how long the story is and 'how little has happened', it begs the question. And I've noticed the other trend where even those seemingly engaged with the story and who comment after every update will be aggressive in referencing a flaw that seems to get pointed out after every full-length update.
For most stories, playing up this flaw when there's no conceit or gimmick encouraging that sort of writing (where the pacing is always fundamentally never going to be a priority and the writer gives reasoning for why) is tiresome.
There are all sorts of things that could improve BCF, but it would tear it away from what the writer prioritizes. It's not as though he's not attempting to write a story, per se, but clearly writing a story is just a priority, and thought and consideration is put into how it is done, but it's not priority one and thus acknowledged by the writer as something not likely to change, just serves to annoy people who want to discuss the parts of the fic that are unique about it that aren't a net-negative to the experience.
I'm not saying it's wrong to point out that pacing is an important aspect of serialized fiction especially, where updates come spaced out over time. If a writer has no reasoning for why they are structuring their story a certain way, maybe there is some community benefit for regularly reminding the audience that they are risking getting invested in something that they might put too much energy into than they'll get out of it.
I think the opposite effect has happened with BCF, since more of that excess energy is going toward writing their own takes on the concept, or hypothetical combinations of technology and metaphysical properties from other settings (which is again a central conceit of BCF to begin with). So it can hardly be said to fail to encourage the very behavior the author is stated to prioritize!
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We're trying to compress the dirt into… something.
The Warehouse isn't Fiat-backed to sustain all souls; just worshiper souls. For other souls they'd probably need a dedicated area for it.
Well, I mean, at least they would for as long as it took Joe to forge their souls into something capable of sustaining themselves outside of it. He could probably also set up the Alchemy machine to do enough of the job for them to be viable and conscious and have some quality of life before he made time for them.
If Joe can get the souls of the Slaughterhouse from their Shards then he can get the souls of the Undersiders from their Shards just as easily.
...Well shit when you phrase it like that, presumably because Broadcast arranged things to be that way, it makes sense how bullshit Jacob is.
Well if Cauldron doesn't end up salvaging/stealing them before they get squished, and possibly even then, I wonder whether Joe will be able to make emulations of the Siberian like he can make copies of March's attack.
It should also be noted that this would probably also cause responses from Shards as well as Parahumans since those sort of overpowered threats are normally only present in The Cycle as a local, and intentionally localized, issue a la Nilbog.
Storage is fiat-backed to be able to safely store souls.
Someone please refresh my memory, what are all the perks that Joe has the cause people to be affected my the name Apeiron? I know there is "A Thing About Names" and "Call Sign" but I'm wonder if there are other perks that have a similar effect.
I remember that there is also a Perk from FEAR that I'm not confident on the name of that makes it so no one considers any name he goes by as weird.
You know the more absurd that Joe's abilities become the more absurd the abilities of those storage-room golems become.
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Not from the Shards, no, no. From the Warrior himself. That's his job : defend the Cycle against Outside Context Problem.
Why do you think Scion was scanning (and repairing) the Shardspace Breach created by March after the ungodly hour ? The only reason Scion didn't check on Joe is because Joe was behind his privacy curtain at the time.
It would kinda suck for the soul when Joe could reincarnate it or stick it in a simulation on the spiritron computer.
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Not really; he, or really any other member of the Forge, could move the servers into there for them to be plugged into.
I'm just annoyed that Bakuda's dead man switch still hasn't been cracked yet. Didn't he get a perk a while ago that specifically helped him understand alien tech? Combine that with his other perks and it's starting to stretch my sod that it hasn't been cracked yet.
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Bakuda's code is a tough nut to crack because her shard... got lazy and used the same protocol that shards use to speak between each others. So dimension tech galore. Bakuda also used Leet streaming technology as inspiration (it was one of his earliest project and it's still unbroken), which is why her code is much stronger than in canon.
Joe didn't get any reverse engineering perk, otherwise he would have cracked the code already. He'll have to do it the hard way: wait for his spiritron computer to be able to emulate the shards dimensions shenanigans. Which should happen soon, I think the Word of God on this subject was "next day".
(And knowing the Forge trolling tendency, I bet Joe will get a reverse engineering tech right after he broke the code.)
On the bright side, it also means Joe will learn a lot about the passengers once he'll crack it, especially since he already have a fleet in shardspace.
Joe didn't get any reverse engineering perk, otherwise he would have cracked the code already. He'll have to do it the hard way: wait for his spiritron computer to be able to emulate the shards dimensions shenanigans. Which should happen soon, I think the Word of God on this subject was "next day".
(And knowing the Forge trolling tendency, I bet Joe will get a reverse engineering tech right after he broke the code.)
On the bright side, it also means Joe will learn a lot about the passengers once he'll crack it, especially since he already have a fleet in shardspace.
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To be the most accurate, here's the quote from Roust;
TLDR: Bakuda's shard was more like "Good pet! Have a treat!"
TLDR: Bakuda's shard was more like "Good pet! Have a treat!"
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Just realized when Joe finally moves against the 9 he's gonna be riding the Convertible, Survey in the passenger seat, Lethe on a Unicorn, Fleet on the motoroid, and the Cat of War pulling up on the Chopper.
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Compassion fatigue - Wikipedia is a reason to limit your activities to avoid burnout. It is not an excuse to do nothing.
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Yeah, the Panacea comparison was not a good one. Joe isn't doing nothing though, the S9 are effectively already dealt with, and for other S-classes he has to be careful because his infrastructure is still limited and he cannot be everywhere all at once, and thus cant stop established powers from freaking out the moment he starts playing Scion.
Now can we all stop drinking up this horse's liquified bones?
You know Amy would probably love to get her hands on that pseudo-Life-Fiber fungal weave that Blasto made.
Forget about Balsto's stuff she'd probably go catatonic if she ever touched actual Life Fibers.
Pretty sure that Life Fibers are made out of weird fucking (Read: Exotic) particles that she might have some trouble with unless her Shard was able to make more of its functions available to her; having Blasto translate some of the principles found in Life Fibers into actual organic biological lifeforms would presumably be much more palatable.
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Probably busy writing? I don't see cause for alarm.
I remember checking to see if Roustabout has any other works when I'd first caught up with the story, and did another quick check and it seems like this account was created specifically to crosspost this from AO3, and even there IIRC the only activity I saw was this story when I looked for more, so I think Roustabout just doesn't use these sites often, or uses an alt
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Only account in which I've seen LR's account doing much is his reddit account, I think? And even then IIRC activity has fallen since he started writing the story.
Well, better than nothing, right?